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e-mail [email protected]. All dates subject to change; please contact venues to verify.
MONDAY 1 APRIL
Eric Schneider Quartet/Bowmanville — Andy’s Jazz Club,
Chicago; Law/Rogers This/Lee Street Looters/Extraordinary
Popular Delusions — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Mike Wheeler
Blues Band/Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago, Chicago; Jimmy
Burns Hosts The Jam — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Scott
Centeno — Elbo Room, Chicago; Not For You/Shady Bug/
Floatie — Empty Bottle, Chicago; Alyssa Allgood Quartet — Green
Mill, Chicago; Joanna Connor/Omar Coleman — House of Blues,
Chicago; Corey Dennison/Vino Louden — Kingston Mines,
Chicago; Coffin Dust/Melting Rot/Special Delivery/Gloryhole
Guillotine — Live Wire Lounge, Chicago; Crescent City Rock &
Soul Revue — Martyrs’, Chicago; Lil Baby/City Girls/Blueface —
Riviera Theater, Chicago; Open Mic Eagle — Schubas, Chicago;
Warren Franklin — Subterranean, Chicago; And That’s Why We
Drink — The Vic, Chicago.
TUESDAY 2
Keri Johnsrud/After Dark Von Freeman Tribute — Andy’s Jazz
Club, Chicago; Trivia Nite w/Pat O’Malley — Ballydoyle, Downers
Grove; Shawn James/WT Newton/Gary Moore II/Chicago
Underground Comedy — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Chicago Wind
Blues Band w/Deitra Farr — Blue Chicago, Chicago; Live Band
Karaoke — Bub City, Chicago; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City,
Rosemont; Scott Nev — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; David
Archuleta — City Winery, Chicago; SupesBase/Heaven Malone/
The Devonns — Empty Bottle, Chicago; Billy Branch & The Sons
of Blues/Open Mic — Fitzgerald’s, Berwyn; Andrew Bird/The Fat
Babies — Green Mill, Chicago; Yellow Bellied Sapsuckers/
Matthew Michael/Christina Marie — Hey Nonny, Arlington
Heights; Corey Dennison/Funky Mojo Daddy/Comedy Cocktail
— House of Blues, Chicago; Mz. Peaches & The Cassanovas/
Mike Wheeler/Peaches Staten — Kingston Mines, Chicago;
Cimafunk — Martyrs’, Chicago; Mr. Blotto — Reggie’s, Chicago;
Pete Galanis & Friends/Dave Herrero — Rosa’s Lounge, Chicago;
Choker — Schubas, Chicago; Trout Steak Revival — Space,
Evanston; Wake/Like RatsThe Artisnals/Open Mic Hip Hop —
Subterranean, Chicago; Mortiis — The Forge, Joliet.
WEDNESDAY 3
Cave Twins — 210 Live, Highwood; Andy Brown Quartet/Mike
Smith & The Jordan Baskin Trio — Andy’s Jazz Club, Chicago;
Open Mic — Ballydoyle, Aurora; Open Mic w/Dave Kelly —
Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; Shy Boys/Charlie Reed/Jungle
Green — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; JW Williams/Laretha
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Weathersby — Blue Chicago, Chicago; Open Jam — BrauerHouse,
Lombard; Dave Specter — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Mott
The Hoople ‘74 — Chicago Theater, Chicago; Bluewater Kings
Band — Chop Shop/1st Ward, Chicago; Louis York & The
Shindellas — City Winery, Chicago; Magic Night w/Ken Mate —
Club Arcada, St. Charles; All Rise Comedy Show — Cobra Lounge,
Chicago; Ryan Burns — Cubby Bear, Chicago; Open Mic — Elbo
Room, Chicago; Beat Circus/The Claudettes/The Lonesone
Organist — Empty Bottle, Chicago; Event Horizon — Fitzgerald’s,
Berwyn; Andrew Bird/Alfonso Ponticelli & Swing Gitan/Late
Night w/Frank Catalano Sextet — Green Mill, Chicago; Chris
Greene Quartet — Hey Nonny, Arlington Heights; Keithen Banks/
Epik High/Frankie B. — House of Blues, Chicago; Locash — Joe’s
on Weed, Chicago; Corey Dennison/Mike Wheeler — Kingston
Mines, Chicago; Com Cruise/Jack Grance/Ginla — Lincoln Hall,
Chicago; Dave Uhrich/KY2K — Mac’s On Slade, Palatine;
Tributosaurus becomes The Monkees — Martyrs’, Chicago;
Cimafunk — Old Town School, Chicago; Whiskey & Harmony —
Oswego Brewing Co., Oswego; Mean Girls Trivia — Q Bar, Darien;
Star Wars Trivia — Q Bar, Glendale Heights; Altitudes &
Attitudes/Bedlem/Chout/Hallowed Halls/John Wayne & The
Pain/Indubious — Reggie’s, Chicago; Luca Kiella Chiellini —
Rosa’s Lounge, Chicago; Foreign Air/Honors — Schubas,
Chicago; Robyn Hitchcock — Space, Evanston; Dead Soft/Goon
/Sonny Falls/Teo/Maro/Samson — Subterranean, Chicago.
THURSDAY 4
Soulshine — 210 Live, Highwood; Pete Benson Organ Trio/The
Trumpet Summit — Andy’s Jazz Club, Chicago; The Tubes w/Off
Broadway — Arcada Theater, St. Charles; Open Mic — Arlington
Ale House, Arlington Heights; Trivia Night — Ballydoyle, Aurora;
Dave Mikulskis — Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; Shwayze — Beat
Kitchen, Chicago; BTS Express/Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago,
Chicago; JW Williams & The Chi Town Hustlers — BLUES,
Chicago; Jake Dodds — Bub City, Chicago; Ronnie Hicks —
Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Nick Mason’s Saucerful of
Secrets — Chicago Theater, Chicago; STIV/Bad Sons/The
Evictions/MAMA/Hozac DJs — Chop Shop/1st Ward, Chicago;
Tommy Castro & The Painkillers/Kevin Burt — City Winery,
Chicago; Lil Mosey/Lil TJay/C Glizzy/Bandkids — Concord,
Chicago; Cardinal Harbor — Cubby Bear, Chicago; Drew Joseph
/Jaren Grey/Spooky Boo/Two Ton Heads — Elbo Room, Chicago;
Mdo Moctar/TALSounds/DJ Matt Jencik — Empty Bottle,
Chicago; Ron Lazzeretti Band/Terry White & The LoadedDice/
Bitters — Fitzgerald’s, Berwyn; Chris Behre — Four Winds Casino,
New Buffalo, MI; Andy Brown /Alan Gresik Swing Shift
Orchestra — Green Mill, Chicago; Reina del Cid — Hey Nonny,
Arlington Heights; Linsey Alexander/Dave Herrero — House of
Blues, Chicago; Rauw Alejandro — Joe’s on Weed, Chicago; Nora
Jean Bruso/Joanna Connor — Kingston Mines, Chicago; Olivia
O’Brien/Kevin George — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Steel Bearing
Hand/Misfire/South Arsenal — Live Wire Lounge, Chicago;
Randy Rock Show — Mac’s On Slade, Palatine; Little Queens/
Foo La La — Martyrs’, Chicago; Adrian Belew/Saul Zonana — Old
Town School, Chicago; Dave Weld/DDG/B. Lou/DC The Don/
Flight/6’10”/Gin Palace Jesters/Parker — Reggie’s, Chicago;
Tusk — Rialto Square Theater, Joliet; Prairie Station — Rivers
Casino, Des Plaines; Lil Ed Williams — Rosa’s Lounge, Chicago;
Bradley Smith — Sandlot Wrigley, Chicago; Ceramic Animal/
Spendtime Palace/The Evening Attraction — Schubas, Chicago;
Zooey Glass/Abigail/Hunter Vita — Smart Bar, Chicago; Davina
& The Vagabonds — Space, Evanston; Animal Years/Dance
Bullies/The Diving Bell/Reggae Gold — Subterranean, Chicago;
Zoe Keating — Thalia Hall, Chicago; Willie Taylor — Wire, Berwyn;
Tony Ocean — Zaza’s Tavola, Barrington.
FRIDAY 5
Guy King Band — 210 Live, Highwood; Matt Shevitz Quartet/
Tim Fitzgerald’s Full House — Andy’s Jazz Club, Chicago; Lou
Gramm w/Asia feat. John Payne — Arcada Theater, St. Charles;
Shytown DJ — Arlington Ale House, Arlington Heights;
Hairbanger’s Ball — Austin’s Fuel Room, Libertyville; Six To
Midnight — Bannerman’s, Bartlett; D-Classified — Bar Evolution,
Batavia; The Telescopes/The Cult of Lip — Beat Kitchen,
Chicago; John Primer/Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago, Chicago;
Deacon Blues — Blue Chip Casino It’s Vegas Baby!, Michigan City,
IN; Good Clean Fun/Crawpuppies — Blue Chip Casino Rocks
Lounge, Michigan City, IN; Hyposcrisy/Feshgod/Apocalypse/
Aenimus/Disinter — Bottom Lounge, Chicago; Raise Your Glass
— Bourbon Street, Merionette Park; Eliminator/Electric Gypsy/
Cheap Thrills/Vicious Circle/Aron Hadon — BrauerHouse,
Lombard; Mark Konzen & Jen C. — Broken Oar, Port Barrington;
Sean & Charlie — Bub City, Chicago; Jake Dodds — Bub City,
Rosemont; Perfume — Chicago Theater, Chicago; Marina City/
Emily Blue/The Weekend Run Club — Chop Shop/1st Ward,
Chicago; Cyrille Aimee — City Winery, Chicago; Everett Dean &
The Lonesome Hearts — Club Arcada, St. Charles; Rotten Mouth
/Revolt Coda/Fuzzlove/Saltwater Tap — Cobra Lounge, Chicago;
La Santa Cecilia/Quinto Imperio — Concord, Chicago; Marisela
2019 — Copernicus Center, Chicago; Toxic Toast — Cubby Bear,
Chicago; Rhinestone DJs — Doc’s Victory Pub, Elmhurst; Collins
County Country — Dock’s Bar, Wauconda; Boy Band Review —
Durty Nellie’s, Palatine; Valeri Lopez/Grant Milliren/Jack
Kapson/CHNNLL/Poolboy/The Terms — Elbo Room, Chicago;
David Quinn/The Family Gold/The Saluda Moonlighters —
Empty Bottle, Chicago; Jenny Bienemann & Frieds/Lilly
Hiatt/Katy Guillen — Fitzgerald’s, Berwyn; Larry The Cable Guy
(Silver Creek)/Red Carpet Riot (Hard Rock) — Four Winds
Casino, New Buffalo, MI; The Flipside Show w/Chris Foreman/
Stephane Wrembel Quartet/After Hours Jam — Green Mill,
Chicago; Jeff Stone Duo — Harp & Fiddle, Park Ridge; Dave
Tamkin/Bryan Sansom/Gina Gonzalez — Hey Nonny, Arlington
Heights; Coverlicious — Hollywood Casino, Joliet; Gone Country
— HOME Bar, Arlington Heights; Matt Hendricks/Failure/
Swervedriver/Rollover — House of Blues, Chicago; James Libera
— Incontro A Tavola, S. Barrington; Jim Andrews — Jimmy’s Grill,
Naperville; Suburban Cowboys/Face The Music — Joe’s Live,
Rosemont; Perry Hutchins/The Cadillac Three — Joe’s on Weed,
Chicago; Firechicken — JW Hollstein’s, Tinley Park; Stark Guitar
Duo — Kennedy Pointe, Bristol; Leroy Winn — Kerry Piper,
Willowbrook; Nellie Tiger Travis/Joanna Connor — Kingston
Mines, Chicago; Kyle Young — Level 257, Schaumburg; Geyson
Chance/DJ Run — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Nicodemus & Hunter
— Lone Buffalo, Ottawa; Whiskey Kitten Band — Mac’s On Slade,
Palatine; Joe Marcinek’s Spring Jamboree/Aaron Kamm & The
One Drops — Martyrs’, Chicago; Bill Frissell’s Harmony/The
Cajun Vagabonds — Old Town School, Chicago; Olivia Ports —
Oswego Brewing Co., Oswego; Bostyxx — Palace Theater,
Wisconsin Dells, WI; Ryan Bingham/The Americans — Park
West, Chicago; Ali Sethi — Patio Theater, Chicago; Patternist/
Walkney/DBMK/Ohn/The Chairs Are Rocking — Penny Road
Pub, Barrington; Windy City Rev Ups — Pheasant Run, St.
Charles; Who’s Next/Animation — Pheasant Run Mainstage, St.
Charles; Double Treble — Pig Minds Brewing Co., Machesney
Park; Off The Charts — Potter’s Place, Naperville; Memphis
Honey — Q Bar, Darien; The Afters/David Dunn & Jamison
Strain — Q Bar, Glendale Heights; Horehound/Rebreather/Long
Live The Goat/Pale Horseman/Pluto Era/Kromuch/Sort of
Vague — Reggie’s, Chicago; Too White Crew/Julian Jumpin
Perez/DJ Q — Rivers Casino, Des Plaines; Lil Ed & The Blues
Imperials — Rosa’s Lounge, Chicago; James Supercave —
Schubas, Chicago; Mike Servito/Olin — Smart Bar, Chicago;
Peter Mulvey — Space, Evanston; We Are The Union/The Code/
Dollar Signs/Still Alive/Emo Night — Subterranean, Chicago;
Semple — Tailgater’s, Bolingbrook; The Antlers/Tim Mislock —
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