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Year 34, No. 4
Celebrating 34 Years of Community News
Christie Lenée to Perform at Next Lansdowne Folk Club Concert
September 19 – September 25, 2018
“Work Sucks!” Newly Released Raw, Riotous Book by Author Who Quit 30 Jobs by Age 45
ansdowne Folk Club presents guitarist, composer, singer-songwriter Christie Lenée Thursday, September 27, 2018. 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. Season series cost is $60.
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See guitarist, composer, singer-songwriter Christie Lenée perform Thursday, September 27, 2018 at the Twentieth Century Club, 84 S. Lansdowne Avenue, Lansdowne, PA. Photo/Alison Hasbach/Truefire
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Parking is available on the street and at the SEPTA train station approximately one block away. For reservations, parking information, advance ticket sales and information, visit www.folkclub.org, email Lfolkclub@gmail.com or call 484466-6213. Cash only accepted at the door. 2017 International Fingerstyle Guitar Champion Christie Lenée is a captivating performer with a devoted following among instrumental, folk-pop and rock band audiences. Combining guitar mastery, contemporary singer/songwriter and a passion for storytelling, she thrives on bringing people together through the language of music. Christie’s unique guitar work and profound instrumental compositions are well described as ‘Michael Hedges meets Joni Mitchell and Dave Matthews.’ Among the vast community of fingerstyle and tapping guitarists, her niche is the integration of melodic pop lyricism with catchy hooks that excite both modern commercial listeners and classic purists. With a menu of percussive and sonic effects, and larger than life sounding instruments, her solo shows embody layers of orchestral elements See Christie Lenée to Perform page 8
Author Spencer Borisoff – a writer with local Philly ties – pulls back the curtain on the suffocating nature of work life in America in his harsh and humorous book “Work Sucks!” pencer Borisoff, in his newly released book, “Work Sucks!: A funny view of a serious problem,” calls out corporate America and the bosses who run it, calls for longer weekends and shorter workweeks and calls to a majority disengaged workforce that craves a better balanced, more compassionate labor based system. Author Spencer Borisoff – a writer with local Philly ties – pulls back the curtain on the suffocating nature of work life in America in his harsh and humorous book “Work Sucks!” Based on his own wild ride across corporate America – a rollercoaster of dizzying loops and drops during his trip through 30 different jobs by the age of 45 – the book offers quick, clever chapters on work topics including rush hour, bosses, alarm clocks, pink slips, performance reviews, work arrest and the Sunday night shakes amongst others. Job satisfaction is plummeting in America and according to the Gallup organization’s State of the American Workplace study based on data collected from more than 195,000 U.S.
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We Shall Not Be Moved – Free Opera on the Mall Broadcast FREE, HD broadcast presented through PNC Arts Alive takes place at Independence National Historical Park on Saturday, September 29 onthemall.org. ne year after its sold-out To date, the Opera on the Mall world premiere and on the series has attracted nearly 30,000 heels of a successful crowdopera fans and newcomers to funding campaign, Opera PhilaPhiladelphia’s Independence delphia presents an encore enNational Historical Park, in the gage ment for We Shall Not Be shadow of the Liberty Bell and Moved, “a rare work in the genre Independence Hall. The setting, to be created by artists of color” (New York Times), in a free broadA scene from “We Shall Not Be cast as part of the company’s anMoved,” to be presented in a nual Opera on the Mall series at free broadcast on September Independence National Histori29, 2018. Photo/Dave DiRentis cal Park. Opera on the Mall: We Shall Not in the birthplace of our nation, Be Moved, presented through will magnify one of the central PNC Arts Alive, takes place on questions posed by We Shall Not Saturday, September 29, at 7 p.m. Be Moved, which asks: “For whom (pre-show at 6 p.m.). The broadAmerica the beautiful?” cast is part of O18, Opera PhilaWhen it first played to seven delphia’s second annual fall fessold-out Wilma Theater auditival featuring eleven days of ences during Opera Philadelphia’s operatic events all over the city inaugural festival, O17, Opera Philafrom September 20-30. FREE tickets are available at www.operaSee Free Opera on the Mall Broadcast page 4
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