Tickets Still Available for Melissa Etheridge Concert in Westport Saturday Night

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Tickets are still available for Melissa Etheridge’s outdoor concert tonight, Saturday, Aug. 25 at the Levitt Pavilion in downtown Westport. They are expected to sell out, organizers say.

The cheapest tickets are $85 (if you’re a member: $75). You can also buy tickets to the gala, which includes a pre-concert cocktail party, seating in the premium section at the concert, and an after-party.

Melissa Etheridge The Rock Concert Levitt Pavilion

The cheapest tickets for the gala are $275 (or $250 if you’re a member), and the price goes up from there, at least online, to $10,000 (ten “Platinum Circle” section “Angel” tickets are up for sale, although if you’re going to pay ten grand, we strongly suspect they can expand that circle).

There are even $25,000 tickets (“Diamond Circle”) but there’s no online provision to get them, and we’re not sure they’re available (click on the link just below for more information).

You can buy tickets here.

The benefit concert helps finance the Levitt Pavilion’s summerlong series of free concerts.

According to the ticket-buying Web page:

  • CONCERT IS RAIN OR SHINE.
  • CONCESSION WILL BE OPEN. BEER & WINE WILL BE SOLD ON SITE (PHOTO ID REQUIRED)
  • For the Summer Gala – a ticketed benefit event – there is no picnicking; NO coolers of any size will be permitted, no exceptions. Refreshments will be available for purchase at the concession, including waters and soft drinks; beer/wine will be sold on site – you must be 21+ with PHOTO ID to purchase alcohol. As always, the Levitt Pavilion is a non-smoking venue and there are no pets allowed.
  • Note: Tickets are required for this fundraising concert and gala event. At this time, we cannot guarantee that tickets will be available for walk-up purchase the day of the event, so it is best to book in advance!

Known for her confessional lyrics and raspy, smoky vocals, Etheridge has remained one of America’s favorite female singer-songwriters for more than two decades.

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— Much of the information in this article is from an announcement from the Levitt Pavilion.

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Melissa Etheridge stormed onto the American rock scene in 1988 with the release of her critically acclaimed self-titled debut album, which led to an appearance on the 1989 Grammy Awards show.

For several years, her popularity grew around such memorable originals as “Bring Me Some Water,” “No Souvenirs” and “Ain’t It Heavy,” for which she won a Grammy in 1992.

Melissa Etheridge by Tina Lawson, Flickr https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Melissa_Etheridge_in_Columbus.jpg

Photo by Tina Lawson on Flickr, via Wikimedia Commons

Melissa Etheridge performing at the Ohio State Fair, August 2008

Etheridge hit her commercial and artistic stride with her fourth album, Yes I Am (1993).

The collection featured the massive hits, “I’m the Only One” and “Come to My Window,” a searing song of longing that brought Etheridge her second Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Performance.

In 1995, Etheridge issued her highest charting album, Your Little Secret, which was distinguished by the hit single, “I Want to Come Over.”

Her astounding success that year led to Etheridge receiving the Songwriter of the Year honor at the ASCAP Pop Awards in 1996.

On Oct. 7, 2016 Melissa Etheridge released Memphis Rock & Soul, her first album since 2014’s critically lauded This Is M.E. Recorded at Royal Studios in Memphis, the album has received stellar reviews from the likes of Entertainment Weekly, Parade, Rolling Stone, American Songwriter and more.

Guitar World raved “the album is a triumphant application of Etheridge’s signature rasp and substantial guitar chops to this classic genre,” while Edge Media Network declared Melissa “is a singer who can fire it up like Janis Joplin, touch the heart like Elvis Presley and steam up the windows like her musical hero, Otis Redding.”

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