August 19 — Old School at Proud Mary’s; Colin Hay at Infinity Music Hall; Tusk at CityCenter Green; Blu Gruve at The Georgetown Saloon; The Adults at The Cookhouse, New Milford

August 20 — Pitbull at The MGM Grand at Foxwoods; The Waldogs at Proud Mary’s; The Nighthawks at Infinity Music Hall; Roxy Perry at CityCenter Green; Dan Lipsitz Group at The Georgetown Saloon; Jeffrey Gaines at Acoustic Cafe, Bridgeport; Marshall Tucker Band at Milford Oyster Fest;  The Wood Bros at Levitt Pavilion, Westport; Country Music Under the Stars feat Goldrush, Jim Allyn and String Fingers at Ives Concert Park, Danbury

August 23 — The Tubes featuring Fee Waybill at Infinity Music Hall; The Spin Doctors at The MGM Grand at Foxwoods; CHIRP at Ballard Park, Ridgefield

August 24 — Donny Osmond at Toyota Presents Oakdale Theatre, Wallingford; Joe Pernice at Bar, New Haven

August 25 — Newtown Allstars with special guests Tanya Parker and Jolie at Dickinson Park; The Adults at The One-Eyed Pig (hosting open mic night); ZZ Top at Ives Concert Park; Journey at The Comcast Theatre, with Foreigner and Night Ranger; CHIRP feat the Claire Lynch Band at Ballard Park, Ridgefield; Pentimento at the Heirloom Arts Theatre, Danbury

August 26 — ZZ Top at The MGM Grand at Foxwoods; Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers and Bela Fleck & The Flecktones at SummerWind Performing Arts Center, Windsor, Jaimoe’s Jassz Band opening; Aztec Two-Step and Pete Fornatale at Infinity Music Hall (performing The Simon & Garfunkel Songbook); Mark Barden & Alternate Universe at Proud Mary’s; The Adults at Greenwoods Grille & Ale House, Bethel; Limelight at CityCenter Green; The Motherboards at The Georgetown Saloon; Dead by Wednesday at Toad’s Place, New Haven

August 27 — Willie Nininger at Proud Mary’s; John Sebastian at Infinity Music Hall; 3rd Annual Are You Dense MusicFest at Quassy Amusement Park, Middlebury, featuring Marion Meadows, Major Motion, The Devino Bros Ol Skool Horn Band, et al; Civil Twilight at Levitt Pavilion, Westport; Kenny Wayne Shepherd at Ridgefield Playhouse

August 28 — Liz McNicholl & The Crickstones at McLaughlin Vineyards; Sister Hazel w The Alternate Roots at Farmington Country Club;

August 30 — Cute Lepers at Cafe Nine, New Haven

September 1 — Honey Island Swamp Band at StageOne, Fairfield

September 2 — Buckethead at Toad’s Place, New Haven

September 4 — Mitisyahu at Toad’s Place, New Haven

September 6 — Brett Michaels at Ridgefield Playhouse

September 8 — They Might Be Giants at Toad’s Place, New Haven; Ingram Hill at StageOne, Fairfield

September 9 — Gin Blossoms at Indian Ledge Park, Trumbull; CT Folk Festival at Edgerton Park, New Haven; Tedeschi Trucks Band at Ridgefield Playhouse

September 10 — CT Folk Festival at Edgerton Park, New Haven; New Riders of the Purple Sage at StageOne, Fairfield;

September 11 — Donna the Buffalo at Toad’s Place, New Haven; Uproar Festival feat. Avenged Sevenfold, Three Days Grace, Seether, Sevendust plus five added acts at Comcast Theatre, Hartford