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Help spread the good word about Free Concerts

Vince Martin at Lafayette Park image2015 is the fourth year for Free Concerts St. Louis. This calendar website is arguably the best source for free events that feature music at concerts, fairs, and festivals. Our commitment is to serve the casual entertainment audience which includes organizers, sponsors, vendors, bands, and of course, the fans.

Here are five easy ways to help share these listings and get more people to come out and enjoy the music.

1. Share page links via email or text message

We bet you have fun-loving friends and family who don’t know about FreeConcertsSTL.com. Do them a favor by copying the website address and sending it to them in an email or text message.

2. Share via word of mouth

We named this website because it describes what it is — a website featuring Free Concerts in St. Louis. Why not drop our name in casual conversation? If you can’t remember the web link — freeconcertsstl.com — tell them to just Google “free concerts st. louis” and we’ll come up at or near top of page one of the search results.

3. Share on Social Media

Free Concerts St. Louis Sharing Buttons imageWe make it easy to share any event or page to your Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or Pinterest page. Click the buttons at the bottom of the content and follow the prompts.

4. Follow us on Social Media

Free Concerts St. Louis Social Media Sharing buttons imageThe next best thing to the community that exists at a free event is the virtual community enabled by social media. We love it when people share and comment about their free concert experiences on their and our social media pages. Click the buttons the top of our website to link directly to the social media accounts we maintain.

5. Embed our calendar on your website

Do you own a website? Would you like to display our event calendar on it? Use the email form on our Contact page to let us know you’re interested. We’ll get back to you right away to tell you how.


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The ticket giveaway has ended.

Denise Clothier and Chris Filsinger are the winners of one pair of tickets each for the December 12 performance by Swing St. Louis — one pair for each show, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. at the Robert G. Reim Theatre in Kirkwood, Missouri.

Swing St. Louis Christmas show ticket giveaway imageIf you like the pace to change every two to three minutes. . . this show is for you! Once Gracie and Lacy hit the stage, there’s no telling what will happen next. One minute you’re in NYC with comedian Gracie Allen, the next minute, you’re ring-jing-a-jingling in the style of the Andrews Sisters and good old Bing. Blink your eyes, and you’ll find a tap-dancing Gangster in Harlem, a twelve-foot Christmas tree, a Rockette wannabe, and a dancing pony on the loose – all cleverly wrapped into a stunning 90 minute performance, complete with vintage-style costuming, and a climactic Veteran’s tribute.

I’ll Be Home For Christmas
12/12/14 − 2pm & 7pm
Robert G. Reim Theatre
Kirkwood, MO

Click here to view the trailer on YouTube.

To purchase tickets, to go Metrotix.com. Or you can call them at 314-534-1111

You can also bring a group; special rates available for groups of 10+ and 20+.


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Contest Ended

Congratulations to winners: Robert Officer and Jen Phelan.

Judy Garland Swing St. Louis image

Remembering Judy Garland — presented in partnership with STL250.

Swing St. Louis has provided FreeConcertsSTL.com with two pairs of tickets to the 7 p.m. show on October 11th.

For more information about the show, go to GracieAndLacy.com.

Last week’s featured concerts — Groovethang and Mirage

by Romondo Davis
We braved cool nights this past week to hear two of the St. Louis area’s best dance bands. Thursday evening it was Groovethang, a band we might have missed if they had not been playing in our own community, Creve Coeur; we had already seen them twice this summer.

The crowd on this damp, chilly Thursday night was sparse, but those who braved the cold were rewarded by Groovethang’s two long sets of back-to-back dance hits. The band’s performance was tight and clean overall, but I must say my favorites were their treatment of the Steely Dan songs they did. See our photos here.

Mirage — who we’ve seen at least three times over the previous two seasons — played their only free concert of 2014 Saturday evening. We had two good reasons to make the long drive to Lake St. Louis: we had never attended a free concert at Lake St. Louis’s Windjammer Point, and Mirage drummer, Darren George, personally invited us to come see the show.

Windjammer Point doesn’t feature a grass-covered seating area like most other venues, but the beautiful lake offers a great backdrop and the seating area/parking lot provided ample space for lawn chairs plus a handful of picnic tables. This show was the last in the Lake’s summer concert series and coincided with their 2014 Fall Festival, which probably contributed to the crowd being larger than it might have been due to the cool weather. The festive atmosphere and weather were most likely the reason so many people took the opportunity to dance to the great music of Mirage. See our photos here.

This Week on the Free Concert Scene

Note: Please check our calendar for the up-to-date listings.

Click the items below for times, locations, and more details.

Monday, September 15
Fabulous MoTown Revue at Frontier Park in St. Charles

Tuesday, September 16
Fanfare at the Missouri History Museum
Bob Kuban Band at Tilles Park in Ladue

Wednesday, September 17
Strange Brew “Women of the Blues” on Main Street in St. Charles

Thursday, September 18
River Rats at Kirkwood Station Plaza

Friday, September 19
Taste of St. Louis at Chesterfield Amphitheater
Maddenfest at Brentwood Park
Lunar Levitation at Tremayne Shelter at Creve Coeur Lake

Saturday, September 20
Taste of St. Louis at Chesterfield Amphitheater
Dogtown Street Musicians Festival at Clayton and Tamm Avenue
Maddenfest in Brentwood Park
Old Webster Jazz and Blues Festival at Gore & Lockwood

Sunday, September 14
Taste of St. Louis at Chesterfield Amphitheater
St. Ann Days at St. Ann Park

Be sure to check our website for more events. We hope to see you at a free concert soon.

Last week’s featured concerts — St. Louis Art Fair and Dogs of Society

by Romondo Davis
As the festival season goes into full swing, and the free concert series wind down, we spent our Saturday attending one of each. As the festival season goes into full swing, and the summer concert series winds down, we spent our Saturday attending one of each. Our annual visit to the fabulous annual St. Louis Art Fair in heart of Clayton included a walk by all the artists booths—most offering works out of our decorating budget—but the wide variety of free entertainment was grand. Performers we enjoyed Saturday afternoon included the Hardship Letters, Kevin Bilchik, The Jazz St. Louis All Stars, Joe Mancuso and members of the Clayton High School Busking Club. See our Art Fair photos here.

In the evening we attended the final concert in the Chesterfield Summer Concert Series featuring the Elton John tribute band, Dogs of Society. Photos of Dogs of Society here.

And for an added treat, 16-year-old McKenzie Hull—a junior at Francis Howell High School—was featured as the opening act. Keep your eyes and ears open for this rising star. Photos of McKenzie here.

This Week on the Free Concert Scene

Note: Please check our calendar for the up-to-date listings.

Click the items below for times, locations, and more details.

Monday, September 8
Nothing on our calendar for this day.

Tuesday, September 9
Symphony on Art Hill at Art Hill in Forest Park
R&B And Tribute to Chaka Khan by Trish Haynes-Keys at the Missouri History Museum

Wednesday, September 10
STL Symphony Chamber Concert at Alton High School Performing Arts Theatre
Griffin & The Gargoyles in Downtown Clayton

Thursday, September 11
Blue Steel USAF Academy Band at Chesterfield Amphitheater
Evergreen at Kirkwood Station Plaza
St. Louis Banjo Club at 6432 Gravois, St. Louis
GrooveThang at Faust Park in Chesterfield

Friday, September 12
Catfish Willie, The Well Hungarians, Illumination at Frontier Park in St. Charles
Fabulous MoTown Revue, Greentree Festival at Kirkwood Park
St. Louis World’s Fare at Art Hill in Forest park
The Buckhannon Brothers at 370 Lakeside Park in St. Peters
Bottoms Up Blues Gang at Tower Grove Park

Saturday, September 13
Irie Sun, Trixie Delight, Carrie and The Catapults, Illumination at Frontier Park in St. Charles
Miss Jubilee and the Humdingers, Johnny Appleseed, Ghost Monkeys, School of Rock, Greentree Festival in Kirkwood Park
Mirage at Windjammer Point in Lake St. Louis

Sunday, September 14
GrooveThang, Babaloo, Illumination at Frontier Park in St. Charles
The Thin Dimes, Cree Rider Family Band, Missouri Fiddlers, Falling Fences, Greentree Festival at Kirkwood Park
Sarah Jane and the Blue Notes at Benton Park in south St. Louis

Be sure to check our website for more events. We hope to see you at a free concert soon.