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While most of us have trouble walking and chewing gum at the same time, multitasking doesn’t seem to be a problem for Joseph Arthur. So it’s not surprising that he’s found a way to combine his two passions—music and painting—onstage. For an end-of-the-year show at Philly’s the Locks At Sona, the NYC-based Arthur not only played a 23-song set, he also showed off his visual-art chops. MAGNET photographer Chris Sikich was there to capture these portraits of the artist as a music man.
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