Live music in Italy isn’t all opera. Music lovers of all stripes will be heading to Italy this summer for live concerts, some under the stars, featuring top international performers. In Perugia the annual Umbria Jazz Festival will be drawing the world’s top talent as well as several USA college jazz group s [more about that later this week]
Here are a few of the live concerts scheduled for Italy in July:

July 1: Bob Dylan, Lucca
July 2: Bob Dylan, Turin
July 3: Toto: Milan
July 5: Toto, Rome
July 10: Billy Idol, Lucca
July 10: Burt Bacharach, Pescara
July 11: Elton John, Lucca
July 11: Burt Bacharach, Rome
July 12: Elton John, Rome
July 12: George Benson, Milan
July 13: Burt Bacharach, Tortona
July 15: Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, Perugia – Umbria Jazz
July 18: Incognito: Perugia – Umbria Jazz
July 19: Toto, Taormina
July 20: Santana, Verona
July 21: Sting, Barolo
July 21: Santana: Pistoia
July 24: Sting, Pistoia
July 26: Lenny Kravitz, Lucca
July 27: Lenny Kravitz, Rome
July 27 Patti Smith, Collegno
July 28: Patti Smith, Gardone
July 28: Snoop Dog and Marcus Miller, Lucca
July 29: Lenny Kravitz, Padua