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Year 31, No. 19
Celebrating 31 Years of Community News
January 13 – January 19, 2016
National Tour of “Once” Returns to Jazz on the Main Line Presents Blues Singer Deb Callahan Philadelphia January 15-17 Winner of 8 Tony Awards, Including Best Musical, and Based on the 2007 Academy Award-Winning Film roadway Philadelphia announces the return of “Once”—winner of eight 2012 Tony Awards® including Best Musical and winner of the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. The show will play a limited engagement at the Kimmel Center’s Academy of Music Janu-
B T. Morgan Book Signing at Main Point Books Page 4
“Once” will play a limited engagement at the Kimmel Center’s Academy of Music January 15-17, 2016.
Peggy King CD Release Party Page 6
Year of the Monkey Celebration Page 16
Dining & Entertainment Pages 6 & 7
Education News Pages 8, 9 & 11
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ary 15-17, 2016. Broadway Philadelphia is presented collaboratively by The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and The Shubert Organization. “Once” features the Academy Award-winning music and lyrics of Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, a book by award-winning Irish playwright & screenwriter, Enda Walsh (Penelope, Hunger, The New Electric Ballroom), direction by the acclaimed Scottish director of Black Watch, John Tiffany, movement by Steven Hoggett (Black Watch, American Idiot) and music supervision and orchestrations by Martin Lowe (Mamma Mia!). The set and costume design are by five time Tony Award winner Bob Crowley (The Coast of Utopia, Mary Poppins), lighting design is by Tony winner Natasha Katz (Aida, The Coast of Utopia), and sound design is by Clive Goodwin. Tickets ranging in price from $50 to $110 are now on sale. Dates and times: January 15, 2016, 8 p.m.; January 16, 2016, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.; January 17, 2016, 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
This concert, fourth in the series, features vocalist Deb Callahan and her band on Thursday, January 21 at The New Leaf Club, 1225 Montrose Avenue, Rosemont, PA 19010. azz Bridge presents its “Third Thursday Neighborhood Concert Series – Jazz on the Main Line,” at The New Leaf Club, 1225 Montrose Avenue, Rosemont, PA 19010 on Thursday, January 21. This concert, fourth in the series, features vocalist Deb Callahan and her band. Showtime is 7:30 - 9 p.m. and tickets are $10 general admission/$5 for students, and are only available at the door. For info, call 856-858-8914, 215517-8337 or visit www.jazzbridge.org/events/neighborhoodconcerts. Philadelphia’s blues and soul drenched vocalist and songwriter Deb Callahan grew up in the Boston area but has been a mainstay on the mid-Atlantic music scene since the late 90s. During this time she has gained a reputation for writing creative blues, soul and roots influenced original music and using her powerful, expressive voice and engaging stage presence to deliver an exciting live show. Her 2002 debut CD “If the Blues Had Wings” was featured as the hot debut in the October/November 2004 issue of Blues
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See Jazz on the Main Line on page 5
See “Once” Returns to Philadelphia on page 12
MORRIS ARBORETUM PRESENTS THE LUKENS ENDOWED LECTURE “D E S I G N I N G S U S TA I N A B L E S PA C E S ” ryan Hanes, Founding Principal of Studio Bryan Hanes (SBH), will present the Lukens endowed lecture on Sunday, January 17 at 2 p.m. at Morris Arboretum entitled, “Designing Sustainable Spaces.” Studio Bryan Hanes, started in 2008 and based in the Callowhill neighborhood of Philadelphia, is a landscape architecture and urban design studio that creates socially and eco-
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On Sunday, January 17 at 2 p.m., join Bryan Hanes, Founding Principal of Studio Bryan Hanes (SBH), as he presents the Lukens endowed lecture at Morris Arboretum entitled, “Designing Sustainable Spaces.” In this talk, Bryan will highlight the community collaboration and team work approach his firm, a landscape architecture and urban design studio, used on some recent Philadelphia projects including the redesign of Sister Cities Garden at Logan Square pictured here. Photo/Bryan Hanes logically sustainable spaces. The firm strives to create places that enrich human experience, draw inspiration from the dynamic processes of nature, and express the artful celebration of the everyday. In this talk, Bryan will highlight the community collaboration and team work approach his firm used on some recent Philadelphia projects including the redesign of Sister Cities Garden at Logan Square, the Reading Viaduct spur between Broad and Callowhill Streets, and the SchuylSee Morris Arboretum Lecture on page 12