Daily News | A very busy concert Thursday in Philly: Jenny Lewis at the Met and Amos Lee with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Mann
This week’s “two cool shows on the same night” dilemma finds Jenny Lewis at the Met Philly and Amos Lee with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Mann Center. Both on Thursday.
Lewis is the Las Vegas-born daughter of lounge singers who survived a start as a child actor — look for her in— and came to prominence in the early 00′s when she fronted the the top flight indie rock band Rilo Kiley with Blake Sennett.
Meanwhile at the Mann, Lee — who grew up in Kensington, South Philly, and Cherry Hill, and taught second grade at the Mary McLeod Bethune School in Tioga before his career took off in the early 00′s — will team with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the direction of Steven Reineke. He’s performed with symphonies before; “about 30 orchestra shows over the last handful of years,” as said in an email, starting with the Colorado Symphony
But this will be his first ever teaming with the Fabulous Philadelphians. “Something I’ve wanted to do for a long time.”is a collection of original songs that reflect, his song-for-song take on the jazz trumpeter and vocalist’s tender 1954 album.
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