Concert Update: Jazz Fest adds Peter Frampton and Robert Cray

The Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival today
announced another headliner for its 2013 edition. Guitar Circus featuring Peter
Frampton and Robert Cray will take place Friday, June 28, at Kodak Hall at
Eastman Theatre, Gibbs Street. Tickets to the 7:30 p.m. show will cost $70-$125
(plus service charges) and will go on sale Friday, March 22, exclusively at rochesterjazz.com.

Guitar Circus joins already-announced headliners
Willie Nelson and Family (which has already sold out), Pink Martini, David
Byrne & St. Vincent, Roger Hodgson of Supertramp,
and Bob James and David Sanborn with Steve Gadd.

The festival will run June 21-29 in multiple venues
throughout Rochester’s East End. The full festival line-up will be announced on
Tuesday, March 26. Club Passes are still available to this year’s festival, and
cost $194 plus service charges.

Several other major concerts were announced in the past
week. Make sure to update your calendars with the following:

HIP/HOP/RAP: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Sunday, April 28. RIT Gordon Field House, 1 Lomb Memorial
Dr. $17-$41. 8 p.m. rittickets.com

SKA: Streetlight Manifesto Thursday, June 20. Water Street Music Hall, 204 N. Water St. $17.50-$20. 8 p.m. 352-5600.
waterstreetmusic.com

POP/ROCK: Sugar Ray, Smash Mouth Saturday,
July 27. CMAC, 3355 Marvin Sands Drive, Canandaigua.
$20-$39.50. 7 p.m. 758-5330

HIP-HOP/R’N’B: Kings of the Mic
Tour: LL Cool J w/Ice Cube, Public Enemy, De La Soul Saturday, June 22. CMAC, 3355 Marvin Sands Drive, Canandaigua. Details TBD; on
sale 3/22. cmacevents.com.