June 27: HALLOWELL, Mom’s Home Cookin’ will perform at 8 p.m. at Slate’s, 169 Water St. $10 622-9575

June 27: POLAND SPRING, Jim Gallant of New Gloucester will perform at 7 p.m. at All Souls Chapel. $5

June 27-28: PORTLAND, student pianists will perform at 2:30 p.m. at Portland Museum of Art, 7 Portland Square. $12/$15 775-3356

June 27: PORTLAND, Hirsch-Pinkas piano duo will perform at 7:30 p.m. at St. Patrick’s Church, corner of Congress Street and Stevens Avenue. $12/$15 775-3356

June 28: DAMARISCOTTA, Duo Vivace, piano duet team, will perform at 8 p.m. at Round Top Center for the Arts, Business Route 1. $15/$17 563-1507

June 28: LIVERMORE FALLS, Silver and gold will perform at 7 p.m. at the Gazebo.

June 28: OXFORD, the Bel Airs Band will perform at 7 p.m. in the park on Route 121.

June 28: PORTLAND, Ja Rule will perform at 7:30 p.m. at State Theatre, 609 Congress St. $21.50/$23.50 775-3331

June 28: PORTLAND, Tamara Poddubnaya, Andrew Armstrong and the Portland Conservatory Festival Orchestra will perform at 7:30 p.m. at St. Patrick’s Church, corner of Congress Street and Stevens Avenue. $15/$12 775-3356

June 29: AUBURN, the Auburn Community Band will perform “Music Heard Around the World,” at 7 p.m. at Festival Plaza, Main Street. 784-0191

June 29: BRUNSWICK, the Bowdoin International Music Festival will present faculty and guest artists at 7:30 p.m. at Bowdoin College Crooker Theatre. $20/$5 725-3895

June 29: PORTLAND, Blue Merle, with special guest Kyle Riabko, will perform at 9:30 p.m. at The Big Easy, 55 Market St. $10/$12 774-7842

June 29: PORTLAND, the Killth Fair Tour, with Method of Destruction, Crisis, Jacknife and Verrigod will perform at 8 p.m. at The Asylum, 121 Center St. $12 773-1398

June 30: AUBURN, the Men’s Ensemble vocal group from Dunbar, Wisc., will perform at 7 p.m. at Marston’s Corner Baptist Church, 752 Beech Hill Road. 783-4548

June 30: FARMINGTON, the River City Salon Orchestra will perform at 7:30 p.m. at UMF Nordica Auditorium. $10/$8 942-5555

June 30: HARRISON, Anni Clark will perform at 7:30 p.m. at Deertrees Theatre and Cultural Center, Deertrees Road. $12 583-6747

June 30: OLD ORCHARD BEACH, the Portland Symphony Orchestra will perform the annual Independence Pops Concert at 7:30 p.m. at Old Orchard Beach Pavilion. $18/$22 934-2024

June 30: PORTLAND, Erin McKeown will perform at 8:30 p.m. at Space Gallery, 538 Congress St. $10/$12 774-7842

June 30: SCARBOROUGH, Blue Merle will perform at 5 p.m. at Bull Moose Music 767-6488

July 1: BOOTHBAY HARBOR, Maine’s Emerging Artists will perform at 7:30 p.m. at the Boothbay Harbor Opera House. $12/$10 633-5159

July 1: DIXFIELD, a free campfire country music Friday night jam session will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Countryfolk Music Theatre, Route 2. Free 645-4752

July 1: RUMFORD, Back in Black, the AC/DC Tribute Band, will perform at The Shak, 12 Oxford Ave. $10 364-4649

July 1: TOPSHAM, the Portland Symphony Orchestra will perform the annual Independence Pops Concert at 7:30 p.m. at Highland Green. $18/$22 767-6488

July 2: BOOTHBAY HARBOR, the Ringers on the Green, a handbell choir, will perform at 7 p.m. at the Boothbay Harbor Congregational Church. Free 633-3913

July 2: CAPE ELIZABETH, the Portland Symphony Orchestra will perform the annual Independence Pops Concert at 7:30 p.m. at Fort Williams Park. $18/$22 767-6488

July 2: DAMARISCOTTA, the Bath Band will perform at 4 p.m. at Round Top Center for the Arts, Business Route 1. Free 563-1507

July 2: KINGFIELD, Native Oak will perform at 6 p.m. at the Kennedy Farm, Route 142. 942-5555

July 2: KINGFIELD, the Bangor Symphony Orchestra Third Annual Kingfield POPS will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Kennedy Farm, Route 142. $20/$25 942-5555

July 2: RUMFORD, Funnel will perform at The Shak, 12 Oxford Ave. 364-4649

July 3: BRIDGTON, the Portland Symphony Orchestra will perform the annual Independence Pops Concert at 7:30 p.m. at Shawnee Peak. $18/$22 767-6488

July 4: BETHEL, the Portland Brass Quintet will perform at noon on the grounds of the Dr. Moses Mason House. Free 824-2908

July 4: FREEPORT, Schooner Fare and the Odd Company will perform at at 7:30 p.m. at L.L. Bean Discovery Park. 1-800-559-0747

July 5: AUBURN, L/A Arts presents singer/songwriter Don Campbell at noon at Festival Plaza. 782-7228

July 5: BOOTHBAY HARBOR, the Bath Municipal Jazz Band will perform at 7 p.m. Boothbay Common. 633-3913

July 5: BRUNSWICK, Harold Stover of the Woodfords Congregational Church, will perform on the organ at 12:10 p.m. at First Parish Church, Maine Street at Bath Road. $3 729-7331

July 5: HARRISON, the Downeasters ad the Mollyocket Chorus will perform at 8 p.m. at Deertrees Theatre and Cultural Center, Deertrees Road. $12 583-6747

July 6: AUBURN, the Auburn Community Band will perform “An Evening of Patriotic Music at 7 p.m. at Festival Plaza. 784-0191

July 6: BANGOR, Maine’s premier Bagpipe Band will perform at 7 p.m. at the Bangor Public Library, 145 Harlow St. 947-8336

July 6: PEAKS ISLAND, the Edith Jones Project, all-woman jazz band, will perform at 8 p.m. at Fifth Maine Regiment Museum. $5 766-5763

July 6: PORTLAND, Aqualung, with special guest the Cary Brothers, will perform at 9 p.m. at The Big Easy, 55 Market St. $8/$10 774-7842

July 6: ROCKLAND, James Campbell, clarinet, Graham Campbell, guitar, Gene DiNovi, piano, Dave Young, bass and Allain Trudell, trombone, will perform at 8 p.m. at the Strand Theatre. $30/$15 236-2823

July 7: LEWISTON, L/A Arts presents the Dave Rowe Trio at noon at Courthouse Plaza. 782-7228

July 7: ROCKPORT, James Campbell, clarinet, Lynn Chang, violin, Allain Trudell, trombone and Winston Choi, piano, will perform at 8 p.m. at the Rockport Opera House. $10/$15

July 8: AUGUSTA, the Allman brothers will perform at 8 p.m. at the Augusta Civic Center. 775-3331

July 8: GILFORD, N.H., Montgomery Gentry will perform at 7:30 p.m. at Meadowbrook Musical Arts Center. $69.50/$29 603-293-4700

July 8: GREENE, the Betty Johnson Family Singers will perform at 2 and 7 p.m. at the Sawyer Memorial, 371 Sawyer Road. Free 946-5311

July 8: HARRISON, the Bruce Marshall Group will perform at 8 p.m. at Deertrees Theatre and Cultural Center, Deertrees Road. $16 583-6747

July 8: LEWISTON, Maine Emerging Artists will perform at 7:30 p.m. at Bates College Olin Arts Center. $10 879-7678

July 8: RUMFORD, Rock Bottom will perform at The Shak, 12 Oxford Ave. 364-4649

July 8: WELLS, an “Elvis” concert will be held at 7 p.m. at Harbor Park. 646-2451

July 9: DAMARISCOTTA, Bradley N. Litwin, stride blues and jazz guitarist, will perform at 8 p.m. at Round Top Center for the Arts, Route 1. $15/$17 563-1507

July 9: FREEPORT, Edwin McCain will perform pop and folk rock at 7:30 p.m. at L.L. Bean Discovery Park. 1-800-559-0747

July 9-10: ROCKLAND, the North Atlantic Blues Festival will be held at Harbor Park. $60/$25 593-1189

July 9: RUMFORD, Suckerpunch will perform at The Shak, 12 Oxford Ave. 364-4649

July 9: SOUTH PARIS, the Village Harmony Youth World Music Ensemble will perform at the South Paris Congregational Church. 743-2437

July 10: CANTON, the East Wind Gospel Quartet will perform at 6 p.m. at the Canton Baptist Church.

July 10: ELIOT, the Seacoast Community Chorus will perform at 3 p.m. at First Congregational Church, 149 State Road. 603-431-0666

July 10: FARMINGTON, the Village Harmony Youth World Music Ensemble will perform at UMF Nordica Hall. 778-4572

July 10: GILFORD, N.H., Lynyrd Skynyrd will perform at 8 p.m. at the Meadowbrook Musical Arts Center. 603-293-4700

July 10: OCEAN PARK, Maine Emerging Artists will perform at 7:30 p.m. at The Temple. $8 934-9068

July 10: WATERVILLE, the Jerks of Grass and Scott Conley will perform bluegrass at 2 p.m. at the Colby College Museum of ARoute 872-3228