Sun Ra Arkestra - Riviera Jazz & Blues Festival - Santuario, Liguria, Italy 🇮🇹 - Wed Jul 8 2026

I’m painting pictures of things I know about, and things I’ve felt, that the world just hasn’t had the chance to feel... I’m painting pictures of another plane of existence, you might say, of something that’s so far away that it seems to be nonexistent. (Sun Ra)

The definitive edition of Sun Ra's album SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW has been released by Strut Records www.theentertainmentfactor.com/2026/07/some... #music #newmusic #jazz #jazzmusic #somewhereovertherainbow #sunra @sunrauniverse.bsky.social

Sun Ra Arkestra - Moers Germany 1979 / Photo Gérard Rouy

I play some music that will astound some people. But they need to be astounded, they need to be shook up before it’s too late.. (Sun Ra)

I'm one that will cause people to scratch their heads in wonderment in search of their hollow hearts and look in their souls and wonder, Where did he come from? What is he? (Sun Ra)

SUN RA ARKESTRA IN MY CITY FOR FREE - DIFFERENT SOUNDS @sunrauniverse.bsky.social

Sun Ra Arkestra - East of Culture-Different Sounds! festival / Lublin, Poland 🇵🇱 - 4 July 2026 FREE ENTRY

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Most musicians play earth things, about what they know, but I found out that they are mostly unhappy  and  frustrated and that creeps over into their music. (Sun Ra)

June Tyson of Sun Ra Arkestra as the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet for the Space Is The Place film, 1972. Photo uncredited

BACK IN STOCK: 'Sleeping Beauty' by Sun Ra Alongside 'Lanquidity' and 'Space Is The Place', this one's way up there with the best Ra records. www.normanrecords.com/records/2095...

Sun Ra Arkestra - Gent Jazz festival Belgium 🇧🇪 - July 2 2026 / Main Stage 22.15pm

You must know the rules to break the rules, like i do in my music.. (Sun Ra)

It is important to liberate oneself from the obligation to be born, because this experience doesn’t help us at all. (Sun Ra)

Sun Ra Arkestra - Union Chapel London UK 🇬🇧 - Tues 30th June 2026

I don't really live in Time there's no yesterday and no Tomorrow It's all continuous fabric. (Sun Ra)

Sun Ra Arkestra - Jazz a Vienne festival - Vienne, France 🇫🇷 June 29th 2026

Sun Ra Arkestra - Space is the Place Europe summer tour 2026.

It is time to consider music as a plane of wisdom and a weapon of defense against the past and the condemnations of the past. (Sun Ra)

Elson Nascimento - Sun Ra Arkestra Surdo/Percussion player and band Manager - 27 June 1955 Happy arrival day with space age greetings.

Sun Ra at City Stages, Birmingham, Alabama, 1989. At the festival's opening "Street Strut" parade, he and members of the Arkestra marched alongside a troupe of dancers and several oversized puppets, including the Sun Ra puppet seen embracing him here. Photo by Philip Foster

Marshall Allen & The Cosmic Future All Stars - Vision30 festival - abrons art center New York - June 26 2026 / 6pm

Those who are thirsty for wisdom
Will ever move toward the source of the wisdom that quenches their thirst. (Sun Ra)

BACK IN STOCK: ‘Sound Sun Pleasure!! + We Travel The Space Ways’ & ‘East Two’ by Sun Ra / His Arkestra A late 1950s full-length alongside a collection of previously unreleased 1970s recordings. www.normanrecords.com/artist/10207...

I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos. (Sun Ra)

Sun Ra and Arkestra - hot hits fresh from the Sun - Saturn research

100 yr old sax player Marshall Allen youtube.com/shorts/gNJJf...

Marshall Allen is 102 and still killing it.

There are other worlds they have not told you of, They wish to speak to you. (Sun Ra)

The past is yesterday. . . Yesterday belongs to the dead, tomorrow belongs to the living.. (Sun Ra)

Afternoon soundtrack: Sun Ra & His Arkestra - East Two + 7 (1972-73) sunramusic.bandcamp.com/album/east-t...

I do not question right, I do not question wrong, I only question questions. Because the answers Speak for themselves. (Sun Ra)

Sun Ra Arkestra, DC

Amazing @sunrauniverse.bsky.social performance today in DC at the Home Rule Festival. 🪐

Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of Marshall Allen - The 2026 Home Rule Music Festival at The Parks at Walter Reed - Washington DC - Sat June 20 2026 - FREE

I am being what I am suppose to be.. Like an Alien-being upon an outcast world. But I am not alone; there are ears to hear even me. (Sun Ra)

Sun Ra & His Astro Infinity Arkestra - Atlantis - Saturn research 1969 - Tracks 1 thru 5 recorded at Sun Studios, New York, Sept 22, 1968. Track 6 “Atlantis” recorded at the Olatunji Center of African Culture, 125th Street, New York, August 4, 1967

Sun Ra East Two + 7 Previously unreleased sessions from Sun Ra's prolific early 1970s period bundled with two '80s jams —>> one for fans of Ra's off-world electronic material - ie his most vital gear boomkat.com/products/eas...

What I'm doing is something that a lot of people have tried to do, but they have met defeat from humanity. (Sun Ra)

Sun Ra Arkestra, NYC, 6.15.24 📸 Jeff Caltabiano

Reality is not just what we see, there is another existence, we are beings from beyond. (Sun Ra)

This is the music of greater transition To the invisible irresistible space age. The music of the future is already developed But the minds of the people of earth must be prepared to accept it. (Sun Ra)

Sun Ra Arkestra performs close to home during the dedication of “In the Orbit of Ra” mural in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia.

Sun Ra and his Arkestra 7/9/1985 Live in Stockholm, Sweden THREE HOURS youtu.be/LYQ7rzIHNCk?...

The righteous people got in control and they put up churches and things. They thought they didn't need music so they didn't support art and beauty. You might as well say goodbye to America, it can't survive wihout art.. (Sun Ra)

I am not a human being anyway, so don’t treat me like them. (Sun Ra)

'In the Orbit of Ra,' a new mural honoring the legacy of the Sun Ra Arkestra, will be unveiled Sat June 13 2026 at an event at the October Gallery Museum 6353 Greene St. Philadelphia - Sun Ra Arkestra will perform at the event. muralarts.org/events/in-the-…

I play the music of the universe. If humans should one day hear the sounds of cosmic beings from different worlds, their music will sound familiar, because they will have heard Sun Ra on earth. (Sun Ra)

Most trained musicians deal with what they are being taught, the known, But I'm dealing with the unknown. (Sun Ra)