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Irish fiddles, Casino giveaways and wooden bats at Garden Fest, Chestnut Hill

Irish Fiddlers busk at Chestnut Hill Home Garden Festival

At the spring Chestnut Hill Home and Garden Festival, Irish fiddlers and guitarists played along the sidewalk. Watch video here.

Radio B101 giveaways

Radio B101, "the Bee," was giving away garden tools, playing cards and T-shirts from Parx casino if and even if you didn't spell out "1-0-1" with the disc game. Watch video here

Makes bats for Victorino Makes bats for Victorino

David Chandler custom makes wooden bats for major league baseball players like Phillies Shane Victorino from his shop in Norristown. A furniture maker, Chandler started RX Sport when he realized that he had the skill to make quality maple wood bats that wouldn't shatter and injure players and fans as some soft or silver maple bats had been doing. Watch video here.

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Posted inANIMALS DANCE ENTERTAINMENT

Tamagawa dancer loves to dance

A Tamagawa Taiko and Dance Troupe member describes what it's like to dance with the troupe at the Sakura Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. (Awaiting a translation...) Watch…
Posted inENTERTAINMENT EVENTS KIDS

Kids dance to Jazz Flute

WHAT WAS IT LIKE HAVING DANCERS PERFORM WITH YOU? Wonderful. We always love to do this for the kids. I’m not doing this to get rich. I enjoy playing at…
Posted inMusic Religion

Vault is simple, safe church

The Gathering at the Vault in Salem Massachussets is a simple church that is "large on love and little on rules. We like to think of it as a 'safe'…
Posted inMusic RECREATION

Going Phish-ing

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…