WXPN WELCOMES Birdie Busch + The Holmesburg Jam: The Abington Art Center Summer Concert Series
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2026 Abington Art Center Summer Concert Series brought to you by Mayfield Gardens + Edelman's Coins + Lindy Communities
NIGHT #1 WXPN WELCOMES Birdie Busch + The Holmesburg Jam
presented by NJM Insurance Group
:: 5:30 Gates Open :: 6:30 The Holmesburg Jam :: 7:30 Birdie Busch ::
515 Meetinghouse Road Jenkintown, PA 19046
About the Artists:
BIRDIE BUSCH
Birdie Busch has been steadily crafting a sprawling, genre-defying modern American songbook. Critics from American Songwriter to Paste Magazine have likened Birdie’s spirit to Syd Barrett and Eudora Welty, while acknowledging what she does as her own thing, with appreciation for the strange and beautiful place it resides. Her latest record, Night Blooming, is about big societal changes as much as immediate community needs. Perseverance by hook or crook. Breaks and reconnection. Paying attention. Growing internal and external land/sound/lifescapes and the relationships between them.It’s about not always knowing-with awareness that even unknowing is transmuted through the process. If we are wading in a metaphorical and physical swamp Birdie Busch’s songs are an attempt at what should be left when the mesh gets pulled up from the murk. This record is full of golden nuggets and mystical gems from that sifting.
THE HOLMESBURG JAM
The jam began in the spring of 1972 with a couple of Father Judge High School graduates practicing the guitar and singing songs on Thursday nights. By 1976 it had blossomed into a primarily bluegrass and traditional country music jam made up mostly of local musicians meeting every Thursday night in Holmesburg and bars along Frankford Avenue during the colder months, and out on the Delaware river in the warmer months. Gradually, over the years, there was movement north away from Holmesburg and towards Montgomery county. For the past six or seven years, still every Thursday night, the Homesburg Jam has been playing in Jenkintown.
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Abington Art Center is thrilled to announce another HOT summer of music! This year’s ’soundtrack of togetherness’ - features FIVE free concerts complete with rotating food trucks, family activities and local beer, craft cocktails & mocktails, wine bar, and more.
Our 2026 concert series is presented by Mayfield Gardens + Edelman's Coins + Lindy Communities, with support from Penn State Abington + Thompson Lexus Willow Grove + Jefferson Health.
Guests are welcome to bring blankets, chairs, and dancing shoes for concert programming the whole family can enjoy. FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Parking is conveniently located across Meetinghouse Rd in the Triangle Parking lot, courtesy of Abington Friends School. Additional shuttle parking is available behind the apartment complex on Greenwood Ave, courtesy of The Galman Group. Map on the AAC website.
For more information about the series and becoming a sponsor visit abingtonartcenter.com/concert-series
NIGHT #1 WXPN WELCOMES Birdie Busch + The Holmesburg Jam
presented by NJM Insurance Group
:: 5:30 Gates Open :: 6:30 The Holmesburg Jam :: 7:30 Birdie Busch ::
515 Meetinghouse Road Jenkintown, PA 19046
About the Artists:
BIRDIE BUSCH
Birdie Busch has been steadily crafting a sprawling, genre-defying modern American songbook. Critics from American Songwriter to Paste Magazine have likened Birdie’s spirit to Syd Barrett and Eudora Welty, while acknowledging what she does as her own thing, with appreciation for the strange and beautiful place it resides. Her latest record, Night Blooming, is about big societal changes as much as immediate community needs. Perseverance by hook or crook. Breaks and reconnection. Paying attention. Growing internal and external land/sound/lifescapes and the relationships between them.It’s about not always knowing-with awareness that even unknowing is transmuted through the process. If we are wading in a metaphorical and physical swamp Birdie Busch’s songs are an attempt at what should be left when the mesh gets pulled up from the murk. This record is full of golden nuggets and mystical gems from that sifting.
THE HOLMESBURG JAM
The jam began in the spring of 1972 with a couple of Father Judge High School graduates practicing the guitar and singing songs on Thursday nights. By 1976 it had blossomed into a primarily bluegrass and traditional country music jam made up mostly of local musicians meeting every Thursday night in Holmesburg and bars along Frankford Avenue during the colder months, and out on the Delaware river in the warmer months. Gradually, over the years, there was movement north away from Holmesburg and towards Montgomery county. For the past six or seven years, still every Thursday night, the Homesburg Jam has been playing in Jenkintown.
***
Abington Art Center is thrilled to announce another HOT summer of music! This year’s ’soundtrack of togetherness’ - features FIVE free concerts complete with rotating food trucks, family activities and local beer, craft cocktails & mocktails, wine bar, and more.
Our 2026 concert series is presented by Mayfield Gardens + Edelman's Coins + Lindy Communities, with support from Penn State Abington + Thompson Lexus Willow Grove + Jefferson Health.
Guests are welcome to bring blankets, chairs, and dancing shoes for concert programming the whole family can enjoy. FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Parking is conveniently located across Meetinghouse Rd in the Triangle Parking lot, courtesy of Abington Friends School. Additional shuttle parking is available behind the apartment complex on Greenwood Ave, courtesy of The Galman Group. Map on the AAC website.
For more information about the series and becoming a sponsor visit abingtonartcenter.com/concert-series
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Where is it happening?
515 Meetinghouse Rd, Jenkintown, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 19046
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