{"id":195746,"date":"2026-05-18T17:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/195746\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T17:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:18:08","slug":"philadelphia-international-airport-begins-live-music-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/195746\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia International Airport Begins Live Music Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe are honored to partner with the Mayor&#8217;s Office, Creative Philadelphia, and the Original Music City Task Force to give guests from around the world a taste of Philadelphia&#8217;s vibrant and diverse music scene,\u201d said Leah Douglas, PHL&#8217;s director of guest experience, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phl.org\/newsroom\/live-music-phl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">in a news release<\/a>. \u201cFor more than 25 years, the airport has successfully highlighted the city&#8217;s visual artists and cultural institutions through its award-winning exhibitions program. Now it has expanded to include live performances at PHL, spotlighting Philadelphia&#8217;s rich musical history while celebrating the artists who shape its future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Live Music at PHL kicked off on May 14 and will bring performances to multiple airport locations on select weekdays through August.<\/p>\n<p>The May lineup features the following: \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>West Philadelphia Orchestra (Avant Funk Village Brass Band) on May 19DJ Robert Drake from WXPN (Sounds of Philadelphia) on May 21Ernesto&#8217;s Club (Brazilian samba and choro) on May 28<\/p>\n<p>The musical performance series comes as PHL officials project the airport will handle a record-breaking <a href=\"https:\/\/philadelphianewsroom.com\/2026\/05\/15\/philadelphia-airport-expects-9-4-million-travelers-this-summer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">9.4 million travelers this summer<\/a>, as the city hosts the FIFA World Cup, activities for the 250th anniversary of the United States, and the MLB All-Star Game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe are honored to partner with the Mayor&#8217;s Office, Creative Philadelphia, and the Original Music City Task Force&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,1013,70],"class_list":["post-195746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-international-airport","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}