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Summer Soiree at Glencairn Museum May 31 features jazz with Michelle Lordi


Celebrate the beginning of summer with live jazz, dessert selections, beer and white wine in Glencairn Museum’s serene and lovely cloister garden, and then explore other select areas of the Museum at your leisure with friends and other guests.

Purchase your tickets early for this limited-admission event: $30, $20 for Museum members and designated drivers; must be 21 to attend. Tickets and information: 267.502.2990 or [email protected].

“We’re inviting those who know and love Glencairn—as well as those who have been looking for an excuse to visit this amazing castle for the first time—to join us for our now-annual ‘summer opener,’” says Joralyn Glenn, Glencairn’s marketing and public relations coordinator.

“While our tours are more structured and our concerts, festivals, seasonal programs and workshops each have a specific focus, the Soirée is simply a time to relax into summer, wander a beautiful setting and enjoy Glencairn’s unique features at your own pace.”

Besides strolling through the medieval-styled cloister garden, guests also have access to the visual and aural delights of LED-lit fountains on the North terrace and in the cloister, first-floor Museum collections in the Great Hall and Upper Hall, the current temporary exhibition--'Hex Signs: Sacred and Celestial Symbolism in Pennsylvania Dutch Barn Stars'--and much-coveted views from the tower as evening falls.

The Michelle Lordi trio will perform “three generations of love songs” through the evening. In addition to programs around the country at a variety of venues, the nationally recognized Philadelphia-based jazz vocalist, songwriter and bandleader holds popular weekly jazz nights at Vintage Bar & Grill in Abington.

The cloister at the former home to the Raymond and Mildred Pitcairn family replicates in smaller scale the serene covered colonnades and open quadrangles attached to European cathedrals, monasteries and convents to provide protected walkways for the religious orders living there.

The Pitcairns chose an avian theme for their cloister’s stone work, so observant visitors will find a variety of birds carved into the capitals of the supporting columns. The tranquil setting also features white-themed gardens laid out by award-winning designer Danielle Odhner, who created and maintains the gardens at Bryn Athyn Cathedral as well as Glencairn.

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