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Melissa Etheridge to perform at Wilson Center this fall

Melissa Etheridge will return to the Wilson Center stage on Sept. 15. (Courtesy photo)

WILMINGTON — The “Come to My Window” singer-songwriter will be returning to Wilmington in September 2024.

Melissa Etheridge last played in town at Wilson Center in 2021 (see setlist here). She will return to Cape Fear Community College’s 1,500-seat venue on Sept. 15; tickets go on sale Friday, April 11.

Etheridge is embarking on her I’m Not Broken Tour, which includes appearances by North Carolina folk darlings the Avett Brothers, as well as Jewel and the Indigo Girls. The bands will not join her at the Wilson Center, as she plays through her catalog of music, including “Bring Me Some Water,” “No Souvenirs,” and “Ain’t It Heavy,” the latter for which she scored a 1992 Grammy.

Aside from continuously writing and performing original music, Etheridge also started the Etheridge Foundation in 2020 to support scientific research for new treatments in opioid use disorder.

It began after her son, Beckett, passed away from opioid addiction. The nonprofit approaches treatment to address root causes of opioid abuse for better solutions that can heal opioid use disorder.

Tickets go on sale to the Wilson Center members at 10 a.m. on Thursday, April 11, and to the general public on Friday, April 12.


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Shea Carver
Shea Carver
Shea Carver is the editor in chief at Port City Daily. A UNCW alumna, Shea worked in the print media business in Wilmington for 22 years before joining the PCD team in October 2020. She specializes in arts coverage — music, film, literature, theatre — the dining scene, and can often be tapped on where to go, what to do and who to see in Wilmington. When she isn’t hanging with her pup, Shadow Wolf, tending the garden or spinning vinyl, she’s attending concerts and live theater.

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