Four great concerts this weekend in Sonoma County

As the seasons begin to change, the summer outdoor concert series and music festivals gradually pack up and put away their sound gear for next year, and live music moves indoors for the fall and winter. But fans never have to worry. The music scene doesn’t even slow down to change gears.

This weekend alone, Sonoma County music fans can look forward to a quartet of noteworthy live concerts, each in a very different style. Here’s a quick look:

1. Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth, best-known for her role as Glinda in “Wicked,” takes the stage at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25, in the Green Music Center’s Weill Hall in Rohnert Park, with lawn seating also available. The singer and actress also has a healthy list of screen credits, including “West Wing” and “Pushing Daisies” on television, as well as film appearances in the 2006 version of “The Pink Panther” and the 2005 reboot of “Bewitched.” Schooled in gospel singing as a child in her home state of Oklahoma and later trained to sing opera, Chenowith brings a big voice and a polished musical theater style to every performance. Tickets start at $35. 866-955-6040, gmc.sonoma.edu.

2. The bad boys of rockin’ blues, George Thorogood and the Destroyers, best-known for the hits “Bad to the Bone” and “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer,” bring their “Badder Than Ever” tour to Santa Rosa’s Wells Fargo Center for a blistering one-night-only performance at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25. Admission: $36-$46. 546-3600, wellsfargocenterarts.org.

3. One of the later festivals of the season, the annual Earlefest in Santa Rosa, stars one of American rock music’s most musically versatile, lyrically inventive and relentlessly during singer-songwriters, John Hiatt. Whether he’s performing the moving and deeply personal ballad “Have a Little Faith in Me,” the infectiously rhythmic “Tennessee Plates” or the rocking memoir “Slow Turning,” Hiatt always engages his audience. He’ll appear with his band, The Combo, at the festival. a benefit for the Earle Baum Center for the Blind. The festival opens at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, at the center, 4539 Occidental Road. The lineup also includes Doyle Bramhall II, Amy McCarley, One Grass Two Grass and more. Tickets cost $45 in advance, or $50 at the gate the day of the show. earlefest.com.

4. Always saucy, irreverent and full of fun, multi-faceted cabaret-style singer Storm Large -- yes, that’s her real name -- makes a triumphant return to the Green Music Center’s intimate Schroeder Hall, right across the lawn from Weill Hall, the scene of her wildly successful show last October. She made her name on TV’s “Rock Star: Supernova,” before going on to become a frequent vocalist with the sophisticated ensemble Pink Martini. This time the singer from Portland, Ore., and her Le Bonheur ensemble will present their unique mix of French chanson, jazz, heavy metal and smokehouse lounge music in two shows, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 27. Admission: $30 for each concert. 866-955-6040, sonoma.edu.

You can reach staff writer Dan Taylor at 521-5243 or dan.taylor@pressdemocrat.com. On Twitter @danarts.