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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
The sweet sounds of summer

Morsch's Twitter account, which I use to detect the arrival of his latest travesties, is so cluttered with links these days that it's hard to track down the ones to his own blog/column. So this one practically passed me by! Right off the bat, I'm going to guess this is a baseball column.

Many of our communities have summer concerts series. We’ve seen some wonderfully talented local musicians at Temple Ambler, in Royersford, Spring City, Lower Gwynedd, Montgomeryville, Ardmore and countless other communities.

Oh no! Is this going to be one of those blatant promotions for some local event?

Add Doylestown to that list. Last Sunday evening we went to the Doylestown Community Sounds of Summer 2010 for the township’s Fourth of July celebration kickoff concert and fireworks display at Central Park.

Ding dang, that is one heck of a long, convoluted sentence. I'll give you five dollars if you can tell me, definitively, exactly what is taking place "at Central Park" - The Doylestown Community Sounds of Summer 2010? The township's Fourth of July celebration? The kickoff concert? The fireworks display?

The featured band was the Philly Horn Band, which put on a great show. There was a pretty big crowd, all seemingly relaxed and having a good time listening to music and awaiting the fireworks.

The typical Morsch journalistic style - big, long lead-in, followed by two sentences on the actual event. what kind of music did they play? What songs? Any memorable happenings? Nope, all we know is that the crowd was "pretty big" (compared to what?) and "seemingly relaxed" (but was actually seething with rage and violence).

The thing that strikes me about these events — in Doylestown as well as the others — is the sense of community I feel when we attend. They are intended to be family friendly events and they achieve that purpose. It’s a nice respite from all the ugliness in the world.

No wonder the newspapers are dying. A high school promotional pamphlet has more meaningful information that the work of this so-called professional.

Check out the rest of Doylestown’s summer offerings by going to www.doylestownpa.org. You can contact any respective township to see what entertainment options are being offered or you can visit www.montgomerynews.com for information.

Isn't this the perfect spot for one of Morsch's "Shameless Promotion Alerts"? I mean, here he's actually using his blog to encourage people to go to specific events. Isn't that worse than mentioning what restaurants he's eaten at?

Labels: " Outta Leftfield, Mike Morsch, Montgomery Newspapers, Philly Horn Band

"Philly Horn Band"... but not Doylestown?