Out in the World: A Benefit Concert for Parzival Supports
Local players including Terri Camilari, Pat Rooney, Florida Wayne and Night Ride Home play for a Phoenixville nonprofit that supports adults with intellectual disabilities. Doors at five for dinner, fifteen dollars ahead.
More at Steel City Coffeehouse & Brewery
Darth Brandon, The Regulars, Tight Spiral and Morning Person
Four-band noise rock and shoegaze bill put together by Psychic Street Gang and The Rat Shack. Twelve dollars ahead, fifteen at the door, and there is a special show menu that night.
First Sundays True Bluegrass Jam
September's bluegrass circle. Kitchen and bar both open, free to sit in or just listen from a table.
House of Hamill: Ready for Autumn
Pennsylvania fiddle and guitar duo whose all-violin cover of Sweet Child O' Mine ran to sixteen million views. Thirty dollars ahead, doors at five if you want dinner first.
Around the same time
Gay Street Open-Air Market
Labor Day, and the street stays closed. Four blocks of Gay Street without cars, restaurant tables out in the road, and the shops on either side open for the holiday.
Last Day of Daily Mini Golf at Alverthorpe Park
The mini golf course at Alverthorpe Park runs every day through Labor Day, then drops to weekends only for the rest of September. This is the last everyday round of the year.
Festival of Fountains at Longwood Gardens
The fountain season runs to the end of September, and the gardens stay open on Labor Day Monday when most of Chester County is closed. Closed Tuesdays. Timed tickets sell out on holiday weekends.