OUR BEST BETS FOR THE MONTHS AHEAD SUMMER PLANNER SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY May 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 • St. Louis Renaissance Faire, • “Insidious,” Black • Spring to Dance, Touhill • Shakespeare Festival St. Louis’ • Lantern Festival, Missouri Wentzville, weekends through Rep, May 23-June 24 Performing Arts, May 24-26 “Othello,” May 25-June 17 Botanical Garden, May 26-Aug. 19 June 10 (starts May 19) • Chickenfoot, Fox Theatre • Bluesweek Festival, Soldiers • “Sweeney Todd,” Opera Theatre • “Carmen,” Opera Theatre Memorial, May 25-27 of St. Louis, May 26-June 24 of St. Louis, May 23-June 23 • Greek Fest, Assumption • Creed, The Pageant Greek Orthodox Church, • St. Louis African Arts Festival, Des Peres, May 25-28 Forest Park, May 26-28 27 28 MEMORIAL DAY 29 30 31 June 1 2 • Gypsy Caravan at University • Nickelback, Scottrade Center • Whitaker Music Festival: • Circus Flora, Grand • Art & Air, Webster Groves, June 1-3 • “Bond and Beyond: 50 Years of Missouri-St. Louis Marquise Knox, Missouri Center, May 31-June 24 • “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” Stages of 007,” Powell Symphony Hall Botanical Garden St. Louis, June 1-July 1 • IndiHop beer festival, the Grove • “High Fidelity,” New Line Theatre, June 1-23 • International Horseradish Festival, Collinsville, June 1-3 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 • “Cosi Fan Tutte,” Opera Theatre • The Shins, The Pageant • Sting, Fox Theatre • Twangfest, Blueberry Hill and • Childish Gambino, The Pageant • Flogging Molly, The Pageant • Super Jam, Verizon of St. Louis, June 3-June 22 Schlafly Tap Room, June 6-9 • Jungle Boogie: Johnny Wireless Amphitheater • Blues in Benton • Whitaker Music Festival: Vince Henry Band, St. Louis Zoo • Fun., The Pageant Park, Benton Park Martin, Missouri Botanical Garden • Innsbrook Institute Music • “Sounds of New Orleans: A • Urban Assault Ride, Forest Park • SIUE Xfest 3.0, SIU- Festival, Innsbrook, June 8-16 Tribute to Louis Armstrong,” Edwardsville, June 6-9 Powell Symphony Hall 10 11 12 13 14 Flag DAY 15 16 • St. Louis Jewish Film • Santigold, The Pageant • “Alice in Wonderland,” Opera • Pulitzer Contemporary Music • Wynonna Judd, Powell • Miranda Lambert, Verizon Festival, Landmark Plaza • “One Flew Over the Theatre of St. Louis, June 13-23 Festival, Pulitzer Foundation Symphony Hall Wireless Amphitheater Frontenac Cinema, June 10-14 Cuckoo’s Nest,” St. Louis • Parties in the Park: Pop ’N for the Arts, June 14-17 • St. Louis Brewers • Alice Cooper, The Pageant Actors’ Studio, June 12-17 Rocket, Billyo O’Donnell, Clayton • “And the World Goes Round,” Heritage Festival, Ballpark • Whitaker Music Festival: Miss Insight Theatre, June 14-17, 21-24 Village, June 15-17 Jubilee and the Humdingers, Missouri Botanical Garden 17 FathER’S DAY 18 19 20 SUMMER BEGINS 21 22 23 • Father’s Day Car Show, • “Thoroughly Modern • Cirque du Soleil presents Qui- • The St. Lou Fringe, Locust • REO Speedwagon, Styx • Komen Race for the Museum of Transportation Millie,” The Muny, June 18-24 dam, Chaifetz Arena, June 20-24 Business District and Grand & Ted Nugent, Verizon Cure, downtown • Idina Menzel, Peabody • The Dukes of September, Center, June 21-25 • Classical Mystery Tour: • PrideFest, Tower Grove Opera House Fox Theatre • Riverside Shakespeare A Tribute to the Beatles, Park, June 23-24 • Whitaker Music Festival: Theatre, Frontier Park in Powell Symphony Hall The Rockhouse Ramblers, St. Charles, June 21-23 • Jungle Boogie: Funky Butt Missouri Botanical Garden Brass Band, St. Louis Zoo 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 • Gavin DeGraw and Colbie • “Chicago,” The Muny, • Whitaker Music Festival: • Lady Antebellum, Verizon Caillat, Peabody Opera House June 25-July 1 Hamiet Bluiett, Missouri • Big Muddy Dance Co., Touhill • PrideFest parade, Botanical Garden Performing Arts Center, June 29-30 South Grand Avenue • Jungle Boogie: Charles Glenn, St. Louis Zoo • “Un Ballo in Maschera,” Union Avenue Opera, June 29-30, July 6-7 July 1 2 3 4 INDEPENDENCE DAY 5 6 7 • Compton Heights Concert • Heritage & Freedom Fest, Ozzie • Fair St. Louis: Heart, • Vans Warped Tour, Verizon • Fair St. Louis: Third Eye • Fair St. Louis: Dierks Bentley, Band, Francis Park Smith Sports Complex, July 2-4 Gateway Arch Grounds Wireless Amphitheater Blind, Gateway Arch Grounds Gateway Arch Grounds • Webster Groves • Compton Heights Concert • Veiled Prophet • Disney’s “Aladdin,” • Jungle Boogie: SuperJam, • Big Time Rush, Cody Simpson Community Days, July 1-4 Band, Tower Grove Park Parade, downtown The Muny, July 5-13 St. Louis Zoo and Rachel Crow, Verizon • St. Charles Riverfest Wireless Amphitheater • Ferguson Family Fun Festival • Uncle Sam’s Throwdown, Benton Park 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 • World’s Largest Catsup • Compton Heights Concert • 311 & Slightly Stoopid, Verizon • Dave Matthews Band, Verizon • Celebrate St. Louis: Neon • Tour de Donut, Staunton, Ill. Bottle Festival, Collinsville Band, Tower Grove Park Wireless Amphitheater Wireless Amphitheater Trees, Soldiers Memorial • Celebrate St. Louis: • Compton Heights Concert • American Idol Live!, • Jungle Boogie: Push the Michael Franti and Spearhead, Band, Francis Park Scottrade Center Limit, St. Louis Zoo Soldiers Memorial • The Jacksons, Fox Theatre • Let Them Eat Art, • Fiona Apple, Peabody • Parties in the Park: My Downtown Maplewood Opera House Friend Mike, R.J. Shay, Clayton • El Monstero, Verizon 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 • Compton Heights Concert • Ingrid Michaelson, The Pageant • Whitaker Music Festival: Teresa • O.A.R., Fox Theatre • James Taylor, Fox Theatre • Celebrate St. Louis: Band, Francis Park • Compton Heights Concert Jenee, Missouri Botanical Garden • Jefferson County Fair, July 19-22 • Celebrate St. Louis: The Nelly, Soldiers Memorial Band, Tower Grove Park Offspring, Soldiers Memorial • “Dreamgirls,” The Muny, • Mayhem Festival, Verizon July 16-22 • “Coriolanus,” St. Louis Shake- speare, Grandel Theatre, July 20-29 • “The Sound of Music,” Stages St. Louis, July 20-Aug. 19 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 • Compton Heights Concert • Tenacious D, The Pageant • Whitaker Music Festival: • Steve Harvey, Chaifetz Arena • All That Tap XXI, Touhill Band, Francis Park • Compton Heights Concert Aaron Kamm and the One Drops, • Jungle Boogie: Marsha Performing Arts Center • Monroe County Fair, Monroe Band, Tower Grove Park Missouri Botanical Garden Evans, St. Louis Zoo • World Naked Bike County Fairground, July 22-29 • “Joseph and the Amazing • Rascal Flatts, Verizon Ride-St. Louis Technicolor Dreamcoat,” Wireless Amphitheater The Muny, July 23-29 29 30 31 Aug. 1 2 3 4 • Train, Peabody Opera House • Compton Heights Concert • Nicki Minaj, Peabody • Washington Town & • Crosby, Stills & Nash, • Jungle Boogie: American • Compton Heights Concert Band, Tower Grove Park Opera House Country Fair, Aug. 1-5 Fox Theatre Idle, St. Louis Zoo Band, Francis Park • “Pirates! (Or, Gilbert & • Seal, Fox Theatre • Zac Brown Band, Verizon Sullivan Plunder’d),” The Wireless Amphitheater Muny, July 30-Aug. 5 • “The Great American Trailer Park Musical,” Stray Dog Theatre, Aug. 1-17 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 • Compton Heights Concert • Compton Heights Concert • National Night Out • My Morning Jacket, • Missouri State Fair, • Jungle Boogie: Cumberland Band, Francis Park Band, Tower Grove Park Party, Benton Park Peabody Opera House Sedalia, Aug. 9-19 Gap Band, St. Louis Zoo • “The King and I,” The • Parties in the Park: • Illinois State Fair, • “The Compleat Wks of Muny, Aug. 6-12 Concoction, Lisa Ober, Clayton Springfield, Ill., Aug. 9-19 Willm Shksper (Abridged),” St. Louis Shakespeare, Grandel Theatre, Aug. 10-19 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 • Il Volo, Peabody Opera House • Il Divo, Peabody Opera House • Sublime with Rome, Verizon • Festival of the Little Hills, • The Chris Robinson • “The Lion King,” Fox Wireless Amphitheater Frontier Park, Aug. 17-19 Brotherhood, The Pageant Theatre, Aug. 15-Sept. 2 • “Das Rheingold,” Union Avenue Opera, Aug. 17-18, 24-25 • Jungle Boogie: Griffin & the Gargoyles, St. Louis Zoo 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 • Downtown Restaurant • “The Violet Hour,” • DuQuoin State Fair, • Festival of Nations, Tower Week, Aug. 20-26 COCA, Aug. 23-Sept. 2 DuQuoin, Ill., Aug. 24-Sept. 3 Grove Park, Aug. 25-26 • Jungle Boogie: GalaxyRed, • LouFest, Forest Park, Aug. 25-26 St. Louis Zoo • Lyle Lovett, Peabody Opera House • Def Leppard & Poison, Chaifetz Arena 26 27 28 29 30 31 Sept. 1 LABOR DAY WEEKEND • KISS and Mötley Crüe, Verizon • Phish, Chaifetz Arena • St. Nicholas Greek Festival, St. • Japanese Festival, Missouri Wireless Amphitheater Nicholas Church, Aug. 31-Sept. 2 Botanical Garden, Sept. 1-3 • Jungle Boogie: Dirty • Big Muddy Blues Muggs, St. Louis Zoo Festival, Sept. 1-2 • KSHE-95 Pig Roast with Boston, Kansas, April Wine and Jonathan Tyler & Northern Lights, Verizon.