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Year 28, No. 47
Celebrating 28 Years of Community News
August 7 – August 13, 2013
Philly Jazz Great Gerald Veasley to Opera Philadelphia Opens Season with Company Headline Chester Community Fair a Music Lecturer at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. The Chester Community Fair and Book Bag Give-Away will be held on Sunday, August 25, 2013, from 2 p.m. - 6 p.m., 501 Yarnall Street, Chester, PA. The festivities include a backto-school backpack give-away for the first 400 students with parent/guardian, face-painting, food vendors, free health screenings, over 30 vendors, moon bounce, YMCA games, free mental health counseling, music and fun. The highlight of the event will be the end of day concert featuring Mr. Veasley and his full Jazz Band. According to Nina Munn, Program Director of the BLC, “It is an honor to have such a great Artist come to Chester to aid in our community building efforts.” The Better Gospel and Jazz Artist Gerald Veasley will headline the Chester Living Center (BLC) is Community Fair on August 25 in Chester, PA. dedicated to providing resources and inforhilly Jazz Great Gerald Veasley will mation to empower the residents of Chester headline the Chester Community and DELCO to improve their lives. The BLC Fair on August 25 in Chester, PA. is a faith-based ministry of the Macedonia Veasley, a noted Gospel and Jazz Seventh Day Adventist Church, George JackArtist, has played with or collabo- son, Pastor. All available services are delivrated with Dizzie Gillespie, the Dixie ered free to the public without regard to race, Hummingbirds, Gerald Lavert, Diana Reaves, religion, color, creed, ethnic background, handiGrover Washington Jr., Pieces of a Dream, cap, or sexual orientation. Special Effects and John Legend. Veasley is See Chester Community Fair on page 4
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Premiere of Verdi’s Nabucco
Opera Philadelphia opens its 2013-2014 Season in royal fashion this September, with the Company Premiere of “Nabucco.” John Viscardi as Abdallo. pera Philadelphia opens its 2013-2014 Season in royal fashion this September, with the Company Premiere of Nabucco. Verdi’s landmark tale of politics and national identity will be presented in five performances at the Academy of Music, September 27 through October 6, with a FREE broadcast on a giant screen at Independence National Historical Park on Saturday, September 28. The 29-year-old composer gave the world his first work of profound musical genius with Nabucco, which on its surface tells the Biblical tale of the defeat, enslavement, and exile of the Jews in Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar. But to Italians fighting for their freedom from Austria, Verdi’s first great opera was an inspiring call to arms. At the time of the opera’s debut at La Scala in 1842, the whole of northern Italy was under Austrian domination. Insinuating that the plight of the ancient Israelites was comparable to that of his contempor-
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See Opera Philadelphia’s Season Opens with “Nabucco” on page 7
C OMEDIAN C OLIN Q UINN B RINGS H IT S HOW “U NCONSTITUTIONAL ” TO THE N ATIONAL C ONSTITUTION C ENTER he National Constitution Center presents popular stand-up comedian and “Saturday Night Live” veteran Colin Quinn for a laughout-loud performance of his hit oneman show Colin Quinn Unconstitutional on Saturday, October 26, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. Described as “a pleasingly funny amble through American history” by The New York Times, Unconstitutional features Quinn’s comic observations on the creation of America’s most important political document. The performance at the National Constitution Center is part of Quinn’s “13 Original Colonies Tour.” Tickets are $40 for the general public and $35 for National Constitution Center members. Please note: Reservations are required and can be made by calling 215-409-6700 or online visiting www.constitutioncenter.org. Colin Quinn Unconstitutional contains mature language and content. The show is 70 minutes with no inter-
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mission. Beginning with the U.S. Constitution’s Preamble and going through the various amendments, Quinn takes apart the individual freedoms granted in America’s founding document and delves into such subjects as political correctness, class status, The National Constitution Center presents popular stand-up comedian and “Saturday Night Live” veteran Colin Quinn for a laugh-out-loud performance of his hit one-man show “Colin Quinn Unconstitutional” on October 26, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. and the judicial system. He also looks at the evolution of politics and political leaders, media outlets, celebrities, U.S. presidents, and why the Kardashians are the perfect embodiment of the American Dream. The Hollywood Reporter describes Quinn See “Colin Quinn Unconstitutional” on page 6