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City Paper Features Piazza on Passyunk
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Piazza on Passyunk is more than a good time;
it's about building a community.
by A.D. Amorosi
It's 4:58 p.m. on a Wednesday in September at the foot of the Singing Fountain Farmer's Market on East Passyunk Avenue. Amanda Leahy is nowhere to be found.
That's weird. Leahy's Piazza on Passyunk — her once-monthly event of live music, art stuffs and wares from the avenue's prominent entrepreneurs — is set to start in two minutes.
PASSION FOR PASSYUNK:
Matt Rader and Amanda Leahy on the avenue.
While local farmers from Bob Pierson's Farm to City organization sell vegetables fresh-picked that morning and Craft Mafia and Benna's Cafe folk rev up to hawk their wares, Leahy — a spike-headed blonde whose Philly Love Project Productions develops everything from art exhibitions to gay-friendly Fabric parties — arrives. Carrying an amp.
Leahy is used to small-staffed "girl-illa" production stuff, having been part of the crews that filmed Ambush Makeover and Trading Spaces.
As she steadies herself to sound-check Puerto Rican bomba ensemble Familia Rojo, a guy hollers from a window overlooking the fountain.
"Hey, sign girl," he yells, referring to the fact that she puts up police-sanctioned "no parking" markers.
He's yelled before — at each Piazza event.
Normally "windowpane" asks Leahy where the redheaded guy is (Matt Rader, executive director of East Passyunk Avenue Business Improvement District) or why they're having a band.
"I usually smile and say, 'OK.' Nothing more," claims Leahy, who sells Piazza table space to vendors, books the attractions and does just about everything else.
This time, she stops him before he can complain.
"That's poster-hanging, trash-detail, soundperson, sign girl to you!" says Leahy in a loud, joking voice.
"He says, 'Hi Amanda,' when he sees me now," says Leahy weeks after the event. She even knows his name: Jimmy.
That's the sweet sound of progress to her ears.
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