Dell Music Center reopens with a celebration of love

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The Dell Music Center, at 2400 Strawberry Mansion Drive in Fairmount Park, celebrated its long-awaited reopening on Aug. 1. A sold out crowd of more than 5,000 enjoyed “A Night of Love” with Regina Belle, Peabo Bryson, and Jeffrey Osborne.

Regina Belle started off the night singing some of her greatest hits like “Make It Like It Was,” “Come To Me,” then Peabo Bryson sang his hits “Tonight I Celebrate Love,” Closer Than Close” and his hit, a duet he did with Regina Belle for the movie “Beauty and the Beast:” “A Whole New World.”

Closing out the night was Jeffrey Osbourne with “Stay With Me The Night,” “Only Human,” and “On The Wings of Love.”