The week before the Fourth is the deep breath before our town triples in population.
JUNE 25 – Southern Avenue plays Dogfish Head Brewing & Eats in Rehoboth Beach at 9 p.m. No cover. The Memphis family band is Grammy-nominated and a Blues Music Award winner, dealing in original soul, blues and gospel-tinged roots music instead of the usual beach-bar covers. Free, loud and the real thing. Get there early for a table and a beer.
JUNE 26 – “Mean Girls: The Musical” opens at Clear Space Theatre in Rehoboth Beach, joining “The Cher Show” in the summer repertory rotation. So fetch. Wear pink. Or, if you’d rather laugh than sing, Milton Theatre has Sun’s Out, Puns Out, a stand-up comedy special at 7:30 p.m. Both sound like the perfect way to escape beach traffic.
JUNE 28 – Did you know the Lewes Public Library offers yoga classes? I didn’t, and now I’m weirdly excited about it. Their Sunday Reset is an all-levels outdoor vinyasa flow led by local instructor Madeline Haslam at 7 p.m. in the library’s beautiful new pavilion. Bring a mat, water and a friend, and get your zen on somewhere genuinely lovely.
Marissa’s Picks at The Listening Booth
JUNE 27 – Hollyy, 7 p.m.
Chicago five-piece Hollyy calls itself a band of “garage soul boys,” and CLASH once tagged them as the future of retro rock. The sound is stirring vocals over jazzy indie-rock instrumentals, closer to St. Paul & The Broken Bones than anything precious. They’ve opened for Gwen Stefani and Jacob Banks and recorded an Audiotree Live session — the kind of résumé that doesn’t usually wander into a 100-seat room in Lewes.
MORE TO HEAR AND DO AT THE BOOTH:
JUNE 25 – Poetry, Spoken Word & Storytelling Open Mic
JUNE 27 – Hollyy
JUNE 28 – Rebecca Loebe
JULY 3 – Eric Hutchinson
Visit listeningbooth.com/shows for tickets.
