A national act will be on stage Tuesday night at Freedom Hill in Sterling Heights for the first time in four years.
Huey Lewis and the News kick off a 32-concert season at the Metro Parkway amphitheater, which reopens with a new management firm and $1 million in upgrades, as Nathan Skid describes in Crain's.
A newly formed relationship with a Los Angeles booking company has amped up its summer season. . . .
The Beach Boys, Cake, Randy Travis, Collective Soul, Steve Miller Band, Lady Antebellum and Tony Bennett are a sampling of the acts lined up for the balance of summer.
The full schedule through Aug. 28 is here.
Macomb County, which owns the 7,200-seat outdoor site in a 120-acre county park, signed a 20-year lease and management agreement last fall with a partnership called Luna Hillside, LLC.
Freedom Hill had shut in 2009 due to budget issues and legal wrangling.
Freedom Hill, shown before its 2009 shutdown, is part of a Macomb County park on Metropolitan Parkway near Schoenherr Road. [Photo from freedomhill.net]
