*It’s official: GENESIS will bring its Turn It On Again Tour — the band’s first in 15 years — to Connecticut.

Tony Banks, Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford will be at Hartford Civic Center on Sunday, September 16, and tickets for that show will be going on sale Monday morning at 10 am. Prices start at $59.25 and increase to $79.25, $129.25, and top out at $204.25.

Tickets will be available online through LiveNation.com and TicketMaster vendors.

*LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM and his three-piece band will be at The Ridgefield Playhouse on March 25 for an 8 pm concert. Buckingham’s stop in Ridgefield is in the middle of the third leg of his first US solo tour in nearly 14 years and captures the singer-guitarist’s most recent solo album, the acoustic guitar-driven Under the Skin.

Tickets are $85 and only a few dozens seats are still available. Call the playhouse’s box office at 203-438-5795; tickets are also available online at RidgefieldPlayhouse.org.

*HEAVEN AND HELL, or the second coming of BLACK SABBATH, will rock Mohegan Sun Arena on Tuesday, May 15. The band consists of some original members of Black Sabbath (Geezer Butler and Tony Iommi) and interim players (Ronnie James Dio and Vinnie Appice), and will be releasing an album, Black Sabbath: The Dio Years, in April.

Megadeth and Machine Head will be opening.

Tickets for Heaven And Hell’s show in Uncasville will be going on sale Friday morning (March 9) at 10 am through TicketMaster vendors, priced at $39.50 and $54.50. Remaining tickets will also be available beginning Saturday morning at Mohegan Sun’s box office.

*HAT CITY BLUES BAND will be performing in New Milford next weekend. The band returns to 59 Bank (59 Bank Street; telephone 860-350-5995) for a 9:45 start on Friday, March 16.

Upcoming shows beyond that include March 23 at Greenwoods in Bethel (186 Greenwood Avenue; telephone 748-3900); April 14, again at 59 Bank; May 19 at Georgetown Saloon in Redding (8 Main Street; 203-544-8003); and June 9 at Jimmy’s Seaside (891 Cove Road in Stamford; 203-964-9225).

*TONY BENNETT looks good for a May 20 show at The Chevrolet Theatre in Wallingford. Also on the horizon are shows by LYNYRD SKYNRD in mid to late June, at Dodge Music Center; ROGER WATER, performing Dark Side of The Moon, June 13; and multi-Grammy winner and state son JOHN MAYER, returning to the Dodge Music Center June 14 or so.

The 2007 Napa Auto Parts Country Megaticket has been put on sale, which offers seating for four country concerts at Dodge Music Center. The passes will cover admission to ALAN JACKSON and BROOKS & DUNN on June 8, RASCAL FLATTS with special guest Jason Aldean on August 24, KENNY CHESNEY with Sugarland and Pat Green on September 1, and TOBY KEITH with special guests Miranda Lambert and Flynnville Train. Keith’s summer tour is still being worked on, with only five concets confirmed as of this writing, but promoters are obviously planning on getting him into Hartford again.

A Megaticket for reserved pavilion seating (same seat for all four shows) is $425 each, and Megaticket Festival lawn seating is $125 each.

*Tickets for REBA McENTIRE’s greatest hits tour, supporting Reba #1s, will go on sale March 17 for a June 22 stop at Mohegan Sun Arena.

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 SHOWS

MARCH 9 — George Strait at Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, Ronnie Milsap and Taylor Swift opening (also March 10); The Machine at Toad’s Place, New Haven, (all ages); Gandalf Murphy at The Acoustic Café, Bridgeport;

March 10 — George Strait at Mohegan Sun Arena, Ronnie Milsap and Taylor Swift opening (also March 9); Sparta at Toad’s Place, mewithoutyou opening (all ages); The Laura Delallo Band at The Acoustic Café;

March 11 — Catie Curtis at The Acoustic Café;

March 15 — Hit The Lights at Toad’s Place (all ages); Johnny Durkin’s Manchado at The Acoustic Café;

March 16 — Black 47 at Toad’s Place (all ages); Scarecrow Collection at The Acoustic Café, with special guests Clarias and Daniel Newman; Hat City Blues Band at 59 Bank, New Milford;

March 17 — John Voket at Mocha Coffee House; Hall & Oates at Mohegan Sun Arena; The Cosmic Jibaros at The Acoustic Café;

March 18 — Steve Clarke open jazz jam at The Acoustic Café;

March 21 — Elton John at Hartford Civic Center; Jen Durkin’s Equinox at The Acoustic Café.

March 22 — Bomb Squad at Toad’s Place, with special guest Brenna Gethers (American Idol; all ages show); Manchado at The Acoustic Café;

March 23 — Donna Jean Godcheaux and The Zen Tricksters at The Acoustic Café, with Wendy Waldman and Mookie Siegel as Kettle Joe’s Psychedelic Swamp Revue; The Nerds at Toad’s Place; Hat City Blues Band at Greenwoods, Bethel;

March 24 — John Voket at Proud Mary’s, Newtown, with guitarist Brendan Walsh; Simple Jim at The Acoustic Café;

March 28 — Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra at Toad’s Place (all ages);

March 30 — Darik & The Funbags at Toad’s Place; Manchado at The Acoustic Café;

March 31 — Evanescence at Dodge Music Center, Chevelle and Finger Eleven opening; Rolla at The Acoustic Cafe.