Big names abound this week at beaches

The next week or two will find famous music superstars playing beach music venues — and many of these shows are already sold out. However, additional concert events are already being added for this fall.

In Selbyville, the outdoor Freeman Arts Pavilion has been welcoming thousands of smiling faces this summer to watch national entertainers strut their stuff. However, rain has occasionally reared its head and led to some last-minute cancelations. Thus was the case last Tuesday, July 25, when a sold-out rock bill featuring Counting Crows and Dashboard Confessional had to be scuttled. (Refunds were to be processed automatically.)

Hopefully the weather will cooperate Friday, Aug. 4, as Freeman has what is perhaps its biggest show of the summer scheduled — a sold-out acoustic performance by singer-songwriter and Grammy winner Brandi Carlile. Freeman is a much smaller-than-usual venue for Carlile; her current tour in support of the “In These Silent Days” album has included an appearance at Madison Square Garden which was also sold out.