MELISSA ETHERIDGEParamount TheatreTuesday, October 9, 2012 – 7:30pmAEG Live is excited to announce MELISSA ETHERIDGE live at Paramount Theatre on Tuesday, October 9, 2012.  Doors 6:30pm || Show 7:30pm.Oscar® and two-time Grammy winner Melissa Etheridge is set to embark on a North American Tour in October 2012 in support of her latest studio album, “4th Street Feeling” (set for release on September 4th on Island Records). Melissa wrote twelve new songs for the album, which features Blair Sinta on drums, Brett Simons on bass, and Zac Rae on keyboards. Melissa takes the lead on vocals, piano, harmonica, banjitar and some of her most stirring lead guitar work to date. The first single on the album, “Falling Up,” will be available on iTunes beginning August 7th. In addition to her recording career, Melissa hosts “The Melissa Etheridge Radio Show,” syndicated through Benztown Radio Networks. In late 2011, Melissa was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and this fall, will be honored by the National Women’s Museum of Art in Washington DC with her inclusion in the exhibition, “Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power.”About Melissa Etheridge:Melissa Etheridge has been a core Island Records artist since the release of her critically-acclaimed eponymous RIAA double-platinum debut album. For several years, Melissa’s popularity built around such memorable songs as “Bring Me Some Water” (from her debut), “No Souvenirs” (from Brave And Crazy) and “Ain’t It Heavy” (from Never Enough), for which she won her first Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal. Melissa hit her commercial and artistic stride with her fourth album the six-times platinum Yes I Am, featuring the massive hits “I’m the Only One” and “Come to My Window. The album went six times platinum and spent more than two and a half years on the album chart. Her highest charting album to date, Your Little Secret (#6 on the Billboard Top 200), included the hit single, “I Want to Come Over.” Her astounding success led Etheridge to receive the Songwriter of the Year honor at the ASCAP Pop Awards, two Grammy awards, and the Academy Award® in 2007 for her song “I Need To Wake Up.” In 2011, Melissa made her Broadway debut as St. Jimmy in Green Day’s rock opera, American Idiot, and received her Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 4th Street Feeling will be Melissa’s 12th studio album for Island Records.TICKETS GO ON SALE FRIDAY, AUGUST 3rd at 10AMTICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE AT WWW.TICKETHORSE.COM, ORDER BY PHONE CALL 866.461.6556, TICKETHORSE KIOSKS LOCATED AT ALL COLORADO DICK’S SPORTING GOODS STORES.Reserved seats are $39.00 – $104.00.  All ages are welcome.www.axs.com – www.1STBANKCenter.com  — www.aeglive.com – www.ogdentheatre.net  — www.bluebirdtheater.net