The Blair Witch Project
A screening of the 1999 found-footage film with Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams there for a Q&A afterward. Two nights before Halloween.
More at Keswick Theatre
Gary Clark Jr.
The Austin guitarist plays the Keswick with WXPN behind it. Blues, soul and a whole lot of volume in a room where every seat sees the fretboard.
Gary Clark Jr.
The Austin guitarist plays a room that seats about 1,300, which is smaller than he normally works. WXPN presents. A Tuesday, so the Glenside parking situation is manageable.
Beatles vs Stones
Abbey Road and Satisfaction trade songs across a full set and the audience picks a side. LaJolla runs this format nationally and the Keswick books it most years.
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.
Ashes Reign, Out of Darkness and AS-33
Three heavy bands on a Sunday. A small stage on Haverford Road with a long habit of booking bands nobody else will.