Pittsburgh, PA—The Delta Foundation of Pittsburgh is pleased to announce that Academy Award® and two-time Grammy® winner Melissa Etheridge will be the featured entertainer at its “Pride in the Street” event, on Saturday, June 9. Tickets will go on sale on Friday, April 20.
Etheridge will perform a 90-minute show with a full band on the outdoor stage at Liberty Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh between 9th and 10th streets. Last year’s event drew a record 4,500 attendees with headliner Patti LaBelle.
A native of Leavenworth, Kansas, Etheridge is known for her mixture of confessional lyrics, pop-based folk-rock, and raspy, smoky vocals. Her critically-acclaimed debut album Melissa Etheridge led to an invitation to sing on the 1989 Grammy® Awards broadcast and for several years, her popularity built around such memorable originals as “Bring Me Some Water,” “No Souvenirs” and “Ain’t It Heavy,” for which she won a Grammy® in 1992. Etheridge hit her commercial and artistic stride with her fourth album, Yes I Am (1993) which featured the massive hits, “I’m the Only One” and “Come to My Window,” which earned her second Grammy® Award for Best Female Rock Performance. In 1995, Etheridge issued her highest charting album, Your Little Secret, which included the hit single, “I Want to Come Over.” Her astounding success that year led to Etheridge receiving the Songwriter of the Year honor at the ASCAP Pop Awards in 1996.
Etheridge continued to write, record, and tour throughout the ‘90s and into the new
millennium, releasing Skin (2001) and Lucky (2004) along with her DVDs Live And Alone (2002) and Lucky Live (2004). Diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004, Etheridge made a return to the stage at the 2005 Grammy Awards, bald from chemotherapy, and performed a tribute to Janis Joplin with the song “Piece of My Heart“. 2005 marked the release of Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled, which includes “I Run for Life,” commissioned by Ford Cares as part of their cancer initiative in support of The Susan G. Komen Race For The Cure.
In April 2007, Etheridge received the distinguished ASCAP Founders Award and released her ninth studio album, The Awakening, selected by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of its Top 50 Albums of 2007. In 2009, Etheridge released her latest studio album, Fearless Love, to a Top 10 Billboard debut. In 2011, Etheridge also made her Broadway debut as St. Jimmy in Green Day’s rock opera, American Idiot, and received her Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
An iconic gay and lesbian activist, Etheridge is the proud recipient of GLAAD’s Stephen F. Kolzak Award, which honors openly lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender media professionals who have made a significant difference in promoting equal rights.
Tickets are $32 in advance and $45 at the gate and can be purchased online at www.pittsburghpride.org/tickets or by calling 1-888-71-TICKETS. $2 from every ticket sold will be donated to the Harvey Milk Foundation. To attend the event, you must be 18 or older.
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About The Delta Foundation of Pittsburgh:
The Delta Foundation of Pittsburgh is dedicated to improving the quality of life for and visibility of the members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community in the Pittsburgh region. Pittsburgh Pride 2012 is sponsored by the City of Pittsburgh, Clear Channel, Coors Light, Highmark, Jim Beam Brands, PNC Bank, and UPMC. For more information, visit: pittsburghpride.org
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