*CYNDI LAUPER will be returning by popular demand to The Grand Pequot Ballroom at Foxwoods Casino on Sunday, August 6. Tickets for this show are $38.50 and $49.50 apiece and will be going on sale Monday, June 7, at 8 am. Tickets can be charged through the ballroom’s box office, 800-200-2882, and through any tickets.com vendor.

*Also on sale this weekend (Friday morning, actually) are tickets for BRYAN ADAMS, who has been touring fairly steadily all year – between playing surprise gigs, having one of his photographs of the Queen turned into a Canada Post Stamp, rewriting the TSN’s Wednesday Night Hockey theme song “We’re Gonna Win,” appearing in a British Vogue spread with the model Sophie Dahl, working on a Calvin Klein book project and traveling to Munich last August to accept the David McTaggart Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Nature Festival (for his dedication towards saving whales).

Adams will be headlining at the careerbuilder.com Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford on Tuesday, August 10. Tickets are $29, $39 and $49 each and will be available from the Oakdale’s box office in person or by calling 203-265-1501, or through any tickets.com vendor.

*Tickets are still available for this weekend’s BOB DYLAN concert at Mohegan Sun Arena. The show is Saturday at 7:30. As of Wednesday morning only the upper level $35 seats were available, and very sporadically – tickets.com was reporting that single seats were available.

*DIZZY REED of Guns N’ Roses will be headlining this weekend at The Webster Theatre in Hartford. Personally I think we can probably say “of the former band GNR” at this point because really, if this band ever manages to put out another studio album of all original material and tour to support it, it will be a miracle.

Reed’s show is Sunday, June 6, with Dead Legend, Phoenix Down, Push, ADD and Reformed Youth

JOEY BELLADONNA from Anthrax will be playing a solo show on Thursday, June 10, along with Outrage, Roadhorse, Revelaria, Catalyst and Reflections of Ruin.

Next weekend the club will be hosting KOTTONMOUTH KINGS and OPM on Sunday, June 13, and then a return by PUDDLE OF MUDD on Monday, June 14.

Tickets for all of these shows are available through tickets.com or by calling the club’s box office at 860-525-5553.

*This weekend at Toad’s Place in New Haven in an all ages affair by PATTI SMITH & HER BAND. Showtime for Saturday’s show, which will be all Patti all night (plus band), is officially 9, which means at least 10.

*The EDWIN McCAIN show scheduled for June 9 at Toad’s Place has been rescheduled for August 18. Please make a mental note of this before heading into New Haven next week, and let anyone you know who has tickets know about this change.

*Still speaking of Toad’s Place, the club recently added three shows featuring fabulous females: RICKIE LEE JONES, June 17 (all ages, tickets $25); COURTNEY LOVE, June 18 (all ages; tickets $18.50 in advance, $20 at the door); and AIMEE MANN, June 27 (also all ages; tickets $25).

Until next week I’ll be seeing you… on the road.

Questions and comments should be sent to Shannon Hicks c/o The Newtown Bee, 5 Church Hill Road, Newtown, CT 06470, or shannon@thebee.com, or call the office at 426-3141.

Shows listed at club locations are for ages 21 and over unless specified.

UPCOMING CONCERTS

JUNE 4 — Dick Dale at Toad’s Place, New Haven, Christine Ohlman, The Vultures and 9th Wave opening;

June 5 — Bob Dylan at Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville; Blink 182 at the Meadows Music Theatre, Hartford, The Used and Taking Back Sunday opening; An Evening with Patti Smith & Her Band at Toad’s Place (all ages); Shinedown at The Webster Theatre, Hartford; Screaming Broccoli at Tuxedo Junction, Danbury;

June 6 — Dizzy Reed at The Webster Theatre, Dead Legend, Phoenix Down, Push, ADD and Reformed Youth opening (all ages);

June 7 — Vast at Toad’s Place, Aphasia opening (all ages);

June 8 — Fleetwood Mac at The Meadows Music Theatre;

June 9 — Zebrahead and Lola Ray at The Webster Theatre (all ages);

June 10 — Joey Belladonna (of Anthrax) at The Webster Theatre, Outrage, Roadhorse, Revelaria, et al opening (all ages);

June 11 — Hootie & The Blowfish at Foxwoods’ Fox Theatre, Ledyard; Ghostface Killah at Toad’s Place (all ages); Three Days Grace at The Webster Theatre, Thornley opening; Deep Banana Blackout at Tuxedo Junction;

June 12 — The Unforgettable Fire at Toad’s Place; Fallout Boy at The Webster Theatre, Anberlin, Don’t Look Down and Punchline opening; The Zoo at Tuxedo Junction;

June 13 — Sevendust at Toad’s Place (all ages); Kottonmouth Kings and OPM at The Webster Theatre, Scarebears and Dub Massive opening (all ages);

June 14 — Puddle of Mudd at The Webster Theatre (all ages); Rooney at Toad’s Place, Staylight Run and Ozma opening (all ages);

June 15 — Reel Big Fish at Toad’s Place, Big D & The Kids Table, Lucky Boys Confusion, RX Bandits and Catch 22 opening (all ages);

June 16 — Richard Thompson Band at Toad’s Place, Danya Kurtz opening (all ages); Smile Empty Soul, Steriogram and Moments in Grace at The Webster Theatre;

June 17 — An Evening with Rickie Lee Jones at Toad’s Place (all ages); Jessica Simpson at Mohegan Sun Arena; Jennifer Hartswick Band at The Webster Theatre, (featuring members of The Trey Anastasio Band, Rane, Scarecrow Collection, et al);

June 18 — Melissa Etheridge at Ives Concert Park, Danbury, Kate Clinton opening; Courtney Love at Toad’s Place (all ages); John Valby at Tuxedo Junction;

June 19 — Badfish at Toad’s Place, BigEd, SMFK and Social Hero opening (all ages); Motograder and 40 Below Summer at The Webster Theatre; Darik & The Funbags at Tuxedo Junction;

June 22 — Burning Spear at Toad’s Place (all ages), Anthem opening;

June 23 — Moody Blues at Mohegan Sun Arena;

June 25 — Little Feat at Toad’s Place; Tim McGraw at Meadows Music Theatre; Dickey Betts & Great Southern at The Webster Theatre, Cosmos and Jonny Law opening; Three Dog Night at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den (also June 26);

June 26 — Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire at The Meadows; Three Dog Night at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den; School’s Out For Summer Extravaganza featuring Gargantua Soul at Toad’s Place, Base 2, Sick Ticket, Beeners Revenge and Cade opening (all ages); The Benjamins at Tuxedo Junction;

June 27 — Little River Band at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den; Aimee Mann at Toad’s Place, Paul Bryan opening (all ages); Believer-Fest at The Webster Theatre featuring Believer, Killing Jar and Vicious Disorder (all ages, door open 3 pm);

June 28 — Van Halen at Hartford Civic Center.