Free Concerts

My husband and I have had some good luck lately finding free concerts to listen to. This is something we both enjoy - going out to listen to live entertainment. The last couple of years, Erie has been known for all the concerts, free no less, at different places around the area. We've gone downtown for the Eight Great Tuesdays before and what makes it nice is the shuttle service being offered. Anyway, things started off really well on Friday when we went to DuBois Community Days and stayed for the concert with Neal McCoy. Neither of us had ever heard of him but that didn't stop us. I think my husband assumed since he was a country singer that it was something I would want to do. It turned out to be one of the best concerts I'd been to in a long time. We would have stayed til the end but the sky opened up and dumped a bushel of rain on us so it was time to leave. Oh, did I fail to mention that along with the free comes open-air, bring your own chair, rain or shine? I guess that's part of the appeal of it all for us. Then Saturday we went to one of our favorite dives in the area for a Make-a-Wish fundraiser at Over the Mountain. There was a $5 cover charge for this one but it went to the charity. They also had a Chinese Auction set up and since there weren't many there, we thought we might have a good chance of winning something. Chances were right - we won a nice camp chair and DuBois hat! We listened to the groups play until the rain came there also and headed for home. We're looking forward to a pig roast there with groups playing all afternoon and evening. Then Sunday night we went to Liberty Park here in Erie for the free REO Speedwagon concert. They initially were selling tickets for it but with some added sponsors, decided to make it a freebie. Well, 8,998 other people had the same idea as we did but it was a good concert, beautiful sunset on the lake, good food and no rain. I have to admit I didn't really know what they sang until I heard them and then it rang a bell. Needless to say, we were quite proud of ourselves for our weekend and free ventures.