Z2 Entertainment and 97.3 KBCO are proud to welcome acclaimed singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams & Her Band to Chautauqua Auditorium on Saturday, July 19, 2025. Renowned for her masterful songwriting, distinctive vocals, and resilience in the face of adversity, Williams returns to the stage following her critically lauded sixteenth studio album, Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart, and the release of her new memoir, Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You.

As part of a week-long, city-wide celebration of Country Music Hall of Fame member Bobby Bare, The Basement East will play host to An Americana Salute to Bobby Bare on his 90th birthday, April 7 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available now here: https://ffm.link/bobbybare90.OPR

Get ready for three unforgettable days of rock 'n' roll as the Azkena Rock Festival returns to Mendizabala in Vitoria-Gasteiz from June 19 to June 21, 2025. Celebrating its 23rd edition, the festival promises an unparalleled lineup of legendary artists and thrilling new additions.

Headlining the festival each night are iconic acts:

Thursday, June 19: Dinosaur Jr (performing their album 'Without A Sound') and punk legends The Damned.

Willie Nelson, Mark Rothbaum, Keith Wortman, Blackbird Presents and Live Nation are thrilled to announce the Outlaw Music Festival 10th Anniversary Tour.

Three-time Grammy Award winner Lucinda Williams has announced a September co-headlining tour with celebrated guitarist and songwriter Mike Campbell (Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Fleetwood Mac) and his band The Dirty Knobs. The tour will kick off on September 10th in Midland TX, followed by stops in the Western U.S that include Austin, TX; Salt Lake City, UT; Las Vegas, NV; Oakland, CA and Los Angeles, CA before wrapping up in Del Mar, CA on September 29th. See full list of dates below.

Stevie Van Zandt’s Renegade Circus and Sixthman, the leader in festivals and music cruises for more than two decades, have announced Outlaw Country Cruise 9, sailing February 22-28, 2025 from Miami, FL to Nassau, Bahamas and St. Thomas (USVI) aboard Norwegian Gem. First Round Pre-sale Signups are available now through March 10 at 11:59 pm (ET). Final Round Pre-sale Signups will conclude March 13 at 11:59 pm (ET).

Amos Lee has shared a soulful and ​​buoyant reimagining of Lucinda Williams’ “Fruits of My Labor” off her GRAMMY-nominated album World Without Tears, the second advance track from his forthcoming tribute record, Honeysuckle Switches (The Songs of Lucinda Williams), out for RSD Black Friday (November 24) via Thirty Tigers. Lee offers a rhythmic acoustic take on the track from his “songwriting hero” layered with powerful vocals, dynamic harmonies, twangy slide guitar, and upright bass.

This year, after four years and 60 million dollars of renovation, the 2023 Beale Street Festival reopened in Tom Lee Park along the riverside in downtown Memphis Tennessee. At the height of Beale Street's popularity in 2017, the event saw 37,000 fans crowd the park. Attendance numbers this year were smaller and saner, with crowds of around 10,000 daily. This was in part a deliberate effort to keep the newly planted park-plants from being trampled into oblivion.

Stevie Van Zandt’s Renegade Circus and Sixthman, the leader in festivals and music cruises for more than two decades, have announced Outlaw Country Cruise 8, sailing February 4-10, 2024 from Miami, FL to Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic and San Juan, Puerto Rico aboard Norwegian Pearl for six nights of music and adventure on the Caribbean Sea.

Beach Road Weekend has released the schedule for the 2022 Festival featuring performances by more than two dozen artists including Beck, Wilco, The Avett Brothers, and Billy Strings. The festival takes place August 26-28, 2022 at Veteran's Memorial Park in Vineyard Haven, Ma.