Fort Wayne Insider Blog

Summer is the perfect season to get outside and enjoy the beautiful warm weather – and what better place to do that but Fort Wayne, Indiana!

Our extensive lineup of outdoor concerts, weekly festivals, and rapidly expanding riverfront will always have your schedule full of fun in the sun. The weekend of July 13^th in Fort Wayne is filled with events that it will take you back to the good ole’ days of your childhood where you never wanted to go back inside.

Summer is back, and so is the Foellinger Theatre's free movie series! The amphitheater, located in Franke Park, will screen family-friendly movies every Thursday starting July 8th through August 9th. All showings are free of charge. Sit back, relax, and enjoy some fan-favorite films! 

The Foellinger Theatre holds a special place in many Fort Wayne natives’ hearts for its constant stream of prominent musical acts and free, outdoor events for the community. It's the perfect way to savor some beautiful Midwest summer weather!

The Foellinger Theatre started its summer concert series in 2007, and it has certainly grown from its singular band booking, with 19 incredible acts coming to local audiences in Fort Wayne this season!

Do you watch The Voice on NBC and/or Snapchat? If so, then you know that the Fort Wayne music scene is earning its stripes out there in Hollywood. Good vibes like ours don’t come without a strong local music scene. From the homegrown to the regionally-acclaimed to the national powerhouses, Fort Wayne has a TON of concerts to offer this year.

Make your next trip to Fort Wayne not only to take in summer concerts put on by Chicago, Kansas and the Lettermen, all of who will perform here this summer, but also to delight in our beautiful open-air Foellinger Outdoor Theatre in Franke Park.

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. 

Take a sentimental journey back to the 1970s and recall in your mind the classic rock sounds of "Peaceful, Easy Feeling," "Desperado," "Lyin' Eyes," and "Hotel California" by the Eagles who ruled the music world back then.