The Fraze Pavilion is a 4,300-seat outdoor amphitheater in Kettering, Ohio that opened in 1991. The Pavilion is named after

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, late resident of Kettering and inventor of the pop-top

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. The theater hosts many popular American and international music artists.

History

Marvin Hamlisch was the very first act to play the Fraze in 1991. In 2003, Sheryl Crow performed two back-to-back sold-out concerts, during which she filmed her DVD, ''C'mon America 2003''. The Lincoln Park Civic Commons, just outside the Pavilion Gates, is home to several local festivals and music events, including the Swamp Romp

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Zydeco Zydeco ( or , french: Zarico) is a music genre that evolved in southwest Louisiana by French Creole speakers which blends blues, rhythm and blues, and music indigenous to the Louisiana Creoles and the Native American people of Louisiana. Al ...

Festival; Blues Fest; Festival of the Vine, a

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and

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festival; Spass Nacht, an Austrian Festival in honor of Kettering's Sister City, Steyr, Austria, and Art on the Commons & a juried art festival. The Fraze was ranked 14th in the world in Pollstar Magazine's worldwide ticket report for entertainment venues in 2010. The Fraze was ranked 22nd in the world for the same recognition by Pollstar in 2011.

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