Metal Night: Tempting the Tides, GraveLord, Ashes To Vanity
Three metal bands in a nonprofit listening room that usually books folk singers. Tickets run fifteen to eighteen dollars, all ages, doors before the eight o'clock start.
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Sugar Lime Blue: Acoustic Duo
The Delaware roots-rock band strips down to two players and a lot of harmony. Late Saturday start in the listening room off Sycamore Alley, all ages, twenty to twenty-eight dollars.
The 2026 Kennett Flash Jazz Jam
A monthly open jazz session in the listening room off Sycamore Alley. All ages, bring your horn or just a chair. BYOB, and the Flash sells concessions.
An Evening With Hiroya Tsukamoto
Japanese fingerstyle guitarist Hiroya Tsukamoto builds cinematic instrumentals from open tunings and loops, live at the Flash at 8. He is also running an optional guitar workshop for players who want the mechanics.
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Cooking with Conshy
September's spice kit lands on the second Monday. Ask at the circulation desk with your library card, take it home, cook something, and report back on what you did with it.
Big Brothers Big Sisters Independence Golf Classic
Big Brothers Big Sisters Independence holds its twenty sixth annual golf outing at the Philadelphia Country Club off North Spring Mill Road, eight in the morning through four. Foursomes and sponsorships, booked ahead.
Volunteer: Garden Tenders
Morning shift in the pollinator gardens: weeding, mulching, planting. Natural Lands caps the group size, so register ahead. Two and a half hours on preserve land off Cannery Road.
