Renowned local artist John Donato will delight children during his energetic and educational painting class. His art is like walking into a smile factory. Your child will enjoy hands-on learning from John to create a masterpiece using one of his high-spirited characters and blasts of color from which his art is known. John collaborates with communities, schools, and businesses; anywhere required for others to access this unique creative experience. He is also an accomplished fine artist with works of art collected and enjoyed throughout the world.

This performance is free for all to attend. Please BYOC- Bring Your Own Chair. Children age 12 & under must be accompanied by an adult. Register for tickets AND attend the event to be entered into a drawing for a pair of tickets to a future performance!

What's the refund policy?

The Freeman Stage at Bayside is an outdoor venue and inclement weather may result in the cancellation of events. All ticket sales are final, nontransferable and nonrefundable, even in cases of inclement weather, unless the area is officially closed due to public safety reasons. Umbrellas of any size are prohibited. For the most updated information, visit our website (freemanstage.org), Facebook page (facebook.com/freemanstage), Twitter feed (twitter.com/freemanstage) or call The Freeman Stage Box Office (302-436-3015). Events are subject to change without notice.

Beware of third party ticket vendors.

Only those tickets purchased directly through freemanstage.org (through our ticket vendor Eventbrite) or the Eventbrite App will be supported and/or honored for performances held at The Freeman Stage at Bayside. Individual reselling of tickets is also prohibited.

House & Ticket Policies: https://freemanstage.org/visit/venue-policies

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Jungle John’s Jurassic Journey! Come and enjoy this educational and fun show, which highlights dinosaur facts, shares dinosaur artifacts, and includes live demonstrations with Dolly the T-Rex.

This performance is free for all to attend. Please BYOC- Bring Your Own Chair. Children age 12 & under must be accompanied by an adult. Register for tickets AND attend the event to be entered into a drawing for a pair of tickets to a future performance!

See cartoonist Paul Merklein draw famous cartoon characters at The Freeman Stage! Who will Paul draw next? Enjoy dynamic art, audience participation and comedy as he draws cartoon faces that entertain everyone! Paul Merklein tours schools, libraries and comic cons around the country, entertaining and inspiring kids and adults.

This performance is free for all to attend. Please BYOC- Bring Your Own Chair. Children age 12 & under must be accompanied by an adult. Register for tickets AND attend the event to be entered into a drawing for a pair of tickets to a future performance!

Trombone Shorty's new album opens with a dirge, but if you think the beloved bandleader, singer, songwriter and horn-blower born Troy Andrews came here to mourn, you got it all wrong. That bit of beautiful New Orleans soul —"Laveau Dirge No. 1," named after one of the city's most famous voodoo queens — shows off our host's roots before “Parking Lot Symphony” branches out wildly, wonderfully, funkily across 12 diverse cuts. True to its title, this album contains multitudes of sound — from brass band blare and deep-groove funk, to bluesy beauty and hip-hop/pop swagger — and plenty of emotion all anchored, of course, by stellar playing and the idea that, even in the toughest of times, as Andrews says, "Music brings unity."

In the last four years, Andrews banked his fifth White House gig; backed Macklemore and Madonna at the Grammys; played on albums by She & Him, Zac Brown, Dierks Bentley, and Mark Ronson; opened tours for Daryl Hall & John Oates and Red Hot Chili Peppers; appeared in Foo Fighters' Sonic Highways documentary series; voiced the iconic sound of the adult characters in The Peanuts Movie; inherited the esteemed annual fest-closing set at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in the tradition of Crescent City greats like the Neville Brothers and Professor Longhair; and released “Trombone Shorty,” a children's book about his life that was named a Caldecott Honor Book in 2016.

Adding to that legacy, his Blue Note Records debut “Parking Lot Symphony” finds Andrews teamed with Grammy-nominated producer Chris Seefried (Andra Day, Fitz and the Tantrums) and an unexpected array of cowriters and players including members of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, The Meters, Better Than Ezra, and Dumpstaphunk.

Assigned seating events require tickets for all patrons, including infants and toddlers. No re-entry allowed. Seats are provided.

What's the refund policy?

The Freeman Stage at Bayside is an outdoor venue and inclement weather may result in the cancellation of events. All ticket sales are final, nontransferable and nonrefundable, even in cases of inclement weather, unless the area is officially closed due to public safety reasons. Umbrellas of any size are prohibited. For the most updated information, visit our website (freemanstage.org), Facebook page (facebook.com/freemanstage), Twitter feed (twitter.com/freemanstage) or call The Freeman Stage Box Office (302-436-3015). Events are subject to change without notice.

Beware of third party ticket vendors.

Only those tickets purchased directly through freemanstage.org (through our ticket vendor Eventbrite) or the Eventbrite App will be supported and/or honored for performances held at The Freeman Stage at Bayside. Individual reselling of tickets is also prohibited.

House & Ticket Policies: https://freemanstage.org/visit/venue-policies

Need help? We're here for you!

Call The Freeman Stage Box Office at 302-436-3015 or email info@freemanfoundation.org

Tickets will go on sale Monday, April 3rd at 10 a.m. Tickets for this performance will be $23.

There is no decade like the ’80s and no party like “The Back to the Eighties Show,” with Jessie’s Girl. Every Saturday night for the last five years, crowds of ecstatic fans and newcomers alike have thrown on their best spandex, leg warmers and metal gear, lined up, and headed to downtown NYC for an all-out celebration. Jessie’s Girl has mastered renditions of the world's most vibrant songs, all while dressed up as the unforgettable characters of that decade. Bon Jovi, Cindi Lauper, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince, and many more come to life right before the dazzled eyes of the crowd. It is theatre, meets live music, smothered in ’80s glitz. A performance like no other and a party you have to experience to believe.

BYOC- Bring Your Own Chair. Children age 12 & under are granted free entry to The Freeman Stage for all General Admission performances and must be accompanied by an adult.

Originally from the coal mining district of Dickinson County, Virginia, and then Danville, Virginia, The Church Sisters' mesmerizing music chronicles their childhood with a haunting sound and blue-grass twist. Their roots extend through Bluegrass and Gospel, performing alongside legendary acts from a young age. The duo is featured on “Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited,” which was co-produced by Grammy Award-winner and mentor, Carl Jackson. The Church Sisters delivered with “Where We’ll Never Grow Old,” one of the tracks on the two-disc project that also features legendary artists Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton. They recently released a moving cover of Lukas Graham’s megahit “7 Years.” The song continues to see airplay at SiriusXM and comes to life in the girls’ first music video. Sarah and Savannah are currently in the studio with Grammy Award-winning producer Julian Raymond working on their debut project for Thory Music Co. ​The show is sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation​. This event will feature a post- performance discussion with the artists.

This performance is free for all to attend. Please BYOC- Bring Your Own Chair. Children age 12 & under must be accompanied by an adult. Register for tickets AND attend the event to be entered into a drawing for a pair of tickets to a future performance!

This performance of The Church Sisters is supported by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation’s Mid Atlantic Tours grant program. Support for Mid Atlantic Tours is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts’ with additional support provided by the Delaware Division of the Arts.

Tickets will go on sale Monday, April 3rd at 10 a.m. Tickets will range from $40- $65.

Ever since 2010, when Gary Clark Jr. wowed audiences with electrifying live sets everywhere from the Crossroads Festival to Hollywood’s historic Hotel Café, his modus operandi has remained crystal clear: “I listen to everything … so I want to play everything.” The revelation that is the Austin-born virtuoso guitarist, vocalist and songwriter finds him just as much an amalgamation of his myriad influences and inspirations. Anyone who gravitated towards Clark’s, 2011’s “Bright Lights” EP, heard both the evolution of rock and roll and a savior of blues. The following year’s full-length debut, “Blak And Blu,” illuminated Clark’s vast spectrum — “Please Come Home” is reminiscent of Smokey Robinson, while “Ain’t Messin’ Around” recalls Sly and the Family Stone. 2014’s double disc” Gary Clark Jr - Live” projected Clark into 3D by adding palpable dimension and transcendent power — songs soared and drifted from the epic, psychedelic-blues of “When My Train Comes In” to his anthemic, hip-hop, rock-crunch calling card, “Bright Lights,” all the way down to the deep, dark, muddy water of “When The Sun Goes Down.”

After spending five years transforming audiences from the California desert to the London metropolis, acquiring fans like Barack Obama, Keith Richards, Alicia Keys and Beyoncé along the way, the 6-foot-4 Texan needed to spread his musical wings and spectrum hues wider. This exhibition was Clark’s second full-length worldwide album, “The Story of Sonny Boy Slim,” which was released in September 2015. What this body of work accomplishes that its predecessors hadn’t is spotlight Gary Clark Jr., the artist first — as producer, singer-songwriter — and string master second. His textured voice and eyes-wide writing hug listeners in with a disregard for time period other than the future.