Summertime and the music is easy

0 Comments | Deseret News (Salt Lake City), May 25, 2007 | by Scott Iwasaki Deseret Morning News

The band Judas Priest once sang about "Wild Nights, Hot & Crazy Days." That's summertime in a drumshell.

And with summer, not only do we along the Wasatch Front get extended daylight, a break from school and soaring temperatures, but we also get a refreshing blast of live music.

The 2007 summer concert season is on the verge of breaking onto the scene. And there really is something for everyone.

Major local venues -- USANA Amphitheatre, Red Butte Garden, Kingsbury Hall, Abravanel Hall, the E Center, the EnergySolutions Arena, the Sandy Amphitheater, the Kenley Centennial Amphitheater, the SCERA Shell Outdoor Theatre and the David O. McKay Events Center -- will have shows throughout the summer.

Here is a list of what is scheduled so far (subject to change, of course).

MAY

28: The Association, SCERA

JUNE

1: Charlie Daniels, Marshall Tucker Band and The Outlaws, USANA

2: Dropping Daylight, Gallivan Center

6: Harry Connick Jr., Abravanel Hall

6: Gregg Allman, Kenley Centennial Amphitheater

8: Ernie Halter, Tahitian Noni International Auditorium

9: True Colors Tour: Cyndi Lauper, Erasure, Debbie Harry, Margaret Cho and The Clicks, USANA

9: George Lopez, E Center

10: Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi/Scrapomatic, Red Butte

11: Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, EnergySolutions Arena

16: Marco Antonio Solis, E Center

19: Indigo Girls, Red Butte

20: Chick Corea/Bela Fleck, Red Butte

21: Taylor Swift, Sandy Amphitheater

22: Lucinda Williams, Kingsbury Hall

25: Fall Out Boy, EnergySolutions Arena

25: Restless Heart, SCERA

28: Kenny Chesney, Sugarland and Pat Green, USANA

JULY

4: Stadium of Fire: Brooks & Dunn, LaVell Edwards Stadium

6-8: Salt Lake City International Jazz Festival featuring Dianne Reeves, Brian Culbertson and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Washington Square

7: Vans Warped Tour: Bad Religion, Killswitch Engage, Bleed the Dream, The Used, Meg & Dia, Utah State Fairpark

8: Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, Red Butte

13: Neville Brothers/Sonny Landreth, Red Butte

14: Pink Martini, Deer Valley Amphitheater

14: Orleans, Sandy Amphitheater

15: Lyle Lovett and k.d. lang, Deer Valley

17: Chris Isaak, Red Butte

17: Incubus/Simon Dawes, USANA

19: Gladys Knight, Sandy Amphitheater

22: Mavis Staples and Betty LeVette, Red Butte Garden

24: Darryl Worley, SCERA

27: Lou Gramm, Sandy Amphitheater

30: Dream Theater, E Center

31: John Hiatt and Shawn Colvin, Deer Valley

31: American Idols Live, EnergySolutions Arena

31: The Fray, Meese and Single File, USANA

AUGUST

5: Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars, Red Butte

6: Rush, USANA

12: Keb' Mo' & Robert Cray, Red Butte

15: ZZ Top, the Pretenders and the Stray Cats, USANA

16: Smokey Robinson, Deer Valley

16: 311 and Matisyahu, USANA

18: Poison, Ratt and White Lion, USANA

19: Bruce Hornsby and Carrie Rodriguez, Red Butte

19: Nancy Griffith and Judy Collins, Deer Valley

20: Michael Feinstein, SCERA

24: Linda Ronstadt and the Utah Symphony, Abravanel Hall

26: Son Volt and Alejandro Escovedo, Red Butte

27: Richard Marx, SCERA

28: Josh Groban and Angelique Kidjo, EnergySolutions Arena

30: Joss Stone, Deer Valley

31: Vince Gill, Amy Grant and the Del McCoury Band, Deer Valley

SEPTEMBER

3: America, SCERA

7: Weird Al Yankovic, Utah State Fairpark

7: Def Leppard, Styx and Foreigner, USANA

10: John and Bucky Pizzarelli, Sheraton City Centre

11: Keith Urban, EnergySolutions Arena

12: The White Stripes, E Center

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