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Year 28, No. 21
Celebrating 28 Years of Community News
FIND YOUR COMMUNITY Monterey Jazz Festival 55th Anniversary NEWS HERE! Tour with Philly Native Christian McBride
January 30 – February 5, 2013
“Mrs. Warren’s Profession” Makes Its Mark
Featuring Dee Dee Bridgewater, Philly Native Christian McBride, Benny Green, Lewis Nash, and Chris Potter, and Ambrose Akinmusire Dee Dee Bridgewater is a multitalented, two-time GRAMMYwinning vocalist and Tony Award-winning actress. Since her New York debut in 1970, she has appeared with the Thad Jones and Mel Lewis Orchestra, Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Max Roach,
Concert – Student Songwriters Page 2
The Monterey Jazz Festival takes its show on the road and arrives in Philadelphia at the Merriam Theater on Saturday, February 2, 2013 at 8 p.m. Philly native bassist and musical director Christian McBride is a threetime GRAMMY Award-winner bassist and has been at the forefront of jazz since the early 1990s.
Dining & Entertainment Pages 6 & 7
elebrating the 55th anniversary of the longest consecutively running jazz festival in the world, The Monterey Jazz Festival takes its show on the road and arrives in Philadelphia at the Merriam Theater on Saturday, February 2, 2013 at 8 p.m. A power house line up of talent – Dee Dee Bridgewater, Philly native Christian McBride, Benny Green, Lewis Nash, and Chris Potter, and Ambrose Akinmusire – the program reflects a perfect mixture of old and new, vocal and instrumental, bee bop, fusion, free and soul jazz.
C Devon Prep Geography Bee Page 8
Camp & Education News Pages 8 - 10
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Roland Kirk, and many more. As an actress, she has appeared on stages around the world, including her Tony-winning performance as Glinda the Good Witch in The Wiz on Broadway and her Laurence Olivier Award-nominated portrayal of Billie Holiday in Stephen Stahl’s Lady Day in London. She has also appeared in Sophisticated Ladies, Cosmopolitan Greetings, Black Ballad,Carmen Jazz, and Cabaret. As host of NPR’s Jazzset, Dee Dee presents today’s best jazz artists in performance on stages around the world, and, over the course of her career, she has recorded many albums, including homages to Horace Silver, Kurt Weill, the GRAMMY Award-winning albums Dear Ella (1997), and Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie with Love from Dee Dee (2010). In December 2012, Dee Dee received an honorary See Monterey Jazz Festival on page 12
Julia Wise along with Anthony Marsala, of Berwyn, prepare for their performances in George Bernard Shaw’s classic “Mrs. Warren’s Profession,” opening at The Stagecrafters on Friday, February 1, 2013. he third production of the current season at The Stagecrafters, George Bernard Shaw’s classic “Mrs. Warren’s Profession,” will open on Friday, February 1, 2013. A play of morals and ideas, set in late Victorian England, it is a study of two strong women, mother and daughter, each determined to hold to their respective world views and life choices. The story transpires over a weekend during which young Vivie Warren, freshly graduated from Cambridge after a lifetime of boarding schools and only brief family contacts, finally learns more about her mother, a woman of questionable reputation who has lavishly financed her daughter’s superior education and place in respectable society. The unfolding action propels the two women into an inevitable
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Marine Corps League Presents Americanism Program to Cub Scout Pack in Lower Merion t the January 16 meeting of Cub Scout Pack 581 in Lower Merion Township, the Gen. Smedley D. Butler Detachment No. 741, Marine Corps League, headquartered in Newtown Square, presented its regular Americanism program about the history of the American flag. The meeting was held at the historic building in which the Lower Merion Historical Society is headquartered. Presenters were Detachment members Jim Mulhern, Lloyd Spangler and Earle Drake. Approximately 30 parents and Cub Scouts were in attendance. Also present were Den Mother Lisa Baskin, Den Leader Scott Schwartz, and Gerald Francis, President of the Lower Merion Historical Society. The scouts asked excellent questions and were very interested in the history of the flag. The Historical Society brought an 1865 American flag to the meeting. The Cub Scouts were in awe when they learned that this flag flew 148 years ago when Abraham Lincoln was President. The Gen. Butler Marine Corps League Detachment regularly presents historically significant exhibits in local libraries and historical societies. During the past year it presented an exhibit based on Marines in the Frigate Navy. The original six frigates of the Gerald Francis, President of the LM Historical Society, and Lisa Continental Navy were designed by a local ship builder, Joshua Humphreys. In fact there Baskin, Den Mother, with the 1865 flag. is a road side marker in the Ardmore area that notes this fact. The Marine Corps League was founded in 1923 by WWI Marine hero and then Maj. Gen. and Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, John A. Lejeune. Today the League boasts of a membership in excess of 76,000. Its sponsored programs include Marines Helping Marines, the Youth Physical Fitness Program, the Young Marines of the Marine Corps League, the Veterans Service Officer Program, the Marine Corps League Auxiliary, the Toys for Tots program, the Adopt-a-Highway program, and several scholarships. U.S. Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler was born in West Chester and lived much of his adult life in Newtown Square. He spent many of his final years lecturing throughout the country on behalf of veterans’ causes and good government. The general was one of only two U.S. Marines awarded two Medals of Honor for heroism in two distinct military actions.
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