*DAVE MATTHEWS BAND will be at Dodge Music Center for a two-night event this summer.

By SHANNON HICKS

Published: Apr 20, 2007 12:00 am

Tickets will be going on sale Saturday at 10 am for the August 4 and 5 shows in Hartford, with Xavier Rudd opening. Lawn seats are $40.50, and reserved pavilion seats will be $65. Tickets will be available online through LiveNation.com and TicketMaster.com at the Chevrolet Theatre in Wallingford (the Dodge Music Centerâs box office is still not open for the season).

*âWEIRD ALâ YANKOVIC will bring his Straight Outta Lynwood Tour to Waterbury next month, stopping for a show at The Palace Theater on Wednesday, May 30. Say what you will about this man who made a career out of mocking everything from new wave to gangsta rap, but this king of pop culture parody has sold more than any other artist in history.

Tickets for this show run from $24 to $54 apiece, and are available directly from the Palace box office by calling 203-346-3998, visiting the box office at 100 East Main Street, or going online to PalaceTheaterCT.org.

*Also coming to The Palace, on Sunday, June 3, will be BLUES TRAVELER. Tickets for that show are $27.25 to $57.25 and can be purchased through the same options that are outlined above.

*CHICAGO will be joined by AMERICA for a special event on Thursday, June 14, at 7:30 pm, at Mohegan Sun Arena.

Tickets are $51 and $36 and will go on sale Saturday, April 21, at 10 am, through TicketMaster. Tickets will also be available at the Mohegan Sun box office beginning on Sunday, subject to availability. *J.D. HILL has started an acoustic open mic at Mocha Coffee House in Sandy Hook. These weekly events will take place on Wednesdays, and start time is 8 pm.

A PA and microphones are provided. Sign-up can be done in person or by phone; call Mocha at 364-9200.

*JOHN VOKET is back in Newtown this weekend. He will be at Proud Maryâs, the lounge at The Inn at Newtown, on Friday, April 20, from 8 until 11:30 pm, performing a Relay For Life Shining On the The Cure luminaria fundraiser.

Until next week Iâll 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 20 â John Voket at Proud Maryâs, Newtown (Relay For Life luminaria fundraiser); Martina McBride at Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, Little Big Town and Rodney Atkins opening; Tom Rush and Eric Anderson at Fairfield Theatre Companyâs StageOne; Doug Wahlberg Band at The Georgetown Saloon, Redding; Still Life, The Fairfield University 5 OâCock Band and Brian Torffâs Black Rock Horns at Black Rock Art Center, Bridgeport (performing 2007 Kim & Tim Donnelly Music Scholarship Benefit Concert);

April 21 â Jenilee and Freethought at Mocha Coffee House, Sandy Hook; Old School Revue at The Georgetown Saloon;

April 22 â Infrasonic at Mocha Coffee House (night of Pink Floyd); Skid Row at Foxwoods Casinoâs Club BB, Ledyard (also April 25); Edwin McCain at Mohegan Sunâs Wolf Den; Willie Nininger at The Georgetown Saloon;

April 25 â John Legend at Mohegan Sun Arena, Corinne Bailey Rae opening; Skid Row at Foxwoods Casinoâs Club BB; acoustic open mic at Mocha Coffee House (weekly event, 8-10:30 pm).

April 27 â Harry Connick Jr at The Chevrolet Theatre, Wallingford; Christina Aguilera at Hartford Civic Center, The Pussycat Dolls and Danity Kane opening; Jonathan Edwards at Fairfield Theatre Companyâs StageOne, Lisa McCormick opening; Tower of Power at Mohegan Sunâs Wolf Den (also April 28); Jay Stollman & The Black Rock All-Stars at The Georgetown Saloon; The John Hickey Band at Baxterâs at The Bitter End, Bridgeport;

April 28 â John Voket at Brass House Restaurant, Waterbury; Tower of Power at Mohegan Sunâs Wolf Den; Roxy Perry at The Georgetown Saloon.

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