MONDAY 1 AUGUST
Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Tenry Johns / Claudette Miller — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Buddy Guy ’ s 80th Birthday Bash — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Chicago Jazz Orchestra w / Dee Alexander — City Winery , Chicago ; The Fort Awesome Band — Cruisin ’ Into Lockport , Lockport ; Run Forrest Run — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Post Animal / The Voluptuals / Siamese / Slow Pulp / Psychic Nurse — Double Door , Chicago ; Buzzed Spelling Bee — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Guy King / Skyla Burrell — House of Blues , Chicago ; Kilgubbin Brothers / The Black Horse Pikes — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; Improv Night w / Sand & Spitballin ’/ Open Mic — Quenchers , Chicago ; Unmanned Ship / Dogs In Ecstasy / Rezn / Job — Schuba ’ s , Chicago ; Redgrave / Modality / Still Machine — The Burlington , Chicago ; Robbie Fulks — The Hideout , Chicago ; The Apollo Affair — The Tree , Joliet ; Hungry Man / Out / Petrillo / Small Awesome — Township , Chicago ; Lollipop Band — Trio , Palos Heights ; Open Mic — World of Beer , Naperville .
TUESDAY 2
Demi Lovato & Nick Jonas — Allstate Arena , Rosemont ; Live Music TBA — Art dans la Rue , Oak Park ; The Acacia Strain / Oceano / Knocked Loose / Vctms / Orinoco — Bada Brew , Crest Hill ; Chicago Underground Comedy — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Luke Pytel / Laretha Weathersby — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; School of Rock Gives Back / Dalton Rapattoni — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Dave Specter — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; El DeBarge — City Winery , Chicago ; Run Forrest Run — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; King Lil G — Double Door , Chicago ; Quiet Hollers / Maks The Fox / Katie Boeck — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Lovely Little Girls / Shellshag / Pookie & Poodlez — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Bluesday Tuesday w / Guy King / Open Mic — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Mike Wheeler / Anni Piper / Sessions w / Daniel Peters / Comedy Cocktail — House of Blues , Chicago ; Grace Beechy Music — JW Hollsteins , Tinley Park ; Wit Rabbit Reading Series / Bobco Open Mic — Quenchers , Chicago ; Mr . Blotto / Planetary Blues — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Pete Galanis / Dave Herero — Rosa ’ s , Chicago ; Petty Crimes / Joe Bordenaro & The Late Bloomers / Sleeping Jesus / Junkee Girl — Schuba ’ s , Chicago ; Jam Night — Star Bar , Chicago Ridge ; Gina Glocksen Band — Summer Concert Series , Downers Grove ; Mighty Wheelhouse — Summer Concert Series , Mundelein ; Antlr ’ d / Lightpole / Bucket Brigade — The Burlington , Chicago ; Faun Fables / Jay Jayle — The Hideout , Chicago ; Lollipop Band — Trio , Palos Heights ; Rookie of the Year / Goodnight Moon — Wire , Berwyn .
WEDNESDAY 3
Ted Nugent — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Open Mic — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Open Mic — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Deshawn Flaire ( Album Release )/ Brittany Nacole / The King of Mars — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; JW Williams / Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Albert Castiglia Band — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Bettye LaVette / Comedy & Wine w / Patrick Ney — City Winery , Chicago ; DuPage Band — Concert on the Commons , Warrenville ; Shindig — Concerts in the Park , Barrington ; Teddy Lee Orchestra — Concerts Series , Bolingbrook ; The Summer Slaughter Tour w / Cannibal Corpse / Nile / After The Burial / Suffocation / Carnifex / Revocation / Krisiun / Slaughter To Prevail / Ingested / Enterprise Earth — Concord Music Hall , Chicago ; Sectionals / Everyone Says / The Typical — Double Door , Chicago ; Karthick Iyer / Motel Raphael / Open Mic — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Esme Patterson / The Awful Truth / Nightfade — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Sidebar Sessions w / Jeannie Lambert & Judy Roberts — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Rachmaninov Rhapsody — Grant Park Music Fesitval @ Pritzker Pavilion , Chicago ; Tributosaurus Becomes ... Supertramp — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; Hillbilly Rockstarz — Music in The Park , Bensenville ; Bella Cain / Tabasko Sound Kitchen / Derrick Procell — Northbrook Days , Northbrook ; Agents of Change / Jesse Alexander / Oh Me Oh My / Bluebirds — Quenchers , Chicago ; Planning For Burial / Magick Potion / Varaha — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; The Renegades / Safety Squad — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Giles Corey — Rosa ’ s , Chicago ; Melissa Brooks & The Aquadolls / Troy Anderson / The Greeters — Schuba ’ s , Chicago ; Soda Jerks — St . Donatus Parish Fest , Blue Island ; Wye Oak / Tuskha — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Marianne Sullivan Open Mic — Tilted Kilt , Bolingbrook ; Lollipop Band — Trio , Palos Heights ; Prince Tribute Party — Uptown Lounge , Chicago .
THURSDAY 4
Tommy Muellner & Stephanie Aaron — 210 Bar , Highwood ; Liberty ’ s Teeth — Algonquin Summer Concerts , Algonquin ; Blooze Brothers — Antioch Summer Concerts , Antioch ; 1976 — Arbortheater Concerts , Vernon Hills ; Songwriter ’ s Showcase — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Thrift Store Halo — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Nonzoo / Hit School / Bully In The Hallway / Black Hole Youth — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Six Speed Tranny — Blarney Island , Antioch ; Maurice John Vaughan / Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; The Muddsharks — Blue Chip Casino - Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; The Alder Kings — BrauerHouse , Lombard ; Guy King — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Windy City
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Dueling Pianos — Carlucci , Downers Grove ; Scythian Feat . Trinity School of Dance / Comedy & Wine w / Patrick Ney — City Winery , Chicago ; Mr . Myers — Concert in The Park , Plainfield ; Second Hand Soul Band — Concert in the Park , Hoffman Estates ; Spoken Four — Concert in the Park , N . Riverside ; The White Saddle Band — Concert in the Park , Roselle ; Wild Daisy — Concert in the Park , St . Charles ; Arra / New Odyssey-3Guys — Coon Creek Days , Hampshire ; Absolutely Delicious — Cruisin ’ Night , Westmont ; Leeloo Dallas / Lever / Teach The Fire / The Clowder — Double Door , Chicago ; Gaelic Storm — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; We The Fierce ( EP Release )/ Mason ’ s Case / Audiobakery / Shark Fin Soup / Jerry Oliver — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Cale Young / Quinn Tsan / Kevin Andrew Prchal — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; The Shapeshifter Tour w / Smile Empty Soul / Romantic Rebel / Shallow Side / The Everyday Losers / Jimi Falls — HOME Bar , Arlington Heights ; Bopology — Hot Summer Nights , Glencoe ; 3AM — Kanakee County Fair , Kankakee ; Elizabeth Cook / Derek Hoke — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; The Donnis Trio / Big C Jamboree / Tikis — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; The Willis Clan / Caroline Kole — McHenry County Fair , Oak Park ; Corinne Baily Rae — Metro , Chicago ; Modern Day Romeos — Music in The Park , Lindenhurst ; Mission Improv-able — Night at the Bowl , Wilmette ; Open Mic with John Buschner — Nite Cap , Chicago ; Modern Day Romeos / Diva / Mariachi Band — Northbrook Days , Northbrook ; Those Damn Accordians — Peanut Butter & Jam Concert Series , Kenosha , WI ; OMT — Promenade Concerts , Bolingbrook ; 40,000 Headmen — Ravinia Artisans Market , Highland Park ; Demrick / DJ Hoppa / Jahni Denver / Oliver Spits / Marley B / Solosam / Manwolves / High Five / Cookup Cam — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Hillbilly Rockstarz — Rivers Casino , Des Plaines ; Deacon Blues — Rock N ’ Wheels , Addison ; Rod Tuffcurls & The Benchpress — Rockin In The Park , Rosemont ; Mike & Joe / Lights Out Chicago — RomeoFest , Romeoville ; Melody Angel / James Wheeler Blues Jam w / Lil Ed Williams — Rosa ’ s , Chicago ; RIC AB Concert Series / Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds / Kolars — Schuba ’ s , Chicago ; DJ SJ / Jena Max — Smart Bar , Chicago ; The Fortunate Sons — Sounds of Summer , Arlington Heights ; La Obra — St . Donatus Parish Fest , Blue Island ; Chicago Experience — Summer Concerts , Carol Stream ; Tom Carey Band — Summer Concerts , Wauconda ; FM Stars — Sunset Soiree , Lemont ; Jesse W . Johnson & Coyote Scream / Sadie & The Stark / She Rides Tigers — The Burlington , Chicago ; The Down Hill Strugglers — The Hideout , Chicago ; Lollipop Band — Trio , Palos Heights ; Ear Candy — Uniquely Thursday Concert in the Park , Hinsdale ; Walter “ Wolfman ” Washington — WDCB Jazz Series , Glen Ellyn ; Vince Mammoser — Wire , Berwyn .
FRIDAY 5
Chicago Mike Beck — 210 Bar , Highwood ; The Purple Xperience Prince Tribute — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; The Gingers — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Fool House — Bar 145 , Mt . Prospect ; Jason Jackson — Bar Louie , Oak Brook Terrace ; Mighty Joe — Bar Louie , Skokie ; Like Rats / Endmember / Young & Dead / Dethbeds — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; In The Stix — Blarney Island , Antioch ; JW Williams / Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Visions of Santana / Crawpuppies — Blue Chip Casino - Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Vance Guitar Kelly — BLUES , Chicago ; Soft Speaker / Cassettes On Tape / 8-Bit Creeps / Blind Moon — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; B-Side Players / Tribute to Curtis Mayfield — BrauerHouse , Lombard ; Sonic7 — Broken Oar , Port Barrington ; Biscuit Miller w / Joe Lewis — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; American English / Run Forrest Run / R Gang / Polkaholics / Foolhouse — Chicago Hot Dog Fest , Chicago ; Karaoke — Chicago Loop Niteclub , Streamwood ; Will Hoge w / Brian Dunne — City Winery , Chicago ; The Doo Wop Project — Concert in The Park , Glen Ellyn ; Soda — Concert in The Park , Lombard ; The Stingrays — Concerts in The Park , Niles ; Rumor Hazit / Whiskey Romance — Coon Creek Days , Hampshire ; Piper Road Spring Band — Courtyard Concerts , Waukegan ; Libido Funk Circus / Brass From The Past — Crossroads Festival , Shorewood ; Hot Rocks — Cruise Night , Roselle ; Rod Tuffcurls & The Benchpress — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Miguel Garza — Cuzin ’ s Pub , Midlothian ; Dixie Crush — Dock ’ s Bar , Wauconda ; The Bank Notes / Brandon James / Dear Dario / Furious Frank / Western Automatic / Night Fever — Double Door , Chicago ; Craig Scott / Funkstastic — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Jillian Somera & The Beta Option / Above All / Intisaar & Johndus Beckman — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Hard Country Honky Tonk w / Hoyle Brothers / New Madrid / The Tomblands / Luke Henry & Rabbitfoot — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; 16 Candles / Big Wheel — Endless Summer Fest , LaGrange ; Cheap Trick — Four Winds Casino , New Buffalo , MI ; Sushi Roll — Four Winds Casino - Hard Rock , New Buffalo , MI ; Falcor / Dibiase / Los Gem — GMan Tavern , Chicago ; Dr . Feelgood & The 80 ’ s Babies — Grand Victoria Casino , Elgin ; Mozart Mass in C Minor — Grant Park Music Fesitval @ Pritzker Pavilion , Chicago ; Second Time Around — Hawthorn Woods Concerts , Lake Zurich ; Deja Vu — Hollywood Casino , Aurora ; Whiskey Road — Hollywood Casino , Joliet ; Art of Rap Festival — Hollywood Casino Amphitheater , Tinley Park ; King Michael-Michael Jackson Experience — HOME Bar , Arlington Heights ; The Island Dwellers — House of Blues , Chicago ; The Mersey Beatles / Windy City Rev Ups ( Roof ) — Joe ’ s Bar , Chicago ;
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