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This week at Gorgas Park- Empire Strikes Back and Zydeco-A-Go-Go

Tuesday, 8/25 at dusk, watch The Empire Strikes Back! Bring your blankets and chairs, we’ll serve the popcorn. This is the last movie of the summer!

Thursday, 8/27 at 7pm, rock out to some cajun music with Zydeco-A-Go-Go, rescheduled from last week.

“Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler!!” or “Let The Good Times Roll!!” with Zydeco-a-Go-Go, the Mid-Atlantic’s premier Zydeco band. Creole Zydeco and Cajun 2-steps combine with funky New Orleans Rhythm & Blues and vintage Louisiana Rock & Roll into a spicy gumbo of irresistible dance music— and whether they’re playing a smalltown fair or a big outdoor festival, a performing arts center or a college dance concert, a church carnival or a swanky fundraiser gala, a backyard BBQ or one of those non-stop everybody’s-up-and-dancin’ wedding receptions, you know it’s gonna be a wild & swingin’ bayou boogaloo, pitch-a-wang-dang-doodle-all-night-long ZYDECO DANCE PARTY!

Plush

At the park this Thursday from 7-9pm, Plush playing classic rock and soul from the 50s to the Millenium! 

Bring your blankets and chairs. Friends of Gorgas Park will be selling refreshments. 

  

Upcoming Events

Enjoying this beautiful weather? Enjoy it at the park at these upcoming events:

This Thursday at 7pm see The Duke Brothers, Southern Classic Rock and Blues.

Saturday from 10-3 is the Veteran’s Tribute featuring the Merion Concert Band. Read more info about the event in the Roxborough Review.

And next Tuesday is Kids Night! See The Plants at 7pm followed by the movie Frozen.

Concerts start at 7pm. Movies begin at dusk.

Concerts start at 7pm. Movies begin at dusk.

 

TreePhilly – April 13 Free Tree Event

Dreaming of Spring?

Start thinking about your spring garden and register for a free tree!

Sunday April 13th
12 noon to 2 p.m.
Gorgas Park (6300 Ridge Ave. 19128)

Register here

At the tree giveaway event in April, choose can from 11 different tree species including several fruit trees. Get up to two trees per property and up to 10 for community spaces! Get free planting demonstrations from the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, and bring home free mulch with your trees.

Pre-registration is encouraged, but walk-ins are welcome!

 

Spring 2014 Tree List:

American beech – Fagus grandiflora
White oak – Quercus alba
Red maple – Acer rubrum
Sassafras – Sassafras albidum
Dolgo crabapple – Malus x ‘Dolgo’
Winter King hawthorn – Crataegus viridus ‘Winter King’
Serviceberry – Amelanchier laevis and A canadensis
Moorpark Apricot – Prunus armeniaca ‘Moorpark’
Brown Turkey Fig – Ficus carica ‘Brown Turkey’
20th Century Asian pear – Pyrus pyrifolia ’20th Century’
Contender peach – Prunus persica ‘Contender’