Charles Dickens Birthday Celebration Sunday, March 8, at 2:30 pm Griffith Hall 43rd and Woodland Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19104
West Philadelphia’s Clark Park is the location of the world’s only life-size statue of Charles Dickens, and the Friends of Clark Park sponsor an annual celebration of the writer’s birthday. The free event includes readings from Dickens’ works, birthday cake, and last but not least a performance of period music by Heather Wood and David Kleiman cosponsored by Crossroads Music
Heather Wood was a singing partner of Peter Bellamy who, along with Royston Wood, made up The Young Tradition that served as a cornerstone of the “second generation” of the British Folk Revival. She has organized clubs and concerts, acted as agent and manager for other artists, and co-edited The Grass Roots International Folk Resource Directory. She was the project editor on the newly released “English and Scottish Popular Ballads digital edition)”. She has also written the occasional song. She retains the YT’s attitude to traditional music: that it should be enjoyed and not enshrined.
David Kleiman, a multi-instrumentalist and educator, has been hanging around the folk-music scene most of his life. He has been a working chantey-man, served as crew on the sloop Clearwater and as a performer and impresario in the music field he has performed throughout the US, Canada, Europe, and Israel both solo and with ensembles such as Water Sign, Children of Lyr, and Mor B’samim. He is director of the choral group Songs-For-All-Seasons and now earns his keep as a multi-media publisher in folk music and folklore.
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