Cape Region does love its music

There’s just nothing that’s quite like jazz festival weekend in Rehoboth Beach. Just when the summer crowds have finally gone home and the air turns clear and a little crisp, the town fills up again.

It’s not only people strolling the Boardwalk and streets; music spills out of what sounds like every restaurant in town and even numerous venues from Lewes to Dewey Beach and points along Route 1 in between.

You can’t go anywhere, day or night without hearing music.

This year, even Historic Lewes Farmers Market got in on the festival Oct. 18, with a strolling Everett Spells who got the day rolling well before many who were out for Friday night events had even opened their eyes. Music continued all day long and well past midnight, with a late-night show at the Rusty Rudder in Dewey Beach.

Those events were all in addition to the headliners who rocked Cape Henlopen High School Theatre, Epworth United Methodist Church and Rehoboth Beach Convention Center to sell-out crowds.

Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, Rehoboth Beach Jazz Festival has been bringing great music to coastal Delaware for decades. But in addition to all the hard work of lining up so much talent and so many venues, what truly makes the festival work are the audiences who pack the venues to appreciate what the festival brings to town.

Visitors fill the hotels, but in the end, it’s the people of the Cape Region who turn out, whether it’s a headliner on stage, a family concert at the Bandstand, the People’s Mass at All Saints’ Church or St. George’s Chapel, or one of the many artists who entertained until all hours as diners enjoyed the jazz-inspired specialties of local chefs.

Congratulations to Delaware Celebration of Jazz and festival producers Dennis Santangini and Leon Galitzin for bringing together so much talent, proving yet again the Cape Region loves its music – and quite a few musicians love the Cape Region.