Live at the Garden – Memphis Botanic Garden
http://www.liveatthegarden.com/

If the Botanic Garden’s gorgeous 24 specialty gardens alone haven’t been enough to lure you there, then the Live at the Garden concert series should be all the incentive you need.  

Train kicks off the ninth season of Live at the Garden on Friday, June 5th at 8:30 p.m.  Since releasing their self-titled debut album in 1998, the band has notched eight songs on Billboard’s Hot Adult Top 40 chart and four on the US Hot 100 chart—“Meet Virginia” (#15), “Calling All Angels” (#19), “When I Look to the Sky” (#74), and the smash “Drops of Jupiter” (#5), which earned the band the 2002 Grammy for Best Rock Song.  Three of their albums have reached the Top 10 on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums chart.  

Thanks to thousands of concerts in North America, Europe, and Australia, Train has built a reputation for outstanding live performances that showcase the band’s versatility, with set lists mixing their hits, some lesser-known album cuts, and even impeccable covers of hard rock classics like Led Zeppelin’s “Ramble On” and Aerosmith’s “Dream On.”

The four other Live at the Garden shows feature classic rock icons—The Doobie Brothers (6/18), Joe Cocker (7/18), Heart (8/15). and The Moody Blues (9/5).

For information on ticket prices, seating (reserved and lawn), and food, click on Live at the Garden’s website above.

Levitt Shell – Overton Park
www.levittshell.org

Perhaps the only thing better than live music outdoors is free live music outdoors—where Elvis performed the first ever rock’n’roll show no less.  The Levitt Shell’s spring concert series begins May 28 when legendary Memphis native Jack Clement will take the stage, with renowned Memphis singer-songwriter Jimmy Davis opening.  The spring series features music Thursday-Sunday each week.  Thursdays feature Americana, Fridays gospel, R&B, and soul, Saturdays children’s music and Latino, and Sundays World Music.  For a list of performers, check out the concert schedule on the Shell’s website.