May 14, 2013
This summer, take it down to the river. With a full calendar of outdoor events, the Delaware River waterfront is poised to be the site of serious fun in the sun and after dark. On the PA banks, the Delaware River Waterfront is home to year-round attractions like the Independence Seaport Museum and Race Street [...]
Read more»May 9, 2013
Summer is sneaking up on us and bringing along with it some of our favorite celebrations, including the hugely popular Wawa Welcome America festival. From July 1 through July 7 the celebration returns to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and beyond to celebrate Independence Day with live — and free! — music from Grammy-winning musicians, a [...]
Read more»April 23, 2013
Awesome Fest is set to bring the ’80s back to Philadelphia this summer with a 10-week film and music festival featuring performances and outdoor movie screenings at parks across the city. The festival kicks off with a performance by The Psychedelic Furs at the Trocadero Theatre on June 14 at 8 p.m. In the following [...]
Read more»April 11, 2013
As we mentioned earlier this week, Jay-Z’s Made in America Music Festival is returning to Benjamin Franklin Parkway for Labor Day Weekend 2013. Yesterday, the festival released its musical lineup and, much like last year, it features a wide range of artists representing many different genres — from underground sensations to pop music superstars. Speaking [...]
Read more»April 9, 2013
We were hoping it would return and now it’s official — Jay Z’s Made in America Music Festival is returning to Philadelphia. The festival is coming back to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway for Labor Day Weekend 2013. The two-day festival will be hitting the streets of Philadelphia on Saturday and Sunday, August 31 and September [...]
Read more»September 12, 2012
It’s after Labor Day, which means summer is starting to wind down. But that only means that the late summer/early fall festival season is just getting revved up. The next several weeks are filled with street fairs and block parties celebrating art, crafts, fashion, theater, design, live music, delicious food and craft beer throughout the [...]
Read more»September 6, 2012
Philadelphia’s largest environmental festival and street fair returns to Headhouse Square this Sunday, September 9, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Greenfest Philly boasts more than 100 exhibitors and vendors and has something for everyone: shopping for local green wares, great food, live music, live demonstrations, kid-friendly activities and more. And it’s totally free. Bonus: the fest will [...]
Read more»September 5, 2012
Each September since 1997, Philadelphia has played host to the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe, an epic fusion of performing arts productions staged at all stripes of venues, from bars to art galleries to street corners to abandoned warehouses. Live Arts/Fringe is a very important arts event for the Philadelphia cultural community. And [...]
Read more»September 5, 2012
Jay-Z chose Philadelphia for his first-ever blockbuster “Made In America” Music Festival, and it was a smash success. This past weekend, September 1-2, the festival took over the Benjamin Franklin Parkway with nearly 30 musical acts, awesome guest appearances from huge A-listers, great food, beer and a weekend-long reminder of how well Philadelphia knows how [...]
Read more»September 4, 2012
WHYY, in partnership with the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation (DRWC), is once again celebrating Philadelphia’s arts and culture with a free festival at the Great Plaza at Penn’s Landing. The WHYY Connections Festival is expanded from two to four days this year, with Thursday through Sunday, September 6-9, packed with free concerts, film screenings, visual [...]
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