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Year 33, No. 13
Celebrating 33 Years of Community News
The Boxcar Lilies with Special Guest Emily Mure Perform Lansdowne Folk Club December 7 Concert
Celebrations Around the World Page 6
November 22 – November 28, 2017
Players Club of Swarthmore Presents “The Little Mermaid” ust in time for the holidays, The Players Club of Swar thmore makes a splash with the Disney family musical “The Little Mermaid” November 24 to December 9, for 12 performances at 614 Fairview Ave. in Swarthmore. Ryan Stone directs, with choreography by Maria Byers and Emily Fishman, and musical direction by Kevin Gane. Buy tickets online at www.pcstheater.org.
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The Players Club of Swarthmore presents the Disney family musical “The Little Mermaid” November 24 to December 9. Shown is Ariel – Stacy DiCandilo. Photo/Renee Grant
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The Boxcar Lilies, from left – Susan Cattaneo, Stephanie Marshall and Jenny Goodspeed – are performing December 7 at the Twentieth Century Club, in Lansdowne, PA. ansdowne Folk Club presents The Boxcar Lilies with special guest Emily Mure on Thursday, December 7. Held at the Twentieth Century Club, 84 S. Lansdowne Avenue, Lansdowne, PA, doors open at 7 p.m. and show begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $17 when purchased in advance online or with an advanced phone reservation and $20 without an advance reservation. Freshly prepared dinner and desserts will be available for an additional cost. Please notify the Club in advance if you plan to purchase a dinner. Parking is available on the street and at the SEPTA train station approximately one block away. Handicap parking spaces are behind the building. For reservations, advance ticket sales or information visit www.folkclub.org, email Lfolkclub@gmail.com or call 484-466-6213. Cash only accepted at the door. Combining spine-tingling three-part harmony and exceptional songwriting, The Boxcar Lilies have made a name for themselves with their signature mix of folk, country, blues, and bluegrass-tinged Americana music. Though each member of the Massachusetts-based trio has a distinct singing talent, Jenny Goodspeed (electric bass, guitar), Stephanie Marshall (washboard, guitar), and Susan Cattaneo (guitar) deftly weave their voices into a delicious
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“The Little Mermaid” takes place in a magical kingdom beneath the sea, where a beautiful young mermaid, Ariel (Stacy DiCandilo, Springfield), longs to leave her ocean home to live in the world above. But first, she’ll have to defy King Triton (Richard Johnson, Secane), her father and king of all the sea, escape the clutches of Ursula (Shelli Haynes Ezold, Havertown), the evil sea witch, and convince Prince Eric (Ben Long, West Chester) that she’s the girl with the perfect voice. Will love conquer all? Does Prince Eric come to the rescue or can Sebastian (Matthew Prince, Media), Scuttle (Danielle Marone, Phoenixville) and Flounder See Players Club of Swarthmore Presents “The Little Mermaid” page 4
The All-Star Jazz Trio Celebrates Four Years of Wednesday Night Jazz residency within Manhattan’s fabled he All-Star Jazz Trio – pianist/ “Confucius Room.” Since then, The vocalist Andy Kahn, drummer/ All-Stars, often in tandem with vocalist Bruce Klauber and famed vocalist Peggy King and spebassist/cellist Bruce Kaminsky – one cial guests, have performed over of the longest-continuously per200 times at Square on Square on forming jazz ensembles in the counWednesday nights. try, will celebrate their fourth anniversary of Wednesday night jazz Peggy King and The All-Star performances at Square on Square Jazz Trio will celebrate their restaurant, 1905 Chestnut Street in fourth anniversary of Wednesday Center City Philadelphia, on Wednesnight jazz performances at Square day night, November 29 at 7:30 p.m. on Square restaurant, 1905 On this special evening, The AllChestnut Street in Center City Stars will be joined by special guest, Philadelphia, on Wednesday night, legendary songstress Peggy King. November 29 at 7:30 p.m. There is no cover or music charge for the evening or for any other The All-Star Jazz Trio, formed some Wednesday night performances. 45 years ago at a Rittenhouse Square Reservations: 215-568-0088. nightspot by childhood friends Andy Some four years ago, Andy Kahn Kahn and Bruce Klauber, has been and partner Bruce Cahan – with delighting audiences of all ages – and blessings and encouragement from jazz fans and non-jazz fans alike – Square proprietor Stephen Yau – virtually took over Square’s second floor space and remodeled it along the with their showmanship and high energy versions of jazz standards and lines of an intimate cabaret/jazz club. Andy and Bruce wanted to continue compositions from the Great American Songbook. On their own and in tanthe “jazz meets Chinese food” legacy set down by jazz giant Lennie Tristano dem with Peggy King, The All-Stars have worked clubs, nightspots, concert in New York City in the mid-1950s, when Tristano’s group had a long-term See The All-Star Jazz Trio Celebrates Four Years of Wednesday Night Jazz page 11
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