Come join in a 50-year tradition, and hear an exquisite performance of Handel's MESSIAH on Sunday, Dec. 3rd, at 4pm, at First Presbyterian Church of Germantown, 35 W. Chelten Ave., near Germantown Ave. The Germantown Oratorio Choir and Orchestra with 4 operatic soloists will be performing this holiday favorite. The concert is free, with […]
Celebrating J. MICHAEL HARRISON & THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BRIDGE Jazz guitarist Monnette Sudler's first exposure to jazz was listening to her great-uncle play piano.she was fifteen, she took lessons on guitar at the Wharton Center in Philadelphia. She can play drums and piano, and she composes, arranges, sings, and writes poetry. Early in […]
Ntozake Shange | Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poem In conversation with Yolanda Wisher “Extraordinary and wonderful” (New York Times), Ntozake Shange wrote the Broadway-staged Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, the groundbreaking prose poem/theater piece hybrid that since 1975 has helped reveal what it is to be […]
All Kinds of American Blues (Delta, Country, Piedmont, Chicago, etc.) >International "Blues" (Fado, Mourna, Ladino and Sean Nos) >Some old country and gospel and a wee bit of R&B Thursday, Dec. 7 8-11 PM The Mermaid Inn 7673 Germantown Avenue Phila 19118 (215) 247-9797 $10 (or pay what you can) ALL KINDS OF BLUES, our […]
Join Yes! And... Collaborative Arts this year for our annual Collaborative Auction and Holiday Party! Come have some fun and raise money to fund bright, young artists to excel in both their artistic skills and their everyday life. The Auction & Holiday Party is $25 per person / $10 per child, and will cover food, […]
Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion is pleased to present operatic soprano, Rebecca Broberg, and accomplished pianist, John Silva, for an exceptional performance of “Song of the Wrens” by Arthur Sullivan with words by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. George Grove, the secretary of the Crystal Palace, originally suggested a collaboration between Tennyson and Sullivan on a German-style song cycle, […]
Co-hosted by Denice Frohman and Germantown's own Yolanda Wisher . Poets & community gather to raise funds & raise consciousness about the devastation in Puerto Rico--both the natural disaster & the political one. Sunday, Dec 10th Doors: 2:30PM. Program 3-5PM. Reception to follow. ICA (118 S. 36th St, Philadelphia, PA) *Cash/credit card accepted at door […]
The first author reading event will be held Dec. 11 at 7 p.m. featuring Erica Armstrong Dunbar, the author of “Never Caught: Ona Judge, The Washingtons’ and the Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave.” Uncle Bobbie's will be open Monday to Thursday from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Fridays, 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Saturdays, […]