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SUMMER FESTIVALS Duo. Aug. 7, Brothers and Friends with Charles Ketter. Aug. 14, AI Arsenautt with Tom Hebert and Mason Sheehan.

Aug. 21, Kristine Key. Aug. 28, Emit Haddad and Dickie Odgren. "Wednesday Folk Traditions" Sunken Garden, Porter-Phelps-Huntington House, 130 River Drive, Had-ley.

Rain location: North Hadley Congregational Church, Route 47, North Hadley Center. Telephone 413-584-4699. Wednesday, 7 p.m. Tickets $3, children under 12 $1. Picnics welcome, 5-7 p.m.

June 17, Boyer Brothers. June 21, Judy Polan. July 1, Young at Heart Chorus. July 8, Cindy Kallett. July 15, Julius Lester.

At tho Pillow Jacob's Pillow, George Carter Road, off Route 20, Becket, Mass. Telephone 413-243-0745. Jazz at the Pillow, telephone 876-7777 (in Boston) Concerts at 3 p.m., unless otherwise noted. Tickets $13.50, unless otherwise noted. July 5, 3 and 8 p.m., Dave Brubeck Quartet, Brubeck-LaVerne Trio.

$14.50. July 19, New Black Eagle Jazz Band. July 26, Ahmad Jamal. Aug. 9, Herbie Mann with Rebecca Parris and RPQ.

Aug. 23, Milt Jackson Quartet. New Music Series: Free. Concerts at 6:30 on Inside-Out Stage: July 7, Bo-Sho, electric fusion. July 8, Danny Mydlack, performance artist.

July 9-10, Sussan Deihim, singer and dancer Richard Horowitz, North African flute synthesizer. Special event: Aug 2. 3 p.m Kronos Quartet, $15. Pickln' In the Plnea Bluegrass Day Pines Theater, Johnson. Aug.

21, Maple Sugar Band, Bill Staines. Aug. 28, Moonbeams, Aztec Two-Step. Sunday Sunset Concert: 7 p.m. June 14, Mike Metheny Quartet.

June 21, UNH Woodwind Quintet June 28, Franco-American Heritage Concert with Lucie Therrien. July 5, Seacoast Big Band. July 12. Dave Seiler. Herb Pomeroy Quartet.

July 12, Seacoast Concert Band. July 26, Barbara London Quartet. Aug. 2, Billy Novick-Guy Van Duser. Aug.

9, Kitchen Sink Mime. Aug. 16, Cormac McCarthy and Ed Gerhard. Aug. 23, Easy Living.

Aug. 30, Peggosus. Brown Bag Performances: p.m. June 24, Rick Watson. July 1, Ed Chaloux and Lou Grondin.

July 8, Future Tense. July 15, Harvey Reid. July 22, Linda Schrade. July 29, B.J. Hickman (magic).

Aug. 5, Mike Hasem Dixie. Aug. 12, Susie Burke. Aug.

19, Lex and Joe. Aug. 26, Cosy Sheridan. Guess Who's Coming to Dover: July 14, "Little Red Wagon." puppets, stories, music for all ages. July 28, "Potpourri," theater and song variety show.

Aug. 27, 7 p.m., UNH Jazz Band. Club Casino 169 Ocean Hampton, N.H. Telephone 603-926-4300, Teletron 800-382-8080. All shows 9 p.m., unless otherwise noted.

Tickets depending on show. Minimum age: 18 with proper ID or accompanied by adult, unless otherwise noted. June 12. Max Creek with Jorma Kaukonen. June 19.

The Guess Who with Buffalo Springfield. June 17 I Modern Jazz Quartet Great Woods CRITICS CHOICE: JAZZ 20, Johnny Winter with Roy Buchanan. June 2 1 Dana Carver and Professor Irwin Corey. June 25-26. Rock Trek I featuring John Kay and Steppenwolf with Alvin Lee and Roger McGuinn.

June 27, Howie Mandell, June 28, Roseanne Barr and Louis Anderson. June 30, Jack Wagner. July 1, Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam. July 2, Kris Kristolferson. July 3.

Suzanne Vega. July 5, The Stompers. July 8. Sha Na Na. July 9, Gene Pitney.

July 10, Roger Miller and Rita Coolidge. July 12, 7 and 10 p.m.. Jay Leno. July 14, Marshall Tucker Band and the Outlaws. July 15-16, Air Supply.

July 17, Nazareth, The Fools. July 18, Buddy Hackett. July 19, 7 and 10 p.m., Everly Brothers. July 21, Larry Gatlin, Nanci Griffith. July 22 at 9 p.m..

July 23 at 7 and 9 Wayne Newton. July 24. Mickey Gilley. July 25. Do-Wop Revival featuring Hank Ballard and the Midnights, The Del Vikings.

July 27-28, Eddie Money. July 29-30, Fats Domino. July 31, 7 and 10 p.m., Waylon Jennings. Aug. 1, Southside Johnny.

Aug. 2, 5 p.m. (all ages show) and Aug. 2, 9 p.m., Harry Blackstone Jr. Aug.

4, Bonnie Raitt and The Hot Band. Aug. 6-8, Righteous Brothers and Ben E. King. Aug.

9, Survivor. Aug. 10, 5 p.m. (all ages) and 9 p.m.. Weird AI Yankovich.

Aug. 12, Classic Superfest with Flo and Eddie from the Turtles, The Grass Roots and Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Aug. 13, The Del Fuegos. Aug.

14, Paul Anka. Aug. 15-16, George Carlin. Aug. 21, Emmylou Harris.

Aug. 22, 7 and 9 p.m., Joan Rivers. Aug. 25, Miami Sound Machine. Aug.

26-29, Roy Orbison with Buddy Holly's Crickets. Aug. 30, Bobby Rydell, Chubby Checker and Fabian. Sept. 4.

Marie Osmond. Sept. 5. B.B. King with Roomful of Blues.

Sept. 6, The Stompers. The Maine Festival Deering Oaks Park, off Forest Avenue, Portland, Maine. Telephone 207-772-9012. Aug.

21-23. noon-8 p.m., plus evening concerts. Festival tickets $7, seniors and children 6-12 $3, under 6 free. Festival Stage: performers include Orange Then Blue, City Spirit, Astor Piazzolla Nuevo Tango, Wasabi Daiko Drummers, Nisht Geferlach Klezmer Orchestra, Barrence Whitfield and the Savages, Memphis Rockabilly Band, Treat Her Right. Folk Arts Stage: performers include Passamaquoddy Indians, Jim Roy and Down-east Fiddlers, Billy McComisky and Files Lossier, Banjo Jamboree.

Current Events Area, works commissioned for the festival including six interdisciplinary arts performances, five dance works and three sculptures. Cafe Stage: readings by Maine Vietnam veterans, performances by Aztec Two-Step, Peter Galway, Andean Pan Pipers. Plus children's area with mimes, puppets, storytelling; exhibit and sale of contemporary Maine crafts. Evening concerts: at 8 p.m. in City Hall, 389 Congress St.

Tickets $13, elders and children $8 (includes festival admission). Aug. 21, Randy Newman. Aug. 22, Flying Karamazov Brothers.

Aug. 23, Bo Diddley, Commander Ebenezer Obey and His Inter Reformers Juju Orchestra. Portland Performing Arts Center 25A Forest Portland, Maine. Telephone 207-761-0591 or Box Office 207-774-0465. All performances at 8 p.m.

Tickets $9 and $12. June 13, Jim Kweskin, The Moose-tones. June 19, Larry Coryell. June 20, Dirty Dozen Brass Band. June 27, Bob Brozman the Blue Hula1 Stomper, Jones and Boyce.

July 17, Fiddle Fever. July 18, Talking Drums West African Music and Dance Ensemble. July 24, John Zorn. July 25, Terrance Simien and the Mallet Playboys, Ben Guillemette Ensemble. July 31, Peter Ostroushko and Mando Boys, Howitzers Mandolin Orchestra.

Aug. 2, Maria Muldaur. Aug. 4, Kronos Quartet. Aug.

7, The Bobs. Aug. 14, Johnny Copeland. Aug. 15.

Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, They Might Be Giants. Newport Folk Festival Fort Adams State Park, Newport. R.I. Telephone 401-847-3709. Aug.

8-9. feature the Dave Brubeck Quartet, July New Black Eagle Jazz Band, July 19; Ahmad Jamal Trio, July 26; Milt Jackson guartet, with Rebecca Parris and Eddie Higgins. Aug. 23. Call 413-243-2317.

Carlsberg Music at the Marketplace, devoting the month of July to free jazz concerts at Faneuil Hall, will present the Semenya McCord guintet, George Garzone guartet, the Alan Dawson guartet and Rebecca Parris and RPg. The base of Mt. Tecumseh Ski Area will be a picturesque bandstand for the third annual Waterville Valley (N.H.) Festival of the Arts where jazz will be represented by Spyro Gyra, July 10; Preservation Hall Jazz Band, July 24; Dizzy Gillespie, July 31; and Paul Winter Consort, Aug. 1. Call 603-236-4161.

One of the highlights of the 15th annual Castle Hill Festival In Ipswich will be the Jazz Ball on July 17-18. Appearing amid the botany beautiful in the Crane Estate's Italian Garden will be the James Dapogny Jazz Band with vocalist Carol Leigh, playing traditional jazz for listening and dancing under the stars. Phone 356-7774. The DeCordova Museum Summer Concerts In Lincoln will provide an attractive jazz menu with the Dave Brubeck guartet and the Brubeck-Laverne Trio, June 28; Betty Carter, July Sonny Rollins, July 26; Ran Blake guartet and Aardvark, Aug. 16; Gary BurtonRalph Towner, Aug.

23; and Klezmer Conservatory Band, Sept. 6. All shows at 3 p.m. Call 259-8355. The Cabaret Jazzboat will sail every Friday from June 19 through Sept.

4 from Long Wharf with the exception of July 17 when it will originate from Commonwealth Pier. The musical manifest lists such bands as The New Black Eagle Jazz Band, the Paramount Jazz Band, Eight to the Bar, Rltz and many more. Sailings at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Call Ernie Santosuosso Route 9, Northampton, lelephone 4l3-b4S-bb40. June 20, noon-8 m.

Tickets $7, elders $5, under 12 free with adult. Performers: Traver Hollow, Adirondack, Bear Acker and Billings Gap, Smokey Greene and the Boys, Bill Hall and Northwind. Provlncetown Playhouse Muse Series Universalis! Meeting House. 220 Commercial Provincetown. Telephone 487-0955.

Concerts at 8.30 p.m.Tickets $10, seven concerts $55. Aug. 5, Odetta. Aug. 12, Tom Paxton.

Aug. 19, Holly Near. Aug. 22. Brass Ring.

Aug. 24. Ruby Braff and Dick Hyman. Aug. 30, Rebecca Parris and Ed Higgins.

Framingham State College Summer Breeze Concert Series McCarthy College Center, 100 State Framingham. Telephone 626-4512. All concerts begin at 7 p.m. Admisson free. June 25, Stan McDonald and Blue Horizon Jazz Band.

July 9. Pops Jazz Ensemble featuring Bob Winter. July 16. Maria-Maria. July 23, Vin Mitchell Band.

July 30, Herb Pomeroy Jazz Quintet. Aug. 6, Dick Johnson and Swing Shift. Hammond Castle Museum 80 Hesperus Gloucester. Telephone 283-7673.

June 19, July 4, Aug. 21, 8 p.m., Reggae at the Castle with Jah Spirit Band. Tickets $10. Aug. 1, 8:30 p.m., Music of Gershwin.

$7. Aug. 7, 8:30 p.m., Herb Pomeroy Jazz Quintet. $8. Aug.

29, 8:30 p.m.. Music of Scott Joplin. $7. Boston Jazz Society Festival Curry College, 1071 Blue Hill Milton. Telephone 445-2811, 442-7257.

Aug. 9, 1-7 p.m. Admission $20. Houston Person's Group featuring Etta Jones and Kenny Burrell. Tanglewood Lenox, Mass.

Telephone 266-1492, after June 27, 413-637-1700. Concerts at 7:30 p.m.. grounds open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets $15.50 and $18.50. Available at box office, Ticketmaster.

June 27, John Denver. Juty 15. The Moody Blues. July 27. The Beach Boys.

Beaverbrook Bluegrass Festival Harvard Sportsmen's Club, off Whitcomb Avenue, Boxborough. Telephone 871-8020. Aug. 8-9. Saturday noon-11 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m.

-6 p.m. Tickets: Saturday $9, after 6 p.m. Sunday $8. Performing both days: Don Stover, Green Mountain Bluegrass, White Mountain Blue-grass, Bluegrass Supply Company, Yodeling Slim Clark and Adirondack. Saturday: Smokey Greene and Black Stone Valley Ramblers.

Sunday: Sam Tidwell. Indian Ranch Route 16, Webster, Mass. Telephone 943-3871. Shows at 2 and 5 p.m. Tickets in June and July 4, July 5-Aug.

30, Sept. 6, $10; Sept. 7, children under 12 always $1. June 14, Ferlin Husky Show. June 21, Big AI Downing.

June 28, Kitty Wells Family Show. July 4, Jack D' Johns. July 5, Marie Osmond. July 12, Mel Tillis. July 26, Mickey Gilley.

Aug. 2. Tammy Wynette. Aug. 9, Jerry Lee Lewis.

Aug. 16, Tanya Tucker. Aug. 23, Ricky Skaggs. Aug.

30, Lee Greenwood. Sept. 6, Shelly West and Faron Young Show. Sept. 7, Muscular Dystrophy Jamboree.

Sunset Swing Jazz Series Veteran's Memorial Park. Manchester. N.H. Teleohone 603-627-8028. Concerts at 6:30 p.m.

Rain location: JFK Coliseum. Tickets $8 and $9 in advance; $10. $9 and $6 day of show. Available In Manchester at Center of New Hampshire, and Moreau's Hardware Store. Ticketron and Teletron (800-382-8080) June 25, Dave Brubeck.

July 9, Mel Torme. July 16, Lionel Hampton. July 23, Nanette Fabray and Nelson Riddle Orchestra. Aug. 6, Maynard Ferguson.

Aug. 20, The Crusaders. Portsmouth Jazz Festival Ceres Street, Portsmouth, N.H. Telephone 603-436-7678. June 28, noon-8 p.m.

Admission $10. Stage One: 1 p.m., T.J. Wheeler and the Smokers with Jelly Belly; 3 p.m., Memorial Bridge Allstars; 5 p.m.. White Heat Swing Orchestra; 7 p.m., Tiger's Baku, 7 p.m. Stage Two: noon, Seacoast Big Band with Paul Broadnax; 2 p.m, Bert Seager Jazz Quintet; 4 p.m., Boogaloo Swamis; 6 p.m., Luther (Guitar Junior) Johnson.

Waterville Valley Festival of the Arts Waterville Valley, N.H. Telephone 603-236-4161. All events at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Tickets $5 16, depending on show.

July 10, Spyro Gyro. July 11, 2 p.m., Rosenshontz, Beverly Rush (Club 47). July 11, Tom flush (Club 47) July 1 7, Appalachian Festival featuring David Holt, the Fiddle Puppet Cloggers, and Seldom Scene. July 18, Chet Atkins. July 18.

2 p.m., Appalachian Festival for Kids. July 24, Preservation Hall Jazz Band. July 25, Henry Gray Blues Band. July 31, Dizzy Gillespie. Aug.

1, Paul Winter Consort. Aug. 2. Lenny EmeTy, Chrysalis. Cocheco Arts Festival Cocheco Mills courtyard.

Central Street, Dover. N.H. Telephone 603-742-2218. Free. Rain location: Dover City Hall.

Friday after Five: p.m. June 12. Memorial Bridge All-Stars. T.J. Wheeler and the Smokers.

June 19, Schooner Fare. June 26. John Melisi Trio, Seacoast Ballet. July 3, at Dover High School field, Dave Mallet and Friends, Barbecue Brass. July 10, Secrets, Malinda Liberty.

July 17, Brazil's Caravan, John Poussette-Dart Band. July 24, Neil and the Nightlites, Chuck Chaplin Trio. July 31, Band That Time Forgot, Beachmasters. Aug. 7, Mike Walch and Walter Jalbert.

Cocheco Players (drama). Aug. 14, Montage, Luther (Guitar Jr.) Jazz has become as closely identified with the lazy, hazy days of summer as a day at the beach and this year, once again, jazz festivals and other outdoor presentations will proliferate throughout New England. Concerts on the Common (Boston Common) has lined up David Sanborn, July 23; Pat Metheny Group, Aug. 13; and George Benson, Sept.

3. Call 426-6666. The Great Woods Jazz Festival begins June 20 at I p.m. with drummer Max Roach and an all-star band plus famed jazz tap dancers Bunny Briggs, Chuck Green, Jimmy Slide and Diane Walker. The evening card offers the Modern Jazz guartet.

Carmen McRae, Count Basie Band and other guests. Call 482-5822. The Highland Jazz Summer Jazz Festival, taking place on July 19 on the lawn at Mt. Ida College in Newton, will star Stan Strickland, Semenya McCord, Alex Elin, Kristine Key and their groups and Tenor Madness with George Garzone, Alex Elin and Jerry Bergonzi. Call 965-3100.

Newport, which incubated the first jazz festival in 1954, will host the JVC Jazz Festival-Newport, R.I. on Aug. 15-16 in Fort Adams State Park. Among the artists scheduled are, on the 15th: Nancy Wilson, Stanley Jordan, Kenny the Crusaders and the Wynton Marsalis Quintet; scheduled on the 16th are George Benson, Branford Marsalis Quartet, Dianne Reeves, Michael Brecker Band and Dizzy Gillespie Big Band. Call 401-847-3700.

Jazz at the Pillow in Becket will 11:30 a.m. p.m. Tickets $30 lor both days. Aug. 8.

Joan Baez, Tom Paxton, The Jug Band, The Bobs, New Grass Revival. Patty Larkin, John Hammond and Folk Kaleidoscope. Aug. 9. Judy Collins, Arlo Guthrie.

Bonnie Raitt, Katie Webster, Johnny Copeland, Alison Krauss, Schooner Fare and Eric Caitlin Von Schmidt. JVC Newport Jazz Festival Fort Adams State Park, Newport, R.I. Telephone 401-847-3700. Aug 15 and 16, noon-6 p.m. $20 (per day) in advance, $23 at gate.

Performers: Aug. 15, Nancy Wilson, Stanley Jordan, Kenny the Crusaders and Wynton Marsalis Quintet. Aug. 16, George Benson, Branford Marsalis Quartet, Dianne Reeves, Michael Brecker Band, Dizzy Gillespie Big Band. Bllnn Hill Bluegrass Topsham (Maine) Fairgrounds.

Telephone 207-582-2378. July 24-26. Friday 6:30 p.m. -midnight, Saturday noon-midnight, Sunday 9 a.m. p.m.

Three-day advance $24, three-day at gate $28; Friday $8. Saturday all-day $12, Saturday after 6 p.m. $7.50, Sunday 10; children under 12 free with adult admission. Pelormers both days: White Mountain Bluegrass, Green Mountain Bluegrass, Ham Branch, Shiloh Mountain Boys and Blinn Hill Bluegrass, Saturday: Del McCoury and Dixie Pals. Sunday: New Springs.

Y. Telephone 518-587-3330. Concerts at 8:15 p.m. Tickets lawn $15. unless otherwise indicated.

Available at box otfice. by telephone 518-584-7100; Ticketron, Teletron (800-922-3030). June 22, The Kinks. June 23-24, Neil Diamond. June 25, Duran Duran.

June 26. Tom Petty and the Heartbreak-ers. June 27-28. noon-midnight, Newport Jazz Festival. Adults children $8.50, $17 50.

June 29, Hank Williams Jr. and Bama Band. June 30, Santana, Neville Brothers. July 4. Lou Gramm.

July 5, Miami Sound Machine. July 19, Heart. July 26, David Sanborn. July 27. Dan Fogelberg.

Aug. 2, Donna Summer. Aug. 9, Liza Minnelli. Aug.

10, Sheena Easton. Aug. 1 1, Night Ranger. Aug, 16, AI Jarreau. Aug.

18, The Monkees. Aug. 19, Kenny Loggins. Aug. 25.

Crosby, Stills and Nash. Aug 26-27, Huey Lewis and the News. Aug, 29, Anne Murray. Sept. 5, 2 p.m., Beach Boys.

Quicksilver. Saturday and Sunday: Bob Paisley and South Grass. Friday and Saturday: Sandy River Ramblers. Bluegrass Festival Thomas Point Beach, off Route 24. Brunswick, Maine.

Telephone 207-725-6009. June 27-28. Saturday 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Sunday till 6.30 p.m. Tickets $22; Saturday only $14, Sunday only $12. Performers: John Hensley and Spirits of Bluegrass, Charlie Gilliam and Jimmy Cox and Blue Mountain Boys, Southern Rail, The Ridge, Bay State Bluegrass.

Sept. 4-6, Friday 6-9 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Tickets $35, Friday only $10. Saturday $15, Sunday $14. Performers include Sally Mountain Show.

Ralph Stanley and Clinch Mountain Boys, Virigina Squires, Lewis Family, Fort Knox Volunteers, White Mountain Bluegrass, Bear Acker and Billings Gap. -Saratoga Performing Arts Center Saratoga.

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