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Saturday July 17 and Sunday July 18 Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the gate Tickets are $5 in advance or $10 at the gate for WXPN members 1pm-9pm Friday night, the festival gets started with a performance by Fountains of Wayne, the quirky and clever power pop band from New York City. Saturday s line up includes the charming and precocious Nellie McKay, poetic lyricist Michael McDermott, the poignant and distinctive singer-songwriter Mindy Smith, and the award-winning blues powerhouse Shemekia Copeland. Sunday will feature Philly s own Amos Lee and alt-country rockers Old 97s. Charlie Musselwhite and Sarah Harmer will also be part of Sunday s line up. A favorite in the jam band circuit - North Mississippi Allstars - will close the festivities on Sunday night. Click Here to Purchase Tickets
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Celebrate Mickey: 75 InspEARations Statue Tour comes
to Penn's Landing!
The Walt Disney Company’s celebration of Mickey Mouse’s 75th Anniversary marches forward as 15 Mickey Mouse statues, designed by a variety of Mickey’s friends visit Penn’s Landing. The statues were unveiled on May 23 and will be here until July 20. Appropriately deemed “Celebrate Mickey: 75 InspEARations,” the Mickey statue program is comprised of Disney legends, artists, actors, athletes and performing artists who lent creative talent or simply creative inspiration that resulted in 75 uniquely designed, 700-pound, 6-foot-tall Mickey statues.
Celebrities such as John Travolta, Star Jones, James Gandolfini, Michelle Kwan, Brian McKnight and Christy Carlson Romano helped design and create these original Mickey Statues. Whether deciding to use Mickey as a canvas or finding fun ways to dress him up, each artist’s statue is a genuine work of art.
In groups of 15, the statues will visit 10 cities in 2004 and will be on display for approximately two months in each location. In 2005, all 75 will come together again at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, Calif., Washington D.C. and New York City before they are auctioned by Sotheby’s Auction House to raise money for the charity of each individual artist’s choice.
So if you have a day off and are looking for something to do come on down to Penn’s Landing at the Walnut Plaza and check out 15 original works of art. The statues are located in the WALNUT Plaza adjacent to the Independence Seaport Museum and they are FREE to view and experience! The statues will be on display until July 20, 2004.
For more information on the Mickey statues, or a calendar with more information on Mickey’s 75th Anniversary, please visit the press portion of www.disneyconsumerproducts.com.
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. Independence Blue Cross is the presenting sponsor of the 2004 Summer Season at Penn’s Landing and the title sponsor of the Blue Cross RiverRink. Penn’s Landing’s family of sponsors for Summer 2004 also includes: Commerce Bank, US Airways, Pennsylvania Lottery, PECO Energy, Dietz, Anheuser-Busch, and Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation.
 
   
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