Sellersville Theater
The 325-seat room behind the ST94 name marks 1894, the year on the building, and books national touring music, comedy, and theater. Grab dinner next door at the Washington House before the lights drop.
Field notes: Seven rooms with live music this Sunday, one set is free
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The Furious Bongos
A large ensemble that plays Frank Zappa's catalog, horns and all, which takes more players than most tribute acts carry. Labor Day weekend Friday, doors 7:30.
Funny Women Of A Certain Age
A touring stand-up bill of women comics past forty, doing material about being women comics past forty. Labor Day weekend Saturday, doors 7:30, tickets $25 to $62.
The Sweet Remains
Three singer-songwriters trading lead vocals and stacking harmonies across a full set. Wednesday night, doors 7:30, tickets $25 to $52.
An Intimate Evening with Copeland with special guest Jenny Dee
The Florida indie rock band plays a scaled down set, with Jenny Dee opening. Tuesday night, doors 7:30, tickets $29.50 to $56.50.
Yellow Brick Road: A Tribute to Elton John
Elton John's seventies run played straight through, piano and platform boots included. Friday night, doors 7:30, tickets $35 to $72.
Chris Smither
Six decades of fingerpicked blues and folk from a writer other songwriters keep covering. Saturday night, doors 7:30, tickets $35 to $56.50.
Mike Guldin & Rollin' & Tumblin' and The Mighty Manatees: Blues Meets Dreadneck
Two regional bands split the bill, straight blues on one side and what the Manatees call dreadneck on the other. Sunday night, tickets $25 to $32.
Danielle Nicole
Bass player and singer out of Kansas City, formerly of Trampled Under Foot, now fronting her own blues band. Tuesday night, doors 7:30, tickets $25 to $52.
40 Fingers
Four classical guitarists from Italy arranging rock and film music for eight hands. Wednesday night, doors 7:30. Seats were already thinning out when the calendar was checked.
Cimarron 615 with very special guest Craig Bickhardt
Nashville session players turned touring band, with songwriter Craig Bickhardt sitting in. Sunday night, doors at 7, tickets $29.50 to $56.50.
Grammy Award Winner Michelle Shocked: Bootleg This!
Michelle Shocked digs through a catalog that runs from folk to gospel, on a Monday night when most rooms are dark. Doors 7:30, tickets $25 to $47.
Greg Piccolo (of Roomful Of Blues) & Heavy Juice
Tenor sax and jump blues from a Roomful Of Blues founding member and his band Heavy Juice. Wednesday night, doors 7:30, tickets $35 to $56.50.
Loudon Wainwright III
Five decades of sharp, funny, uncomfortably honest songwriting from the man behind Dead Skunk. Solo and acoustic in a 325-seat room, so every muttered aside carries. Doors at 7:30.
Badfish - A Tribute to Sublime - Acoustic Tour 2026 with special guest Ted Bowne of Passafire
Sublime's catalog stripped back to acoustic guitars, with Ted Bowne of Passafire along for the run. Same beach-punk songs, no wall of amps between the band and the singalongs.
Southern Culture on the Skids
Chapel Hill trio playing swamp-surf, rockabilly and country twang, thirty-plus years deep. Their shows have been known to involve fried chicken. Doors at 7:30, music at eight.
Boogie Wonder Band
A twelve-piece Montreal disco revue in full seventies costume, working through Chic, Earth Wind and Fire, and the Bee Gees. Sunday night, and people end up dancing in the aisles.
Yonder Mountain String Band
Colorado jamgrass built on banjo, mandolin and long improvised runs. Together since 1998, with setlists that change nightly, which is why bluegrass players and Dead fans both turn up.
The Groove Merchants and The Hip Snacks
Two funk and soul bands splitting a Wednesday bill, horns included. Tickets run $25 to $32, the low-risk way to try the room before committing to a bigger name.
An Evening with Jake Shimabukuro
The ukulele player who turned four strings into something orchestral, moving between Queen, Hendrix and his own writing. Quiet playing, and the room tends to go silent for it.
Hollywood Nights - The Bob Seger Experience
Night one of two on Bob Seger's catalog, Night Moves and Turn the Page included, played by a tribute band that has the Silver Bullet parts down. Doors at 7:30.
Hollywood Nights - The Bob Seger Experience
Second of two nights on the Seger songbook, same band, same set. If Friday sells out, this is where the seats are. Doors at 7:30.
Karla Bonoff
The songwriter behind Someone to Lay Down Beside Me and several Linda Ronstadt hits, playing her own versions with the stories attached. Sunday night, acoustic, doors at 7:30.
An Intimate Evening with Chris Martin IV (of Martin Guitar) and Craig Thatcher
The sixth-generation head of Martin Guitar up in Nazareth sits down with guitarist Craig Thatcher to talk about instruments and then play them. Part history lesson, part concert.
The Artimus Pyle Band - Honoring Ronnie Van Zant's Lynyrd Skynyrd
Lynyrd Skynyrd's original drummer leads a band through the Ronnie Van Zant era, Free Bird and Simple Man included. He survived the 1977 plane crash and talks about it.
An Evening with Acoustic Alchemy
British duo playing steel-string against nylon-string guitar, thirty years of instrumental jazz records behind them. No vocals, just two players trading lines all night.
Five For Fighting with String Quartet
John Ondrasik plays Superman, 100 Years and the rest backed by a string quartet rather than a band. The theater already has this one marked limited availability.
WRTI presents John Pizzarelli Trio - Dear Mr. Bennett
Guitarist and singer John Pizzarelli works through the Tony Bennett songbook with his trio. Standards played straight, plus the dry between-song talk he is known for.
Gaelic Storm
The band from the steerage party scene in Titanic, still touring hard and still turning a seated theater into a pub by the third song. Monday night, doors at 7:30.
Bywater Call and Jamie McLean Band
Toronto seven-piece playing horn-driven soul rock, sharing the bill with New York guitarist Jamie McLean. Two bands on one $25 ticket, slide guitar throughout.
Beppe Gambetta with special guest Hayes Griffin - Terra Madre
Genoese flatpicker who works between Italian folk and American bluegrass, joined by guitarist Hayes Griffin. Terra Madre is his record about emigration and the songs people carried across.
The Reagan Years present The 80s Soundtrack Of Your Life
Eighties covers done seriously, from Tears for Fears to Toto, by a band that has worked the Philadelphia circuit for decades. Dress for it if you want to.
Sh!t-Faced Shakespeare: Macbeth
A classically trained cast performs Macbeth while one of them, picked beforehand, has been drinking for hours. The others keep the play upright. No two nights run the same.
Know Return - Celebrating the Music of Kansas & Styx
Carry On Wayward Son and Come Sail Away back to back, from a tribute act that handles both the Kansas and Styx catalogs. Arena rock in a 325-seat room.
Cracking The Serial Killer Code: A Chilling Evening with Dr. Katherine Ramsland
The DeSales forensic psychology professor who corresponded with the BTK killer for years, talking about what she learned from him. Halloween week, and no costumes involved.
Oz Noy Trio featuring Dave Weckl & Brian Charette
Israeli guitarist Oz Noy runs jazz through a rock rig, with drummer Dave Weckl and organist Brian Charette behind him. Technical, loud, and improvised most of the way through.
Mary Gauthier - Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Mercy Now
Twenty years on from Mercy Now, the record that made her name, played in full. Gauthier writes plainly about addiction, war and forgiveness. Doors at 7.
Coco Montoya
Left-handed blues guitarist who learned from Albert Collins and spent a decade in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. Plays the guitar upside down and hits it hard.
The Royal Scam - A Tribute To Steely Dan
Steely Dan only works with a big band, and this one brings horns and backing singers for Aja, Peg and Deacon Blues. Friday night before Halloween.
Paul Bielatowicz's Nosferatu Undead
Halloween night with the 1922 vampire film projected while guitarist Paul Bielatowicz plays his own score live underneath it. Silent movie, loud guitar, in a building from 1894.
Bill Haley, Jr. and the Comets
Rock Around the Clock and the rest of the early rock catalog, played by Bill Haley's son with the Comets name behind him. A 2pm matinee, doors at 1:30.
Toronzo Cannon
Chicago blues guitarist who drove a CTA bus for decades and wrote about the city from the driver's seat. He records for Alligator and plays like the West Side.
Cowboy Junkies - Celebrating 40 Years and Beyond
Forty years on from The Trinity Session, the Timmins siblings still play at a near-whisper and still make a room lean forward. Doors at 7, and seats are going.
WXPN Welcomes The Smithereens
Behind the Wall of Sleep, A Girl Like You, and forty years of New Jersey power pop, with a guest voice filling Pat DiNizio's spot. WXPN presents.
3 Decades Rewind presents The 70's Show
Seventies radio hits played straight through by a costumed revue, starting at two in the afternoon. The theater has a second, much quieter show the same night.
Robbie Fulks and Heather Maloney
Chicago songwriter Robbie Fulks, who can fit a murder ballad and a punchline in the same verse, sharing a bill with New England's Heather Maloney. Two sets, one ticket.
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
New Orleans brass that broke the traditional mold back in 1977 and never went back, running funk and bebop through a second-line horn section. Tuesday night, nobody sits.
Six Gun Sally with special guest Bo Bice
Philadelphia-area southern rock with Bo Bice, the American Idol runner-up who went back to the road, sitting in. Long solos, loud guitars, doors at 7:30.
Herman's Hermits starring Peter Noone (6 PM)
Peter Noone still singing I'm Into Something Good and Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter, with British Invasion stories between them. Early of two shows, doors at 5:30.
Joe Conklin
Philadelphia's resident impressionist doing Eagles coaches, radio hosts and whoever is in the news that week. Sports talk listeners will recognize every single voice.
Jesse Cook
Canadian flamenco guitarist blending rumba with jazz and North African rhythms, backed by a full band. Fast hands, and a crowd that comes specifically for the playing.
Stewart Copeland - Have I Said Too Much?
The Police drummer talks, plays and rolls film from a career that went from punk clubs to opera houses. More conversation than concert, which is the point. Doors at 7.
WXPN Welcomes Marshall Crenshaw with special guests Sarah Borges & Eric Ambel
Someday Someway and forty years of three-minute pop songs, with Sarah Borges and Eric Ambel of the Del-Lords along for the night. WXPN presents.
Jim Messina
Half of Loggins and Messina, and before that Poco and Buffalo Springfield. Your Mama Don't Dance, Danny's Song, and the country rock he helped build.
Comedian Bob Marley (5 PM)
The Maine comedian, not the singer. Fast, loud family stories about growing up in Portland, told by someone who has been on the road since the eighties. Doors at 4:30.
Christmas With The Rat Pack with Live Big Band
Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. stand-ins with a live big band working the holiday songbook. A November matinee, doors at 1:30, and yes it is early.
Carter & Cleveland
Fiddler Michael Cleveland and guitarist Jason Carter, both heavily decorated bluegrass players, touring the duo record they made together. Sunday night picking, doors at 7:30.
Grateful Dead Tribute Box Of Rain plays American Beauty and Workingman's Dead
American Beauty and Workingman's Dead played in full, the night before Thanksgiving when everyone is back in town. Tickets top out at $37, which is the whole idea.
Gary Ho Ho Hoey
Surf-rock guitarist who has turned Christmas carols into instrumental shred every December since the mid-nineties. Black Friday night, and considerably louder than the mall.
The Duprees - Holiday & Hits
You Belong to Me and the rest of the Jersey City doo-wop catalog, with holiday songs worked in. Saturday matinee at two, doors at 1:30.
American Soul Performs The Great American Soulbook
Motown and Stax played by a band with a real horn section, from Otis Redding through the Temptations. Sunday night, doors at 7:30.
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