11th Haverford Township Music Festival Set For September

HAVERTOWN, PA — The air in Haverford Township will be filled with music on Sept. 9, as the 11th Annual Haverford Township Music Festival is on schedule.

The free festival will take place from noon to 9 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 9 on multiple stages near the intersection of Eagle and East Darby roads in Havertown.

This year's festival will be headlined by Dana Fuchs, The Split Squad, and former "The Voice" contestant Devix.

Full details on the headliners is featured below.

Numerous other regional performers spanning various genres such as jazz, rock, pop, blues, and country will join the festival to support the headliners.

The full lineup will be announced this summer.

There will also be food vendors, beer gardens, children’s activities and much more family friendly end-of-summer activities.

Area business sponsors and vendors will fill booths along the adjacent East Hathaway Lane.

The festival website features information and registration forms for sponsors and vendors.

For more information, businesses and organizations interested in being 2023 sponsors or vendors should contact fundraising consultant Karen Smith at 484-459-7171 or ksmith.haverfordmusicfestival@gmail.com.

"We are reaching out to local businesses to participate as sponsors, vendors or to simply make a donation to help make the music festival a success," Haverford Township Education, Arts & Music Society President Jesse Hubley said. "Among the thousands of attendees will be your neighbors as well as music lovers from throughout Delaware County, Montgomery County, Chester County, Philadelphia, Bucks County, New Jersey, Delaware and beyond, wide- eyed with excitement and ready to absorb all that Haverford Township and the Haverford Township Music Festival marketplace have to offer. It’s a terrific opportunity to expose your business to thousands of new customers, and to demonstrate your support of our community."

Free admission is possible solely through sponsorships and donations.

Donations can be made online here and at the festival.

The Haverford Township Music Festival is produced exclusively by the 501(c)(3) organization Haverford Township Education, Arts & Music Society (HTEAMS).

A portion of proceeds from the festival is distributed as grants to organizations and projects that enhance the quality of life in Haverford Township.

"The festival is a lot of fun to put on, but we rely on help from volunteers for a few hours here or there throughout the day in order for it to succeed," Hubley said. "Anyone interested in volunteering will find a choice of options, such as stage and booth set up, take down, clean-up or band hospitality. Your help is greatly needed and will certainly be deeply appreciated!"

Sign up to volunteer at the festival online here.

Dana Fuchs

Headlining the festival will be Dana Fuchs, who, with her feet planted on both sides of the blues-rock divide, is one of the fiercest voices in modern-day roots music.

Fuchs starred as Janis Joplin in the off-Broadway musical Love, Janis, and appeared in the Golden Globe-nominated film Across the Universe, in which she sang The Beatles "Helter Skelter.”

She’s equal parts soul singer and bluesy belter, applying her raw, rock- inspired rasp to amplified anthems and haunting ballads on albums like her latest, Borrowed Time, on which she digs deep into her southern rock upbringing, saluting the loud, guitar-driven sounds that sound tracked her childhood years in rural Florida.

The UK’s Classic Rock Magazine praised Fuch’s show-stealing vocals as “juke-joint dirty and illicit, evoking Joplin, Jagger and a cigarette bobbing in a glass of bourbon,” while PopMatters enthused, “Dana Fuchs has one of those unmistakable voices perfect for exploring the confluence of blues and soul, where Otis Redding and Janis Joplin rub elbows and the night and smoke get thick.”

The Split Squad

The members of our second headliner, The Split Squad, don’t get together too often, as, hey, they have these other gigs, too

But when they do unite, watch out! The band features New York drummer Clem Burke of Blondie and guitarist Keith Streng of The Fleshtones, and is led by Mechanicsburg, PA lead singer, bassist and principal songwriter Michael Giblin, formerly of The Parallax Project.

They will be joined for this appearance by guitarist Kurt Bloch, formerly of Seattle’s The Fastbacks.

The Split Squad plunder their collective sensibilities and record collections to create some of the best garage-power-punk-pop-classic-big- dumb rock around, including “Stop Me (If You’ve Heard This One Before)”, a 2018 “Coolest Song in the World” on Little Steven’s Underground Garage. The Split Squad’s latest album is named Another Cinderella.

Devix

The music of our third headliner, multi-instrumentalist Devix, AKA Eric Torres, who grew up in York, Pennsylvania, moves across alternative, indie and pop.

Devix took the stage on national TV last fall as a season 22 contestant on NBC’s The Voice.

He chose Camila Cabello as his coach on the show, although John Legend and Gwen

Stefani also turned their chairs, indicating that they, too, were interested in coaching him.

Devix’s time on the show came to an end in the second round of the live shows as a Top 13 contestant, with a final performance of The Killers’ “When You Were Young.”