TWO NIGHTS OF PERFORMANCES TO BENEFIT THORNE CENTER

Benefit performances for the new Phebe Anna Thorne Kindergarten Center will bring an award-winning group of children's performers and some of Philadelphia's freshest hip-hop avant-garde to Goodhart Hall on two successive nights next week.

On Friday, May 7, at 4 p.m., children and their families are invited to a special kids' concert featuring Cat's Pajamas. Cat's Pajamas' debut recording, 1999's Cool Music for Kids, won the Best New Artists for Children award from The Children's Music Web in 2000. The group's second album, Goin' Bananas, won the Best Recording for Children award from the same organization in 2002. The group has played at the Spring Gulch Folk Festival, The Ocean City Music Pier with The Ocean City Pops Orchestra, The Keswick Theater, The Please Touch Museum, Musikfest, the Delaware County Music Festival at Rosetree Park and the Rittenhouse Square Festival. Cat's Pajamas will be accompanied by David C. Perry, who will entertain with drawings, songs and puppets. Tickets are $5 per person or $10 for a reserved seat in the first four rows.

"Origins," a second benefit on Saturday, May 8, at 8 p.m., will offer a diverse evening of hip-hop dance, song and spoken word by local performers, including youth groups. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door, and $8 for students. Sponsored by the hot new urban-culture quarterly B. Informed Magazine, the show will include

• Cellist/singer Monica McIntyre
• Spoken-word hip-hop group Bohemian Fifth
• DJs Skeme and Freddie Blast of Session 31
• All-female hip-hop dance company Montäzh
• Dancer Sara Green
• Pennsylvania Performing Arts dance group
• The youth group Fresh Revolution
• A video performance of Rennie Harris “Puremovement”

For tickets, contact the Phebe Anna Thorne School office at (610) 526-7913.

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