Ocean City's Fagers Island, Rehoboth's Dogfish Head have fun events as stages heat up

The outdoor Freeman Arts Pavilion in Selbyville won’t open for the season until next month, however the nonprofit business will get the party started early with a fundraiser taking place off the premises this weekend.

Love Seed Mama Jump bringing the party sounds

Freeman’s second annual Backstage Pass Party will be held at 8 p.m. Friday, April 19 at The Hyatt in Dewey Beach (inside its Lighthouse Cove Event Center). Live music is again being provided by local favorite Love Seed Mama Jump ($99).

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Fager's Island's big ClamBake BullRoast returning in Ocean City

In Ocean City, Fager’s Island will host its seventh annual ClamBake BullRoast from noon to 4 p.m., Saturday, April 20 ($72). Tunes will be courtesy of The Pineapple Band. The Baltimore-based party group mixes blues, jazz, rock, funk and hip hop.

Looking ahead to next week at Fager’s, its Spring Wine Fest will take place from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 27 ($78). Groovalicious will get the dance floor moving with its take on ’70’s disco music.

Also in OC, the Crawl Street Tavern has placed tickets on sale for a concert by national singer-songwriter Stephen Kellogg that will occur at the downtown nightspot at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26 ($35, $40). That is the same night as the kickoff of the second annual Oceans Calling music festival at the Inlet (which includes a Thursday headlining set by Blink-182).

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Dogfish Head has big plans for Record Store Day

In downtown Rehoboth Beach, the Dogfish Head brewpub will have its annual Record Store Day celebration Saturday, April 20 (as will businesses throughout the country which sell vinyl LPs). Canadian folk-punk act The Dreadnoughts will play a free concert at 9 p.m., after having played a 5 p.m. acoustic set at Dogfish’s Milton Brewery. Dogfish is also gearing up for a free Rehoboth brewpub concert by Rhett Miller (frontman for The Old 97’s) at 9 p.m., Friday, April 26.

In Lewes, the annual Cape Community Fund Spring Bash will again take place downtown at Irish Eyes at Anglers. The charity event will be held upstairs in The Lewes Room from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday, April 21 ($20). Bands will include The Funsters, Earth Jam, 33 & 1/3 and Sticky Situation.

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Teddy Swims show canceled at Bottle & Cork

Back in Dewey, the Bottle & Cork nightclub has had a number of announcements in recent days. It issued a brief statement Monday that the sold-out concert by soul-rock vocalist Teddy Swims scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 6 has been canceled for undisclosed reasons, and that refunds will be processed automatically. The majority of those tickets were reportedly purchased by members of Swims’ fan club during his artist pre-sale.

In better news, a steady stream of summer country concerts are being added, and tickets are on sale now for the return of electronic dance music disc jockey White Panda at 9 p.m. Friday, July 19 ($36).

E-mail Roger Hillis at rogerhillis@gmail.com .

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