PHILADELPHIA, July 31, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Festival Pier at Penn's Landing, Columbus Boulevard and Spring Garden Street, will be transformed into a party paradise on Sunday, August 17, 2003 from Noon to 8 p.m. at the 17th Annual Caribbean Festival. Celebrate Caribbean culture with food, music, dancing and crafts. PECO Energy sponsors the Multicultural Series, and Independence Blue Cross is the presenting sponsor of the entire 2003 summer season at Penn's Landing.
In celebration of The Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey's 116th Birthday, the 17th Annual Caribbean Festival will feature Aschak and Company with a toe-tapping, hand-clapping and head nodding drumming performance. Also, our all inclusive entertainment line-up will feature gospel, skits and dancing -- In the Company of Poets will stir souls with spoken words backed by reggae and jazz. Float away with the sounds of Raymond Charles and his Caribbean Authentic Steel Drum Band and rock with Carol DeFlorio and Larry White and the Majestic Roots Band. Raices will bring Latin dance and Papillon will get visitor's on their feet with the stirring sounds of Haitian "compass".
There will be an array of tempting island cuisine for visitors to enjoy from Vendors, some of them include Vairi's Kitchen, Island Woman Cuisine, Caribbean Buffet, Treasure Beach Cuisine, A& M Hot Roti, Clarke's Catering, Gregory's West Indian Food. The Caribbean fare will include escovitched fish and festival cakes, codfish fritters, Jamaican jerk-chicken and hard-dough bread, curried goat, and Griot, West African kabob, Trinidadian Roti; Rotisserie Roasted Corn. Local beverages like Caribbean Kola Champagne, Sorrell, Caribbean Ade, Carrot juice and Mauby drink; Fruit, such as mango, water coconut, sugar cane, guinnep will also be available.
This year's event will also feature the steel drum band, Pan Stars in the Festival Pier Grand Pavilion, along with a Caribbean Culture booth -- Tings Caribbean -- featuring information sessions on such topics on Marcus Garvey, in celebration of his 116th Birthday (August 17th); about the various islands; religion, and fashion. A Caribbean Children's Village will also be added this year. A portion of Festival Pier will be sectioned off for a DJ dance party run by The Music Master and his Crew featuring a variety of international music.
This Festival, presented by PECO Energy and the Caribbean Festival Committee, now in its 17th year, works to publicize the importance of the Islands and the culture and the contribution of the Caribbean community to the Philadelphia region and to raise scholarship funds for college students of Caribbean descent.
Reaching out to the diverse communities is a goal for PECO Energy and for the past ten years this has been a huge success at Penn's Landing. "All of us at PECO Energy are thrilled to return to the waterfront with our 10th Anniversary season of support for the multicultural festivals," said PECO president Dennis O'Brien. "Penn's Landing is a Philadelphia summertime tradition and the PECO Energy Multicultural Series is a fun way for us to celebrate the wide range of diversity represented in our service territory."
Admission is free for all PECO Multicultural Series events.
PECO Energy is proud to be Philadelphia's hometown energy company and one of the region's most prominent civic supporters. PECO is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and celebrating diversity inside and outside the Company.
Based in Philadelphia, PECO Energy is an electric and natural gas utility serving southeastern Pennsylvania. PECO and its Chicago-based sister company, ComEd, are subsidiaries of Exelon (NYSE:EXC), a $15 billion leader in the energy industry with the largest retail customer base, a large, diverse power generation portfolio and a leading wholesale energy marketing operation in
North America. PECO delivered 36.5 million megawatt hours of electricity and 85 billion cubic feet of natural gas in 2002, generating $4.3 billion in revenue in 2002.
PECO contributed more than $10 million in 2002 to non-profit organizations, events and programs which improve the quality of life in the region. PECO serves 1.5 million electric and 450,000 natural gas customers in southeastern Pennsylvania.
Penn's Landing is Philadelphia's Waterfront district, running along Columbus Boulevard from Washington Avenue to Spring Garden Street. The two main sites for the more than 75 festivals, concerts, and events at Penn's Landing are the Great Plaza, located along the Delaware River at Columbus Boulevard and Chestnut Street, and Festival Pier, on Columbus Boulevard and Spring Garden Street. For more information on event locations and event details, call (215) 922-2FUN or visit www.pennslandingcorp.com. Independence Blue Cross is the presenting sponsor of the 2003 Summer Season at Penn's Landing.
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