Pulitzer Prize-winning hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar headlines KeyBank Pavilion on Saturday.
Lamar's 2017 "Damn" album reportedly was a unanimous pick by the Pulitzer music jury.
Lamar leads the "Top Dawg Entertainment: The Championship Tour" that also brings to Burgettstown breakout R&B singer SZA.
The 7:30 p.m. show also features Schoolboy Q, Jay Rock, Ab Soul, SiR and Lance Skiiwal.
Lawn tickets are $35, the pavilion seats run $39.50 to $159.
When he was on the rise in 2012, Lamar performed at the Burgettstown pavilion, warming the crowd for Pittsburgh rap stars Wiz Khalifa and Mac Miller.
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The Clarks have good reason to be excited about their brand-new album "Madly in Love at the End of the World."
Guitarist Rob James, of Beaver, said the band will play eight or nine cuts from that new release Saturday when headlining their annual outdoor show at Stage AE. That'll leave room for plenty of Clarks hits, too, along the lines of "Penny on The Floor," "Better Off Without You," "Cigarette" and the appropriate "On Saturday."
This month marks the 30th anniversary of the Clarks' debut album, "I’ll Tell You What Man..." An all-star group of local musicians will play that album in its entirety to start the 8 p.m. show. Taking the name Sven, after a former member of the Clarks' road crew, that group will include such notables as Joe Grushecky, Paul Luc, Jon Belan (of Gene The Werewolf), Bill Deasy, Kelsey Friday and Jay Wiley of the Hawkeyes.
Tickets cost $27.50 in advance, $30 the day of the show.
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Dierks Bentley earned his 17th career No. 1 this week with his "Women, Amen." That lead single from his just-released ninth studio album "hits Bentley’s sweet spot," according to the Washington Post, "a big, contemporary-sounding radio hit that carries a deeper message."
Bentley headlines KeyBank Pavilion on Friday, capping off a busy week that saw him close out a stadium set at the CMA Music Festival, and perform on NBC's "Today" show at "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," then featured in a profile slated to air today on "CBS This Morning."
Bentley, who burst onto the scene with 2003's chart-topping "What Was I Thinkin'?" co-wrote 10 of his new album’s 13 tracks that are unified by themes of presence and positivity, and range in style from textured rock to acoustic folk.
Tickets cost $39 to $98 for his 7 p.m. show with support acts LANCO and Brothers Osborne.
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Herman's Hermits fans will have a feeling they're into something good Saturday, when the British band, led by famed frontman Peter Noone, sings its 1960s pop-rock hits at The Meadows Casino in Washington County.
Loyal fans, aka the "Noonatics" hope to hear songs like “There's a Kind of a Hush," the novelty "I’m Henry VIII, I Am” and "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter."
Trivia: in Herman's Hermits' "A Hard Day's Night"-inspired musical-comedy "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter," the title character was a prize-winning greyhound.
Tickets for the 8 p.m. show in the Meadows' concert tent cost $19.95 to $49.
At 8 p.m. Friday, that tent hosts jazzy-rock jam band Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers, with tickets $29.95 to $64.
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The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they called 'Gitche Gumee.'
Gordon Lightfoot can tell you all about it if he sings his epic folk ballad "The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald" Friday, as he usually does, at the Palace Theatre in Greensburg.
The Canadian troubadour can pull from a big bag of hits that also includes "If You Could Read My Mind," "Carefree Highway" and "Sundown."
Showtime is 8 p.m. and tickets cost $49 to $62.