Set amid the greenery of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, the Dell Music Center is a beloved outdoor amphitheatre with a long history of bringing music to the city's communities. Located on Strawberry Mansion Drive, the venue began life in the 1970s as the Robin Hood Dell East and has since become a treasured summer institution, particularly known for its celebration of soul, jazz, gospel, R&B and other genres rooted in the city's rich musical heritage. The amphitheatre is an open-air affair, wi.....

The second stage started as an experiment on bare grass with Sigur Ros as the lab rats. Skyline Stage at the Mann sits at the top of the hill above the Mann Center's main pavilion at 5201 Parkside Avenue in West Fairmount Park, piloted as a temporary build in July 2012 to test whether the orchestra's summer home could carry a festival-format venue on its unused upper acres. The experiment stuck: the stage joined the seasonal calendar with a 500-to-7,500-person general admission range, trading t.....

Built for the United States Bicentennial and opened on 14 June 1976, the outdoor amphitheatre in West Fairmount Park was created as a new summer home for the Philadelphia Orchestra, succeeding the ageing Robin Hood Dell where the orchestra had performed since the 1930s. Originally named Robin Hood Dell West, it was renamed the Mann Music Center in 1979 for businessman and music patron Fredric R. Mann, became the Mann Center for the Performing Arts in 2000, and was rebranded the Highmark Mann in .....