The line-up for the 2013 Ravinia Festival has been announced!

June 29
Melissa Etheridge and Friends!
With Joan Osborne and Paula Cole
And introducing Jessie Payo

The Ravinia Music Festival has started their donor ticket pre-sale. The public on sale date is April 25. M.E.I.N. fan club tickets will go on sale approximately a week before the public on sale date. The location of M.E.I.N. seats for this show has been affected by the seats being held for Ravinia donors. More details coming soon!

Melissa & Linda Wallem. (Photo: Joe Mello)

A capacity crowd including city officials -- and Grammy Award winner/former LB resident Melissa Etheridge -- attended the Feb. 23 gala opening of the Historical Society of Long Beach's LGBT History Project.

"I loved waking up here on a Sunday morning and going down to Fourth Street," said the two-time Grammy winner and Oscar winner who played several times a week at the lesbian bar Que Sera. "These were the people who believed in me and gave me a job. You supported me, you helped me grow as a musician, you kept coming to hear me play. We were a community," she added. "Thank you for making me who I am."