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Year 33, No. 4
Celebrating 33 Years of Community News
Roy Book Binder Returns to Lansdowne Folk Club inger-songwriter stor ytelling-bluesman Roy Book Binder returns to the Lansdowne Folk Club on Thurs day, September 28. 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
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September 20 – September 26, 2017
Investigating the Female Gaze in “Happily Ever After” at Main Line Art Center Artist Talk and Opening Reception October 13 Panel Discussion October 26
See singer-songwriter, storytelling-bluesman Roy Book Binder on Thursday, September 28 at the Lansdowne Folk Club.
Merion Mercy Academy Celebrates Pages 7
Miles for Migraine Walk/Run October 7 Page 12
Back-to-School & Education News Pages 6 - 8 & 11
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and desserts will be available for an additional cost. 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. Roy Book Binder has earned his stripes. He travelled with The Rev. Gary Davis in the 60’s, rediscovered Pink Anderson and revived his career in the 70’s. When he left Greenwich Village in 1976, he moved into a tour bus and lived on the road for the next 15 years. Roy borrowed from his heroes to become a distinct voice in the blues and folk music world. Roy has appeared on TNN’s Nashville Now TV show 30 times with many of country music’s biggest legends and has toured nationally with Bonnie Raitt, JJ Cale and Hot Tuna . . . you See Roy Book Binder Performs on page 4
View “Happily Ever After,” an exhibition of works by female artists running October 2 through October 29 at Main Line Art Center. Shown is “Sabra/SJ” by Glynnis Reed, 2015. ain Line Art Center investigates the female gaze, modern femininity, and contemporary challenges to women’s rights with “Happily Ever After,” an exhibition of works by female artists running October 2 through October 29. Curated by Amie Potsic, Executive Director & Chief Curator of Main Line Art Center, the show features the work of artists Aubrie Costello, (Philadelphia, PA), Jenny Drumgoole, (Philadelphia, PA), Jes Gamble, (Philadelphia, PA), Erica Zoë Loustau, (West Grove, Pennsylvania), Mari Ogihara, (White Plains, New York), Glynnis Reed, (Egg Harbor, NJ), and Emily Smith, (Phila-
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“On Golden Pond” Kicks Off Season at The Stagecrafters Drama Desk Awards, including he Stagecrafters theater Outstanding New Play. The film in Chestnut Hill begins its version, released in 1981, with eighty-ninth season of standHenry Fonda, Katherine Hepburn, out plays with the production of and Jane Fonda in the leading the moving, tender, and funny roles, garnered many awards, “On Golden Pond.” The action including that of Best Adapted centers on an older couple, Ethel Screenplay for Thompson. A live and Norman Thayer, who are spending their forty-eighth sumPerforming in “On Golden mer at their Maine home on a Pond” are, from left – John lake called Golden Pond. An unDevennie and Noel Hanley. expected visit from their daughPhoto/Sara Stewart ter Chelsea, with her new fiancé and his son from a prior marriage, television adaptation was aired sets the stage for turbulent conin 2001, featuring Julie Andrews frontation between father and and Christopher Plummer. The daughter, fueled by long-buried 2005 revival on Broadway feamemories. This is a poignant and tured as its leads James Earl Jones perceptive story of a family comand Leslie Uggams. “On Golden ing to terms with their past, life, Pond” was previously presentand legacy. ed by The Stagecrafters in 1983. Ernest Thompson (b. 1949) has Upcoming performance dates enjoyed a long career as a playare: September 21-23, 28-30 at wright, actor, lyricist, and screen8 p.m., and Saturday, Septemwriter for film and television. His most well known plays are “On Golden Pond” and “The West Side Waltz.” “On ber 23 at 2 p.m. Tickets are available at $21 Online (no service charge), $25 Golden Pond” opened Off Off Broadway in 1978, then moved to Broadway, At-door. (Thu. & Fri. eve performances 2-for-$32 Online, 2-for-$35 At-door). where it ran for close to 400 performances. It was nominated for several See “On Golden Pond” at The Stagecrafters page 8
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