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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UK Opera Theatre’s Grand St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Jazz/Big Band Ingrid Michaelson Thursday Night Live Grand Night for Singing Night for Singing Fair (Ecton Park) Headliners (Louisville) Johnson Brothers, Singletary Center Singletary Center CKYO Jazz Arts Orchestra Cheapside Park Swingin on Main Gala in the Garden Summer Movie Classics KET Summer Celebration Main at Broadway UK Arboretum City Lights, KY Theatre Sexual Disaster Quartet Donamire Farm Bluegrass Pride Rain The Dame Barrel Reception Lex Green The Features The Dame 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 UK Opera Theatre’s Grand Woodsongs Old-Time Jazz/Big Band Dirty Dozen Brass Band AGL’s Shakespeare at UK Opera Grand Night for UK Opera Theatre’s Grand Night for Singing Radio Hour (Ecton Park) Custom Sound The Dame Equus Run Merry Wives of Singing (Singletary Center) Night for Singing Singletary Center Over The Rhine, Windsor (runs June 12-28) Great American Brass Kentucky Theatre Lexington Lions Club Summer Movie Classics Band Fest Kentucky Wine Kenwick Neighborhood Bluegrass Fair Masterson Gone With the Wind, Thursday Night Live Danville (through Sunday) & Arts Festival Bungalow Tour Station (through July 20) KY Theatre Zydeco Bon, Cheapside Park Kanye West Talon Winery and U.S.Bank Arena (Cinci) Vineyards 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Ashland Lawn Party Gallery Hop Downtown UK Opera Theatre’s Grand Woodsongs Old-Time Jazz/Big Band Summer Movie Classics Thursday Night Live Big Henry Clay Estate Night for Singing Radio Hour (Ecton Park) Psycho, KY Theatre Maracas, Cheapside Park Alzheimer’s Association’s Cosmic Invasion Singletary Center The Band of Heathens, UK faculty jazz quartet Bourbon & BBQ Keeneland Woodland Park Kentucky Theatre Troubadour Series Scenes of Gainesborough Night of the Stars Gala at Festival of the Bluegrass EXILE Reunion Concert Act II Headley Whitney, Keeneland Kentucky Horse Park Kentucky Theatre benefiting Woodford KY Proud Art Fair (June 12 - 15) Humane Good Foods Co-Op 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Francisco’s Farm Jazz/Big Band Summer Movie Classics Thursday Night Live Lexington Pride Festival Arts Festival (Ecton Park), The Wizard of Oz, Conch Republic, Cheapside Park Midway (all weekend) Dojo Jazz Band Kentucky Theatre Cheapside Park John Henry Memorial Equine Adoption Fair Kentucky Horse Park 29 30

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1 2 3 4 5 Jazz/Big Band Summer Movie Classics Thursday Night Live Fourth of July Parade Woodland Jubilee (Ecton Park), Back to the Future, Kentucky The Swells, Red, White and Boom Woodland Park Lexington Concert Band Theatre Cheapside Park Rupp Arena parking lot Modest Mouse Bogarts Troubadour Concert Ace’s Annual Holiday Patriotic Concert Bluegrass 10K Downtown Series Jakob Dylan Guide On stands one day Transy Kentucky Theatre early 697 8 10 11 12 Junior League Horse Jazz/Big Band Summer Movie Classics Thursday Night Live Kenny Antony and SummerFest Antony and Show Red Mile (Ecton Park), Lost Horizon, Owens, Cheapside Park Cleopatra, UK Arboretum Cleopatra, UK Arboretum Jay Flippin Kentucky Theatre SummerFest Antony and Tom Petty and the SummerFest Antony and Cleopatra, UK Arboretum Jr League Horse Show Heartbreakers Riverbend Cleopatra, UK Arboretum Jr League Horse Show Red Mile Jr League Horse Show () Jr League Horse Show Red Mile Red Mile Jr League Horse Show Red Mile Lebowski Fest Louisville Lebowski Fest Louisville 1314 15 16 17 18 19 Robert Plant & Alison SummerFest Antony and Jazz/Big Band Summer Movie Classics Thursday Night Live Krauss Rupp Arena SummerFest Lord of the Cleopatra, UK Arboretum (Ecton Park), Spartacus, Kentucky Theatre Chris Campbell Band, FreedomFest benefiting Flies, UK Arboretum Dan Brock & Friends Cheapside Park Woodford Humane Society SummerFest Lord of the SummerFest Lord of the SummerFest Lord of the Concours D’Elegance Steely Dan National City Flies, UK Arboretum Flies, UK Arboretum Flies, UK Arboretum Keeneland Pavilion (Cinci) Concours D’Elegance Concours D’Elegance Master Musicians Festival Keeneland Keeneland Somerset (Sat. and Sun.) 2021 22 23 24 25 26 SummerFest Lord of the Jazz/Big Band (Ecton Summer Movie Classics Thursday Night Live Forecastle Festival SummerFest Hair, UK Flies, UK Arboretum 5/3 Bank Tennis Tourney Park), David Hummel Octet Casablanca, Kentucky Theatre Better Off Dead, Louisville Arboretum Super Sunday SummerFest Hair, UK Arboretum Cheapside Park Dirt Bowl, Douglass Park 5/3 Bank Tennis Tourney 5/3 Bank Tennis Tourney SummerFest Hair, UK 5/3 Bank Tennis Tourney Concours D’Elegance SummerFest Hair, UK Arboretum Keeneland Steve Earle & Alison John Mellencamp Arboretum Moorer Series Kentucky Riverbend (Cinci) 5/3 Bank Tennis Tourney Theatre (Troubadour) 5/3 Bank Tennis Tourney 27 28 29 30 31

SummerFest Hair, UK Avril Lavigne w/ the Jonas Jazz/Big Band Summer Movie Classics Thursday Night Live Arboretum Brothers Riverbend (Cinci) (Ecton Park), Funny Face, Kentucky Theatre Alma Gitana, Colonels Choice Dixieland Cheapside Park 5/3 Bank Tennis Tourney Band Van’s Ballet Under the Stars Riverbend (Cincinnati) Woodland Park

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Cincinnati Blues Festival Cincinnati Blues Festival Sawyer Point Sawyer Point

Dave Matthews Band Kentucky Art Car Louisville Slugger Field Weekend Louisville David Allan Coe Annie’s (Cinci) 364 5 7 8 9 Ballet Under the Stars Jazz/Big Band Summer Movie Classics Thursday Night Live Woodland Park (Ecton Park), Swiss Family Robinson LexJam, Cheapside Park Rick Cook Quartet Kentucky Theatre

Black Crowes Madison Theatre (Covington) 1011 12 13 14 15 16 Jazz/Big Band Kentucky State Fair Woodland Art Fair (Ecton Park), Summer Movie Classics Thursday Night Live Louisville Woodland Park Jazzberry Jam The Magnificent Seven Greg Austin, (runs August 14-24) Midsummer Night’s Run Kentucky Theatre Cheapside Park downtown O.A.R. All Sides Now Tour Projekt Revolution 08 My Morning Jacket National City Pavilion (Cinci) Kid Rock/Lynard Skynard Riverbend (Cinci) Waterfront Park (Lville) Riverbend (Cinci) 1718 19 20 21 22 23

Woodland Arts Fair American Idols Live Rupp Jazz/Big Band Summer Movie Classics Thursday Night Live Picnic with the Pops Picnic with the Pops Woodland Park Arena (Ecton Park), The Story Blind Corn Liquor Pickers, Kentucky Horse Park Kentucky Horse Park Lexington Jazz Project Kentucky Theatre Cheapside Park Tour of Remodeled Homes Crue Fest Homebuilders Association Riverbend (Cinci) 2425 26 27 28 29 30 Summer Movie Classics Thursday Night Live Counting Crows, Tour of Remodeled Homes Regeneration Tour Jazz/Big Band The War of the Worlds Johnson Brothers, Lexington Chamber Maroon 5 Homebuilders Association Belinda Carlisle, Flock of (Ecton Park), Kentucky Theatre Cheapside Park Riverbend (Cinci) Seagulls, Human League. Men of Note Fasig-Tipton Pavilion National City Pavilion Lexington Chamber Lexington Chamber Music Lexington Chamber (Cinci) Music Festival Festival Music Festival Fasig-Tipton Pavilion Fasig-Tipton Pavilion Fasig-Tipton Pavilion 31

Nine Inch Nails Rupp Arena

Lexington Chamber Music Festival Fasig-Tipton Pavilion

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