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At Concilio's 7th & Fairmount home, the music will be non-stop this Sunday, with groups playing bachata and jibaro and more lending their support to a radiothon due to air on la Mega (1340 AM) and Rumba (1480 AM). As of right now the schedule looks like this:
11 a.m. Carmelito y su Banda Swing
noon Marino de Jesus y Comando 7
1 p.m. El hijo de Lola
2:30 p.m. Jimmy George
3 p.m. Nieves y su banda jibara
3:30 p.m. Reynaldo y el Grupo Muevete
4 p.m. Ruby Pulgar
4:30 p.m. Mickey Rivera y su Conjunto Sonido Tipico
5 p.m. M.G. "Tu negro canela"
6 p.m. Willie Willie
7 p.m. Joseph de la Bachata
8 p.m. Grupo Option
9 p.m. Chuckie Santos
9:30 p.m. Carlos David
Confirmada la participacion de Frankie Negrón.
Yes, that's Grammy winning Frankie Negrón, but my informant has yet to reveal what time he'll be there. Stop by 705 N. Franklin and dance to the bands in person. Or call and make a donation while the music churns through your radio. Donation info after the jump.
DONATION CALLS will be received at 215-627-1160.
DIRECT DEPOSITS can be made at PNC Bank
Account Name Unidos Por Haiti
Account Number 8602607754
Not much of a dancer but love to listen? How about volunteering? Concilio will sign you up with helpers from over 20 local organizations, call them at 215-627-3100..
Sorry about the flawed header. The body is correct, the event is on Sunday.
Three German kids have named their band after our fair city. Only we can save them.
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| This is what we have to work with. |
For reasons that, as yet, remain lost in translation, a fun little folky-pop trio from Freiburg, Germany, has chosen to name itself "Philadelphia." Which is weirdly adorable. They're weirdly adorable: Playing their catchy little ditties out in public with big smiles and an open guitar case for spare change.
But we should probably be strict with these kids, right? I mean: We have a stake in this. Whether we like it or not — whether they like it or not — Philadelphia the band and Philadelphia the city are stuck together. We're, like, their managers. And as such, it's up to us to check them out and steer them in the right direction.
After the break: We'll watch their debut video and I'll provide some quick notes. Please feel free to add your own in the comments. We can help these kids. We can.
1. So. I would ditch those little moments where you have pre-planned synchronized dance moves. It can work, but it's coming off a little corny when you guys do it. I know you're European, but come on. Dance all you want; keep it impromptu.
2. This message is for Lugi, the guitarist on our right: Lugi, you have fallen in with the wrong crowd a little bit, taking cues from poor sources. The hat. The rolled up pants. But the main problem is your stance. I can tell you've seen Dave Matthews/Jack Johnson/whoever play their guitars while holding the jam band yoga position (feet planted, thighs ball-clenchingly glued together). I'm here to tell you those people suck, and you can do better. Move your whole body, not just your knees.
(Apologies if you were actually playing the song while fending off diarrhea — that's a good excuse.)
3. I can't really tell what you guys are singing — "You gotta be what it's gotta be" ? — and that's okay for now. The song's really bright and upbeat, yay, but unless you wanna come off as some edgeless bunch of kooks, I suggest you come back at us with something dark and sexy next time.
4. Alright, I was looking over your band's site (good call on scoring philadelphia-band.com AND providing an English version of everything. One thing though. On Lena's page (she's the drummer), we find this curious description:
Lena is a all-night-trough-party-girl.
Look, that's cool, we've all got our quirks. But if cute little Lena's into trough parties — what is that? some extreme horseplay? a farm fetish of some sort? — it's probably too early in the game to put that news out there. Wait to deal with it when some scandalous pictures show up online of Lena drunk off her ass and covered in oats.
5. Hey Max (the bass player). No notes on the video. Good stuff. But I'm looking at the press photo and: That hat is terrible. You don't need a hat that big. You are not a pie-man. You do not hold stock in Hats in the Belfry. You will not suddenly find yourself in a lottery situation which requires 5,000 names to be pulled out of a hat thus making you a hero. Also: thumbs out of the pockets. We don't do that anymore.
Since it's clear the commentator here needs help and not the band, I thought I'd just send this off right away. Philadelphia in Germany is mainly identified with cream cheese. This is not a joke.
The cream cheese made -this is what I fantasize when thinking back to my trips into town those decades ago - by that factory that used to be near the El right before it went underground, around the Deleware River Bridge I think, before getting into the 2nd St. stop, is the Philadelphia cream cheese that is - well - the cream cheese known by everyone here as Phildelphia - e.g. you can get a Philadelphia cake etc. In other words, every German can relate to that word Philadelphia. When I first got here, as a young fellow from Philadelphia, everyone said Oh, the cheese. Philadelphia = cream cheese.
If you don't believe me about the cake, just enter Philadelphia-Kuchen into Google and check out the recipes - in German, of course. Maybe that is why he does have a 'hat that big'.
As for 'all-night-trough' it seems strange that a fellow American has to point out to notoriously inept or careless American spellers that it's probably only the 'h' that is missing after the 't' in 'trough' and corresponds to the German ,die ganze Nacht durch'. None of you guys ever make mistakes typing things, especially e-mails? Or just being smartass funny at the expense of a nice foreinger? (sic)
AH Americans - ruling the world but having no idea of other cultures. Ain't nobody there on your staff who can whip up a German Philadelphia Cake and give you guys some 'education'?
Oh - people here also know about some old bell but the steps of the Art Museum where Rocky stood are probably better known.
J. H.
Hey J.H. I'm well aware what Germans mean by "Philadelphia." Philadelphia cream cheese was never made in Philly. Being German is no excuse for a large hat. The "trough" thing was a joke. You are annoying.
From the band's FAQ (translated by Google)
Why the name "Philadelphia"?
As we are still in the spring of 2007 nameless street music made us beat someone in the inner city of Freiburg spontaneously called "Brother and Sister Love". The idea, we found quite good, not really English. So it was not needed much and we simply translated into Ancient Greek: philia = love, adelphe / adelphos = sister / brother. "Philadelphia" was born.
Dude should probably ditch the t-shirt with the music score on it, too. It's like wearing a piano tie.
I saw them perform this past summer at a music festival. I don't think you get the quirkiness from the website. When you see them in person, you understand the big hat, dumb t-shirt, etc. They're really an adorable trio of people.
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