Halloween Open Jam with Charlyanne
The last-Thursday open jam with a Halloween show attached, two nights before the day itself. Anyone who plays can get on stage. Loud and late, the sort of room where five bands on a bill is normal.
More at Rusty Nail Nightclub
Jug Carver, Jonny Alba, Ben D Straw and Steven Singer
Four acts on the Haverford Road stage, Jug Carver through Steven Singer. The Nail has booked original bands on Friday and Saturday nights for seventy-odd years and shows no sign of stopping.
Resolver, Chiseled Lilies, Palinoia and Opossom
Four band Saturday at the Nail, all original material. A small stage on Haverford Road with a long habit of booking bands nobody else will.
We Are Skeletons
We Are Skeletons take the Sunday slot at the Nail, the Haverford Road room that calls its Sunday night just chillin' and still puts a band on the stage.
Around the same time
Canal-O-Ween
Close to five hundred carved jack o lanterns line the Delaware Canal towpath, lit by volunteers at sundown every night for a week. Free, rain or shine, with parking at the Fuld and Morgan lot.
The Innocents (1961)
Deborah Kerr as the governess in the Turn of the Screw adaptation. Whether the children see ghosts or she does is still argued about sixty years on.
Volunteer: Give Back to Nature
The second volunteer morning of the month at ChesLen. Expect trail work, invasive removal and bed cleanup heading into winter. Register first so they know how many to expect.