Fort Wayne Insider Blog

Music and food: what better pairing is there? If you’re planning a getaway to the great city of Fort Wayne, Indiana, it likely includes both tasty eats and catchy beats.

Summer festival season is coming to a close in Fort Wayne, but lucky for us, music isn’t relegated to just one season! Fall in Fort Wayne is rife with concerts, including some you (and I) won’t want to miss. Here’s what I, as a professional singer, am most looking forward to this September in my hometown.

Fort Wayne is famous for its summer festivals. Hundreds of thousands of visitors crowd the city for the Three Rivers Festival and Allen County Fair, not to mention other festivals like Taste of the Arts and Fort Wayne Pride Fest. Here’s just a little of what’s in store for all of us music lovers this summer!

Summer is my favorite time of year. This is, partially, because I’m always freezing, but the abundance of summer concerts certainly doesn’t hurt. Plus, Fort Wayne is becoming sort of a music hub within the Midwest!

For those deeply entrenched in music culture, the Tedeschi Trucks show on November 17 is a big one. It’s a chance to see one of America’s most venerated music families perform live.

No matter what interests you, Fort Wayne is your destination. From safaris to science, kayaking to cocktails, and more, you’ll find it right here.

49 years! I can't believe my all-time favorite rock band, Chicago, has been around nearly five decades!

I’ve been a fan since the early 1970s when they had so many of my favorite Top Ten hits: "Make Me Smile," "25, or 6 to 4", "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" and "Beginnings," "Saturday In The Park", "Feelin' Stronger Every Day," and “Just You 'N Me," "(I've Been) Searchin' So Long," "Call On Me," and "Wishing You Were Here".

If you remember the start of Donnie and Marie Osmond as teen idols and the rest of the supremely talented musical family, you'll want to catch three of the Osmond Brothers - Merrill, Jay and Jimmy - on Saturday, July 9 at the Foellinger Outdoor Theatre, from 8 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then that makes parody…what? Hero worship? At the very least, it’s an acknowledgment of the power of another artist’s work and the mutability of that art. As a pop culture enthusiast and someone who can constantly make myself laugh with my own parodies, I’ve long loved the form, and I can trace that love to two sources: Spaceballs and “Weird Al” Yankovic. The former, I can see whenever I want to thanks to the magic of home video; the latter, the opportunity is far more elusive, so we’re extremely lucky that Al’s The Return of the Mandatory World Tour is coming to the Foellinger Outdoor Theatre here in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on Sunday, June 26 at 7:30 p.m.

The Foellinger Theatre, located at 3411 Sherman Blvd, opened in 1949 as the first outdoor theatre in Fort Wayne for residents to enjoy performances on beautiful summer days and evenings. It was renovated in 1976 to the theatre that we know and love today.