Naked Nuns at the Garden Fest This Sunday

Garden Fest this Sunday? That sounds so familiar. Déjà vu? Nope. Rain date.

Rev. Chris Marsceill and the Naked Nuns of Soul will be performing two shows (recurring déjà vu theme) at the Chestnut Hill Garden Festival, this Sunday, May 17.

11:30 am
Drake’s Gourmet Foods
8419 Germantown Ave
215-247-5911
In the garden (how appropriate!)

Along with his usual delicious stuff, Chef Carl is going to be serving free beer -- which would be enough to get me there even if I wasn’t playing.

4:00 pm
Tavern on the Hill
8636 Germantown Ave
215-247-9948

If you missed their show at the Tavern on the 8th… well, you missed a hell of a night! Now’s your chance to make up for it. Hat tip to the lads who left and came back with their friends!

** If it rains, the 11:30 show will be canceled. But the last time I checked, which was five minutes ago, the chance of showers at 11 am was 10%, so keep on thinkin’ sunny thoughts.

Update: SAVE THE DATE: Wednesday, July 15th – Pastorius Park Concert Series – Katie Drake will be joining other Chestnut Hill local musicians (no affiliation with the newspaper of the same name) including Dave Cope, Jason Fifield, Tony Garro, Roger Learnard, and Chris Marsceill, for what she expects to be a super-fun supergroup kinda night. She's been told the show may be videotaped, so make her look good by coming out and bringing all your friends.

Springtime for Dina: A Musical

CHORUS:
Chestnut Hill was having trouble
What a sad, sad story
Needed a new leader to restore
Its former glory
Where, oh, where was she?
Where could that broad be?
We looked around and then we found
The broad for you and me
LEAD TENOR DIRECTOR:
And now it's...
Springtime for Dina and Chestnut Hill
The CHCA is happy and gay!
We're marching to a faster pace
Look out, here comes the master race!
Springtime for Dina and Chestnut Hill
Highland's a fine land once more!
Springtime for Dina and Chestnut Hill
Watch out, Jim Thorpe
We're going on tour!
Springtime for Dina and Chestnut Hill...
CHORUS:
Look, it's springtime
LEAD TENOR DIRECTOR:
Winter for Germantown and Mt. Airy
CHORUS AND DIRECTOR:
Springtime for Dina and Chestnut Hill!
CHORUS:
Springtime! Springtime!
Springtime! Springtime!
Springtime! Springtime!
Springtime! Springtime!
DIRECTOR:
Come on, Hillers
Go into your dance!
DIRECTOR "TOLIS":
I was born in Crete und that is why they call me Tolis.
DIRECTOR "KEINTZ":
Don't be stupid, be a smarty, come and join the Dina party!
NOREEN:
The Fuhrer is coming, the Fuhrer is coming, the Fuhrer is coming!
DIRECTOR #1:
Heil Dina!
DIRECTOR #2:
Heil Dina!
LEAD TENOR DIRECTOR:
Heil Dina!
Springtime for Dina and Chestnut Hill
ALL:
Heil Dina!
DINA:
Heil myself
Heil to me
I'm the WASP
Who's out to change our history
Heil myself
Raise your hand
There's no greater
Dictator in the land!
Everything I do, I do for you!
CHORUS:
Yes, you do!
DINA:
If you're looking for a war, here's Local War Two!
Heil myself
Raise your martini
CHORUS:
Jawohl!
DINA:
Ev'ry hotsy-totsy Dinasaur stand and cheer
CHORUS:
Hooray!
Ev'ry hotsy-totsy Dinasaur...
DINA:
Heil myself!
CHORUS:
Ev'ry hotsy-totsy Dinasaur...
DINA:
Heil myself!
CHORUS:
Ev'ry hotsy-totsy Dinasaur...

DINA:
...stand and cheer!
THE HEIL-LOs:
The Fuhrer is causing a furor!
He's got those Pirates on the run
You gotta love that wacky hun!
The Fuhrer is causing a furor
They can't say "no" to her demands
They're freaking out in foreign lands
He's got the whole world in her hands
The Fuhrer is causing a furor!
DINA:
I was just a data miner
No one more obscurer
Got a phone call from the CHCA
Told me I was Fuhrer
Chestnut Hill was blue
What, oh, what to do?
Hitched up my pantsuit
And conquered the Avenue
Now WASPand's smiling through!
But it wasn't always so easy...
It was 1932. Recko was working the Big Room and I...
I was playing the lounge. And then I got my big break.
Somebody burned all the ballots. And, would you believe it?
They made me Chancellor. Chancellor!
It ain't no myst'ry
If it's politics or hert'ry
The thing you gotta know is
Ev'rything is show biz
Heil myself
Watch my show
I'm the Hill's Cruella DeVille
Dontcha know
We are crossing borders
The new world order is here
Make a great big smile
Ev'ryone sieg heil to me
Wonderful me!
And now it's...
CHORUS:
Springtime for Dina and Chestnut Hill
Two-face's the new face today

DINA:
Springtime!
Two-face!
CHORUS MEN:
Ballots burning sky high again
CHORUS:
WASPland is on the rise again
DINA & CHORUS:
Springtime for Dina and Chestnut Hill
Maxine is strutting once more
Springtime for Dina and Chestnut Hill
DINA:
Means that...
CHORUS:
Soon we'll be going...
DINA:
We've got to be going...
CHORUS:
You know we'll be going....
DINA:
You bet we'll be going...
DINA & CHORUS:
You know we'll be going to war!!

Music Hath Charms...

Stephen Bennett: Guitar Workshop / House Concert

Professor and local musician Steve Broitman will host guitar wizard Stephen Bennett for a day of musical amazement in the Broitman home in Centerville Delaware, on Saturday January 24, 2009. In the afternoon Steve will conduct a small-group instructional workshop for guitar students at all levels, followed by a small house concert later that evening. Steve is widely known for both his astonishing guitar skills, and his exceptional ability as a guitar teacher. He is a long time, much appreciated veteran of numerous guitar camps (including Steve Kaufman’s Acoustic Music Kamp), and one of the only individuals ever to win prizes at the Winfield National Guitar Championships in both flatpicking and fingerstyle guitar. He has toured extensively with Tommy Emmanuel, and is also widely known for his virtuosity, and innovative use and performance with the (very cool) harp guitar.

The afternoon instructional workshop will run from 1-4, and the evening concert will start at 7:30. The price for the workshop is $65, and the evening concert tickets are $25 (students attending both the workshop and the concert will be charged $80 for both). Please note that all proceeds will be immediately turned directly over to the artist. The location is in Centerville Delaware, which is fairly convenient to Wilmington, Philadelphia, Chadds Ford and south/central New Jersey.

For more information, and to reserve seats please email sbroitman@wcupa.edu (Steve Broitman), or call (302) 654-8306.

More information on Stephen Bennett.

You can also hear Stephen Bennett play here (he is the second performer):



Steven L Broitman, PhD
Professor, Cell & Molecular Biology
Department of Biology
West Chester University of Pennsylvania
West Chester, PA 19393