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Foo Fighters at the ICON Festival Stage at Smale Park Photo: Brittany Thornton

Along with blue creamy whip and trips to the Cincinnati Zoo, a visit to one of Greater Cincinnati’s many concert venues is a summertime staple. Whether you’re into obscure punk or mainstream country, the Queen City’s music venues are sure to have a concert that strikes your fancy. Below, we’ve included a list of concerts taking place between May and September at multiple music venues in Greater Cincinnati.

Andrew J Brady Music Center:

  • May 12: Social Distortion and Bad Religion
  • May 28: Parliament Funkadelic featuring George Clinton
  • June 4: Jacob Collier
  • June 5: Pixies and Modest Mouse
  • July 14: Lake Street Dive
  • July 24: Tate McRae
  • July 25: Cincinnati Music Festival
  • July 30: Primus and Coheed and Cambria
  • Sept. 14: Kings of Leon

ICON Festival Stage at Smale Park:

  • June 7: Maggie Rogers
  • Sept. 20: Vampire Weekend

Riverbend Music Center:

  • May 18: Brit Floyd (PNC Pavilion)
  • June 7: Hootie & The Blowfish
  • June 8: Cole Swindell (PNC Pavilion)
  • June 14: Sarah McLachlan (PNC Pavilion)
  • June 15: Dierks Bentley
  • June 18: Little Feat (PNC Pavilion)
  • June 21: New Kids on the Block
  • June 22: Janet Jackson
  • June 25: Niall Horan
  • June 28: Santana and Counting Crows
  • July 2: Third Eye Blind
  • July 5: Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • July 12: Train and REO Speedwagon
  • July 13: Luke Bryan
  • July 18: Dan + Shay
  • July 19: Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire
  • July 24: Alanis Morissette
  • July 25: Hardy
  • July 27: Totally Tubular Festival with Modern English, Men Without Hats and more acts
  • Aug. 2: Creed
  • Aug. 14: Bush
  • Aug. 18: The Doobie Brothers
  • Aug. 23: Foreigner and Styx
  • Aug. 27: Sammy Hagar
  • Aug. 31: Kidz Bop
  • Sept. 7: Ohio is For Lovers Festival

Paycor Stadium:

  • July 26-27: Cincinnati Music Festival
  • Aug. 2-3: Luke Combs

MegaCorp Pavilion:

  • May 4: The Ultimate Doors — a tribute to The Doors
  • May 9: Prof
  • May 16: Kraftwerk
  • May 24: Knocked Loose
  • June 2: Pigeons Playing Ping Pong
  • June 11: Faye Webster
  • July 30: Taking Back Sunday
  • Aug. 24: The Avett Brothers
  • Aug. 25: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
  • Aug. 30: O.A.R.

Bogart’s:

  • May 1: The 502s
  • May 3: Hot Water Music
  • May 4: Liquid Stranger
  • May 7: Stiff Little Fingers
  • May 9: Thievery Corporation
  • May 11: City Morgue
  • May 12: Our Last Night
  • May 16: Symphony X
  • May 17: Saxon & Uriah Heep
  • May 21: Alpha Wolf
  • May 23: Kamelot
  • June 8: Michael Marcagi
  • June 22: Jim Norton
  • July 26: Jerry Harrison & Adrian Belew
  • July 31: Bowling For Soup
  • Aug. 22: Magic Men Australia

Taft Theatre:

  • May 1: Super Freak: The Rick James Story
  • May 3: Desi Banks
  • May 4: Kathy Griffin
  • May 9: The Bald & The Beautiful Live with Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova
  • May 11: Sesame Street Live!
  • May 18: Ali Siddiq
  • May 22: Wheel of Fortune Live!
  • May 31: Ms. Pat
  • June 29: Buddy Guy
  • Sept. 14: Ronny Chieng
  • Sept. 29: Bill Maher

Heritage Bank Center:

  • May 4: Tom Segura
  • July 23: AJR
  • Aug. 13: Heart

Southgate House Revival:

  • May 2: Joe Stamm
  • May 3: MoonRunners Music Festival
  • May 6: Christopher Paul Stelling
  • May 9: The Clements Brothers
  • May 10: Southern Culture on the Skids
  • May 11: Robbie Fulks, Bendigo Fletcher
  • May 17: Jim Duff, The Secret Sisters
  • May 18: Chris Cornell Tribute Night benefiting AFSP, Buck & The Dollar Bills
  • May 23: Goldpine, Jesse DeNatale
  • May 28: Divide the Fall

Hard Rock Casino:

  • May 31: Nate Smith
  • June 15: Aaron Lewis
  • June 22: Boyz II Men
  • Aug. 16: Gabriel Iglesias

Memorial Hall:

  • May 5: Stardew Valley: Festival of Seasons
  • May 9: Will Downing
  • May 11: Ernie Johnson From Detroit
  • May 18-19: Cincinnati Men’s Chorus
  • June 1: Pokey LaFarge
  • June 2: Ravi Coltrane
  • June 19: Jon McLaughlin
  • June 20: Al Di Meola
  • Sept. 24: Chamber Music Cincinnati: Takacs Quartet

Ludlow Garage:

  • May 2: The Breakers: The Tom Petty Tribute
  • May 4: Leonid & Friends
  • May 7: Rufus Wainwright
  • May 8: EXTC
  • May 9: Tenille Townes
  • May 10-11: Stanley Clarke
  • May 17: Live at the Fillmore
  • May 25: Jon B
  • May 29: Mr. Big
  • May 30: Ruth Moody
  • May 31: The Alarm
  • June 8: Adam Hawley and Julian Vaughn
  • June 14: Moonshine Bandits
  • June 25: Yussef Dayes
  • June 28: Hollywood Nights
  • July 11: The Artimus Pyle Band — Honoring Ronnie Van Zant’s Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • July 13: Walter Beasley
  • July 31: Tusk, Fleetwood Mac tribute
  • Aug. 9: Four80East
  • Sept. 13: 1964 The Tribute

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