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Red Butte Garden plans 31 shows for summer, including Mark Knopfler, Lyle Lovett, Lucinda Williams, Seal and the B-52s

Like the plants it grows on the foothills of Salt Lake City, Red Butte Garden creates its summer concert lineup organically.

“We try to look at each individual opportunity and show as its own kind of living, being thing,” said Chris Mautz, concert promoter for the Red Butte Garden Outdoor Concert Series. “Each of them has their own story to tell.”

The 2019 concert series will have 31 stories to tell, mixing up-and-coming performers like blues rocker Gary Clark Jr. and multi-instrumentalist Tash Sultana with such legendary musicians as Mark Knopfler, Lyle Lovett, Lucinda Williams, Seal and Boz Scaggs.