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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

Sacred harp singing

Hundreds of singers will be assembling in Philadelphia to participate at the Keystone Sacred Harp Convention in January. One of the conventions organizers, Thomas Ward, joins.

6 years ago

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Radio Times
Community

Regional Roundup – 01/13/19

This week: An update on the legal battle over safe injection sites in Philly, Delaware Senator Chris Coons, and the oldest form of American music, sacred harp singing.

Air Date: January 13, 2020

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Butter and Salmon album cover; Butter and Salmon sidewalk artYOUTUBE / TWITTER
Community
Billy Penn

Chasing ‘Butter and Salmon’: Elusive street artists are like Philly’s own Banksy

The group (or person?) creates visual art, music and social commentary.

6 years ago

Music teacher Marc Dulberg watches as Amir Newsome plays the keyboard in class. (Abdul Sulayman/The Philadelphia Tribune)
Education
The Philadelphia Tribune

Students hit all the right notes at Nebinger school

Singing songs, reading music notes, and playing an instrument are just some of the things that students at the George W. Nebinger School are doing in their music program.

6 years ago

Stevie Wonder performs at Dilworth Park in 2015FACEBOOK / CENTER CITY DISTRICT
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Apply now to showcase your art or music on Philly’s most central stage

The Center City District is taking applications for acts to perform in Dilworth Park.

6 years ago

The Kimmel Center's 19/20 Season Jazz Residents: (L-R) Ruth Naomi Floyd (vocalist composer), Jay Wahl (producing artistic director of the Kimmel Center), Immanuel Wilkins (saxophonist and composer), Richard Hill (bassist and composer) (Courtesy of Kimmel Center)
Arts & Entertainment

Kimmel Center introduces new jazz residents

Three musicians will spend six months at the Kimmel Center to make new work.

6 years ago

Bowie inspired art by school children is and will hang above a creative corner where visitors can create their own Bowie artworks. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Philly Loves Bowie opens with exhibition of fan and fine art

An international roster of 47 artists submitted work to the National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia to honor the late David Bowie.

6 years ago

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MilkBoy co-owners, Jamie Lokoff (left) and Tommy Joyner (right), started their music empire in Ardmore 25 years ago. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

They recorded Miley, Kanye & Nicki Minaj: Philly’s hottest studio is expanding to Maryland

The MilkBoy partners, who also own restaurants and produce movies, are celebrating 25 years in business.

6 years ago

(Courtesy of David Gavigan/Everybody Hits)
Community
Billy Penn

Building sale wipes out unique North Philly venue known for batting practice and music shows

Regulars remember Everybody Hits as an “only in Philadelphia” kind of space.

6 years ago

The Choir of King's College Cambridge conduct a rehearsal of their Christmas Eve service of A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols in King's College Chapel on Dec. 11, 2010 in Cambridge, England. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
NPR
Community

Commemorating a King’s College Christmas tradition

Every Christmas Eve at exactly 3 p.m., the Chapel of King's College in Cambridge, England plays A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols.

6 years ago

Thousands of new holiday songs have been released since 1994, but none have become standards in the way pop songs about Christmas routinely did in the '60s, '70s and '80s. (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images)
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

Why are there no new Christmas songs?

This year, Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" turns 25. Her single-item wish list seems to have been the punctuation mark on half a century.

6 years ago

The popular cabaret entertainer got backing from the Kimmel Center to write and record the all-originals collection “Lashed But Not Leashed.” (Brad Larrisonfor WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Martha Graham Cracker drops her first album

The popular cabaret entertainer got backing from the Kimmel Center to write and record the all-originals collection “Lashed But Not Leashed.”

6 years ago

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An ensemble of 100 tuba, sousaphone and euphonium players from the region, perform a TubaChristmas concert. (Kriston Jae Bethel for WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

TubaChristmas: Concertgoers in Philly give love to, and get joy from, overlooked instruments

For the past 29 years, dozens of players from the Philadelphia region have been able to show just how versatile their overlooked instruments are with “TubaChristmas.”

6 years ago

John Oliver, Jr., plays guitar at Hub of Hope's Living Room (Michaela WInberg/Billy Penn)
Community
Billy Penn

In Suburban Station, live music brings holiday joy to the Hub of Hope

Project HOME’s underground “Living Room” is a place to play and sing.

6 years ago

Max Ochester of Brewerytown Beats/Dogtown Records and Sounds of Liberation guitarist Monnette Sudler. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Philly free jazz pioneers Sounds of Liberation reunite with new album

Philly’s Sounds of Liberation reunite after unearthed 1970s recording from gains new life with a contemporary audience.

6 years ago

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