• The next performance of the Delaware County Symphony will be a free concert in Rose Tree Park on Wednesday, June 12 at 7:30 p.m. That night is the opening for the Rose Tree Summer Festival with a concert that includes orchestral favorites bursting with excitement. The symphony will be performing extracts from Carmen and Beethoven’s 6th Symphony, alongside popular marches, and some special surprises.
• On Flag Day, Friday, June 14, the Brinton 1704 House will be open and members of the Chadds Ford Township Residents Association will be present collecting old U.S. flags that need to be retired.
• This year’s Turk’s Head Music Festival in West Chester is Sunday, June 2 from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. The event is held at Everhart Park and will feature about 70 different artists and groups. The festival is free. The entertainment lineup can be found here.
• To commemorate Juneteenth across the region, Voices Underground will present Frederick Douglass Jazz Works — a discussion and jazz performance comprised of vocalist and composer Ruth Naomi Floyd’s original compositions paired with words from Douglass’s speeches and writings — at Longwood Gardens’ Open Air Theatre. The performance is Friday, June 21, at 6:30 p.m. Tickets, available here, are $32.
• Clover Market will be closing out its spring season in Kennett Square on Sunday, June 2. A selected group of 100 handmade and will be set up in the 600 S. Broad Street parking lot. The vendors will be joined by a large lineup of food trucks including Dos Hermanos Tacos, Philly Hots, Redstone Pizza, Surf and Turf Truck, Flour & Oats Artisan Cookies, Panna Gelateria, Many Hands Coffee, and Philly Lemonade plus wine and beer from Grace Winery & Braeloch Brewing respectively (21+). Live music will be provided by JB3/John Bickle Trio (12-3 p.m.) and we'll have face painting from Southpaw Studio, crafts from DEAN Adventure Camps, and meet and greets with our partners at Finding Shelter Animal Rescue. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• The Chester County History Center is offering walking tours of the Underground Railroad for four days, Wednesday, June 19 through Saturday, June 22. The Underground Railroad was a network of people offering shelter and aid to enslaved men, women, and children on their journeys to freedom. This walking tour will visit eight locations around downtown West Chester that served as a backdrop for the people involved in this clandestine operation. The tour covers approximately 1.25 miles, lasts 90 minutes, and is entirely outdoors; sidewalks and terrain may be uneven. Tours are from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, and from 1:30 to 3 p.m. that Saturday. The cost is $15. Purchase tickets here.
• The Rachel Kohl Library is having a Paws for Reading at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 8 in the library’s Children’s Room. PAWS for reading is a program where children can practice reading to therapy dogs. The therapy dogs provide a gentle, judgment-free zone for kids who are learning to read or just like to read to dogs. Registration is required. Register by phone at 610-358-3445, or register in person.
• The Hook Experiment presents the works of David Eldreth in a posthumous retrospective show spanning over 50 years of creative work, giving back to the community. Eldreth’s career spanned over half a century and various mediums including painting and pottery. He was an art teacher and founder and overseer of the Outdoor Art Gallery in Oxford. The exhibit runs for three days, Friday, June 7 from 5-8 p.m., Saturday, June 8, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Sunday, June 9, from 1-5 p.m. Admission is free. The Hook is at 45 South 3rd Street in Oxford.
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