Kane Brown will perform at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, May 17.
May 1: Martha Wainwright, Haley Blais at The Vogel at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.
May 1: Blues People at The Laundromat, Morristown.
May 2: Warren Zeiders, Tyler Braden at Stone Pony Summer Stage, Asbury Park.
May 2: Blues People at Shanghai Jazz, Madison.
May 2: Abby Posner, Bob Andrews at Troubadour Concert Series at Morristown Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.
May 3: Ari Hest, Jesse Terry at Avenel Performing Arts Center.
May 3: Steve Forbert at Parker Press Park, Woodbridge.
May 3: Crys Matthews at Morristown United Methodist Church.
May 3: Kinderhook at Lizzie Rose Music Room, Tuckerton.
May 4: Blues People, Dave Keyes, Chuck Lambert, Blues in the Loft series at South Orange Performing Arts Center.
May 4: Niall Connolly at Ross Farm, Basking Ridge.
May 6: The Avett Brothers at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.
May 6: Roger McGuinn at Shea Center for Performing Arts at William Paterson University, Wayne.
May 8: Ole 60, Fox N Vead at Starland Ballroom, Sayreville.
May 8: Junior Mack at Laundromat, Morristown.
May 8: A Man Named Cash, tribute to Johnny Cash and June Carter at House of Independents, Asbury Park.
May 9: Leprous at The Vogel at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.
May 9: Kelli Baker featuring Noé Socha at Lizzie Rose Music Room, Tuckerton.
May 9: Blues People at Triumph Brewery, Red Bank.
May 10: Judy Collins, Madeleine Peyroux at State Theatre, New Brunswick.
May 10: Joe Louis Walker & Friends at Bell Theater at Bell Works, Holmdel.
May 10: Justin Howl at Ross Farm, Basking Ridge.
May 10: Debra Devi Band, Cassidy Rain, Fanwood Performance Series at Kuran Cultural Arts Center (The Carriage House).
May 10: Decade, Neil Young tribute at The Vogel at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.
May 10: Hickory at Stanhope House.
May 15: Sara Evans at Newton Theatre.
May 15: Bob Lanza at Laundromat, Morristown.
May 16: Rickie Lee Jones at Pollak Theatre at Monmouth University, West Long Branch.
May 16: Donna the Buffalo at Outpost in the Burbs, Montclair.
May 16: “Celebrating Joan Baez” with Jaime Della Fave, Wendy Joyner, Rebecca Turner, Sylvana Joyce, Ereni Sevasti at 503 Social Club, Hoboken.
May 16: Ensemble Sangineto, presented by Princeton Folk Music Society at Christ Congregation Church, Princeton.
May 16: Jeffrey Gaines at Lizzie Rose Music Room, Tuckerton.
May 17: Kane Brown, Mitchell Tenpenny, Ashley Cooke at Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City.
May 17: Roger McGuinn at Newton Theatre.
May 17: Paula Cole at Hackensack Performing Arts Center.
May 17: Cigar Box Stompers at Stanhope House.
May 18: Johnny Burgin at Montclair Brewery.
May 21: Blues People at Blues and Cruise Night, Main Street, Matawan.
May 22: Darrell Scott at Williams Center, Rutherford.
May 23: Helen Gillet at Fletcher’s Listening Room at Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair.
May 23: “The Brooklyn Invasion” featuring Ilusha Tsindaze, Dana Lyn, Pete Galub and Matt Kanelos at Troubadour Concert Series at Morristown Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.
May 23: Cole Clark at Stanhope House.
May 23: Sean Chambers & the Savoy Brown Rhythm Section at Lizzie Rose Music Room, Tuckerton.
May 24: The Wood Brothers at Stone Pony, Asbury Park.
May 24: Big Yellow Taxi, Joni Mitchell tribute at Roy’s Hall, Blairstown.
May 27: Saltwater Country, “Country Night at the Vogel” at The Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.
May 28: Tab Benoit at The Vogel at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.
May 29: Vanessa Collier at Lizzie Rose Music Room, Tuckerton.
May 30: Luke Bryan, George Birge, Avery Anna, Drake Milligan at PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel.
May 30: Don McLean at BergenPAC, Englewood.
May 30: Vance Gilbert, Jesse Ruben with D.B. Purkis at Troubadour Concert Series at Morristown Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.
May 30: James Maddock at Spanish Pavillion, Harrison.
May 30: Iron Mountain Blues Band at Stanhope House.
May 30: Jenny Barnes Band at Lizzie Rose Music Room, Tuckerton.
May 31: Vanessa Collier at Ross Farm, Basking Ridge.
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