The Norton Museum of Art has successfully used a live music series, Art After Dark, to increase attendance since 2009. Starting out monthly, AAD advanced to every Thursday in 2011, helping the museum draw a record number of visitors last summer. An encore might appear difficult, but the Norton may have found just the right combination of sight and sound.

Next Thursday’s Summer SOULstice (norton.org/summersoulstice) occurs on the first day of summer, and features an extended lineup of notable regional performers to coincide with the opening of Clubs, Joints and Honky-Tonks: Photographers Experience the Music Scene, which runs through September 30.

Norton curator Tim B. Wride chose the exhibit’s 75-plus photographs to illustrate the effect that audiences and venues have on live shows, rather than focusing on performers themselves. Contributors include Lynn Goldsmith, Henry Horenstein, David Scheinbaum, Jeff Dunas, Woodstock photographer Elliott Landy, international touring DJ Moby, and filmmakers Jeff Krulik and John Heyn (who made the 1986 documentary Heavy Metal Parking Lot, about Judas Priest fans).

“I matched the musical lineup to the eclectic photography theme,” says Norton education programmer Amy Saleeby. “Moby’s shots were taken from the stage and are amazing, and all of the locations look incredible.”

See Melissa “Moodchild” Stokes at 5 p.m., The People Upstairs at 6:30 p.m., Suenalo at 8 p.m. and the Spam Allstars at 10 p.m. on the Theater Stage; Ladies and Gentlemen at 6 p.m., Max DuBose at 7:30 p.m. and Damon Fowler at 8:30 p.m. on the Maze Garden Stage, and the Hot Java Band at 8 p.m. in the Central Garden. There’s also a drum circle, belly and fire dancing, face painting, an open mike, child performances, steel drum lessons, DJs, and acoustic acts on June 21, many in the atrium and lobby of the Norton Museum of Art, 1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach ($12 for nonmembers; $5 for students, 561-832-5196).