July 13th, 2015

Melissa Etheridge, Ultimate Classic Rock, Blondie, Icons Rocked The Stage, Freeman’s Stage, Live Music, The Wailers, Reggae, Selbyville, Delaware, Delaware Beaches

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”  bob marley

During the day The Freeman’s Stage is quiet and peaceful.  The stage is small and cozy.  The laws are beautifully manicured.

Throughout the summer this venue offers live music for everyone. It is outdoors and listening to music under the stars is…..priceless.  Top national performers as well as local ones come to The Stage.  Is funny to hear the performers say that they feel like they are in someone’s yard.  Well, they sort of are.  Please check the schedule by visiting http://www.freemanstage.org.

Now, when Melissa Etheridge, and Blondie…ultimate classic rock stars arrived, and then followed a couple of days later by The Wailers…..this venue was everything but quiet.

Melissa Etheridge is a super star and an activist. Her voice continues to entertain so many of us that have known her for a long time.  She is on tour at the moment and her time at The Freeman Stage is not going to be forgotten.

When she sang I’m the Only One, I Want to Come Over, and Come to My Window among others the audience went nuts.  She gave it her all in every song.  And, believe me, it was steamy that night.

Blondie, another icon form the late 1970’s.  She had just turned 70!!!  The Tide is High, Hanging on The Telephone and Rapture brought all of us to a good cheer, remembering those days long gone.

Last Friday night at The Freeman Stage it was a night of reggae with The Wailers coming to the Delaware Beaches to play some of the songs we have loved through the years.

Reggae…the music, is influenced by mento, which is Jamaican folk music, calypso, and believe or not….American jazz.

Red Stripe Beer, a place to sing and dance….young ones to the more matured crowd….they knew all the words to the songs!!

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”  victor hugo