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Summer Music Guide

We can pack your concert schedule for months

By Walter Tunis Contributing Music Writer

Hope you didn't already have plans for the summer — because, well, we sort of had a few ideas. In fact, we have more than 150 of them.

That's roughly the number of pop concert events that we discovered are on the books for our annual Summer Music Guide.

There's Joe Cocker and the Jonas Brothers, bluegrass and blues, Keith Urban and Country Joe McDonald, and four Williamses (dad Hank Jr. and kids Hank III and Holly — and the unrelated Lucinda).

From X to O.A.R., from Steve Miller to Merle Haggard, from Neko Case to the Forecastle Festival, they're all here.

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Here's our list of more than 150 concerts from now to August.

With the exception of a few festival dates, specific venue, Web site and ticket outlet info is listed in the box at the right.

As always, if your favorite show requires a road trip, always call the venue before leaving. All of these shows are confirmed ... until they aren't. In other words, everything is subject to change.

JUNE

June 7: Esham, Natas, others. Headliners Music Hall. 8 p.m. $13.

June 8: Sara Watkins, The Lovell Sisters. WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour, Kentucky Theatre. 7 p.m. $10.

June 9: Tech N9ne, Murs Short Dawg, others. Bogart's. 8 p.m. $20, $22.50.

June 9: St. Vincent, Pattern Is Movement. Southgate House. 8:30 p.m. $12.

June 10: St. Vincent, Pattern is Movement. The Dame. 8 p.m. $10, $12.

June 10: Lucinda Williams. Madison Theater. 8 p.m. $28.

June 11: Festival of the Bluegrass featuring The Grascals, Lonesome River Band, others. Kentucky Horse Park campground. 7 p.m. $15.

June 11: Bonnie Prince Billy, Bachelorette. Southgate House. 9:30 p.m. $15.

June 12: Festival of the Bluegrass featuring J.D. Crowe and the New South, Russell Moore and IIIrd Tyme Out, Blue Highway, others. Kentucky Horse Park campground. 1 p.m. $35.

June 12: A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. Riverbend. 7:45 p.m. $20, $35, $45.

June 13: Festival of the Bluegrass featuring Doyle Lawson and Quick silver, Seldom Scene, Dry Branch Fire Squad, others. Kentucky Horse Park campground. Noon. $35.

June 13: Bill Frisell Trio. The 930 Arts Center. 8 p.m. $15, $18.

June 13: Bonnie Prince Billy, Bachelorette. Red Mile Round Barn. 9 p.m. $10, $12.

June 13: Buddy Guy, Quinn Sullivan. Elk Creek Vineyards. 7 p.m. $30-$100.

June 13: The Belleville Outfit. Natasha's Bistro. 9 p.m. $15.

June 13: Robin Trower, Howard Brothers Band. Bogart's. 8 p.m. $23.50, $28.50.

June 13: O.A.R., The Wailers. PNC Pavilion. 7 p.m. $32.50, $35.

June 14: Festival of the Bluegrass featuring Dry Branch Fire Squad, Kentucky Blue. Kentucky Horse Park campground. 9:30 a.m. $10.

June 14: Lucinda Williams. Brown Theatre. 7:30 p.m. $35, $50.

June 15: Rhonda Vincent and the Rage, Guy Davis. WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour, Kentucky Theatre. 7 p.m. $10.

June 15: Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Titus Andronicus, Pomegranates. Southgate House. 7:30 p.m. $15.

June 16: X. The Dame. 8 p.m. $20.

June 16: Maps and Atlases, others. Al's Bar. 8 p.m. $6.

June 16: Celtic Woman. Rupp Arena. 7:30 p.m. $39.50, $56.50.

June 16: Dave Matthews Band, The Hold Steady. Riverbend. 7 p.m. $40, $70.

June 17: Hank III and Assjack, Lucky Tubbs. Bogart's. 7:30 p.m. $15, $18.50.

June 18: Charlie Louvin. Southgate House. 9 p.m. $15, $18.

June 19: Goose Creek Symphony, Velvet Water. The Dame. 8 p.m. $15.

June 19: 500 Miles to Memphis. The Green Lantern. 9 p.m. $5.

June 19: Brad Paisley, Dierks Bentley, Jimmy Wayne. Riverbend,. 7:30 p.m. $25, $53.50.

June 19: Renfro Valley Bluegrass Festival featuring Marty Raybon, Robert Wise and Wildfire, others. Festival Field, Renfro Valley. 1 p.m. $28, $50.

June 20: Renfro Valley Bluegrass Festival featuring Dale Ann Bradley, Grasstowne, others. Festival Field, Renfro Valley. 1 p.m. $28, $50.

June 20: Roy Clark. Paramount Arts Center. 8 p.m. $25, $30, $35.

June 20: 311, Ziggy Marley, The Expendables. Riverbend. 6:30 p.m. $20, $39.50.

June 21: The Two Man Gentleman Band. Al's Bar. 9 p.m. $5.