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Friday Night Live fall season wraps up with a special performance by internationally acclaimed blues musician Corey Harris, who will give a solo acoustic performance. His new album, Insurrection Blues, comes out the day of this show. The concert will be held Friday, November 5, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., in the large art gallery. Seating is provided, including some tables and concert style seats. Seating selected on a first come, first served basis.
This year, 2021, marks the 10 year anniversary of the popular live music and art event series Friday Night Live at the Community Arts Center. The fall season kicks off with the first event on Friday, September 17, with Scotty P & The Love From Above.
The Community Arts Center hosted its 9th Annual Tie Dye Music Festival — a family-friendly event with free admission. It was the biggest one yet.
The Community Arts Center presents the 9th annual Tie-Dye Music Festival on Saturday, July 17 (rain date: Sunday, July 18), from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
2021 marks the 10-year anniversary of “Friday Night Live,” the Community Arts Center’s live-music and art-event series. To celebrate this decennial year, the center has expanded the number of events it is offering in its spring and fall seasons this year.
A new exhibition at the Community Arts Center, “Educate: Delaware County Higher Education Teaching Artists,” features two- and three-dimensional work by 16 teaching artists who work in the art departments of six Delaware County colleges and universities.
The Community Arts Center presents “HOME,” a juried exhibition featuring two- and three-dimensional work by over 70 local artists who have interpreted the theme in a variety of ways.
The Community Arts Center in Wallingford has won a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Announcing the grant, CAC Executive Director Paul Downie said it is awarded to support “multidisciplinary community arts programs,” and will enable the organization to bring visiting artists to its Summer Spree camp sessions in 2021. Approximately 100 kids participate in each one-week session.
Friday Night Live concerts are back at the Community Arts Center. The Dave Manley Trio will play on Friday, September 25, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., on the center’s side lawn. (RAIN DATE: Saturday, September 26). Dave Manley will perform with an electric jazz trio featuring Nimrod Speaks (bass) and Khary Abdul-Shaheed (drums). Typically held in the Duke Art Gallery, this concert, and the rest in the fall series, will all be presented outdoors.
The Community Arts Center (CAC) will present its eighth annual Tie-Dye Music Festival on Saturday, August 29 (RAIN DATE: Sunday, August 30), from 5 to 8 p.m. This is a free, outdoor, family event.
Most summers, the Community Arts Center (CAC) in Wallingford is full of children making art, exploring nature, and forming and renewing friendships. This year, the traditional Summer Spree program has been reconceived.
Paul Downie, executive director of the Community Arts Center in Wallingford, is also a professional musician who has played drums and sung in the Philadelphia area for 20 years. Coincident with that anniversary is the release of Paul’s new album, In the Moment.
Celebrate autumn, art, music, and the bounty of local food and drink on Saturday afternoon, October 19, in a new event at Community Arts Center in Wallingford. The Harvest Gathering, a partnership of CAC and LandArt Events Farm-to-Table Plein Air, celebrates the season from noon to 4 p.m. in a rain-or-shine event on the grounds of CAC at 414 Plush Mill Road (or in the Duke Gallery if it rains).
In the coming week, Delaware County will become a festive carousel of art and artists, and on Saturday, Swarthmore will be its hub. The Fine Arts and Craft Festival, presented by the Community Arts Center, returns to Swarthmore for its fifth consecutive year this Saturday, September 21, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., rain or shine. It’s one of the first events in the first-ever Delco Arts Week, which involves more than 50 events and exhibitions across the County through Sept. 29.
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Lindsay Lusby, and Nancy Reddy land “(M)other(ship): A Mother of a Poetry Reading” at the Community Arts Center on Wednesday, September 4, in the monthly session of the Mad Poets Society.
Missouri native Dalton Ridenhour loves all forms of jazz, but especially ragtime and stride piano traditions. Ridenhour, the featured performer at Sunday’s Tri-State Jazz Society concert at Community Arts Center, is a New York-based pianist who plays with a bunch of different bands, including Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, Goodbye Picasso, and Mona’s Hot Four. He is well known to aficionados of early jazz is a sensitive and gifted player.
The Mad Poets Society presents Linda Fischer and Joseph Dorazio as the featured artists at its First Wednesday reading on August 7 at the Community Arts Center in Wallingford. After Fischer and Dorazio read, starting at 7 p.m., there will be an intermission with light refreshments, followed by an open mic session for anyone who wishes to share their work with the group.
Connecting the community through music and art, Community Arts Center’s annual Tie-Dye Music Festival will take place rain or shine on Saturday, July 13 from 2 to 7 p.m. The free family event, presented by Ginger March and J. Rossi, and sponsored by Franklin Mint Federal Credit Union, features music all day, tie-dye activities, vendors, raffles and food on the side lawn of CAC at 414 Plush Mill Road in Wallingford.
