{"id":7521,"date":"2018-09-30T18:01:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T22:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenprovidencepark.org\/?p=7521"},"modified":"2018-10-03T13:40:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T17:40:28","slug":"concert-recap-sweetbriar-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenprovidencepark.org\/2018\/09\/30\/concert-recap-sweetbriar-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"Concert Recap: Sweetbriar Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"

The summer of 2018 will be remembered as the Summer of Rain,<\/strong> and the final concert of the Friends of Glen Providence Park’s 2018 Arts in the Park<\/em> on September 8 was under threat of cancellation until the last minute. <\/span><\/p>\n

Undaunted by the inclement weather, the six members of Sweetbriar Rose<\/a> took to the stage under heavy skies and immediately challenged the conditions<\/strong> with Heather Blakeslee\u2019s offer to go start-to-finish, as planned, even if the audience eventually needed to join them on stage, under the canopy, and be entertained with an intimate \u201cunplugged\u201d acoustic concert.  <\/span><\/p>\n

The show, as it must, went on, and the rain held out until the absolute very end. And what a show it was! <\/strong><\/p>\n

The Sweetbriar Rose set kicked off with the fascinating melancholy of The Ballad of Anna Mae<\/em><\/strong> and wove their sweet, soulful magic through original tunes like the eponymous Sweetbriar Rose<\/em> and the title track of their new album, Black Eyed Susan<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Friends of Glen Providence Park would like to thank Sweetbriar Rose for wrapping up our 2018 Arts in the Park season with such a finely crafted and entertaining show. <\/span><\/p>\n

And yes, the Show will go on! …so we\u2019ll see you in summer 2019 for our eighth year of Arts in the Park concerts.<\/p>\n

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Many thanks to all who made this concert possible:<\/strong> Delaware County Parks & Recreation<\/a><\/strong>, a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts<\/a>,<\/strong> Concert Series Sponsor Media Recreation Board<\/a><\/strong>,<\/strong> Concert Sponsor Seven Stones Gallery<\/a><\/strong>, our volunteer Concert Committee, Marcia Tate for her artful decoration of the stage, the hundreds of people who attended, and of course Sweetbriar Rose!<\/em><\/p>\n

This summer\u2019s Arts in the Park was made possible by funding from Project Stream, <\/strong>a grant initiative of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts<\/a><\/strong> that is regionally administered by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance<\/a><\/strong>. <\/em><\/p>\n

Click on any photo for a closer look, or scroll through to see what it was like!<\/em><\/p>\n

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