Presented by Upper Dublin Parks and Recreation and hosted by Temple University Ambler. All events are free and open to the public.
For 13 years, the music played on.
In 1968, the Temple University Music Festival and Institute was born at the Ambler campus with two important goals — to serve as a school for young professional musicians and to provide several summers of world-class music.
In its heyday, the Music Festival stage was graced by the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, and Duke Ellington. The amphitheater placed the spotlight on rising stars such as Dionne Warwick, Johnny Mathis, and Temple’s own Bill Cosby.
Area residents, and many well beyond, fondly remember the “42 Evenings of Musical Excellence” that summers at Ambler would bring.
Though the location of the well-remembered Music Festival now plays host to Temple’s Owls baseball and softball teams, on Sunday, June 29, music will fill the summer air once more Temple University Ambler.
The campus is teaming up with Upper Dublin Parks and Recreation to bring the township's Sunday Evening Summer Concert Series to Temple University Ambler for the first time.
As with our Fall and Spring Cultural Affairs Series programs, our goal is to connect Temple Ambler more directly to the community by sharing our cultural and educational resources. In this way we hope to contribute to the intellectual and cultural dialogue, to foster a larger sense of mutual interest, and to enliven and enrich our daily lives.
The concert series will be held on the Learning Center Front Lawn a feature a wide variety of musical styles through the first Sunday evening in August. Bring your lawn chairs and blankets and enjoy a relaxed evening of entertainment!
For questions or directions to the campus, please contact 267-468-8420 or jennifer.mull@temple.edu.
Sunday, June 29
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Learning Center Front Lawn
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The Point Blank Band is a professional energetic band that loves to play and entertain audiences of all ages with a wide variety of music and encourages audience participation.
Type of Music: They play rock, blues, commercial, jazz,
easy-listening, country, old standards, and classics.
Band Members
Patty Powers – Female vocalist
Bernie – Drummer/vocalist
Steve – guitarist/vocalist
Wayne – Bassist/vocalist
Steve – Keyboardist/vocalist
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Sunday, July 13
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Learning Center Front Lawn
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The Street Corner Five was formed in 1983 as an outgrowth of a reunion of former members of a young local Philadelphia (Kensington) group, The Hollanders.
Original Hollanders Dee Jaskel and Bob Giordano are still with the group today. Over the years, the group has evolved with different people. Current member Michael Diamond joined the group around 1990 while "new" members Rich Giresi and Jim Bakay joined the group in 1995.
Type of Music: Acappella
Band Members:
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Sunday, July 20
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Learning Center Front Lawn
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They rock, they roll and they deliver great harmonies to boot with a repertoire spanning from 40's R&B and Boogie Woogie to Jumpin' Blues and Western Swing.
Lindsay Gilmour, Liz Staruch and Melissa Martin are The RockaPhillys and they deliver 100 percent fun and frolic with their vocal stylings.
Type of Music: Boogie Woogie, 1940s R & B, Jumpin' Blues,
Western Swing
Band Members:
Lindsay Gilmour
Liz Staruch
Melissa Martin
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Sunday, July 27
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Learning Center Front Lawn
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The Barbone Street Jazz Band consists of World-Class jazz musicians. Over the years, jazz have taken many forms as individual styles developed. Barbone Street musicians working with each other in many different bands were united by a common goal - a desire to explore the roots of jazz, traditional jazz modernized by their own inventiveness.
Barbone Street was formed several years ago with the goal of blending their own individual styles into a unique, energetic, easily recognized band sound. The basic band is a six piece Dixieland group. However, they are not limited to jazz. They supply all types of music and organize bands from a pool of about 45 skilled musicians.
Type of music: Jazz
Band Members:
Steve Babone - Clarinet
Cindy Leiby – Trombone
Paul Grant – Trumpet
Ace Tesone – Bass
Joe Mongillo – Drums
Sonny Troy – Guitar
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Sunday, August 3
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Learning Center Front Lawn
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One thing this area does not lack is musical talent! The final concert in the series will highlight local bands, providing them a venue to share their eclectic styles with an appreciative audience that they might not have otherwise reached.
Type of music: All types!
Band Members:
Come and see at this special concert that caps off the 2008 Sunday Evening Summer Concert Series!
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