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Union Transfer is a music venue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Located at 1026 Spring Garden Street in the Callowhill neighborhood, it opened on September 21, 2011, as a joint venture between The Bowery Presents, a New York City production company now owned by AEG Live; and R5 Productions, an independent Philadelphia production company.
Trocadero newspaper advertisement in The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 4, 1909. The theater, designed by architect Edwin Forrest Durang, then modified several times, was added to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places in 1973, and to the National Register of Historic Places five years later.
The venue itself was unique in that it had its own house band. Bill Masse was leader of the band until he died in 1961. In 1963 Sam Reed became leader of the house band, which was well known amongst artists in the chitlin circuit. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, by 1971 the shows were grossing $250,000 a year. During the rest of the ...
Aerosmith played the venue 23 times between 1976 and 1994, including a few notorious performances in the late 1970s in which rowdy fans injured the band members with glass bottles and M-80s. Pink Floyd played the Spectrum in 1972, 1973, 1975 and 1977. They last played two shows there on June 28–29, 1977, during their Animals/In the Flesh Tour.
The Tower Theater is a music venue in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. It opened in 1927, and has been a globally popular venue for music acts since the 1970s. In 2018, the Tower Theater was named one of the ten best live music venues in the United States by Rolling Stone magazine. [2]
The Theatre of Living Arts (known commonly as the TLA) is a concert venue that is located on South Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The venue, which opened in 1988, dates back to the early 1900s as a nickelodeon. Over the years, the venue has seen many incarnations ranging from concert hall to movie theatre to theatre. Known for its ...
Leon Russell & Band "Tight Rope" "Out in the Woods" "Prince of Peace" "A Song for You" "Delta Lady" "Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms" "Stranger in a Strange Land" Elton John & Band "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" "Philadelphia Freedom" "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" "Rocket Man" "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" "Bennie and the Jets" "I'm ...
The Metropolitan Opera House is a historic opera house and current pop concert venue located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It has been used for many different purposes since originally opening in 1908. In December 2018, after 110 years of operation and a major renovation, it reopened as a concert venue.