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Summer Concerts: Swap meet, church concerts, noise at the library

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While we want to make certain you know about the Big List of summer concerts that we have available, we also want to alert you to some of the other ways to get out and enjoy St. Louis – ways that have music.

New this year is the St. Louis Swap Meet at the old Lemp Brewery at the east end of Cherokee Street by the Chatillon DeMenil Mansion. Playing at 10:30 a.m. will be the alt country band Trophy Mules.

And in addition to thinking of wineries and festivals, on weekends you might reflect on church. On Saturday, those attending the Seven Holy Founders Parish Picnic (6737 S Rock Hill Rd.)  in Affton, can hear South City Sodas at 1 p.m. and Three the Hard Way at 7 that evening. Sunday afternoon, the Confluence Chamber Orchestra will perform at 3 p.m. at St. Joseph Catholic Church (106 North Meramec Ave.). At 4 p.m., the Community Gospel Choir will give its final concert of the season at Concordia Lutheran in Kirkwood (505 South Kirkwood Rd.).

Later in the week, May 21, the last of the Not so Quiet concerts will be at the Central branch of the St. Louis Public Library. Over the summer, the concerts go outside – and can be found in The Big List under St. Louis, Live on Olive. But this coming week, the auditorium will start rocking at 7 p.m. to Silver Bullet STL Unplugged.

Have concerts to add? Send the 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.