Sacramento live music: Rebecca Black, Josiah Johnson lead June concerts. Here’s the full list

It’s probably no mystery that we’re big fans of music festivals large and small, of any genre, and exuding all levels of jubilant weirdness. The city of Sacramento is showing some festival love of its own — the window is still open (barely) to apply for grant funding for festivals and events through the City of Festivals 2022-2023 Citywide Special Event Support Program. Check out sacramentofestivals.com; the application period closes Wednesday, May 31.

No need to despair that BottleRock is over and Outside Lands and Aftershock are weeks away — tons of festivals are happening throughout the month (and we’ll get to a couple of regular concerts as well).

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A four-day stew of frisky jams aimed to make Bob Weir blush, the decidedly Dead-centric Just Exactly Perfect Festival kicks off in Placerville with Nipper Brothers and Island of Black and White on Thursday, setting the table for Poor Man’s Whiskey, Achilles Wheel, Love Mischief and Joe Craven & the Sometimes on Friday, China Cats, Red Dirt Ruckus, Ryder Thieves and Grateful Bluegrass Boys Saturday, and Jambassadors, China Cats (again), Hot Mountain Dips and Little Hurricane closing it out Sunday (June 1-4 at Nugget Campground, 6045 Rafters Lane, Kelsey. jepfest.com)

JazzFest by the River returns with two stages of jazz/blues/swing out at the Sacramento Yacht Club, hosting eight total acts including Todd Morgan, Geoffrey Miller Band, Two-Tone Steiny and the Cadillacs, and Crescent Katz (10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, June 3, 3365 Chicory Loop, West Sacramento. $65. jazzfestbytheriver.org).

The ever-ebullient Sacramento Pride Festival — which famously nabbed Lizzo to headline in 2019 right as her superstardom was igniting — has resurgent pop star Rebecca Black topping the Saturday entertainment bill. In a somewhat astounding Lazarus act, Black, now 25, just released her debut full-length pop album “Let Her Burn” in February, more than a decade after her memeable tune “Friday” made the internet burn in 2011, when she was merely 13 years old. Bronze Avery, G Flip, Siena Liggins, Mistress Isabelle Brooks, Naomi Smalls, Plastique Tiara and others also perform throughout one of the city’s biggest and most effervescent celebrations (June 10-11 on Capitol Mall. $15-$25. sacramentopride.org). Later in the month, a separate gathering, 916 Pride Show 6, has indie pop act Blooming Heads, San Francisco songwriter Lucy Broom and Patchnotes all performing at Library of Musiclandria (5:30 p.m. Monday, June 26, 1219 S St. $10. instagram.com/916.growth.gigs)

The cozy Drytown Social Club — a.k.a. “the only wet spot in Drytown” — has staples Forever Goldrush, California Stars, Loose Engines, Longstraw and Texas-based troubadour Cory Cross helming the inaugural Drytown Americana Festival, “from 1 p.m. ’til nightfall” on Saturday, June 10 (15950 Highway 49, Drytown. $20. feistwines.com).

A beloved tradition, the California Bluegrass Association’s Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival is headlined by Bay Area-bred wunderkind Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, whose delightful record “Crooked Tree” netted a Grammy in February in the Best Bluegrass Album category. Blue Highway, Mile Twelve (we’re pretty sure the driving theme is inadvertent here), Rhonda Vincent & the Rage, Jake Blount, Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves and several others round out the bill (June 15-18 at Nevada County Fairgrounds, Grass Valley. californiabluegrass.org)

The venerable Davis Music Festival celebrates its 11th installment with a cache of familiar faces that annually flood the Davis central core with a variety of revelry at multiple venues — somewhat a mini-South by Southwest style setup. Topping the bill are former Head and the Heart frontman Josiah Johnson, dingy L.A. surf/garage rock flamethrower Kaz Mirblouk and Bay Area indie rock maestro John Vanderslice, alongside standouts Ashleigh Flynn & The Riveters, Band of Coyotes, Boot Juice, Dog Party, French Cassettes, Jessica Malone, Katie Knipp Big Band, Megan Slankard, Spacewalker, Th’ Losin’ Streaks, Coffis Brothers, the Nickels Slots, the Snares and many others (June 16-18. $40/$50. davismusicfest.com)

Also celebrating its own 11th birthday, this year’s Owlfest comes in hot with the “chef’s kiss” tagline “this one goes to Eleven!” Long a pilgrimage for various Northern California artists in the Americana/rock/jam/folk and adjacent realms, this year’s hootenanny has stalwarts Jonah Matranga, Forever Goldrush, Sol Peligro and annual host troupe MAU, with Blü Egyptian Band, Loose Engines, the Verge, Max Riley Group, Devon Galley and the Heavy Hold, Mike Blanchard and the Californios, Campfire Crooners and tons more. We also see “kids zone” and “bloody mary bar” on the list of activities, so we’re gonna say all bases are covered here (June 23-25 at Blue Mountain Event Center, 7250 Mitchell Mill Road, Wilseyville. owlfestmusic.weebly.com).

If you’ve ever knocked a couple back at Grass Valley’s boisterous (and reportedly haunted) hooch parlor the Dew Drop Inn, you know their Grass-apalooza is sure to be a real humdinger! Eighteen rockers on two outdoor stages include veteran duo Dog Party, Irish-born Sacramento power trio ONOFF, The Hooks, Vikus, Tool tribute act Third Eye Spiral, Cassette Idols and tons more. (1 p.m. Saturday, June 24, 19729 Cerrito Road, Grass Valley. $20 adv./$25 door).

An amuse-bouche on the evening before the Folsom Pro Rodeo (which starts July 1), the Ride Into the Music Festival brings a fireballing quartet of country acts — Chris Lane, Tyler Rich, Canaan Smith and Moonshine Crazy — to The Field at Lakeside (4 p.m. Fri. June 30, Oak Avenue Parkway & East Bidwell Street, $69. rideintothemusic.com).

Finally, our lifelong friends at the indelible High Sierra Music Festival have a red-hot lineup (even by their lofty standards) topped by Jason Isbell, Thievery Corporation, Marcus King, moe. and Galactic, with must-see undercards such as Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country, S.G. Goodman, the Heavy Heavy and Katie Pruitt. (June 29-July 2 at Plumas County Fairgrounds, Quincy. highsierramusic.com).

Looking ahead, the inaugural Gambler’s Run Festival at Crystal Bay in North Lake Tahoe has Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Shovels & Rope, Moon Hooch and more over three days in mid-July (tixr.com). And, if you heard a shriek of excitement emanating from Sacramento Beat H.Q. last week, that was over the announcement that Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals are headlining the Farm-to-Fork Festival in September, with Cannons, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Danielle Ponder and others in the mix (farmtofork.com/lineup/).

On the “non-festival” music for the month, we sadly begin on a somber note:

Expect the floodgates of love and celebration to swing wide open when the local music community gathers to remember the dearly departed Jay Spooner, who tragically passed away in April. With his keen eye and warm smile, Spooner was a fixture of the local scene for decades, perhaps best known for the untold thousands of photos he snapped of his fellow local rockers. Jay Spooner: A Celebration of Live begins with a period of sharing and remembrance at 4:30 p.m., with music to follow from Michelle Gaudette & Emil Dalkey, Devon Galley, Grub Dog, the Californios, Orange Scene, Hans Eberbach, Las Pesadillas and Drop Dead Red, with other acts likely to join the fun (4 p.m. Tuesday, June 6, at the Torch Club. No cover. torchclub.net)

If you move fast, you might snag tickets for enigmatic guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela, who are touring behind their juggernaut new record “In Between Thoughts ... A New World” (recorded with a full orchestra) and land in Davis with a delicious opening set from Bahamas (7:30 p.m. Sunday, June 4, at Mondavi Center. $25-$49. mondaviarts.org).

The Wednesday Blues & Bourbon series is stacked through the end of the month, spearheaded by Halo Rider, a collaboration between renowned Chicago-based fiddle player Anne Harris and acclaimed singer/songwriter Markus James, on Wednesday, May 31. The June series has the fiery Zola Moon on June 7, Shane Dwight on June 14, and a pair of record release parties for multi-instrumentalist Paris Clayton & Friends on June 21 and Alabama Mike & The Revelators on June 28 (All shows 6:30 p.m. at Starlet Room. harlows.com)

Finally, “heavy psych” rockers King Buffalo stop off at Harlow’s on the way up the hill for their set at the aforementioned High Sierra festival. An atmospheric sludgefest guaranteed to make fans of Clutch perk up and take notice, their 2022 record “Regenerator” is a minefield of progressive riffs, murky undertows and frenetic explorations — like a cool damp wood you somehow don’t mind being lost in (With Ghost Mesa. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 28. $20/$25. harlows.com).