This is my last column of the summer, which means parking is about to get easier and the entertainment belongs to the locals again.
SEP 10-13: The brand-new Delaware Beaches Songwriters Festival rolls through Lewes and Milton, run by the crew behind Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now podcast and sponsored by Dogfish Head. Thursday brings a fireside chat with Sam Calagione at the Dogfish Inn. Friday and Saturday feature writers’ rounds at the Milton brewery, plus Adam Weiner of Low Cut Connie doing dinner and a show at The Room at Cedar Grove Saturday night. Sunday, G. Love plays Rocking the Docks, and the podcast tapes live with a surprise guest. Nashville came to us. Our friend Julie Derrick plays Sept. 13 at Historic Lewes.
SEP 10-12: Freeman Arts Pavilion is closing out big: hometown hero George Thorogood Thursday, the incomparable Ray LaMontagne Friday and Lee Brice Saturday. Three nights, three very different crowds.
SEP 11: Shanty Night takes over the Sussex Tavern at Historic Lewes from 6 to 8 p.m. People singing sea shanties on purpose, in a town that was literally built on them. Bring your voice. I promise no one is checking whether you’re on pitch.
SEP 12-13: The 48th Annual Nanticoke Indian Powwow comes to Hudson Fields in Milton with drumming, dancing in full regalia, a grand entry at noon and a street rod show Saturday because why not. It runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. both days. Admission is $10 at the gate, and children 10 and younger enter free. Bring a lawn chair.
SEP 12: The Milton Townwide Yard Sale starts at 7 a.m. You know who you are.
Marissa’s Picks at The Listening Booth
SEP 13: Ordinary Elephant with Rich Morey
Crystal and Pete Damore left careers in veterinary cardiology and computer programming, moved into an RV and toured the country before the International Folk Music Awards named them Artist of the Year. Their banjo, guitar and octave mandolin are woven so tightly that you forget there are only two people onstage, while their harmonies draw comparisons to Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings. The Associated Press named Honest one of the year’s best Americana albums. Their newest record is just the two of them, live, no net. 6 p.m.
MORE TO HEAR AND DO AT THE BOOTH:
SEP 11: Delaware Division of the Arts Literature Fellows featuring The Honey Badgers
SEP 17: Poetry, Spoken Word & Storytelling Open Mic
SEP 18: Kevin Devine
SEP 19: Don McCloskey
SEP 22: The Nine: Songwriters in the Round
SEP 25: Gabe Stillman
SEP 26: Susan Werner
Visit listeningbooth.com/shows for tickets.
