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JOYFEST May 23: Featuring performances by Kirk Franklin, Marvin Sapp, Tye Tribbette and Smokey Norful. Carowinds' Palladium Amphitheatre, 14523 Carowinds Blvd. 704-588-2600. www.carowinds.com.
CONCERTS ON THE GREEN May 24: Sound Barrier, rock & roll. Picnic theme is Galloping Gourmet. Downtown Davidson. www.downtowndavidson.org.
MATTHEWS SUMMER CONCERT SERIES May 30: Cookie, a mixture of Motown, oldies and variety. Stumptown Park, 120 S. Trade St., Matthews. 704-321-7275. www.matthewsfun.com.
CORNELIUS CONCERT SERIES May 31: Ms. Jones and the Velvetones. 3 p.m. Mt. Zion United Methodist Church, 19600 Zion St., Cornelius. 704-892-8566. www.mtzionumc.net.
June
DOUBLE DOOR INN June 1: Service Industry Night, featuring The Monday Night All-Stars; June 3: Habitual Ritual Comedy and music show, featuring Big Organ Trio; June 4: Bill Hanna Jazz Jam; June 5: Tab Benoit; June 6: Tom Principato; June 7: BlueSunday with The Ned Lucas Band; June 8: Service Industry Night, featuring The Monday Night All-Stars; June 10: Cas Haley and Woodbelly; June 11: Ryan Montbleau Band with Mac & Juice; June 12: Free Music Night with Holy Ghost Tent Revival and The Money Notes and Emily Moore; June 13: Chris Duarte Group; June 15: Service Industry Night, featuring The Monday Night All-Stars; June 16: Stay with Teamwork; June 17: Jeff Bujak; June 18: The Stereofidelics with Jimmy Brown and Dylan Gilbert; June 19: Purple School Bus; June 20: Contagious Blues Band; June 22: Service Industry Night, featuring The Monday Night All-Stars; June 25: Bill Hanna Jazz Jam; June 26: Tinsley Ellis; June 27: Jamie McLean Band with Crowfield; June 29: Service Industry Night, featuring The Monday Night All-Stars; June 30: Ben Prestage. 1218 Charlottetowne Ave. 704-376-1446. www.doubledoorinn.com.
OVENS AUDITORIUM June 2: Celtic Woman: Isle of Hope. 2700 E. Independence Blvd. 704-372-3600. www.ovensauditorium.com.
SNUG HARBOR June 3: Lollipop Factory; June 5: Bullship, Vinyl Are My Pants; June 6: Snagglepuss, The Hellblinki Sextet; June 10: The Virgo 9, Lord of the Yum Yum; June 12: A.A. Bondy, Holly Miranda, Perry Fowler; June 13: Mego, Drat; June 14: Matthew Paul Butler, Saint Solitude, King Tut; June 17: The Crowntown Showdown; June 19: The Empties, The Catch Fire; June 20: Babyshaker, Richard Bacchus & he Luckiest Girls, The Dielectrics; June 21: Zombie Bazooka Patrol, The Wiggle Wagons, The K-Macks; June 24: Bellafea, Ume, The Dead Records; June 26: The Belmont Playboys, Jimmy and the Teasers; June 27: Raised By Wolves, Latino Chrome; June 28: The Shelter Boys; June 28: Sundae at Snug Harbor with George Brazil. 1228 Gordon St. 704-333-9799. www.sungrock.com.
NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRE June 4: The English Beat; June 5: Acoustic Syndicate; June 6: Gaelic Storm; June 7: ARC Angels; June 10: Ted Leo and The Pharmacists; June 11: Bela Fleck and Toumani Diabate; June 17: Band of Horses with Abouretum; June 26: Chatham Country Line with Sweet By and By; June 27: Johnny Winter with Cyril Lance. 511 E. 36th St., Charlotte. 704-358-9298. www.neighborhoodtheatre.com.
TREMONT MUSIC HALL June 4: Esham with Project Born, The Dayton Family, Natas, DJ Butter; June 5: Killwhitneydead, The Demonstration & Wretched; June 6: Junior Astronomers, The Have and the Have Nots, Moenda, and Siren; June 7: ABK, Axe Murder Boyz, AJAX, Strict 9, Head Hurtz Monstars, F.Dux; June 11: Harvard, The Lo and Beholds, O'Brother; June 12: Dixie Deathwish, My Undoing, Chivalry, Downside Dead; June 13: School of Rock! Showcase; June 14: Leftover Crack, The Casualties, Trash Talk; June 18: Deception of a Ghost, more; June 19: The Lights, Fluorescent, Hammer No More The Fingers, Lucid Colony and Controlled Storms; June 20: 3rd Annual Charlotte Metal Fest, featuring Black Ritual, A Road Eternal, Skinkage and more; June 21: Abigail Williams, Abysmal Dawn, Success Will Write, Apocolypse Across, The Sky; June 24: Black Hollies, more; June 25: The Body Bags, Gillotine, Hate The State, Under A Nightmare. 400 W. Tremont Ave. 704-343-9494. www.tremontmusichall.com.
ALIVE AFTER FIVE June 4: Breakfast Club; June 11: Dave Matthews Tribute Band; June 18: Girlz Girlz Girlz; June 25: Vertigo. Pavilion at EpiCentre, 210 E. Trade St., Ste 230-B. www.aliveafterfiveatepicentre.com.
VISULITE THEATRE June 4: Same As It Ever Was (a Talking Heads tribute band) with Balsa Gliders; June 6: Dark Side of the Dead; June 8: Jessica Lea Mayfield with Among the Oak & Ash; June 9: Cowboy Mouth; June 13: BMHOB; June 18: The Radiators; June 19: The Design; June 20: Nasty Productions' "White Trash No. 5" theme party, featuring Iron Cordoba. June 27: Angie Aparo, more. 1615 Elizabeth Ave. 704-358-9200. www.visulite.com.
SUBARU RIVER JAM Enjoy live music on Thursday nights at the US National Whitewater Center. June 4: Thom Crumpton Trio; June 11: Dub Axxess; June 18: Truckstop Preachers; June 25: Orange Crush. Free. 7 p.m.-10 p.m. 5000 Whitewater Center Pkwy. 704-391-3900. www.usnwc.org.
