From hosting stops on the Vans Warped Tour to Manhattan’s famous Country Stampede, Kansas offers a great variety of music genres and beautiful venues for any who crave a more musical summer.

• The Overland Park South Rotary Club will be host to its 20th Jazz in the Woods and Country in the Woods concerts at Corporate Woods in Overland Park. Proceeds from the concerts are donated to local children charities.

Gregg Yowel, 2009 sponsorship chairman, said this year’s jazz event features several major smooth-jazz artists. Jazz in the Woods starts at 6 p.m. both June 12 and June 13. Country in the Woods begins at 4:30 p.m. June 14. All three nights are free and open to the public.

• Topeka’s 22nd annual Sunflower Music Festival features several chamber orchestra and ensemble performances. The free concerts will be in Washburn University’s White Concert Hall every night between June 5 and June 13. The festival also features two performances by Blanche Bryden Student Institute. The institute features musicians ages 16 to 26 from across the country.

• The fourth annual Symphony in the Flint Hills will be June 13 at Doyle Creek Land and Cattle Company, Florence. The Kansas City Symphony will play various songs under Kansas’ night sky starting at 6:45 p.m. Tickets are $60 for adults and $40 for children.

• The 10th annual Rock the Light concert, the largest Midwest Christian music festival, will be this year at Starlight Theatre in Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 4 and Sept. 5. The concert will feature bands like 33 Miles and Pillar. Tickets range from $22 for Sept. 4 tickets to $36 for two-day tickets purchased before June 1.

• If country or contemporary music isn’t your style, you might like the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield. Featuring music from all over the world, this acoustic festival offers genres like bluegrass, Celtic and folk and has famous competitions like the National Bluegrass Banjo Championship and the International Finger Style Guitar Championship.

The festival will be at the Winfield Fairgrounds from Sept. 16 through Sept. 20. One-day passes purchased at the gate cost $35. Five-day passes at the gate cost $90.

• The Wakarusa Music & Camping Festival, perhaps the most famous grass-roots concert in the Midwest, first brought about 40 rock and Indie bands to Clinton Lake State Park, Lawrence, in 2003. The concert has since grown to feature more than 100 artists. Now in its sixth year, the four-day concert has moved to Mulberry Mountain Lodging and Events, Ozark, Ark., from June 4 to June 7. Featured bands this year include Matisyahu and My-Tea Kind. Tickets cost between $59 for general admission Saturday pass and $395 for a VIP pass.