*Tickets have been on sale for a few weeks for the 2012 Country Megaticket, which will get you into the LADY ANTEBELLUM, BRAD PAISLEY, RASCAL FLATTS, JASON ALDREAN and TOBY KEITH shows all coming to the Comcast Theatre this summer, and now more tickets for the single shows are being put on sale.

RASCALL FLATTS will kick off their summer tour at the Hartford theater on June 15, and tickets for that show — which will also feature performances by Little Big Town, Eli Young Band and Edens Edge — will be on sale Friday morning at 10.

There will be a general admission pit area, with those tickets set at $65.50 ($80 with service fees), lower and mid pavilion seats at the same price, rear pavilion seats for $45.50 ($58.35), and lawn seating for $30.25 ($40.75).

Tickets are available through LiveNation.com, TicketMaster vendors, as well as charge-by-phone at 800-745-3000.

Separate shows already on sale include LADY ANTEBELLUM’s May 18 stop, with Darius Rucker and Thompson Square opening; and BRAD PAISLEY on June 2 with The Band Perry and Easton Corbin.

It looks like MegaTicket lawn tickets are still available, at $175 apiece ($202.30 with service fees), also through the LiveNation and TicketMaster options outlined above.

*Fairfield University’s Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts will host An Evening with PAULA COLE on Friday, June 15, and tickets for this will also be going on sale Friday morning at 10.

Tickets are $35, $40 and $45 for this concert, and they will be available through the Quick Center Box Office, at 203-254-4010 or 1-877-ARTS-396 (877-278-7396), and online at www.quickcenter.com.

*JASON MRAZ has announced plans for a worldwide tour, which has been dubbed The “Tour Is A Four Letter Word” Tour. The Grammy winner will kick off the tour’s North American leg in New Orleans on August 10, and will make his way to the Comcast Theatre in Hartford for a Saturday, August 25 stop.

Tickets will be going on sale next Friday morning, priced from $25 to $65 ($32 to $79.40 total), though LiveNation.com and LiveNation’s Charge-By-Phone, 800-745-3000.

*In support of their first studio album in six years, Rize of the Fenix, TENACIOUS D will hit the road this summer, including a July 3 stop at Mohegan Sun Arena, and those tickets will be going on sale next week.

Tickets are $25 and $45 ($33.60 to $59.85 once you add in the service fees), and will be available beginning at 10 am Friday, April 13, through TicketMaster.com, TicketMaster’s national toll free Charge By Phone (800-745-3000), and TicketMaster outlets.

Tickets will also be available at the Mohegan Sun Box Office starting Saturday, April 14, subject to availability.

*Going a complete 180 degrees I share the following: THE FRESH BEAT BAND, Nickelodeon’s popular preschool music group and stars of the hit TV series of the same name, are adding a second leg to their current sold-out nationwide concert tour and will perform live at Mohegan Sun Arena on Friday, September 21. 

Tickets are $34.50 ($47.40 total) and go on sale Friday, April 13, at 10 am, through Ticketmaster.com; by calling 800-745-3000, and TicketMaster outlets.

Tickets will also be available at the Mohegan Sun Box Office starting Saturday, April 14, subject to availability.

*Locally, THE BLUE YODELS will return for another show at The River Bistro, 300 Kent Road in New Milford, on Friday, April 13. The band expects to be onstage from 8:30 until 11:30 pm.

Plenty to choose from again this week, right everyone? It must be getting close to summer concert season!

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 clubs are for ages 21 and over unless specified.

UPCOMING SHOWS

APRIL 7 — Average White Band at Infinity Music Hall, Norfolk; Further featuring Phil Lesh and Bob Weir at the Oakdale Theatre, Wallingford; Liquid 8 at McGuire’s Ale House, Newtown; The Jonathan Chapman Quartet at Fast Eddie’s Billiards Café, New Milford;

April 8 — The Marshall Tucker Band at Infinity Music Hall;

April 10 — Kevin Costner & Modern West at The Ridgefield Playhouse;

April 11 — Kevin Costner & Modern West at Infinity Music Hall;

April 12 — Off The Hook at My Place Restaurant, Newtown;

April 13 — Cee Lo Green at The MGM Grand at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, Melanie Fiona opening; NRBQ at Infinity Music Hall; The Mickey Hart Band at The Ridgefield Playhouse; Blues Traveler at Mohegan Sun Casino’s Wolf Den, Uncasville; The Blue Yodels at The River Bistro, New Milford;

April 14 — The Fray at The MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods; Red Dirt Road at Fast Eddie’s Billiards Café;

April 19 — Merle Haggard at The Warner Theatre, Torrington;

April 20 — The Moody Blues at the Oakdale Theatre;

April 21 — The Charlie Daniels Band at The Palace, Waterbury (rescheduled from October; tickets from original date will be honored); Creed at Mohegan Sun Arena; Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas at the Oakdale Theatre; Greg Lake: Songs Of A Lifetime at The Ridgefield Playhouse;

April 22 — The Bacon Brothers at Infinity Music Hall;

April 26 — Dickey Betts and Great Southern at The Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield; Off The Hook at My Place Restaurant, Newtown;

April 27 — An Evening with Paula Cole at Quick Center for the Arts, Fairfield University; Nickelback at the XL Center, Hartford, with special guests Bush, Seether and My Darkest Days; Counting Crows at The MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods; Taylor Hicks at The Ridgefield Playhouse;

April 28 — Daughtry at The MGM Grand at Foxwoods; The Regulators at Fast Eddie’s Billiards Café;

April 29 — Chicago at The MGM at Foxwoods; Colin Hay at The Ridgefield Playhouse.

MAY 2 — Grandmothers of Invention at Infinity Music Hall, Norfolk;

May 4 — Dierks Bentley at The MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, with The Eli Young Band and Will Hoge opening; Billy Currington at the Oakdale Theatre, Wallingford, with David Nail and Kip Moore opening;

May 5 — Big Head Todd & The Monsters at Mohegan Sun Casino’s Wolf Den, Uncasville;

May 11 — Florence + The Machine at Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, Blood Orange opening;

May 12 — The Beach Boys at Mohegan Sun Arena; The Cranberries at The MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods; Loudon Wainwright at Fairfield Theatre Company’s Stage One, Fairfield;

May 17 — Maroon 5 at The MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods; Rusted Root at Infinity Music Hall, Norfolk (also May 18);

May 18 — Lady Antebellum at The Comcast Theatre, Hartford, with Darius Rucker and Thompson Square opening; Blink-182 at Mohegan Sun Arena, with special guests The All-American Rejects and Le Blorr; Rusted Root at Infinity Music Hall; The Wood Brothers at The Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield.

May 19 — 106.9 WCCC Big Gig at The Comcast Theatre, Hartford, featuring Godsmack, Staind, Volbeat, Dead Sara, Black Stone Cherry, et al; Chickenfoot at Mohegan Sun Arena;

May 20 — Preservation Hall Jazz Band at The Ridgefield Playhouse; Glenn Frey at The MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods Resort Casino, Mashantucket;

May 24 — Sons of Cream at Infinity Music Hall;

May 25 — Greg Brown at Infinity Music Hall;

May 31 — Tower of Power at Infinity Music Hall (two shows, 6:30 and 9:30 pm).