by Kathryn Simpson, Lumberton, NJ
Ever since I was six months old, my family has been taking me to XPN’s summer concert festival. However, in 1999, when the festival was still called Singer Songwriter Weekend, I experienced a concert that I will never forget.
Being the energetic eight year old that I was, I would always get […]

by Sherm, Phoenixville, Pa
Growing up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, I was the quintessential nerd or so it seemed to my brothers and sisters. I loved classical music — Bach and Handel were my favorites and WFLN was my radio station of choice. I rarely listened to pop rock let alone album rock.
In the Christmas […]

by David Mallin, Philadelphia, PA
Without any of these three picking up this instrument and doing their things, my musical landscape just would not be the same. All three blazed trails, and opened doors for music as we know it today.
Robert Johnson
Woody Guthrie
Elvis Presley
I never saw any of them live, but not a day goes by […]

by Anne Marie Inglis, Moorestown, NJ
Our 4 year old daughter Kate is HUGE Rhett Miller fan. When we heard he was playing this year’s XPoNential Music Festival we knew we had to take her. Thanks to WXPN’s Quyen Shanahan, Kate was able to meet Rhett before he went on stage. She (and the rest of […]

by Mike Clark, West Chester, PA
In the fall of 1970, I was in the boonies of Vietnam being forced to listen to the country music segment of the armed forces radio when one evening I heard that somebody named Kris Kristofferson had been named country music songwriter of the year. He had four songs at […]

by Lorraine, Phila, PA
Shortly before local boys, Hall and Oates, became national stars, John Hall spent the night at my apartment after a night of hanging out with mutual friends. (No, we did not sleep together. He was interested in my girlfriend but he ended up sleeping on the couch.) He left before I awoke […]

by Lorraine, Phila, PA
Last year I attended a Guillemots concert that was one of those magical moments when everything is perfect — the band, the friends I was with, and there were lots of us, and all were having a blast, including the band. There was an after-party with the band members after the show. […]

by Lorraine, Phila, PA
My very first rock concert was at the Spectrum (I think) in Philly. I think five bands performed. What I do remember is that I somehow ended up sitting by myself in one of the front rows.There was an empty seat beside me when I first sat down but soon Janis Joplin […]

by Lorraine, Phila, PA
About five years ago my daughter met Little Feat while tending bar at a hotel near Penn’s Landing. The band members and crew were staying at the hotel and said they would be back at her bar the next night to party after their show. I didn’t think they would, but my […]

by David Mallin, Philadelphia, PA
It was the summer of 1990, August 16 to be exact, and I had bought two tickets to see Joan Baez at the Academy of Music. I had grown up on her music, I was planning to surprise my dad with front row, dead-center seats. She was one of his favorites […]