Tough Pill is a creative music and performance series held primarily at The Government Center, third Thursdays of Every month in Pittsburgh. Tough Pill seeks to create space for practitioners while also expanding the scope of the experimental art audience. It's not always this, but it's always good... so always come!

Tough Pill 47: June 19th, 2025

$10-15 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds!

(flyer by Vicky Davide - @musicbyvix / @89vicky )

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Microplastique (Chicago)

Ben Zucker:

pocket trumpet, j horn, melodica, toy piano, harmonica, percussion, sound effects

Molly Jones:

soprano saxophone, flute, alto flute, percussion, sound effects

Josh Harlow:

toy piano, melodica, percussion, flutes, sound effects

Adam Shead:

wood blocks, snare drum, log drum, cowbells, banana bells, handbells, desk bells, elephant bells, shepherds bells, goat toes, splash cymbal, almaglocken, crotales, gongs, glockenspiel, bird calls, flutes, sound effects

https://irritablemysticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/blare-blow-bloom

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Vicky Davide + Collective

@musicbyvix

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Luke Farkas & Corey Hackathorn

https://ofmusicandmind.com/2019/08/12/making-meaning-skeletonized-on-cannibal-cop/

https://simplisticscientists.bandcamp.com/album/idea