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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- May 4: Tom Segura
- July 23: AJR
- Aug. 13: Heart
- 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
- May 31: Nate Smith
- June 15: Aaron Lewis
- June 22: Boyz II Men
- Aug. 16: Gabriel Iglesias
- 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
- 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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