May concerts in Pittsburgh include Heart, Greta Van Fleet, Sleep Token, Marc Maron & more

Outdoor concerts return with a flourish in May, at Stage AE, The Pavilion at Star Lake and the earlier-than-normal Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival.

Pittsburgh's indoor stages will be rocking, too, with headliners like Heart, Greta Van Fleet, Joe Jackson, The Temptations, and a sold-out show by red-hot metal band Sleep Token.

From podcast star Marc Maron to up-and-coming singer Madison Beer to WDVE Electric Lunch mainstays Uriah Heep and Aldo Nova, intriguing choices abound regionally.

Here's the May Concert Calendar to help you pick some good shows:

Stage AE

May 4: Chris Young (outdoors)

May 7: The Decemberists

May 8: Say Anything

May 10: Social Distortion and Bad Religion (outdoors)

May 20: City and Colour

May 21: String Cheese Incident

May 31 and June 2: Pride on The Shore with Natasha Bedingfield, G Flip, Chappell Roan (second night outdoors); June 5: Bleachers (outdoors); June 7: Modest Mouse (outdoors); June 12: T-Pain (outdoors); June 15: Excision (outdoors); June 20: Brothers Osborne (outdoors); June 21: Walker Hayes (outdoors); June 22: The Clarks (outdoors); June 28: Oliver Anthony (sold out); June 30: The Beach Boys (outdoor); July 1: The Kid Laroi (outdoors); July 8: The Used; July 11: Train (outdoors); July 14: Hawthorne Heights (outdoor); July 15: Charley Crockett; July 18: O.A.R. and Fitz & The Tantrums (outdoors); July 19: Jamey Johnson (outdoors); July 20: Flaming Lips (outdoors); July 23: Mayday Parade, The Maine and The Wonder Years (outdoors); July 24: Taking Back Sunday; July 25: Lyle Lovett (outdoors); July 27: Guster; July 28: Halestorm (outdoors); July 29: Faye Webster (outdoors); July 30: Lamb of God and Mastodon (outdoors); July 31: Still Woozy (outdoors); Aug. 5: Chevelle; Aug. 7: Iration & Pepper; Aug. 8: Primus and Coheed & Cambria (outdoors); Aug. 9: Lindsey Stirling (outdoors); Aug. 10: Rock, Reggae & Relief with Dirty Heads and The Movement (outdoors); Aug. 11: The Struts; Aug. 14: Sublime With Rome (outside); Aug. 23: Koe Wetzel (outdoors); Aug. 24: Mike.; Aug. 28: Melissa Etheridge at Women Who Rock; Sept. 10: Rival Sons and Clutch (outdoor); Sept. 11: Descendants and Circle Jerks; Sept. 12: In This Moment; Sept. 17: Dashboard Confessional (outdoors); Sept. 18: Megadeth; Sept. 24: Underoath; Sept. 27: The Hives; Oct. 1: Lake Street Dive (outdoors); Oct. 12: Dispatch; Oct. 14: Tori Kelly; Nov. 2: Nate Smith; Nov. 6: Cold War Kids; Nov. 7: Morgan Wade.

Pavilion at Star Lake

May 29: Noah Kahan

June 15: Robert Plant & Alison Krauss; June 19: New Kids on The Block; June 29: Hootie & The Blowfish; June 30: Tyler Childers; July 2: Red Hot Chili Peppers; July 9: Third Eye Blind; July 10: "Barbie" The Movie: In Concert; July 12: Chris Stapleton; July 13: Bret Michaels with Dee Snider and Lou Gramm; July 20: Sam Hunt; July 29: Hozier; July 31: Styx & Foreigner; Aug. 2: Dan + Shay; Aug. 3: Creed; Aug. 7: Slipknot; Aug. 10: Jason Aldean; Aug. 14: Imagine Dragons; Aug. 16: Kidz Bop; Aug. 17: Tedeschi Trucks Band; Aug. 20: Doobie Brothers; Aug. 29: Cage The Elephant; Sept. 3: Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie; Sept. 7: James Taylor; Sept. 10: Staind and Breaking Benjamin; Sept. 14: Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan and John Mellencamp; Sept. 18: Pitbull.

Petersen Events Center

May 2: Death Cab for Cutie and Postal Service

May 3: Brandon Lake

May 19: Sleep Token (sold out)

Sept. 6: Meghan Trainor; Oct. 24: Chris Tomlin; Oct. 26: Lainey Wilson.

Club Cafe

May 7: Yarn

May 9: Robbie Fulks

May 10: Los Straitjackets

May 14: Kelsey Waldon

June 10: Abigail Lapell; Oct. 11: Clem Snide.

PPG Paints Arena

May 2: Tom Segura

May 7: Jordan B. Peterson

May 15: NF

May 18: Greta Van Fleet

May 23: Heart

June 16: Lionel Richie; June 22: Bert Kreischer; June 25: AJR; July 30: Jennifer Lopez; Aug. 15 and 18: Bruce Springsteen; Sept. 10: Jeff Lynne's ELO; Sept. 20: Aerosmith; Sept. 26: Sebastian Maniscalco; Sept. 29: $uicideboy$; Oct. 5: Jelly Roll; Oct. 10: The Black Keys; Oct. 13: Billie Eilish; Nov. 1: Little Big Town and Sugarland; Nov. 8: Iron Maiden; Nov. 9: Jim Gaffigan; Nov. 10: Kacey Musgraves; Dec. 14: Justin Timberlake.

Roxian Theatre

May 1: Saxon and Uriah Heep

May 4: Madison Beer

May 10: Jim Norton

May 12: Thievery Corporation

May 14: Dirty Honey

May 16-17: The Amity Affliction

May 18: TK Kirkland

May 19: Tommy Emmanuel

May 28: Frank Turner

June 27:  6LACK; July 20: Mammoth WVH; Aug. 21: Dweezil Zappa; Aug. 24: The Gaslight Anthem; Sept. 18: Spoon; Sept. 25: The Airborne Toxic Effect; Sept. 28: Mickey Guyton; Oct. 7: Marcus King; Oct. 8: Hatebreed; Oct. 9: Kaleo; Nov. 30: Punchline.

Benedum Center

May 3: The Temptations and The Four Tops

June 1: Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra; Aug. 10: Idina Menzel; Oct. 20: Dane Cook; Dec. 11: Kansas.

UPMC Events Center

Sept. 15, Porter Robinson; Sept. 17: Sum 41.

Palace Theatre

May 22: Cahal Dunne

May 28: Joe Jackson

June 4, Keb' Mo'; June 7: Air Supply; June 8: Dave Mason's Traffic Jam; June 18: Jon Anderson; July 21: Billy Bragg; July 28: Bowling for Soup; July 31: Billy Bragg; Sept. 6: Oak Ridge Boys; Sept. 22: Bachman Turner Overdrive; Sept. 26: Josh Turner; Sept. 28: Robin Trower; Oct. 19: The Outlaws; Oct. 22: Beat with Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Danny Carey and Steve Vai; Oct. 29: Celtic Thunder; Nov. 1: Randy Travis.

Jergel's Rhythm Grille

May 2: Aldo Nova

May 3: Chayce Beckham

May 22: Orgy and Cold

May 23: Everclear

May 28: Sebastian Bach

June 6: FireHouse; June 9: Lita Ford; June 13: Haley Reinhart; June 14: Chris Cagle; June 15: Hunter Girl; July 14: 10,000 Maniacs; Aug. 3: Tab Benoit and Anders Osborne; Aug. 15: Midge Ure; Sept. 15: Atlanta Rhythm Section; Sept. 16: Hoodoo Gurus; Oct. 3: Phil Vassar; Nov. 10: Nelson.

City Winery Pittsburgh

May 3: Matt Nathanson (sold out)

May 6: XTC's Terry Chambers

May 8: Hawthorne Heights (sold out)

May 24-25: Will Downing

May 28: Jill Sobule

June 12: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy; June 14-15: Al Franken; June 16: Demola; June 22: The Silencers; June 27: Sheila-E; July 3: BBMak; July 18: Martin Barre; July 26: Mary Fahl; July 31: Lisa Loeb; Aug. 1-2: Chrisette Michele Aug. 9-10: Kevin Nealon; Aug. 11: Dustbowl Revival; Aug. 19: Kris Allen; Aug. 20-21: Marc Cohn; Sept. 3-4: Steve Earle; Sept. 20-21: The Jayhawks; Nov. 7: Dar Williams.

Mr. Smalls Theatre

May 9-11: They Might Be Giants (sold out)

May 16: In Flames

May 22: Phosphorescent

May 28: X Ambassadors

June 2: Lucero; June 15: Kim Gordon; June 21: Christone "Kingfish" Ingram; July 29: Sleater-Kinney; Aug. 30: Built to Spill; Sept. 16: GWAR.

Byham Theater

May 1: Joanne Shaw Taylor

May 8: Glenn Miller Orchestra

June 18: Lucinda Williams; June 21: WDVE Comedy Festival featuring Harland Williams; June 28: Pete Davidson; July 13: Brad Williams; Sept. 14: Jeff Arcuri; Oct. 18: Michael Blaustein; Nov. 23: Mike Birbiglia.

Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall

May 9: Marc Maron

May 10: John Hiatt

May 11: Dena Blizzard

May 14: Amy Grant

June 11: Daniel O'Donnell; June 15: Mark Normand; Oct. 2: Burton Cummings; Oct. 16: Brian Regan; Oct. 22: Kathy Griffin; Nov. 2: Nick Carter.

Rivers Casino

May 17: Better Than Ezra

June 7: Theresa Caputo; June 13: Andrew Schulz; July 20: Comedy Jam with Steve Byrne and Colin Jost; Sept. 27: Barenaked Ladies.

Hollywood Casino at The Meadows

May 18: Ginger Billy

June 14: Rodney Carrington; July 19: Ludacris; Aug. 10: Shaggy; Sept. 20: Easton Corbin; Sept. 27: Tesla.

1st Summit Arena, Johnstown

May 18: Johnstown Symphony plays the music of The Police

July 23: Godsmack; Aug. 20: ZZ Top.

MCG Jazz Concert Hall

May 11: Kim and Kayla Waters

Oct. 18-19: Amina Figarova Sextet and the Matsiko World Orphan Choir; Oct. 26: Lee Ritenour & Dave Grusin; Nov. 9: Abdullah Ibrahim Trio; Dec. 7: Christian Sands.

Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival

May 31: Pokey LaFarge

June 1: Los Lonely Boys; June 2: Martha Redbone; June 3: Pittsburgh Symphony; June 4: Nicole Zuraitis; June 5: Ozomatli; June 6: Say She She; June 7: Doom Flamingo; June 8: Sugarhill Gang & The Furious Five; June 9: Ben Folds.

More: Free Pittsburgh concert festival brings Ben Folds, Sugarhill Gang, Los Lonely Boys & PSO

Acrisure Stadium

June 1: Kenny Chesney with Zac Brown Band

PNC Park

July 27: Def Leppard, Journey, Steve Miller Band; Sept. 1: Green Day and Smashing Pumpkins.

Carnegie Music Hall of Oakland

June 17: Little Feat; Aug. 26: Waxahatchee.

Heinz Hall

June 24-25: Laufey with the Pittsburgh Symphony (second night sold out); July 8: Norah Jones; July 10: Cody Fry; July 28: Johnny Mathis.

Thunderbird Cafe

June 22: The Vindys; Sept. 18: Old 97's; Sept. 21: The Record Company.

Hard Rock Cafe

May 21: Albert Cummings

Nov. 1: Motorcycle Drive By.

Crafthouse Stage & Grill

May 5: Goodbye June

May 18: Mitch Rossell

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Others

May 5: Olive Klug and June Henry, Spirit Hall, Pittsburgh; May 14: Stephane Wrembel Quartet, Pittsburgh Winery; May 20: Matthew Morrison, Greer Cabaret Theater, Pittsburgh (sold out); May 21: P.O.D., Preserving Concerts, New Kensington; June 14: Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials with Billy The Kid & The Regulators; South Park; June 17: Howie Alexander, August Wilson African American Cultural Center; June 29: Chris Lane, Beaver County's Boom on The Bridge; July 8: Yakov Smirnoff, Strand Theater, Zelienople; July 9: Whiskey Myers, Foundations Amphitheater, Youngstown; July 13: Justin Moore, No Offseason Entertainment, West Deer Township; July 14: Patty Griffin, Hartwood Acres; July 20: The Verve Pipe, Zelienople Horse Trading Days; Sept. 1: Cole Swindell, Iron City Stage, Creighton; Sept. 7-8: The Killers, SZA, Wiz Khalifa and Crowded House, Hazelwood Green, Pittsburgh.

Scott Tady is entertainment editor at The Times and easy to reach at stady@gannett.com.

This article originally appeared on Beaver County Times: Outdoor concerts return to Stage AE and Star Lake; here's May lineup