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Ponticelli Band / Denise Tomasello / Abigail Riccards / Soco 7 / The Chicago Jazz Swing Band / Angel Spiccia / La Tosca / Steve Torrico ’ s Lakeshore Syncopators — Festa Italiana @ Taylor Street , Chicago ; Expo ‘ 76 — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Poison ’ d Crue — Four Winds Casino , New Buffalo , MI ; Catfish Conspiracy — Front Street Tap , Harvard ; The Windbreakers — Grand Victoria Casino , Elgin ; Damnation of Faust — Grant Park Music Fesitval @ Pritzker Pavilion , Chicago ; Chi-Town Soul — Hollywood Casino , Aurora ; One Hot Mess Band — Hollywood Casino , Joliet ; Darius Rucker — Hollywood Casino Amphitheater , Tinley Park ; The Shadows of Knight — HOME Bar , Arlington Heights ; I AM Fest — House of Blues , Chicago ; Scott Hamilton — Joe ’ s Bar , Chicago ; Shooter McGavin — Joe ’ s Live , Rosemont ; Chasing Amy — JW Hollsteins , Tinley Park ; Vance Kelly plus guests — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Mortified 10th Angstiversary Extravaganza !/ School of Rock Elmhurst — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; The Lucky Dutch / The Ars Nova / Namorado / Faux Furrs — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; The Candy Makers / Blue Mud / Od Jo / Mke Flood & Co / The Bishop ’ s Daredevil Stunt Club — Metro , Chicago ; Straight Shooter — Mister Mo ’ s , Palos Heights ; Fraid Knot / Ultimatum — MT Barrels , Schaumburg ; Casey Muessigmann — Music in The Plaza , Tinley Park ; No Alternative / New Odyssey — Park Palooza , Elmhurst ; 95th Street Band / Rock Academy — Q Bar , Darien ; Little Orphan Monkey / Downstairs Mixup — Q Bar , Glendale Heights ; Wally Dogger / Minihorse / Jesse W . Johnson & Coyote Scream / The Struggs — Quenchers , Chicago ; Driving Miss Daisy — Ravenswood Concerts in The Park , Chicago ; Justin Roberts & The Not Ready For Naptime Players — Ravinia , Highland Park ; Echoes of Pompeii / Mr . Fummyman / Rum Rebellion — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Sugar Blue Band — Rosa ’ s , Chicago ; Jay Brannan / CLN — Schuba ’ s , Chicago ; Covergurl / United Audio Productions — Schubert Avenue Block Party , Chicago ; Matisyahu — Sideouts , Island Lake ; Red Woody / On The Rocks / Feed The Birds / Cash Inn — Smallville Fest , Plano ; Shindig — Sounds of Summer Concerts , Itasca ; Scar Inc ./ Sacred Dawn / Degradation — Star Bar , Chicago Ridge ; Decades — Sullivan ’ s Irish Pub , Midlothian ; Mason Rivers — Summer Breeze Concerts , Schaumburg ; David Cross : In Pictures — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Scott Wilcox — The Cottage , Crystal Lake ; Rizdales Tribute to Ray Price — The Hideout , Chicago ; Gina Glocksen Band — The Square Celt Ale House , Orland Park ; Time Line — Trio , Palos Heights ; DJ & Karaoke w / Zach — Uptown Lounge , Chicago ; Petty Profits — Uptown Tap , Plainfield ; Common Allies — World of Beer , Naperville ; Jerry Armstrong & The Lunatiks — Zachary ’ s , Palos Heights .
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SUNDAY 21
The Working Man ’ s Blues & BBQ — 210 Bar , Highwood ; Carpacho y su Supercombo / Lamajamal / Royale Polynesian Revue — Albany Park World Fest , Chicago ; Lung / Mecha Shiva / Garbage Friends — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Deja Vu — Blarney Island , Antioch ; Mike Wheeler / Laretha Weathersby — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Middle of The Road / Hoosier Highway — Blue Chip Casino - Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Covergurl / The Business / New Odyssey / Jamie Squires — Bolingbrook Jubilee , Bolingbrook ; Hi Infidelity — Broken Oar , Port Barrington ; Pistol Pete — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; R Gang — Cantigny Concerts , Wheaton ; Hot Rize — City Winery , Chicago ; The Chicago Kingsnakes — Concert on The Green , Frankfort ; Acoustic Generation — Dock ’ s Bar , Wauconda ; Hairbanger ’ s Ball / Who ’ s Who / Gina Glocksen Band / The Student Body / Generation — Edison Park Fest , Chicago ; Matt Stansberry & The Romance / Live Band Karaoke — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Back Country Roads / Stroker Red / The Babin Brothers — Elburn Days , Elburn ; 7th Heaven / The Boy Band Night / Hat Guys / The Windbreakers / Radio Stars / Francesco Marino & Daniella Crocco / Marisa Bucheit / Lisa Roti / Coax & Foks / John Coppola — Festa Italiana @ Taylor Street , Chicago ; Mad Decent Block Party w / Diplo / Gryffin / Kesha / Oshi — FirstMerit Bank Pavilion @ Northerly Island , Chicago ; Bill O ’ Connell ’ s Chicago Skyliners — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Mike Talbot — Four Winds Casino , New Buffalo , MI ; Rhinestone DJ D — Grand Victoria Casino , Elgin ; Speaking With Ghosts / Gospel Brunch — House of Blues , Chicago ; We Are Scientists — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Baroness / Pallbearer — Metro , Chicago ; Kaiser Brothers — Port of Blarney , Antioch ; Rock Chicago Records — Q Bar , Darien ; School of Rock Glen Ellyn — Q Bar , Glendale Heights ; Will Barnett Quartet — Ravenswood Manor Park Concerts , Chicago ; 3rd Sunday String Band / The Dupont Brothers — Schuba ’ s , Chicago ; Cool Rockin Daddies / Broken Ego — Smallville Fest , Plano ; Queen ! w / Derrick Carter / Michael Serafini / Garrett David — Smart Bar , Chicago ; ConFunkShun / Michon Feat . T . L . Williams & The Storm Chasers Orchestra / Ieshia / Nathan Charles / South Shore Drill Team / Kiana — South Shore Summer Festival , Chicago ; Zuidpool ’ s Macbeth ( Shakepeare 400 Chicago ) — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Karaoke w / Zach — Uptown Lounge , Chicago .
MONDAY 22
Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Tenry Johns / Claudette Miller — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Jimmy Burns Hosts The Jam — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Chicago Sings The Beatles — City Winery , Chicago ; The Second Hand Soul Band — Cruisin ’ Into Lockport , Lockport ; Lightfoils / Tender Age / Ganser — Double Door , Chicago ; Canadian Rifle / Daylight Robbery / The Runnies / Problem People — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Open Mic — HOME Bar , Arlington Heights ; Improv Night w / Sand & Spitballin ’/ Open Mic — Quenchers , Chicago ; Rotten
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Sound / Organ Dealer / Sick Tired / Like Rats / God Dementia — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Weaves / Nnamdi Ogbonnaya — Schuba ’ s , Chicago ; Zuidpool ’ s Macbeth ( Shakepeare 400 Chicago ) — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Open Mic — World of Beer , Naperville .
TUESDAY 23
Chicago Underground Comedy — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; BTS Express / Laretha Weathersby — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Breezy Rodio — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; The High Kings — City Winery , Chicago ; Snack Attack — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Hockey Dad / Muuy Biien — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Open Mic — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Whiskey & Harmony — JW Hollsteins , Tinley Park ; The Killer Hearts / City Slang — Live Wire Lounge , Chicago ; Lanialoha-Aloha Live ! Pacific Sounds — Quenchers , Chicago ; Mr . Blotto / Planetary Blues / Young Dolph / Cap 1 — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Pete Galanis / Dave Herrero — Rosa ’ s , Chicago ; Fatai / Sharon Irving — Schuba ’ s , Chicago ; Martini Lunch — Summer Concert Series , Downers Grove ; Neverly Brothers — Summer Concert Series , Mundelein .
WEDNESDAY 24
Judy Roberts & Greg Fishman — 210 Bar , Highwood ; Open Mic — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Open Mic — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Blaire Alise & The Bombshells / Baby Money & The Down Payments — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; JW Williams / Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Joe Moss — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Buffy Sainte-Marie w / Donovan Woods — City Winery , Chicago ; Bopology — Concert on the Commons , Warrenville ; R Gang — Concerts Series , Bolingbrook ; Morgan Heritage / Fabitat w / DJ Adam El / Ldy Prblms / Lucy Stoole / Curlene Ribbon / Joan Waters — Double Door , Chicago ; Open Mic — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Powell ( Record Release )/ Elon Katz / Not Waving / Jaime Williams DJ Set — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Counting Crows & Rob Thomas — FirstMerit Bank Pavilion @ Northerly Island , Chicago ; Chicago Jazz w / Brienn Perry — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Dynamo / Atticus Lazenby Group — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; Hi Infidelity — Music in The Park , Bensenville ; Sunjacket / Happy Abandon / Flying Potion — Quenchers , Chicago ; Scott Henderson Band / Marbin / Naughty Professor / Cole DeGenova — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Danny Draher — Rosa ’ s , Chicago ; Famous October — Schuba ’ s , Chicago ; Cary Kanno — Tilted Kilt , Bolingbrook .
THURSDAY 25
Madman Jam Night — Bar 145 , Mt . Prospect ; The Delta Saints / Ballroom Boxer — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; 413 — Blarney Island , Antioch ; Maurice John Vaughan / Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Nightshift Band — Blue Chip Casino - Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; The Chicago R & B Kings — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; The Mix — Carlucci , Downers Grove ; Eric Roberson — City Winery , Chicago ; The Flat Cats — Cruisin ’ Night , Westmont ; Playboi Carti w / Finding Novyon / Nina Tech —
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Double Door , Chicago ; Gunther / Space Cash — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Ryely Walker ( Record Release )/ Luggage / TALsounds — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Country Night in Berwyn — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; God Alone / Neaux / Belonger / Deeper — GMan Tavern , Chicago ; Jason Jackson — HB Jones , Elmhurst ; The Chicago Cossacks — Hot Summer Nights , Glencoe ; 5Quad / Loren Gray / Duhitzmark / Flamingos — House of Blues , Chicago ; The Generators / Squared Off — Live Wire Lounge , Chicago ; The Talking Dreads / Ft . Mystic Bowie — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; Open Mic with John Buschner — Nite Cap , Chicago ; Streetlife w / Warren Wiegratz — Peanut Butter & Jam Concert Series , Kenosha , WI ; War Brides / Tyranny is Tyranny / Snow Burial / High Priests — Quenchers , Chicago ; John Fogarty — Ravinia , Highland Park ; Glenn Hughes / Joanne Shaw Taylor — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Hey Cowboy — Rivers Casino , Des Plaines ; 16 Candles — Rock N ’ Wheels , Addison ; Think Floyd — Rockin In The Park , Rosemont ; Melody Angel / James Wheeler Blues Jam w / Lil Ed Williams — Rosa ’ s , Chicago ; Strange Doll Haus — Uptown Lounge , Chicago ; Marquis Hill — WDCB Jazz Series , Glen Ellyn .
FRIDAY 26
The Perqs — 210 Bar , Highwood ; New York Bee Gees / Rainere Martin as Donna Summer — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Blue Oyster Cult / Scot Besaw / Penthouse Sweets — Backlot Bash , Skokie ; Creed Bratton — Bada Brew , Crest Hill ; Heart To Heartbreakers — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Chicks With Picks — Bar Louie , Oak Brook Terrace ; Kyle Young — Bar Louie , Skokie ; Low Cut Connie / The Ham Council / Jeremy & The Harlequins — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Brecken Miles — Blarney Island , Antioch ; Maurice John Vaughan Blues Band / Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; The Bigger Picture / Deja Vu — Blue Chip Casino - Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Mike Wheeler — BLUES , Chicago ; Davy Knowles — BrauerHouse , Lombard ; Gina Gomez & The Wingmen — Broken Oar , Port Barrington ; Eddie Shaw w / Todd Simpson — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Aerotrip / TNT — Chicago Loop Niteclub , Streamwood ; Eric Roberson — City Winery , Chicago ; Brass Transit — Concert in The Park , Glen Ellyn ; The Dixieland Jazz Cats — Courtyard Concerts , Waukegan ; Grace Beechy Music — Cuzin ’ s Pub , Midlothian ; Covergurl / Hi Infidelity / Johnny & The Boomers — DeKalb Corn Fest , DeKalb ; Smarty Pants Band — Dock ’ s Bar , Wauconda ; Golden w / Kelechi & Ric Wilson — Double Door , Chicago ; 16 Candles / Rod Tuffcurls & The Bench Press / Cowboy Jukebox / Crazy Pearl — Downtown Palatine Street Fest , Palatine ; Dick Diamond & The Dusters / Mallory Lennon — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Hard Country Honky Tonk w / Hoyle Brothers — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; The Life & Times of Molly McGuire — Empty
Bottle , Chicago ; Slightly Stoopid — FirstMerit Bank Pavilion
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