Scott Chassy of Washington,D.C. secures the wooden frame of a portable horseshoe bean-bag game to the roof of his car. He and seven friends were preparing for a tailgate party at the Phish concert across the river in Camden. They last saw Phish together fifteen years ago. Watch video here.
The Dali (string) Quartet, whose repertoire consists of both traditional classical music and Latin American chamber music, presented an educational concert at the Jenks School Monday morning. They are seen here at the Chestnut Hill Coffee shop, near their Chestnut Hill office, after the concert satisfying their hunger and planning their schedule for the next two years. From left to right, Jesus Morales, Cello, Adriana Linares, Viola, Luigi Mazzocchi, Violin, Carlos Rubio, Violin. Visit them at daliquartet.com Watch video here.
Arnie Shiffrin, a wine consultant from Bala Cynwyd, entertains garden fest goers and himself, dancing to the sounds of Melissa Martin and the Mighty Rhythm Kings. Watch video here.
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Pharmacist Carl Dean of Chestnut Hill Pharmacy who overcame some trouble last year says things are looking up and getting better every day for his personal service oriented shop. Watch video here.
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Certified Zentangle art teacher Terry Greenberg demonstrates Zentangle's meditative technique of making intricate patterns. Watch video here.
"So please give a hand for the Jenks Bucket Drumming ensemble!...During the school year I start the kids with learning technique, with learning how to read music, music literacy and at the end of every period I have an enrichment section, lesson. They learn bucket drumming or they learn drum set, improvisation, composition. And basically the kids do bucket drumming. We compose pieces together, we improvise ….. I got an idea from the University of the Arts. I attended the University of the Arts. We started an experimental bucket drumming ensemble there that kind of took off. And now it’s developing all over the city. I have seven ensembles in the city that I started and it’s just taking off! That’s what we do here at Jenks. Each bucket is about two dollars and thirty seven cents. And it’s immediate gratification for the kids. So instead of spending months learning fingering and armature and technique for a saxophone or clarinet, you pick up a pair of sticks and immediately play and you sound OKAY." Philadelhia School District Music teacher with the J.S. Jenks Middle School bucket drumming ensemble at the winter concert.
“This is the man you should be interviewing, seriously. You know Art Miron? He performs at 2 Mount Airy stations and he’s the best folksinger, he’s wonderful. TELL ME MORE ABOUT HIM. He has a beautiful voice, a great personality. And a lot of these songs are your own, aren’t they? OK, they’re not your own. You sit there, you smile a lot, delightful, very warm. Am I embarrassing you? And he collaborates with different people.” Linda Baldwin. DOES YOUR GROUP HAVE A NAME? No, my name’s Art Miron and I just play with another guy who plays with me. CAN YOU SING SOMETHING, A PREVIEW? You’re kidding, in here? ‘Hey, hey good looking, whatcha got cookin’? Hows about cooking something up with me?” Kilian’s Hardware. Watch video interview here.
WHAT ARE YOUR CHILDREN STUDYING HERE? “My daughter takes cello and music theory here but he’s not in the class. He’s waiting for her. He took the music theory when he was in pre-school and kindergarten.” DOES SHE ENJOY IT? Yeah she loves it. AND HOW’S HER VEGETABLE HARVESTING GOING, IS SHE STILL DOING IT? “It’s going great. My grandmother has [the garden] but it’s out of season just now, obviously.” Amory Meigs, with son Ben, talking about daughter Sarah who appeared in the Local in 2006 with a wagon-full of freshly picked vegetables from her grandmother’s garden. Settlement Music School, Germantown. Watch video interview here.
In the 1996 Olympics, the Lithuanian basketball team arrived without uniforms because they were too poor to buy uniforms so the Grateful Dead offered to buy them uniforms and what they bought them had the Dead insignia, the skull, playing basketball and it was tie-died. I got this at the Olympics in 1999. A lot of Lithuanian social clubs sell this t-shirt. CAN YOU MODEL THE BACK? I don’t know what it says back there…For 8 years in California I worked for a hippie bus company. We did cross country trips, national parks, we went to Baha, Alaska, all through Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala. WHAT’S A HIPPIE BUS COMPANY? They take an old coach and pull out all the seats, set it up with bunk beds, tables that collapse down in to bunk beds. And the back, say two-thirds of the whole bus is all one big foam covered platform. You take off your shoes and leave them there and crawl back onto the platform. They called them camper tours. They had another name for them I can’t think of right now. AND THESE DAYS YOU’RE DOING SOMETHING A LITTLE MORE CONVENTIONAL? Just a tiny bit. Anita Fackenthal. Watch video interview here.
“Well, my wife has this lovely store, and she had it in Mount Airy for a long time. And she thought she’d try it here in Chestnut Hill, it’s doing great. I’m out here to draw a little business to her store and a vibe to Chestnut Hill, to the avenue.” Dave Lynn, outside “What a Girl Wants and a Guy Needs” store. Watch video here.
