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WHYY’S NEW SERIES, ON CANVAS, TAKES VIEWERS BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE REGION’S RICH ARTS AND CULTURE COMMUNITY

   WHYY explores the Delaware Valley’s cultural community in ON CANVAS , a new program premiering on May 28 at 9 p.m. on the WHYY Y Arts Channel (on the air channel 12.2, Comcast 241 and Verizon FiOS 874). Every Wednesday night at 9 p.m., On Canvas will offer compelling, stories about the region’s diverse cultural life. Every week, the series introduces audiences to a new weekly performing arts experience selected from the region's rich cultural landscape.

 

      Each week, viewers will get a new glimpse of the Delaware Valley’s vibrant cultural life. Combining interviews with presentations in and around Philadelphia, On Canvas delivers the new, the unique and the classic. Programs feature vocalist Natalie Walker performing at Johnny Brenda’s, a bar, restaurant, and music venue located in the Fishtown section of Philadelphia; Bob Musso's Transonic Jazz Band performing at Media Bureau, an art gallery located the the Northern Liberties section of Philadelphia; the Philomel Baroque Orchestra performing at the Mercer Museum in Doylestown; and classical Arabic music with A.J. Racy and MidEast Ensemble at Lang Performing Arts Center, Swarthmore College.

 



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