The Joe Ferry Christmas String Band performs in South Philadelphia each year in memory of loved ones they lost too soon.

They say the Mummers are a family and on Wednesday night, Jim Waldin and his loved ones watched as his brothers and sisters with the Ferko String Band pulled off a surprise performance. “That’s the ...

The 125th Mummers Parade will strut down Broad Street on New Year's Day. Here's everything you need to know — from road closures to tickets. A member of the Ferko String Band plays the saxophone at ...

Hubby jenkins, of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, speaks of his path to membership in the band as “my own educational journey.” Jenkins, 27, is fairly new to the group; Carolina Chocolate Drops formed ...

Christmas concerts are God’s gift, literally, to early music groups such as Piffaro (Philadelphia’s Renaissance wind band). Audience love taking refuge in holiday exuberance from what we imagine as a ...

The String Cheese Incident continued its Halloween tradition of adopting a theme during their celebration of the beloved costume-clad holiday. For the group’s four-night All Hallows’ Eve-adjacent run, ...

In 1960, seven decades after it debuted, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn arranged the classical ballet score into the jazz reinterpretation, “The Nutcracker Suite.” Then, in 2023, American string ...