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Tailgater ’ s , Bolingbrook ; Mute Duo w / Garrit Hatcher & Russ Calderwood — The Burlington , Chicago ; Moon Bros . — The Hideout , Chicago ; John Corabi — Top Fuel Saloon , Braidwood ; Half Glass Records Showcase / Open Mic — Uncommon Ground , Chicago .
WEDNESDAY 5
Open Mic — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Open Mic w / Dave Kelly — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Trivia Night — Base Camp , Lisle ; Matt Hires / Kyle Cox / Phillip-Michael Scales / Splice Series / Matt Piet / Charlie Kirchen — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; JW Williams / Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Blues Jam w / Big Ray & Chicago ’ s Most Wanted — BLUES , Chicago ; Chelsea Grin / Ice Nine Kills / Gideon / Enterprise Earth — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Whiskey & Harmony / Judson Brown — Bub City , Chicago ; Valentine — Bub City , Rosemont ; Nigel Mack — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Shawn Mullins w / Rick Brantley — City Winery , Chicago ; Big Night In / Goddammit / Blood People — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Hamid Drake & Mako Sica / Douglas McCombs / Bill MacKay / Charles Rumback — Constellation , Chicago ; Michael Riser Songwriter Night — Draft Picks , Mt . Prospect ; Chameleon Technology / The Erratic Retaliator Strategy / Umbra & The Volcan Siege — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Trivia Night — Empire , Naperville ; Omni / Clearance / Melkbelly — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Dan “ Daddy Squeeze ” Newton / Sidebar Sessions w / New Standard Quintet — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Alfonso Ponticelli w / Swing Gitan / Frank Catalano Sextet — Green Mill , Chicago ; Keithen Banks / Biffy Clyro / Gros Ngolle / Pokossi / The Smiley Tillmon Band — House of Blues , Chicago ; Mike Wheeler / Corey Dennison — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Tributosaurus becomes Pink Floyd — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; Dum Rhythm Celebration — Old Town School , Chicago ; Open Mic w / Willie Max — Penny Road Pub , Barrington ; Vast Canvas / Antiphons / Boo Baby / Vices — Quencher ’ s , Chicago ; Live Band
Karaoke — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Animal Years — Space , Evanston ; Jounce / Oathbreaker — Subterranean , Chicago ; DJ Jeff Overstreet — Tailgater ’ s , Bolingbrook ; Tell Me Something I Don ’ t Know — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Big Night / Goddammit / Blood People — The Burlington , Chicago ; Bossa Blue / Jack Klatt — The Hideout , Chicago ; DJ Intel — The Roof @ The Wit , Chicago ; Marianne Sullivan Open Mic — Tilted Kilt , Bolingbrook ; Coins / Ruth Carp & The Fishheads / Ex-Okays — Township , Chicago ; Libby DeCamp / Minor Moon / Geena Fontanella w / David Ryle — Uncommon Ground , Chicago ; CaptN20 — Underground , Chicago ; Christian Lopez / Don Gallardo / Megan & The Jewels / Matt Brent / Treehaven — Wire , Berwyn .
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THURSDAY 6
Thunderstruck AC / DC Tribute — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ;
Best Band In The Land Competition — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Live Band Karaoke — Base Camp , Lisle ; Mike Mains / Motherfolk — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Jimmy O . & Rhonda Lee — Bella Mia , Midlothian ; BTS Express / Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; JW Williams & The Chi-Town Hustlers — BLUES , Chicago ; The Stoned Lonesome — Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; Broseph E . Lee — Bub City , Chicago ; Jimmy Johnson — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Rufus Wainwright w / Lucy Wainwright Roche — City Winery , Chicago ; Bonny Doon / Moon Bros / Jeremy Freeze — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; The Seth Show / Ameya Pawar / Rebecca O ’ Neal / Akenya — Constellation , Chicago ; Serenum / Old School Hip Hop Dance Party / Raviner / Sinners & Saints — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Modern English / Silent Age / Ganser — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Evenflow , Geneva ; Elmhurst College Jazz Band — Fitz Spare Keys , Elmhurst ; Curtis McMurtry / Dan Baird & Homemade Sin / The Belvederes — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Andy Brown Jazz Guitar / Gresik Swing Shift Orchestra — Green Mill , Chicago ; Sal & Izy — HB Jones , Elmhurst ; Vino Louden / Jon Allegretto / Minus The Bear / Big James & The Chicago Playboys — House of Blues , Chicago ; Joanna Connor / Chicago Blues Allstars — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Joe Hertler & The Rainbow Seekers / The North 41 / Church Booty — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Big C Jamboree / The Deacons — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; Distinguisher — Penny Road Pub , Barrington ; Hungry Man / The Bismarck / Korean Jeans — Quencher ’ s , Chicago ; Outdrejas / Bedside Alibi / Stern Approval / Walk Among Us / Zahar — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Smokin ’ Gunz — Rivers Casino , Des Plaines ; DJ SJ / Jena Max — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Tift Merritt / Suitcase Junket — Space , Evanston ; Save Face / Reggae Gold — Subterranean , Chicago ; Tell Me Something I Don ’ t Know — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Bonny Doon / Moon Bros / Jeremy Freeze — The Burlington , Chicago ; The Hat Stretcher — The Hideout , Chicago ; Aaron Thompson — The Roof @ The Wit , Chicago ; Honeystone / Harvey Fox / Sam Crosslands & the Side Effects — Township , Chicago ; Jordan & Associates — Venuti ’ s , Addison ; Pouya / Fat Nick / Ghostmane / WYBMF / Flexatelli — Wire , Berwyn .
FRIDAY 7
Arcada Folk Fest w / Taylor , Chapin & Eva — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Sixteen Candles — Austin ’ s Fuel Room , Libertyville ; Hanging Death / Covered in Thrash / Faith in the Fallen / Stu & The Nods — Bada Brew , Crest Hill ; Covergurl — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Girl Power Night — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; 7th Heaven — Bannerman ’ s , Bartlett ; Friday Jackson — Bar Evolution , Batavia ; Erra Phinehas / Auras / TanZen / Hope Country / Fleeting Suns / littlebirds — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Tony Ocean Show — Bella Mia , Midlothian ; JW Williams / Laretha Weathersby — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Visions of Santana / BBI / Melodious Funk — Blue Chip-Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; DJ Night — Blue Chip-
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Vegas Baby , Michigan City , IN ; John Primer & The Real Deal — BLUES , Chicago ; Arra / Brass Buckle Band — Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; Bleach — BrauerHouse , Lombard ; Mark Konzen — Broken Oar , Port Barrington ; Back Country Roads — Bub City , Rosemont ; Nora Jean Bruso / Melody Angel — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Dean Milano — Carlucci , Downers Grove ; Rufus Wainwright w / Lucy Wainwright Roche — City Winery , Chicago ; Blind Staggers / Barnyard Stompers / WT Newton / Pearls Mahone — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Big Wild / Phantoms / iHF — Concord , Chicago ; Proyecto Libre — Constellation , Chicago ; Sugarpulp EP Release / The Threads / Bloom / DJ Kirk — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Anthony Pana — Cuzin ’ s , Tinley Park ; Acoustaholics Trio — Draft Picks , Naperville ; Joe Carey / About Thieves / Horrible / Be Aut / Slow Thrills / August Hotel / Ember Oceans / Rev Gusto / Brave Season — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Hard Country Honky-Tonk w / The Hoyle Brothers / Sweet Spirit / Boytoy / Beastii — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Dick Diamond & The Dusters — Evenflow , Geneva ; Luxmen — Fitz Spare Keys , Elmhurst ; Ronnie Baker Brooks / The Heavy Sounds — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; America ( Silvercreek )/ Lepolion Effect ( Hard Rock )/ DJ Lori — Four Winds Casino , New Buffalo , MI ; Simply Elton — Frankie ’ s Blue Room , Naperville ; Jack Hanna — Genesee Theater , Waukegan ; Flipside Show w / Chris Foreman / George Freeman ’ s 90th Birthday w / Pretty Purdie / After Hours Jam Session — Green Mill , Chicago ; Maggie Speaks — Hollywood Casino , Aurora ; Hairbanger ’ s Ball — Hollywood Casino , Joliet ; Charlie Foxtrot — HOME Bar , Arlington Heights ; Will Wilcox — Hoppy Pig , Bradley ; Kreator / Obituary / Midnight / Horrendous / Dave Herrero — House of Blues , Chicago ; DJ Maestro — Jambalaya @ Pheasant Run , St . Charles ; Hillbilly Rockstarz — Jenny ’ s Southside Tap , Mokena ; Whiskey Myers — Joe ’ s Bar , Chicago ; Suburban Cowboys / Jake Dodds — Joe ’ s Live , Rosemont ; Bernie Glim & Country Roads — Kennedy Pointe , Bristol ; Nellie Tiger Travis / Mike Wheeler — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Dixie Crush — Level 257 , Schaumburg ; Chicano Batman / 79.5 / Sadgirl — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; The Mights / The Spanish Flats / Haymarket Riot — Live Wire , Chicago ; Thirsty Boots Band — Loaded Buffalo , Mundelein ; DJ Manley & Danle — Lone Buffalo , Ottawa ; Hippo Campus / Magic City Hippies — Metro , Chicago ; Six To Midnight — MT Barrels , Schaumburg ; Milonga Night : Tango w / DJ Charrua — Old Town School , Chicago ; Smells Like Dave Grohl / Recovered The Band — Penny Road Pub , Barrington ; B-Class Hip Hop Event — Q-Bar , Darien ; Dog & Wolf / Worship This !/ MakeWar / Flamingo Nosebleed / Brickfight — Quencher ’ s , Chicago ; Cory Henry & The Funk Apostles / Horisont / Dirty Streets / Satan ’ s Hollow — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Semple — Rivers Casino , Des Plaines ; Matthew Kerr — Ruffled Feathers , Lemont ; Sallie Ford / Molly Burch — Schubas , Chicago ; There Goes The Neighborhood — Sideouts , Island Lake ; I / Y / John Templeton / Jeff Derringer — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Max Weinberg — Space , Evanston ; Sal & Izy — State & Lake @ The Wit , Chicago ; The Lincoln Lodge / Dashtone / Ono — Subterranean , Chicago ; Whiskey & Harmony / Nobody ’ s |
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Business — Sullivan ’ s Irish Pub , Midlothian ; Gypsy — Sweet Caroline ’ s , Hoffman Estates ; DJ Murphy — Tailgater ’ s , Bolingbrook ; Margo Price — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Two Hand Jesters Comedy — The Brick Lounge , Plano ; Sons of Ra / Modiviccan / Mediums — The Burlington , Chicago ; Hi Infidelity — The Forge , Joliet ; Kevin Presbrey — The Harp & Fiddle , Park Ridge ; Strange Americans / American Grizzly — The Hideout , Chicago ; Tale of Us — The Mid , Chicago ; Miss DJ Meg — The Roof @ The Wit , Chicago ; Related Rhapsody — Tilted Kilt , Bolingbrook ; Craig Scott Duo — Tilted Kilt , Woodridge ; Electric Brew / Syrup Eddies / Moonshine Bros . — Township , Chicago ; Caroline Spence w / Nikki Morgan / Cari Ray / Adjacent Cruise — Uncommon Ground , Chicago ; DJ / Karaoke — Uptown Lounge , Chicago ; R-Gang — Venuti ’ s , Addison ; Rumor Hazit — Wine & Roses , Algonquin ; Tributosaurus Becomes Pink Floyd — Wire , Berwyn ; Acoustic Alibi — World Of Beer , Evanston ; Paul Strolia — Zachary ’ s Bar , Palos Heights .
SATURDAY 8
Dave Davies of The Kinks — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; The GooRoos — Austin ’ s Fuel Room , Libertyville ; WHUT ? / Sarmy of Doom / I Hate People / Prison City Brigade — Bada Brew , Crest Hill ; Kevin Presbrey CD Release — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Send In The Clones — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Chicks With Picks — Bar Evolution , Batavia ; Boy Band Review — Base Camp , Lisle ; Wendy & DB CD Release / El Famous ( Album Release )/ Lowcountry / GraveSend / Face The Fire / Welp — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; It Takes Two — Bella Mia , Midlothian ; Maiden Chicago — Big Shots , Valparaiso , IN ; Big City Trip — Blarney Stone Pub , Oak Forest ; JW Williams / Laretha Weathersby — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; The Dancing Noodles / Gina Glocksen Band — Blue Chip-Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Allen Wronko Band — Blue Chip-Vegas Baby , Michigan City , IN ; Dick Diamond & The Dusters — Blue Chip-Vegas Baby , Michigan City , IN ; John Primer & The Real Deal — BLUES , Chicago ; Spafford Mungion — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Tynan / Sixteen Candles / Callaloo — Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; Judas Beast — BrauerHouse , Lombard ; Rick Foxx Duo — Brazen Head , Crestwood ; Just Janet & I — Broken Oar , Port Barrington ; Mason Rivers — Bub City , Chicago ; Broseph E . Lee / Jackie Lee — Bub City , Rosemont ; Popa Chubby w / Nick Bell — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; The B-Side Band — Carlucci , Downers Grove ; Ali Wong — Chicago Theater , Chicago ; Amel Larrieux — City Winery , Chicago ; Sewingneedle / Fronts / Coffin Problem / Texas Chainstore Manager — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Freestyle Forever : The Diva Edition — Concord , Chicago ; Sarah Louise / Nathaniel Braddock — Constellation , Chicago ; Rockin ’ Eddie — Cuzin ’ s , Tinley Park ; Justrand — Cuzin ’ s Pub , Midlothian ; Smells Like Dave Grohl — District Bar & Grill , Rockford ; Hi Infidelity — Durty Nellie ’ s , Palatine ; Stormy
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