Melissa Etheridge comes to Fallsview
Grammy winner, Oscar winner, activist, cancer survivor.
Melissa Etheridge has checked all four, and in October she’ll play Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort for the first time.
Approaching 30 years since her debut album, Etheridge has been a gay and lesbian icon for nearly as long. Along the way she has been a roots rock staple, selling six million copies of her most successful album, 1993’s Yes I Am. That album yielded many of her most identifiable songs, including Come to My Window and I’m the Only One. In 2007, she won the Academy Award for best original song for I Need to Wake Up, from the climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth.
She plays the casino’s Avalon Ballroom Oct. 19 and 20. Tickets start at $70.
Also on the October slate for Fallsview is ’80s hit specialist Howard Jones Oct. 26 (tickets start at $30), disco icons KC and The Sunshine Band Oct. 6 and 7 ($35), Creedence Clearwater Revisited Oct. 4 and 5 ($40), Herman’s Hermits with Peter Noone Oct. 27 and 28 ($25), Upon Request with Gregory Charles Oct. 11 to 15 ($30), Kip Moore with guests Drake White and The Big Fire Oct. 21 ($45) and Mimi Choo Oct. 29 and 30 ($85).
Tickets for all October shows go on sale noon Friday at all Ticketmaster outlets, www.ticketmaster.ca, or the Fallsview box office on any show date.