Some 70,000 fans jammed into Gillette Stadium in Foxborough on the night of Sun., June 25, to hear for themselves that U2 has still got it. Bono & Co., who are on a 17-city tour commemorating the 30th anniversary of The Joshua Tree album, didn’t disappoint.

Sticking primarily to a set list consisting of songs from legendary album, the band displayed its customary gusto, tuning into their fans’ emotions with anthems like “Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” and the quiet and reverential ode “Mothers of the Disappeared.”

Those emotions were given full voice when front man Bono, as he often does on stage, stepped back and let the fans enthusiastically sing the lyrics while The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr. played along, breaking up The Joshua Tree celebration with a range of U2 hits like the show openers “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” “Pride (In the Name of Love),” and “Bad,” and the closing cuts from later albums “One” and “Ultraviolet” and the high-energy “Elevation” and “Vertigo.”

July will see some celebrated female Irish/Celtic acts come to Greater Boston and vicinity:

• Mary Black, one of Ireland’s most influential and accomplished female singers, will bring her “Last Call” tour to Eastern Massachusetts this month with two performances, on July 27 at Scituate’s River Club Music Hall [theriverclubmusichall.com] and July 29 at the Cabot Theater in Beverly [thecabot.org]. Black announced a few years ago that she would wind down her performances abroad, but decided to add a second leg to her US tour. The Dublin native first rose to prominence in the 1980s as a solo singer as well as a member of the traditional band De Dannan. Her albums “By the Time It Gets Dark” and “No Frontiers” established her as an international star of folk, contemporary, and traditional genres, and led to her appearance on the landmark compilation recording “A Woman’s Heart,” along with other pioneering Irish female artists like Maura O’Connell and Dolores Keane. She has accumulated numerous honors from, among others, Irish Music Magazine, The Irish Post and Hot Press Awards.

• Another featured performer on “A Woman’s Heart,” Sharon Shannon, will play at the Irish Cultural Centre of New England in Canton on July 8. Over more than two decades, Shannon has taken the Irish accordion into many different settings, from traditional to Appalachian, country, rock, hip-hop, reggae, French-Canadian, and Portuguese music. She has collaborated with such luminaries as Christy Moore, Jackson Browne, Sinead O’Connor and, perhaps most memorably, Steve Earle on his hit song “Galway Girl.” Shannon recently released the album “Sacred Earth.” For information on the concert, see irishculture.org

Last summer, Broadway’s Ciarán Sheehan delivered a heartfelt performance as Billy Bigelow in “Carousel” at Reagle Music Theatre in Waltham. This month, the acclaimed Dublin-born actor, singer, producer, healer returns to Reagle from July 6-16 to star as dashing Gaylord Ravenal in the timeless Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein musical, “Show Boat.”  Boston’s Sarah Oakes Muirhead co-stars as Gaylord’s love interest, Magnolia.