Stoneleigh: a natural garden

We are pleased to present Home for the Holidays: An Evening of Music and Cheer. We’ve transformed the spectacular Tudor Revival-style house at Stoneleigh: a natural garden with beautiful decorations crafted from natural materials gathered from the garden. This special evening offers the opportunity to see the house and its festive decor at night, aglow with the warmth of holiday cheer. The highlight of the event will be an inspiring musical performance by the acclaimed vocal ensemble Les Canards Chantants. There will be light bites and seasonal beverages. Celebrate this season with good food, good music, and good friends in an enchanting setting. 
This event is for guests 21 years of age and older.

Local Event: Home for the Holidays: An Evening of Music and Cheer

Delaware County

Villanova

Pennsylvania

Home for the Holidays: An Evening of Music and...

We are pleased to present Home for the Holidays: An Evening of Music and Cheer. We’ve transformed the spectacular Tudor...

Home for the Holidays: An Evening of Music and Cheer

Harriton High School

Villanova PA

HH - Choir & Jazz Winter Concert 2

Harriton HS Auditorium

HH - Choirs & Jazz Ensemble Winter Concert 2

Kelly Center

Jesse Loewy resides in Havertown PA and graduated from Haverford High School in 2016. For the past 14 years, Jesse has worked in the music industry as a freelance guitarist, bandleader, and musical director with consistent work in the Tri-State area, along with occasional national tours.
Katie Henry was born and raised in Vernon Township, New Jersey, and is a current resident of Philadelphia PA.
$25. Advanced Reserved Seating. $30. VIP Reserved Table Seating. $30. at the Door.
BYOB is welcome for adults for an additional $5. donation per drinker. Must be 21 to consume alcohol. Cups and ice provided.
Doors open at 7:00 pm. 7:30 show. 
Free Parking in Oakmont Municipal lot behind Kelly Center off Darby Road.

Local Event: Kelly Center - The Jesse Loewy Band featuring Katie Henry

Haverford-Havertown

Kelly Center - The Jesse Loewy Band featuring...

Jesse Loewy resides in Havertown PA and graduated from Haverford High School in 2016. For the past 14 years, Jesse has worked...

Kelly Center - The Jesse Loewy Band featuring Katie Henry

Finneran Pavilion

Seton Hall Pirates at Villanova Wildcats Women's Basketball

St Katharine of Siena

From its very first performance in Dublin in 1742, Messiah
was a huge sensation. For more than three decades, VoxAmaDeus has presented to the Philadelphia region annual performances of Handel’s masterpiece, now a Christmas season tradition. Remaining true to Handel’s vision, this is the complete work performed on original Baroque instruments. But Maestro Radu makes a few changes each time, so no two performances are ever quite the same. This will be the 2025 edition! This year, make Messiah part of your holiday tradition—and come and be uplifted!Andrea Lauren Brown soprano,&nbsp;Chelsea Laggan alto,&nbsp;Timothy Bentch tenor,&nbsp;Ed Bara bass Running time: 2 hours, no intermission

Local Event: Handel Messiah

Chester County

Tredyffrin-Easttown

Handel Messiah

From its very first performance in Dublin in 1742, Messiah
was a huge sensation. For more than three decades, VoxAmaDeus has...

Wayne Presbyterian Church, 125 E Lancaster Ave, Wayne, PA, 19087

Wayne Presbyterian Church invites the community to a special “Blue Christmas” service on Sunday, December 21 at 4:30 p.m. in the church chapel. This quiet, contemplative worship service is designed especially for those who find the holiday season difficult.
While Christmas is often portrayed as a time of nonstop joy and celebration, many people experience grief, loneliness, anxiety, family stress, financial worries, or the pain of missing loved ones. If the bright lights and “good cheer” feel out of reach this year, you are not alone—and this service is for you.
The service will balance time for quiet individual worship with gentle opportunities to connect with others. Pastors Ryan Balsan and Tim Pretz, along with Director of Music John Grecia, will lead this intimate gathering in the warm setting of the Wayne Presbyterian Chapel.

Local Event: Blue Christmas Worship Service

Radnor

Blue Christmas Worship Service

Wayne Presbyterian Church invites the community to a special “Blue Christmas” service on Sunday, December 21 at 4:30 p.m. in...

Join us at Wayne Presbyterian Church this Christmas Eve as we celebrate the birth of our Savior! 🎄
Everyone is warmly invited to one (or all!) of our three joyful services—each with its own special touch. 
<h3>4PM | Children's Pageant</h3>
A family-friendly worship service featuring our delightful Christmas pageant.
<h3>7PM | Christmas Eve Worship</h3>
Candlelit service featuring the&nbsp;Westminster Youth &amp; Chancel Choirs with Brass.&nbsp;Child Care Available.
<h3>10PM | Christmas Eve Worship</h3>
Candlelit service&nbsp;featuring the&nbsp;Choral Octet with Brass.

Local Event: Christmas Eve at Wayne Presbyterian Church

Christmas Eve at Wayne Presbyterian Church


Join us at Wayne Presbyterian Church this Christmas Eve as we celebrate the birth of our Savior! 🎄
Everyone is warmly invited...

Saint David's Episcopal Church

Join in the joy and celebration of the birth of a child—Emmanuel, God with us—who has come to bring us freedom through hope, peace, and love of all. Celebrate Christmas at St. David's. You and your loved ones are welcomed to any of our five Christmas Eve worship services, all of which will serve the Holy Eucharist (Holy Communion).
3 p.m.*—Chapel &amp; <a href="https://stdavidschurch.org/livestream/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Livestream</a> Holy Eucharist (communion) service with music led by the Primary, Children’s, and Youth Choirs along with Fairmount Brass and timpani.
3 p.m.*—Church&nbsp;(the small, historic building) Holy Eucharist (communion) service with music led by organ and soloist.
6 p.m.*—Chapel Holy Eucharist (communion) service with music led by the Adult Choir along with Fairmount Brass and timpani.
8 p.m.—Church&nbsp;(the small, historic building) Holy Eucharist (communion) service with music led by organ and soloist.
11 p.m.—Chapel &amp; <a href="https://stdavidschurch.org/livestream/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Livestream</a> Holy Eucharist (communion) service with music led by the Adult Choir and harp.
Accessibility Note: Our Chapel facility is ADA compliant with accessible bathrooms, elevators, and multiple handicapped parking spaces available. For those with limited hearing, our Chapel services are t-coil enabled. Speak to an usher for more information.
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*Nursery care is available during the services marked with an asterix for children aged 3 months to 5 years old. It will be held in the undercroft, the lower level, of the Chapel building.

Local Event: Christmas Eve Worship

Christmas Eve Worship

Join in the joy and celebration of the birth of a child—Emmanuel, God with us—who has come to bring us freedom through hope,...

<h3>Kala Farnham</h3>
“I Feel the Earth Move: The Music of Carole King” is a captivating musical tribute led by the 18th Connecticut State Troubadour, Kala Farnham. Farnham effortlessly weaves through the timeless melodies of Carole King, bringing a unique and soulful interpretation to the iconic singer-songwriter’s repertoire. Leah R.G. is a singer-songwriter in the Philadelphia area who has been playing and writing music for years, mostly under the radar. $18. Advanced Reserved Seating. $28. VIP Reserved Table Seating. $30. at the Door.
BYOB is welcome for adults for an additional $5. donation per drinker. Must be 21 to consume alcohol. Cups and ice provided.
Doors open at 7:00 pm. 7:30 show.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Local Event: Kelly Center - Kala Farnham - Carole King Tribute with Leah R.G.

Kelly Center - Kala Farnham - Carole King...

Kala Farnham
“I Feel the Earth Move: The Music of Carole King” is a captivating musical tribute led by the 18th Connecticut...

Kelly Center - Kala Farnham - Carole King Tribute with Leah R.G.

Ben Arnold rings out 2025 with an early evening New Years Eve show. Over by 10 pm. Be home (or at your next stop) before it gets crazy out there. <a target="_blank" href="https://benarnold.com/home" rel="nofollow">https://benarnold.com/</a>
Ben Arnold is a lifer. For decades, he's been creating his own version of amplified American roots music, broadcasting that sound from venues across America and Europe. He turns a new page with XI, a roots-rock record that finds the road warrior bridging the gap between personal insights and universal statements. Intimate one minute and anthemic the next, XI highlights just how wide-ranging Arnold's songwriting has become over the past quarter-century. "I laid myself bare with this record. There's relationships and compromise. There's places where you have to give up or give in. And there's places where you have success as well as failure," says Arnold, who signed a major-label deal with Columbia Records in the 1990s before embracing the freedom of hard-won independence during the decades that followed. Along the way, he also released albums with collaborative projects as diverse as US Rails and Pistol For Ringo, continuously exploring music from new angles, establishing himself not only as a solo artist, but as a bandmate, co-writer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and educator, too. By the 2020s, he'd already contributed to more than 30 albums. When the Covid-19 pandemic brought everyday life to a halt, though, Arnold found himself stuck at home, unable to continue collaborating with others. Looking to make sense of an unsteady world, he dug into his craft — and into himself. "I wrote country songs, folk songs, love songs, Christmas songs, and songs based in my own socio-political frustrations," he remembers. Some tunes were written in his hometown of Philadelphia, whose long history of R&amp;B and soul music had inspired his past two records: Lost Keys and Sunday Morning Meltdown. Others were written in hotel rooms in upstate New York, where Arnold began traveling every month to visit his terminally ill mother. Songs like "Long Tall Shadow" and the Springsteen-sized anthem "Catch the Lighting" sprang to life during those bittersweet trips. "I was looking back on my past, measuring the distance between my younger life and where I'm at now, thinking about all the in-betweens," he says. While looking inward, he also wrote love songs like "All The Love In My Heart" — an elegant, wedding-worthy waltz, laced with pedal steel and upright piano — and the soulful "Cools My Rage." As Arnold took stock of the changes in his own life, the outside world continued to change, too. "My America" and "Not Fair" were written while political protests erupted across the country, inspiring Arnold to dig deep into his own thoughts of patriotism, pride, and social justice. He'd already written about national politics on albums like Sunday Morning Meltdown, but XI quickly became something different, with tracks like the New Orleans-flavored protest song "Build a Wall" sharing equal space on an album that also explored personal territory. Ever the traveler, Arnold headed to Los Angeles once restrictions lifted. There, he reunited with producer Shane Smith (his musical partner in the band Pistol For Ringo, as well as engineer of Los Lobos' acclaimed record Tin Can Trust) while simultaneously working on the East Coast with Barrie Maguire (The Wallflowers, Natalie Merchant, and more). What began as a casual recording session at Hetson Sound, the SoCal studio owned by Circle Jerks guitarist Greg Hetson, quickly turned into something more substantial, with Arnold assembling a band of longtime friends and collaborators from multiple different genres. Others contributed to the sessions remotely — including Pete Thomas, longtime drummer for Elvis Costello and the Attractions, who tracked songs like "Catch The Lightning," "Anywhere But Here," and "Peace, Love &amp; Understanding" (which found him warmly commenting, "I love this song! You know I played on the first one!?") from home. Back in Philadelphia, Ben and Maguire recorded songs like the gorgeously heartbreaking "My America" in a series of fast, inspiring takes, breathing new life into Arnold's timeless influences. "There's everything from Bob Dylan to Buddy Holly to Bruce Springsteen to a little bit of the Beach Boys in there," Arnold says of the record, whose arrangements make room for electric guitar, swirling organ, heartland hooks, and the warm, worn-in rasp of his own road-tested voice. "I used to feel nervous about honoring my influences, but I've become less on-guard about it over the years. It's all folk music. This form of American popular music has been handed down over generations, and we're all privy to it. We all own it." 
$35 Advance Discount Seating. $45 Advance VIP Table Seating. $40. at the door.
BYOB is welcome for an additional $5. donation. Must be 21 to consume alcohol. Drinkware and ice provided.&nbsp;
Doors open at 7:00 pm. 7:30 show.
Free Parking in Oakmont Municipal lot behind Kelly Center off Darby Road.

Local Event: Kelly Center - Ben Arnold and Friends New Year's Eve 

Kelly Center - Ben Arnold and Friends New...

Ben Arnold rings out 2025 with an early evening New Years Eve show. Over by 10 pm. Be home (or at your next stop) before it...

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