Bethlehem and Sad Patrick, an acoustic duo with a genuinely unique performance style, will perform at Hansberry Garden & Nature Center’s Dr. Edward Chun Amphitheater on Thursday, Aug. 28, at 6 p.m. as part of the garden’s 2025 Summer Concert Series. The address is 5150 Wayne Avenue, but please note that the entrance is on Hansberry Street. In case of rain, the location will be Attic Brewing Company. Tickets are available on a pay-what-you-wish basis.
Our outdoor amphitheater has stone seating tiers and some chairs are available, but audience members are welcome to bring blankets, stadium seats or lawn chairs for comfort. Light refreshments will be available.
About Bethlehem and Sad Patrick
Bethlehem and Sad Patrick deliver powerful songs of love and other struggles. Combining smart, heartfelt lyrics, soaring vocals, sparse guitar and driving percussion, they dig deep into being in and out of love, keeping your head up in the city, struggling in all sorts of ways, and searching for peace on the margins.
Sad Patrick’s hybrid of folk and jazz guitar provides a subtle counterpoint to Bethlehem’s “vocussion” – her term for her powerful, immersive singing, remarkable improvisations and nuanced melodies riding atop tarima and body percussion.
2019’s “Love and Other Struggles” sonically and thematically extends their range, and landed them on NPR Slingshot’s list of Ten Artists to Know from Philadelphia. “The pair use minimalism to their advantage, crafting delicate and thoughtful songs about everything from love to life in the city to the fight against racism and intolerance with a gentle poetic edge.” – Sarah Hojsak, WXPN / The Key.
About the 2025 Summer Concert Series
Featuring a diverse group of performers, our concert series will happen on the final Thursday of each month from 6 to 7 p.m. Admission is on a pay-what-you-wish basis. Tickets will be available here at www.hansberrygarden.org about a month before each show.
Summer Concert Performances:
- May 29: Queer Americana singer-songwriter Brittany Ann Tranbaugh
- June 26: Senegalese kora player Youba Cissokho
- July 31: Musician and playwright M’balia Singley
- August 28: Jazz-inflected folk duo Bethlehem and Sad Patrick
- September 25: Latin roots band Conjunto Philadelphia