Philly Music Fest returns for its eighth annual city-wide festival October 21-27, 2024. Taking place at six independent venues in six different neighborhoods across seven nights, PMF is a non-profit organization founded by a local husband and wife team, Greg and Jenn Seltzer. PMF highlights the thriving local music scene, then after paying all musicians and venues, PMF donates profits to music education programs for underprivileged kids.
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The new two-day festival features Kathleen Edwards, Lydia Loveless, Crossed Keys, and The Tisburys. It will be held on Venice Island, close to where the Hause brothers grew up.
Since the pandemic shuttered the live music business, Philadelphia concert bookers have scheduled, unscheduled, and rescheduled shows over and over again, hoping that someday they might actually happen. Now they’re about to all happen at once. Wednesday’s news that Made in America will be back on the Parkway Labor Day weekend was the latest in an avalanche of announcements as pop music springs .
10 Everyday Heroes Making an Indelible Impact on Our Region
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These Main Line area difference-makers are leaving a lasting mark on the region each in their own way.
Rev. Carolyn C Cavaness
The first female pastor in Bethel AME Church’s 125-year history, Rev. Carolyn C. Cavaness may serve 135 congregants in Ardmore. But her outreach has impacted as many as 3,000 a lot of them through the church’s community garden and the over 30 at-home versions she helped sprout during COVID-19’s first 50 days. “That’s my heart,” says Cavaness. “You walk by our garden at the church, and in the midst of death and destruction, we see life happening.”