MENTOR, Ohio -- The city of Mentor plans to celebrate the Fourth of July by unveiling a new amphitheater at the Mentor Civic Center Park with a free concert from 1990s alt-rockers Soul Asylum.
The evening's festivities will include an opening ceremony for the amphitheater followed by the Soul Asylum concert, with a fireworks display providing main attraction.
Soul Asylum got together in the 1980s but their heyday came in the 1990s with several radio hits, a triple-platinum album and a performance at President Bill Clinton's inauguration. They continue to tour and release albums, but have been unable to replicate the success they experienced in the mid-90s.
Mentor's new amphitheater can comfortably accommodate 4,500 people and has a maximum capacity of 9,000, a press release said, and it will be the home to a Mentor Rocks concert series, along with plays, classical concerts and operas.
Tuesday's opening ceremony starts at 6:30 p.m., Soul Asylum's concert is scheduled for 7 p.m., and the fireworks are set to begin at 9:50 p.m.