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Summer concerts: Celebrating Route 66 and local bands

Washington University Medical Center

Get your kicks on Route 66 — or at least the celebrate the Mother Road with the first-ever Route 66 Festival in downtown Kirkwood on Saturday. The festival starts early — 8 a.m. — with vintage cars arriving into downtown Kirkwood. At 10:15 am, the cars will begin to depart on their eight-day journey to Santa Monica, Calif. Throughout the day, there will be live bands in the Station Plaza across from City Hall as well as a variety of family-friendly activities, including Disney characters. Rev up those engines.

OK, it's not free, but at $10, the RFT Music Showcase is a pretty good deal. The event starts at 1 p.m., Saturday and goes until 3 a.m. More than 70 local bands will be playing in 10 separate venues in the Grove neighborhood along Manchester between Vandeventer and Kingshighway. Click here for a schedule of bands and venues and info about buying wristbands.

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We are looking for other free, outdoor concert series to add. We have contacted some and will get the information onto the chart as soon as possible. Check back weekly for information about upcoming concerts.

Send information to dkorando@stlpublicradio.org.

Donna Korando started work in journalism at SIU’s Daily Egyptian in 1968. In between Carbondale and St. Louis Public Radio, she taught high school in Manitowoc, Wis., and worked at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She was the copy editor and letters editor for the editorial page from 1973-77. As an editorial writer from 1977-87, she covered Illinois and city politics, education, agriculture, family issues and sub-Saharan Africa. When she was editor of the Commentary Page from 1987-2003, the page won several awards from the Association of Opinion Page Editors. From 2003-07, she headed the features copy desk.