FRIDAY
SweetWater 420 Fest
Featuring Sublime With Rome, Steel Pulse, Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Galactic, G. Love & Special Sauce and more. A move to scenic Centennial Olympic Park comes with the addition of a charge for tickets. This year, the event will feature three stages: the Main Stage, the Solar Stage and the Not So Silent Disco Stage. The latter is being reinvented from last year, when it was called the Silent Disco tent. The EDM craze will be represented on the now Not So Silent Disco Stage with a lineup of Two Fresh, Pretty Lights Music Label Block, George Acosta and others.
3-11 p.m. April 18; 11 a.m.-11 p.m. April 19 and 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. April 20. $18 for three-day weekend pass; $10 daily pass starting April 18 at gate only. Centennial Olympic Park, Atlanta. Tickets: www.sweetwater420fest.com.
Abbey Road LIVE!
The Athens-based tribute band has been expertly playing beloved Beatles songs since 2002. Their repertoire now includes more than 100 Beatles favorites, but these current shows will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Beatlemania with a reproduction of “The Beatles 1962-1966” (aka the Red Album). The double album highlights the band’s early pop classics, including “She Loves You” and “All My Loving,” on into the genius of “Rubber Soul” and “Revolver” with “Eleanor Rigby” and “In My Life.”
8 p.m. April 18. $16 (advance) and $20 (day of show). Variety Playhouse, 1099 Euclid Ave. N.E., Atlanta. 404-524-7354.
SATURDAY
Kristy Lee
She calls herself a “Southern original,” and as soon as you hear the first strains of “Grandma’s Hands,” a searing, vivid slice of bluesy rock, you’ll realize that this Alabama girl is fully authentic. With her band, Dirt Road Revival, the jeans- and baseball cap-wearing singer will “Raise the Dead” with songs from her 2012 album.
With Sarah Peacock. 7 and 9:30 p.m April 19. $15 (advance), $20 (at door) and $75 (reserved table of four). Eddie’s Attic, 515-B N. McDonough St., Decatur. 1-877-725-8849.
Francine Reed
Though she’s a Chicago native steeped in gospel and jazz, Reed has called Atlanta home since the mid-’90s. Her debut solo album, “I Want You to Love Me,” recorded here, featured Lyle Lovett (with whom she toured in the ’80s), and her follow-up, “Can’t Make It on My Own,” offered a duet with Delbert McClinton. Few would argue that Reed hasn’t earned her designation as Georgia’s Queen of the Blues.
8 p.m. April 19. $20-$23 (advance) and $25-$28 (at door). Red Clay Theatre, 3116 Main St., Duluth. 404-478-2749.
WEDNESDAY
Rob Thomas
With his band, Matchbox Twenty, Thomas has traveled up the pop charts nearly two dozen times, with ubiquitous radio hits like “3 a.m.,” “Unwell,” “Bent” and, most recently, the delightful return to form with “She’s So Mean” and “Our Song.” But Thomas, an adroit songwriter, has achieved plenty of success as a solo act as well, evidenced by “Lonely No More,” “Her Diamonds” and the Santana classic “Smooth.” He’s in the midst of a six-week solo tour and is offering fans a generous set list that is well-peppered with familiar MB20 tunes.
8 p.m. April 23. $52.50-$98.50. The Tabernacle, 152 Luckie St., Atlanta. 1-800-745-3000.
