Music

September 24

Bill's Bar: Jimmie's Chicken Shack

September 25

BankBoston Pavilion: 10,000 Maniacs

Axis: Lamb

Boston Folk Festival: Eileen Ivers Band, Katy Moffatt, Kennedys, Richard Shindell

Middle East: Sally Timms

September 25-26

WFNX CollegeFest (Hynes Convention Center): Angry Salad, Face To Face, Shootyz Groove, the Gravel Pit, Dispatch

September 26

WBCN Radio Show: 311, Ben Folds Five, Buckcherry, G Love and Special Sauce

Middle East: Men At Work

September 27

Avalon: Sisters Of Mercy

September 28

Worcester Centrum: Family Values tour (feat. Crystal Method, DMX, Filter, Limp Bizkit, Staind)

September 30

Paradise: Dance Hall Crashers, Limp, No Use For A Name

October 1

Avalon: Gov't Mule, Chris Whitley

Orpheum: Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris

October 2

Passim's: Carrie Newcomer

October 3

Paradise: Church, Baby Ray

October 4

Paradise: Echo & The Bunnymen

October 6

Avalon: Underworld

October 9

City Hall Plaza: Ben Folds Five, Dido, Duran Duran, Ellis Paul, Fleming & John, Jeremy Toback, Jude, NRBQ, Thisway, Train, Vonda Shepard

Worcester Centrum: Lynyrd Sknyrd

October 10

Foxboro Stadium: Angry Salad, Blondie, Citizen King, Entrain, Fastball, Ja Spirit, Kendall Payne, Luscious Jackson, Melissa Etheridge, Merrie Amsterburg, Natalie Merchant, Pretenders, Sixpence None the Richer, Sugar Ray, Susan Tedeschi

Sanders Theater: Dianne Reeves, Joe Lovano, Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Nicholas Payton, Rocking In Rhythm

October 12

Middle East: Jonathan Richman

Paradise: Len

Avalon: Robbie Williams

October 13

Paradise: The Art Of Noise

October 14

Avalon: Tricky, Stroke

October 15

Middle East: Agents Of Good Roots

October 21

Sanders: Bela Fleck and Bluegrass sessions

Orpheum: Elvis Costello

October 23

Middle East: Magnetic Fields

Passim's: Susan Werner

October 24

Middle East: Ash

October 29

Passim's: Lucy Kaplansky

November 5

Middle East: Sloan

November 27-28

Orpheum: Sting

Other events of note

Boston Phoenix Best Of Music Awards: Once a year, the Phoenix takes over Landsdowne Street and surrounds the clubs inside and out with music. Cracker, Elliott Smith, Buffalo Tom, and others played last year's event, which took place during spring reading period.

Boston Best of Music Awards.