{"id":7311,"date":"2014-09-11T11:52:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T15:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=7311"},"modified":"2014-09-11T11:52:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T15:52:44","slug":"on-stage-unique-mix-of-local-performances-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=7311","title":{"rendered":"On Stage: Unique mix of local performances this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><em><strong>Bozzio hits the area, Momsen, Thorn headlining<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>By Denny Dyroff<\/strong>,\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"><em>Staff Writer, The Times<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7312\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/bozzio-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7312\" class=\"wp-image-7312 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/bozzio-3-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"bozzio-3\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/bozzio-3-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/bozzio-3.jpg 786w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7312\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terry Bozzio brings his percussion stylings to the World Cafe Live at The Queen in Wilmington, Sept. 11.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the next few days, there will be shows in this area featuring artists with an amazing variety of backgrounds &#8212; a real smorgasbord of styles, influences and personal histories.<\/p>\n<p>There is hard rock band fronted by a singer who was an actress and an international fashion model as a young child, a song stylist who graduated from Yale University summa cum laude and is a best-selling author, a drummer who has performed with legendary artists such as the Brecker Brothers and Frank Zappa and a singer-songwriter who is a former pro boxer as well as the son of a minister.<\/p>\n<p>The first of these shows is scheduled for September 11 when the World Caf\u00e9 Live at the Queen (500 North Market Street, Wilmington, 302- 994-1400,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.queen.worldcafelive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.queen.worldcafelive.com<\/a>) hosts \u201cAn Evening with Terry Bozzio North American Tour 2014.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This will be a night of solo drumming and include compositions from throughout his career &#8212; as well as improvisation. It is by no means a clinic or a workshop. Bozzio\u2019s show is billed as \u201ca unique, intense, dynamic, spiritualistic, melodic, orchestral, atmospheric, and musical performance on the largest tuned drum and percussion set in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I\u2019m doing is more about the art,\u201d said Bozzio, during a phone interview Wednesday afternoon from a tour stop in Washington, D.C. \u201cThe drum kit is 100 years old and has an amazing tradition. I\u2019ve pushed the drum set into a melodic instrument.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like to incorporate it all &#8212; orchestration, tone colors and things I can shake, hit, rattle or roll. It\u2019s very melodic. Half of the kit is tuned chromatically, which means it has all the notes on a piano &#8212; black and white. Half of it is tuned diatonic with just the white notes of the piano.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClassical music is definitely an influence. There is also the harmonic element that I\u2019m exploring &#8212; implied changes with melodies over one bass note. I use midi-triggers to produce the pure sine wave of the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m trying to make a complete musical statement on drums. There are elements of classical, jazz and ethnic styles from all over the world &#8212; Middle East, South America, Japan, Asia and India.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bozzio has toured and recorded with a number of top world music drummers and percussionists, including India\u2019s legendary tabla player Zakir Hussain and Japan\u2019s Naoki Ishikawa.<\/p>\n<p>His first real introduction to the music world came in 1975 when he joined Frank Zappa &amp; the Mothers of Invention and recorded with Zappa and Captain Beefheart on Zappa\u2019s \u201cBongo Fury (Live at the Armadillo in Austin, TX)\u201d album.<\/p>\n<p>Bozzio also is an accomplished sketch artist who has an art exhibition and sale at each of his shows. He credits Captain Beefhart (Don Van Vliet) as an inspiration both musically and artistically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Captain did amazing things musically but you needed a thesaurus to figure out what he was talking about,\u201d said Bozzio. \u201cHe was an amazing artist. He encouraged me with my sketching.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy artwork is inspired by Captain Beefhart. I understand the need for the art I do. When some photo artists took pictures of me playing in the dark with lighted colored drumsticks, it turned out that those patterns were very similar to patterns I had been using in my sketches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Bozzio\u2019s show is a solo performance, it is far from just a series of impressively outrageous drum solos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think of it as a classical performance,\u201d said Bozzio, who also was the drummer for the 80s hit-making band Missing Persons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI play two one-hour sets with an intermission. There are also unplugged sections in each half. In the first half, I do a piece on a cajon, which means \u2018box\u2019 in Spanish. It\u2019s a simple device with many colors. For the unplugged part in the second half, I use a chord-wave drum. It\u2019s a very well-paced show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Show time at the Queen is 8 p.m. with tickets priced at $22 and $25.<\/p>\n<p>Other upcoming shows at the World Caf\u00e9 Live at the Queen\u2019s Downstairs Stage are BANG, The Great SOCIO, Triphazard, Medusa\u2019s Disco on September 13, Rusted Root on September 16 and the Von Trapps on September 17.<\/p>\n<p>The schedule for the Upstairs Stage at the Queen includes Everett Gray and cookie Rabinowitz on September 11, Upright Citizens Brigade on September 12, Angela Sheik on September 13 and The Sermon on September 17.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_942049\" style=\"width: 228px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/paul-thorn-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-942049\" class=\"size-full wp-image-942049 \" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/paul-thorn-3.jpg\" alt=\"paul thorn 3\" width=\"218\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-942049\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Thorn will be at the Ardmore Music Hall, Sept. 12.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On September 12, the Ardmore Music Hall (23 East Lancaster Avenue, Ardmore, 610-649-8389,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ardmoremusic.com\/\">www.ardmoremusic.com<\/a>) will present singer\/songwriter Paul Thorn &#8212; the son of a preacher and a former professional boxer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father was a preacher so I grew up singing in church,\u201d said Thorn, during a recent phone interview from his home in Tupelo, Mississippi. \u201cLike Elvis, I went to black churches and white churches growing up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe white churches sang church music like it was country music. The black churches sang church music like it was rhythm and blues. There were both black people and white people who attended my father\u2019s church. That was when I learned to sing a mixture of those styles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBack then, I played mandolin, drums and bass. Now, I just play guitar with my band. I\u2019ve had the same band for 20 years. My keyboard player is from Tupelo. The rest are from abroad &#8212; Chicago, Alabama and Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been working on my new album \u2018Too Blessed to Be Stressed\u2019 for a little over a year and it came out on August 19. We have our own recording studio here. Everything we do is in-house. We have our own label &#8212; and our own distribution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy first record \u2018Hammer and Nail\u2019 was on A&amp;M Records back in 1997. I saw how the machine operates. If you don\u2019t have a hit right away, you\u2019re done. Fortunately, they released me. Everything I ever cut, I now own. We have a big catalogue and I take all my titles out on the road.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thorn\u2019s album prior to \u201cToo Blessed to Be Stressed\u201d was \u201cWhat the Hell\u2019s Going On?,\u201d which was a collection of cover songs. His new album takes off in a different direction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe theme I had in mind with the new album &#8212; I wanted songs that are uplifting and happy,\u201d said Thorn. \u201cI believe they\u2019re saying something. I put in things people have advised me. It\u2019s universal but it\u2019s personal too. I love people and I try to put that in my songs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all have problems that are pretty much the same. The songs came from about two years of writing. I wrote a lot of songs but not all were good. Some people say that God gives you songs. I say that life gives you songs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to starting his career as a professional musician, Thorn was a boxer. He was a promising middleweight prospect who won the Mid-South Middleweight title in 1987 and retired with a 14-4 record in the late 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>In April 1988, he was ranked ninth by the NABF and fought boxing legend Roberto Duran, who had an 82-7 record at the time. In the scheduled 12-round fight at the Tropicana Hotel &amp; Casino in Atlantic City, referee Randy Newman stopped the fight after six rounds at the request of Thorn\u2019s corner because of his severely split lip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt bothers me when people hear Roberto Duran\u2019s name and all they remember is \u2018No Mas\u2019 (what Duran said when he was unable to continue his championship fight against Sugar Ray Leonard in 1980),\u201d said Thorn. \u201cHe was a great fighter and he did the right thing at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even though 25 years have passed since Thorn\u2019s fight against the champion boxer with the nickname \u201cManos de Piedra\u201d (\u201c<i>Hands of Stone\u201d<\/i>), the Mississippi native still packs a punch. The only difference is that now he delivers it with a song rather than a jab or an uppercut.<\/p>\n<p>Show time is 7:30 p.m. at the Ardmore Music Hall with Thorn performing a solo acoustic set and a set with his band. Tickets are $22 in advance and $27 day of show.<\/p>\n<p>Other shows at the Ardmore venue over the next week feature Justin Townes Earle and Adventure Aquarium on September 11, Bill Evans\u2019 Soulgrass, Splintered Sunlight and The Royal Noise on September 13.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_942051\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/momsen-1-300x244.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-942051\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-942051\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/momsen-1-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"momsen-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-942051\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Actress and model Taylor Momsen is now lead singer for the band The Pretty Reckless, which hits the TLA, Sept. 13.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Do you remember\u00a0Ron Howard\u2019s 2000 movie \u201cHow the Grinch Stole Christmas\u201d?\u00a0Do you remember the little blonde girl who played the role of Cindy Lou?<\/p>\n<p>That little girl was Taylor Momsen.<\/p>\n<p>Are you familiar with the CW television series \u201cGossip Girl\u201d? Do you remember the blonde teenager who\u00a0played the role of\u00a0Jenny Humphrey?<\/p>\n<p>That perky actress was Taylor Momsen.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her acting career, Momsen has demonstrated a variety of talents. She was\u00a0signed with\u00a0Ford Models\u00a0at the age of two and began her acting career a year later with a national television commercial for\u00a0Shake \u2019n Bake.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Momsen is all grown up and is the lead singer for the hard rock band The Pretty Reckless. Momsen and her bandmates will be back in Philadelphia on September 13 for a return appearance at the TLA (334 South Street, Philadelphia, 215-922-1011,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tlaphilly.com\/\">www.tlaphilly.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Momsen and her band arrived on the scene in 2009. They quickly signed a record deal with Interscope Records and released their debut album \u201cLight Me Up\u201d in 2010. The band\u2019s new album \u201cGoing to Hell\u201d was released on Razor &amp; Tie Records earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe album came out in March,\u201d said Momsen, during a recent phone interview from a tour stop in Orlando. \u201cIt took a lot of work. It felt really good when it finally came out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The album has its own history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were almost finished making the album when (Hurricane) Sandy wiped out our studio in New Jersey,\u201d said Momsen. \u201cWe had eight feet of sludge in our studio. It was devastating. Hazmat came in and everything had to be cleaned and bleached.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe rebuilt the studio. But, we lost a lot of digital files so we had to re-record the album. We were looking for a line that summed it up and that line was \u2018Going to Hell.\u2019 We wrote that track after the hurricane hit. We\u2019re using it as a metaphor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recreating the recordings that had been lost didn\u2019t pose much of a problem for the Pretty Reckless, which includes Ben Phillips (lead guitar, backing vocals), Mark Damon (bass), Jamie Perkins (drums) and Momsen\u00a0(lead vocals, rhythm guitar),<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wrote this album with the live show in mind,\u201d said Momsen. \u201cThis is very much a band record so it was easy to re-record it. There\u2019s not a lot of production &#8212; just two guitars, bass, drums and vocals. We just had to go in and play the songs again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was hard dealing with the effects of Sandy. But, we got a song out of it. We wanted this album to be very honest-sounding because the songs are very honest. It\u2019s still the four of us that were in the band when it started. In three years of touring, we\u2019ve become a very solid unit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And, they\u2019ve created an album with a lot of hit potential &#8212; and already a lot of hits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis week, our song \u2018Messed Up World\u2019 is Number 1 on the Active Rock chart,\u201d said Momsen. \u201cAnd, on the Mainstream Rock chart, our song \u2018Heaven Knows\u2019 is Number 1 and \u2018Messed Up World\u2019 is Number 7.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo have two Number 1 songs on two different charts with two different songs in the same week is really amazing. It\u2019s something to really be proud of. The singles came out three months apart and \u2018Heaven Knows\u2019 has stayed in the charts for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next single will be out in October and I\u2019m 90 per cent sure it will be \u2018Follow Me Down.\u2019 We hope it does as well as \u2018Messed Up World,\u2019 which stayed at Number One on Active Rock for 13 weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All three songs will be featured in the band\u2019s live show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be an eclectic mix,\u201d said Momsen. \u201cThere will be songs from the first album and the \u2018Hit Me Like a Man\u2019 EP. And, it will be heavy with songs from \u2018Going to Hell.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the live show, \u2018Heaven Knows\u2019 has had the biggest transformation. There is no kids\u2019 choir like on the record. We play it acoustic live. That\u2019s the way we originally wrote it &#8212; as hymn that would be an interlude on the record.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we recorded it, I\u2019d sing a line and the kids would sing it back. It\u2019s awesome live because the audience sings the kids\u2019 part. The show is a little longer than before with three sections. There is a little more dynamic to it. We switch it up. We even play a couple covers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Momsen may have a lot of entries in her acting resume but she definitely is not just actress trying to be a recording artist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t compare acting and music,\u201d said Momsen. \u201cActing was a day job that paid the bills. I was always working toward it (fronting a guitar-driven rock band) but people didn\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The show will start at 8 p.m. with opening act Adelitas Way. Tickets are $20 and $23.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_942052\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/isabel-rose-1-300x247.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-942052\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-942052  \" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/isabel-rose-1-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"isabel rose 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-942052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isabel Rose is at the Sellersville Theater Sept. 14.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For a completely different vibe, you can head to the Sellersville Theatre (24 West Temple Avenue, Sellersville, 215-257-5808,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.st94.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.st94.com<\/a>)\u00a0and swing to the music of Isabel Rose.<\/p>\n<p>Be advised &#8212; listening to her smooth and lively songs might make you want to be wearing polyester and holding a martini in your hand. Her music features a retro sound that\u00a0celebrates the music in Las\u00a0<em>Vegas<\/em>\u00a0in the 1960s and\u00a0early 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spent every Friday night of my childhood watching an MGM movie musical,\u201d said Rose, during a recent phone interview from her home in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were a Jewish family and we\u2019d sing Jewish folk songs around the table. My mom was a classical pianist and my father was a fan of musical theater &#8212; and MGM classical musicals like \u2018Singing in the Rain,\u2019 \u2018Gigi,\u2019 \u2018The King and I\u2019 and \u2018South Pacific.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen, I started singing and performing for my family\u2019s friends. I\u2019ve been playing guitar since I was eight and have played piano since I was five. I played piano by ear. My influences for my dancing were greats like Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse and Ann Miller.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rose\u2019s career went through more development when she was a student at Yale University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I went to Yale, I had the lead in every show for four straight years,\u201d said Rose. \u201cI was a double major &#8212; theater and American studies. I was deeply entrenched in theater. I loved every single moment at Yale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did shows at the Williamstown Theater Festival and got my Equity card there. But, I wanted to do my own thing. I\u2019m very methodical. I wanted to learn the craft of writing. Taking time off from acting to write was a wonderful hiatus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rose co-wrote and starred opposite Andrew McCarthy and Eartha Kitt in the film \u201cAnything But Love,\u201d which was released in 2003 by Samuel Goldwyn. Her first novel \u201cThe J.A.P. Chronicles\u201d was published by Doubleday in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>She adapted her novel into a one-woman, musical which ran off-Broadway in 2006. Her non-fiction essays have also been included in various anthologies and she is currently working on her second novel. Rose\u2019s first album \u201cSwingin\u2019 from the Hip\u201d came out in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a creative artist,\u201d said Rose. \u201cI set aside working on my second novel to work with (producer) Bob Rock on my new album. I was two months from turning the novel in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel that you can\u2019t really achieve excellence when you\u2019re pursuing more than one thing at a time. You have to stay focused, be disciplined and immerse yourself in the journey. I started the album three years ago and finished it a year ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was worth the wait.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrouble in Paradise,\u201d\u00a0which will be released on September 16 by BDG\/RED (a division of Sony Music Entertainment),\u00a0is a delightful album that is modern and retro at the same time.\u00a0It was mixed by\u00a0multiple Grammy Award winner\u00a0Chris Lord-Alge and\u00a0the\u00a0legendary, 19-time Grammy Award winner\u00a0Al Schmitt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really wanted to explore the Vegas 1960s, which is a very specific period,\u201d said Rose. \u201cIt was a hard-swinging time with great performers &#8212; Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Ann-Margret, Sammy Davis Jr.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The album features Rose\u2019s renditions of several pop classics such as Diana Ross &amp; the Supremes\u2019 \u201cReflections,\u201d the Captain and Tennille\u2019s \u201cLove Will Keep Us Together\u201d and 10cc\u2019s \u201cThings We Do for Love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do two versions of the 10cc song in my show,\u201d said Rose. \u201cFirst, there is the LP version which is cheerful and perky. Later, I do a ballad version. The lyrics are very poignant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt takes work looking for good songs to cover. I always look for songs that people haven\u2019t covered a lot. And, when you do songs made famous by someone else, you have to give them something unique.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rose\u2019s performance on September 14 will be part of the Sellersville Theater\u2019s \u201c13th Annual Members Party.\u201d The event, which also features The Revelations and magician Brian Miller, starts at 5 p.m. with tickets priced at $10.<\/p>\n<p>Other upcoming shows at the Sellersville Theater are The Sensational Francis Dunnery Electric Band on September 11, Bridges (an Eagles tribute band) on September 12, the Blasters on September 13 and John Hiatt on September 16.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_942053\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/chris-bruni-at-the-flash-300x199.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-942053\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-942053\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/chris-bruni-at-the-flash-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"chris bruni at the flash\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-942053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Bruni is back at The Flash in Kennett Square, Sept. 12.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Flash (102 Sycamore Alley, Kennett Square, 484-732-8295,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennettflash.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.kennettflash.org<\/a>) is featuring the comedy troupe Better Than Bacon on September 11 and Chris Bruni with Laura Shay opening on September 12.<\/p>\n<p>On September 13, the Kennett Square venue is presenting \u201cRising Stars at The Flash Part II\u201d with Brooke Falls, Annabelle Kempf, Torri Melhart, Samantha Sullivan, Megan Flatley and Hope\u2019s Girls.<\/p>\n<p>The Burlap &amp; Bean Coffeehouse (204 South Newtown Street Road, Newtown Square, 484-427-4547,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlapandbean.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.burlapandbean.com<\/a>) will host James Maddock with Cariad Harmon on September 12 and Michael Braunfeld with John Francis on September 13.<\/p>\n<p>Winterthur Museum, Garden &amp; Library (5105 Kennett Pike, Route 52, Wilmington, Delaware, 800-448-3883,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.winterthur.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.winterthur.org<\/a>) has another installment of its \u201cMusic Along the Bank\u201d series scheduled for September 14 from 3-5:30 p.m. in the Clenny Run area.<\/p>\n<p>The show will feature\u00a0Betty and the Bullet along with The Boy from Boston. Visitors are encouraged to bring a picnic, a\u00a0blanket and a few lawn chairs &#8212; and then sit back and enjoy the sounds of live music\u00a0along the banks of the Brandywine Creek.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFiddler on the Roof,\u201d which is one of the all-time favorite American musicals, opens on September 12 and runs through November 2 at the Candlelight Theater (2208 Millers Road, Arden, Delaware,\u00a0302- 475-2313,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctstage.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.nctstage.org<\/a>). Tickets, which include a tasty buffet dinner, are $59 for adults and $33 for children (ages 4-12).<\/p>\n<p>The schedule for Chaplin\u2019s (66 North Main Street, Spring City, 610-792-4110,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chaplinslive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/chaplinslive.com<\/a>) features Brad Krysan, Chris Nudy &amp; Friends on September 11, Ben Kessler on September 12, Duke Maroon and Overfield on September 13 and an \u201cOpen Mic Night\u201d on September 14.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend\u2019s show at the Steel City Coffee House (203 Bridge Street, Phoenixville, 610-933-4043,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelcitycoffeehouse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.steelcitycoffeehouse.com<\/a>) features the Boxcar Lilies from western Massachusetts along with Chester Springs\u2019 Dave Loves Donna.<\/p>\n<p>The Keswick Theater (291 N. Keswick Avenue, Glenside, 215-572-7650,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.keswicktheatre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.keswicktheatre.com<\/a>) is presenting Sig Hansen &amp; Friends of the Northwestern on September 11 and Chris Isaak on September 12.<\/p>\n<p>On September 13, the Keswick hosts the British Invasion Tour which features Chad &amp; Jeremy (\u201cA Summer Song\u201d), Billy J. Kramer (\u201cBad to Me,\u201d \u201cI\u2019ll Keep You Satisfied\u201d), Mike Pender\u2019s Searchers (\u201cNeedles and Pins,\u201d \u201cSugar and Spice\u201d), Denny Laine (original lead singer of the Moody Blues &#8212; \u201cGo Now,\u201d \u201cFrom the Bottom of My Heart\u201d) and Terry Sylvester of The Hollies (\u201cBus Stop,\u201d \u201cCarrie Anne,\u201d \u201cHe Ain\u2019t Heavy, He\u2019s My Brother\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Cirque du Soleil\u2019s \u201cVarekai\u201d is now at the Wells Fargo Center (Broad Street below Pattison Avenue, Philadelphia) with performances on September 11 and 12 at 7:30 p.m., September 13 at 4 and 7:30 p.m. and September 14 at 1:30 and 5 p.m. Ticket prices range from $45-$100 with tickets for children (12 and under) ranging from $36-$81. For complete show and ticket information, visit\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.cirquesoleil.com\/varekai\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cirquesoleil.com\/varekai\" target=\"_blank\">www.cirquesoleil.com\/varekai<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>September 14 is also the last day you can see a performance of \u201cBook of Mormon\u201d in Philadelphia.\u00a0The popular &#8212; and very funny &#8212; hit musical is finishing its long run at the Forrest Theatre (1114 Walnut Street, Philadelphia 866-276-2947,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimmelcenter.org\/broadway\" target=\"_blank\">www.kimmelcenter.org\/broadway<\/a>).\u00a0Ticket prices ranges from $67-$277.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bozzio hits the area, Momsen, Thorn headlining By Denny Dyroff,\u00a0Staff Writer, The Times In the next few days, there will be shows in this area featuring artists with an amazing variety of backgrounds &#8212; a real smorgasbord of styles, influences and personal histories. 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