Weekend Fun: Go Outside And Listen To Music (Plus a Few Indoor Gems).

It’s a good weekend to be outside, and there is a lot of live music happening outdoors this weekend. Also a few great shows indoors. Here are our suggestions for the next few days:

FRIDAY

Dani Mari and Rev. T.J. McGlinchey launch their summer series at FDR Park today, with Griz and Kevin Killen performing at the bandstand near the pond. Festivities start at 7.

The West Philadelphia Orchestra will jam as many people on the stage at Johnny Brenda’s as possible tonight, and that’s always good fun. See here for details.

SATURDAY

The Northern Liberties Music Festival has free music and bottomless cups of beer (with $15 donations) at Liberty Lands, on 3rd Street just north of Poplar. Here is the lineup:

4:30 – 5:00: Cheezy and the Crackers
5:15 – 5:45: Nick Andrew Staver
6:00 – 6:30: Chalk and the Beige Americans
6:45 – 7:15: E-Rx
7:30 – 8:00: School of Rock
8:15 – 9:00 Dong Johnson

Bleeding Rainbow (above) and Creepoid will play a free show at Morgan’s Pier at 6:00 pm. See here for details.

SUNDAY

Hoots & Hellmouth (above) headline the free Dock Street Music Fest in West Philly. Also performing are O’Death, The Extraordinaires, Street Walkers and Tsunami Rising. See here for details.

Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff headlines the daylong Reggae in the Park at the Mann Center. See here for details.

Modern Inventors, the project that began with Josh Benus and Matt Kass (also of The Brakes), will perform at the World Cafe Live on Sunday with James McCartney.