Paula Cole and Jill Sobule, two female singer-songwriters who in summers past might be gearing up for a run on the Lilith Fair, will come together for their own joint tour.

Cole and Sobule are slated to play some 25 cities on the tour, which kicks off on July 5 with an appearance at the multi-act Summerfest concert in Milwaukee.

With the absence of the Sarah McLachlan-fronted Lilith from this year's tour slate, more female artists are hooking up and heading out on their own accord.

Tara MacLean recently announced plans to take a few other acts on the road as part of a "Girls Room" outing, which begins on July 10 in Seattle (see "Tara MacLean Tapped For 'Girls Room" Tour").

Cole will be touring to support her critically-acclaimed 1999 release, "Amen," while Sobule, who performed Neil Diamond's "I'm A Believer" at the Songwriters Hall Of Fame induction earlier this month, will be out touting her new LP, "Pink Pearl."

Dates for Paula Cole and Jill Sobule's summer tour:

• 7/5 - Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest
• 7/6 - Fort Wayne, IN @ Pierre¹s
• 7/7 - Muskegon, MI @ Summer Celebration
• 7/8 - Bloomington, IN @ Bluebird
• 7/10 - St. Louis, MO @ Firehouse
• 7/11 - Columbia, MO @ Blue Note
• 7/12 - Omaha, NE @- Ranch Bowl
• 7/13 - Boston, MA @ Copley Square - WBOS radio show
• 7/14 - Fort Collins, CO @ Aggie Theater
• 7/15 - Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theater
• 7/16 - Boulder, CO @ Fox Theater
• 7/18 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Zephyr Club
• 7/21 - Lake Tahoe, CA @ Caesar¹s Tahoe
• 7/22 - Lake Tahoe, CA @ Caesar¹s Tahoe
• 7/23 - Petaluma, CA @ Mystic Theater
• 7/25 - Sacramento, CA @ Marlows
• 7/26 - Arcata, CA @ Cafe Tomo
• 7/29 - Seattle, WA @ WOMAD
• 8/1 - Medford, OR @ Ginger Rogers Theater
• 8/2 - San Francisco, CA @ Slims
• 8/3 - Ventura, CA @ Majestic Ventura Theater
• 8/5 - Chicago, IL @ Street Fair
• 8/6 - San Juan Capistrano, CA @ Coach House
• 8/7 - San Diego, CA @ Humphrey's Concert By The Bay
• 8/9 - Los Angeles, CA @ House of Blues
• 8/10 - Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues

• Paula Cole
• Jill Sobule

Paula Cole, Me'Shell N'degeocello, Femi Kuti, Los Lobos, and Sonia Dada will be among the global music artists who will descend on Seattle this summer for the third edition of the WOMAD USA festival.

• Paula Cole
• Femi Kuti
• Los Lobos

They say that New Year's Eve brings together strange bedfellows, and that could well be the tagline for a special December 31 concert at a New York City nightclub featuring singer-songwriter Paula Cole and hip-hop impresarios The Roots.

-- David Basham

• Paula Cole

Songstress Paula Cole, the first-ever female to receive a Grammy Award nomination for a Best Producer (for her 1996 album "This Fire"), has kicked her cowboy habit and added a band on her new album "Amen."

• Paula Cole

Devoted fans of the WB series "Dawson's Creek" are getting a chance to visit the burg where the show is filmed and take in a concert featuring acts familiar from the show's soundtrack.

-- Kim Stitzel

• Paula Cole
• Shawn Mullins

As her new album, "Spirit," continues to hold its own near the top of the album charts, Jewel has agreed to perform at the upcoming "Women in Music" benefit concert, scheduled for January 25 at New York City's Madison Square Garden.

• Paula Cole
• Jewel

A third batch of Lilith Fair dates go on sale this weekend, as fans in New York, Atlanta, St. Louis, Chicago, and other towns will get a chance at tickets.

The ticket sales come in the wake of the news that Lilith vets, Sarah McLachlan, Paula Cole, Shawn Colvin, Sheryl Crow, Jewel, Fiona Apple, and Joan Osborne will join Tori Amos, Ani DiFranco, and others in the pages of "Solo: Women Singer Songwriters In Their Own Words." The book, due in August will feature those familiar performers in never-before seen interviews and photos.

If you'd rather see the real thing, here are the Lilith dates that will go on sale this weekend:

• 7/15 - New York, NY @ Jones Beach Amphitheater w/ Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Indigo Girls, Missy Elliott, Tracy Bonham, Morcheeba, Heather Nova, Imani Coppola, Garrison Starr
• 7/16 - New York, NY @ Jones Beach Amphitheater w/ Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Indigo Girls, Missy Elliott, Morcheeba, Kacy Crowley, Paris Hampton
• 7/24 - Atlanta, GA @ Coca-Cola Lakewood Amphitheater w/ Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, Queen Latifah, Meredith Brooks, Rebekah, Holly Cole, Holly McNarland 7/31 - Austin, TX @ South Park Meadows w/ Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, Erykah Badu, Liz Phair, Lucinda Williams, Diana King, Ebba Forsberg
• 8/4 - St. Louis, MO @ Riverport Amphitheater w/ Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, Liz Phair, Victoria Williams, Diana King, Catie Curtis
• 8/5 - Chicago, IL @ New World Music Theatre w/ Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, Liz Phair, Victoria Williams, Diana King, Catie Curtis, Bic Runga
• 8/8 - Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center w/ Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Luscious Jackson, Emmylou Harris, Victoria Williams, Chantal Kreviazuk, Catie Curtis, Bic Runga
• 8/10 - Hershey, PA @ HersheyPark w/ Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Emmylou Harris, Luscious Jackson, Neneh Cherry, Abra Moore, Chantal Kreviazuk, Letters To Cleo, Bic Runga

• Fiona Apple
• Paula Cole
• Jewel
• Sarah McLachlan

After selling out several dates when the first wave of Lilith Fair tickets went on sale last weekend, concertgoers in Portland, Detroit, Raleigh, Charlotte, and a number of other cities will get their chance this weekend.

Last weekend, fans in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Albuquerque, Oklahoma City, Indianapolis, and other early Lilith destinations snatched up tickets, and on Saturday tickets for 12 more dates (including the tour's opening date in Portland, Oregon) go on sale.

As we previously reported, this year's outing will mix tried and true Lilith vets (Sheryl Crow, Paula Cole, Sarah McLachlan, etc.) with a hip-hop and R&B flavor (Missy Elliot, Erykah Badu, Queen Latifah, etc.)

Here are the dates that will be available this weekend (for a complete Lilith itinerary, see "Lilith Vets Joined By Badu, Latifah, Missy As Itinerary Announced," and for more on the tour, visit the official site at lilithfair.excite.com):

• 6/19 - Portland, OR @ Portland Meadows w/Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Indigo Girls, Erykah Badu, Sinead O'Connor, K's Choice, Billie Myers, Lhasa, Tara Maclean
• 7/6 - Detroit, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theater w/ Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Indigo Girls, Sinead O'Connor, Me'Shell Ndegeocello, Mono, N'Dea Davenport, Litany
• 7/7 - Detroit, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theater w/ Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, Indigo Girls, Sinead O'Connor, Heather Nova, Imani Coppola, Litany
• 7/8 - Detroit, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theater w/ Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, Me'Shell Ndegeocello, Tracy Bonham, Heather Nova, Imani Coppola, Litany
• 7/10 - Rochester, NY @ Finger Lakes Performing Arts Center w/ Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, Lauryn Hill, Tracy Bonham, Heather Nova, Imani Coppola, Paris Hampton
• 7/11 - Hartford, CT @ Meadows Music Theater w/ Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, Lauryn Hill, Tracy Bonham, Heather Nova, Imani Coppola, Garrison Starr
• 7/18 - Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion w/ Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Indigo Girls, Missy Elliott, Morcheeba, Beth Orton, Holly McNarland, Kacy Crowley, Trish Murphy, Dead Girls and Others
• 7/19 - Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion w/ Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Indigo Girls, Missy Elliott, Morcheeba, Beth Orton, Holly McNarland, Kacy Crowley, Trish Murphy
• 7/21 - Virginia Beach, VA @ GTE Virgina Beach Amphitheater w/ Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Indigo Girls, Missy Elliott, Morcheeba, Beth Orton, Holly McNarland, Kacy Crowley, Trish Murphy
• 7/22 - Raleigh, NC @ Hardee's Walnut Creek Amphitheater w/ Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, Queen Latifah, Meredith Brooks, Rebekah, Beth Orton, Holly McNarland, Trish Murphy
• 7/23 - Charlotte, NC @ Blockbuster Pavilion w/ Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, Queen Latifah, Meredith Brooks, Rebekah, Holly Cole, Holly McNarland, Trish Murphy
• 7/24 - Atlanta, GA @ Coca-Cola Lakewood Amphitheater w/ Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, Queen Latifah, Meredith Brooks, Rebekah, Holly Cole, Holly McNarland
• 8/3 - Nashville, TN @ Starwood Amphitheater w/ Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, Liz Phair, Victoria Williams, Diana King, Catie Curtis, Six Pence

• Sheryl Crow
• Paula Cole
• Sarah McLachlan
• Missy Elliott
• Erykah Badu

Mariah Carey will join Paula Cole and Matchbox 20 at Radio City Music Hall on May 31 at a benefit sponsored by New York's Z-100 Radio.

Some proceeds from the show will go to PAX, an anti-violence group co-founded by Daniel Gross, whose brother Matthew of the band Bush Pilots was critically wounded last year in a shooting atop the Empire State Building. Tickets for the show go on sale Friday.

The day before the Z-100 show, Mariah will play another radio station concert, the annual KISS-FM show at the Great Woods outside of Boston.

• Mariah Carey
• Paula Cole
• Matchbox Twenty

Smashing Pumpkins, Paula Cole, Marcy Playground, and Fastball have been added to a H.O.R.D.E. festival line-up that already includes Blues Traveler, Ben Harper, Alana Davis and others.

With Lollapalooza out of commission this summer, H.O.R.D.E. founder John Popper had more room to maneuver in signing on bands for this summer's outing. The Blues Traveler frontman seems to have followed the trend that he began last summer when his festival moved away from the earthy love-in it had been to more of a straight ahead alternative showcase with acts like Beck, Soul Coughing, Ben Folds Five and others on board.

This year's tour gets underway on July 9 at River's Edge in Somerset, Wisconsin and wraps up on September 5 in Portland, Oregon.

Blues Traveler will be joined for at least five July dates by Smashing Pumpkins, and later in the tour by Paula Cole for a three week stretch. Fastball will hop on the tour sometime in August. H.O.R.D.E.'s main stage will also feature singer/songwriter Ben Harper, Canadian favorites Barenaked Ladies, and jazz-influenced vocalist Alana Davis.

The tour's second stage will feature turns by Marcy Playground, Robert Bradley's Backwater Surprise, and Chris Stills, son of 60s songwriter Stephen Stills. David Garza, Fiji Mariners, Emmet Swimming, Agents Of Good Roots, and Getaway People will also be among the acts playing the tour's second stage.

Tickets go on sale Friday for a show in Bonner Springs, Kansas, and on Saturday tickets will be available for shows in Oklahoma City; Noblesville, Indiana; Clarkston, Michigan; Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; Cincinnati, Ohio; Columbus, Ohio; Burgettstown, Pennsylvania; Canadaigua, New York; and Boston.

Here's where the H.O.R.D.E. tour will be stopping this year:

• 7/9 - Somerset, WI @ River's Edge
• 7/10 - East Troy, WI @ Alpine Valley
• 7/11 - Tinley Park, IL @ The World
• 7/12 - Maryland Heights, OH @ Riverport Amph.
• 7/14 - Bonner Springs, KS @ Sandstone Amph.
• 7/15 - Oklahoma City, OK @ All Sports Stadium
• 7/17 - Noblesville, IN @ Deer Creek
• 7/18 - Clarkston, MI @ Pine Knob
• 7/19 - Clarkston, MI @ Pine Knob
• 7/21 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Theater
• 7/22 - Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Amph.
• 7/24 - Columbus, OH @ Polaris Amph.
• 7/25 - Burgettestown, PA @ Star Lake Amph.
• 7/26 - Canandaigua, New York @ Finger Lakes
• 7/28 - Toronto, ONT @ Molsen Park Amph.
• 7/30 - Mansfield, MA @ Great Woods
• 7/31 - Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center
• 8/2 - Saratoga Springs, NY @ SPAC
• 8/4 - Hartford, CT @ The Meadows
• 8/5 - Wantaugh, NY @ Jones Beach Theater
• 8/7 - Darien Center, NY @ Darien Lakes Amph.
• 8/8 - Camden, NJ @ Blockbuster E Center
• 8/11 - Virginia Beach, VA @ GTE Amph.
• 8/12 - Raleigh, NC @ Walnut Creek Amph.
• 8/14 - Antioch, TN @ Starwood Amph.
• 8/15 - Charlotte, NC @ Blockbuster Pavilion
• 8/16 - Atlanta, GA @ Georgia International Horse Park
• 8/19 - Live Oak, FL @ Suwanee Park
• 8/20 - Birmingham, AL @ Oak Mountain Amph.
• 8/22 - Austin, TX @ South Park Meadows
• 8/23 - Dallas, TX @ Starplex Amph.
• 8/25 - Phoenix, AZ @ Desert Sky Pavilion
• 8/27 - Irvine, CA @ Irvine Meadows Amph.
• 8/28 - Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amph.
• 8/29 - Concord, CA @ Concord Pavilion
• 9/3 - Boise, ID @ Idaho Center Amph.
• 9/4 - George, WA @ The Gorge
• 9/5 - Portland, OR @ Portland Meadows

• Blues Traveler
• Paula Cole
• Fastball
• Marcy Playground
• The Smashing Pumpkins

• Paula Cole