About PennPAT

The purpose of Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour (PennPAT) is to increase opportunities for professional Pennsylvania-based performing artists to obtain successful touring engagements.

Through a multi-layered approach that includes grants to presenters, grants to artists, training for artists and marketing support, PennPAT seeks to nurture the diverse ecology of presenting and touring.

PennPAT offers support for touring engagements with PennPAT roster artists to presenters in:

Delaware
District of Columbia
Maryland
New Jersey
New York
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Virginia
U.S. Virgin Islands
West Virginia

Created as a unique public/private partnership administered by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, PennPAT continues to garner funding and guidance from its four founding partners: The Heinz Endowments, William Penn Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and The Pew Charitable Trusts.

FEATURED ARTIST

Babatunde Lea

Not since Mingus and Blakely has music bristled with a sense of message like this,” wrote Downbeat magazine about Babatunde Lea, a distinguished drummer/percussionist whose music is steeped in th... more > Babatunde+Lea

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