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When Buffett takes the stage at Klipsch Music Center on June 23, he’ll have the local restaurateur and longtime stage manager to thank for it.

“I like doing this work, and constantly making music, and being around people who make music,” says Myers. “I always wondered if I’d get homesick, but I finally found something that I love.”

A weekend of events called ArtsFest leads up to the Broadway star’s June 26 performance.

“What’s not to love about a parade? Floats, motorcycles, walking groups, drag queens, hot men.”

This year’s battle for world athletic-themed-comedy domination throws down June 6 to 11 on the local troupe’s stage.

Indy Pride, the city’s 21st annual tribute to all things LGBT, is finally old enough to get a drink at Gregs. Here are the five moments we’re anticipating at this year’s fest, which kicks off Saturday, June 4, and draws to a close on June 12 with a Survivors Brunch—for everyone who made it through a week of Pride festivities and lived to tell the tale.

Star of truTV’s The Carbonaro Effect is coming to Indianapolis for the first time and promises to delight, amaze, and fool you.

“There will be a lot of those songs [from the new album] and a mix from everything else,” says lead singer Stu Mackenzie. “We always wing it and see what will work on that particular night.”

“We’ve been coming to Naptown ever since the ’60s,” says Clinton. “We go way back with Indianapolis.”

Catch casual, monthly jazz riffs by moonlighting ISO players every first Tuesday of the month at the Chatterbox.

“He was angry and hurt that his home state had not embraced him,” says IU rock professor Glenn Gass.

“Choose your playing partners carefully.”

“I have a terrible sense of direction. I’ve always said I could drive in the Indianapolis 500 and still get lost.”

2014 Voice champ and IUPUI graduate will sing “Back Home Again in Indiana” with accompaniment by the Indianapolis Children’s Choir for the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 this year.