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( Record Release )/ The Columbines / Cmn ineed yr hlp — Quenchers , Chicago ; Toys For Tots Extravaganza Show — Red Line Tap , Chicago ; Patent Pending & Flight Plan ( Rock Club )/ Punk Rock Karaoke & Redline Messiah ( Music Joint ) — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Trans-Infinity Orchestra — Reuther Auditorium , Kenosha , WI ; Kinsey Report — Rosa ’ s , Chicago ; Airiel / Shana Falana / Dimwaves / DJ Philly Peroxide — Schubas , Chicago ; Tama Sumo / Sassmouth / Jarvi — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Toronzo Cannon w / Jimmy Nick — Space , Evanston ; Jason Bonham ’ s Led Zepplin Experience — Star Plaza Theater , Merrillville , IN ; Davlin / Fleetmac Wood — Subterranean , Chicago ; Nicholas Barron — Sweet Caroline ’ s , Hoffman Estates ; Evolution — Tailgater ’ s , Chicago ; Whitney w / Trevor Sensor — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Horrible Things / Midnight Reruns / Truman & His Trophy / Rust Ring — The Burlington , Chicago ; Keanen Kopplin — The Cottage , Crystal Lake ; The Giving Room Band — The Lodge on 64 , St . Charles ; Richie Hawtin — The Mid , Chicago ; Marc Maron — The Vic , Chicago ; Acoustiholics — Tilted Kilt , Bolingbrook ; Donna Frost ( Edgewater ) — Uncommon Ground , Chicago ; Stevie Nicks — United Center , Chicago ; The Three Beards — Uptown Lounge , Chicago ; Unmerciful / Face of Oblivion / Mass Murder Messiah — Wire , Berwyn ; AM / FM — Wise Owl , Chicago ; Whiskey & Harmony — World of Beer , Evanston ; Sal & Izy — World of Beer , Naperville ; Carla Stinson — Zachary ’ s , Palos Heights .
SUNDAY 4
Marc Anthony — Allstate Arena , Rosemont ; Trans Infinity Orchestra — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; The Whiskey Bros . — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Drowning Pool / Gemini Syndrome / Red Tide Rising / 9Electric — Base Camp , Lisle ; Environmental Encroachment / Emily Blue / The Evening Attraction / The Predictions — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Nellie Tiger Travis — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Smokin ’ Gunz — Blue Chip - Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Lil Ed & The Blues Imperials — BLUES , Chicago ; Hands Like Houses & Our Last Night / The Color Morale / Out Came The Wolves — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Annika Chambers — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Jeffrey Foucault w / Dusty Heart — City Winery , Chicago ; The Ewokk / Through N Through / Karma / The Truth / Lowroads — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; a . per . ri . od . ic & Dante Boone play Jurg Frey — Constellation , Chicago ; Laughlin School of Music — Durty Nellie ’ s , Palatine ; Laughing Stock : Chicago Comedy Musical Festival / Keenan Donovan — Elbo Room , Chicago ; The King Khan & BBQ Show / The Gartrells / Plastic Pinks — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Starfall Orchestra — Fitz Spare Keys , Elmhurst ; Chicago Grandstand Big Band — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Uptown Poetry Slam / Soul Jazz Night w / Joel Paterson Trio / Chris Forman — Green Mill , Chicago ; Sima Cunningham / Shane Parish / Barn Duet — Hideout , Chicago ; Gospel Brunch / Windy City Duo / Steel Panther / Keithen Banks — House of Blues , Chicago ; Blues Jam w / Brian BJ Jones / Linsey Alexander — Kingston
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Mines , Chicago ; Rooney / Royal Teeth / Romes — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Indigo Jazz — Lone Buffalo , Ottawa ; Steve Dawson & Mark Caro — Old Town School , Chicago ; Nutcracking Holiday Revue — Paramount Theater , Aurora ; Rock Academy Student Showcase — Q-Bar , Darien ; Sunday Night Jazz w / Jimmy Bennington Colour & Sound — Red Line Tap , Chicago ; Urban Pioneers / Curio & The Westerlees ( Music Joint )/ Roy Woods ( Rock Club ) — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Moscow Ballet Russian Nutcracker — Rosemont Theater , Rosemont ; The Bombats / Dumpster Babies / Date Stuff / 3rd Sunday String Band — Schubas , Chicago ; Queen ! w / Michael Serafini / Garrett David / Jacob Meehan — Smart Bar , Chicago ; William Fitzsimmons w / Laura Burhenn — Space , Evanston ; Mack Phyfer / Nelly J / Tin- Man ( BornKinG ) — Star Bar , Chicago Ridge ; Capital Soiree / Rai / The First Core Gala — Subterranean , Chicago ; Whitney w / Trevor Sensor — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Gomez-Farr w / Matt — Tommy Nevin ’ s Pub , Evanston ; Karaoke — Uptown Lounge , Chicago ; Bejamin Walker / Tentatives / Frequillibrium / Manhattan Moonmen / My Music Lessons Student Concert — Wire , Berwyn .
MONDAY 5
Bally ’ s Got Talent : Auditions — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Tenry Johns / Claudette Miller — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Frank Busch of Wheelhouse — Bub City , Chicago ; Brother John Hosts The Jam — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Avant — City Winery , Chicago ; Buzzed Spelling Bee — Elbo Room , Chicago ; E / Crown Larks / Magdalene Laundries — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Gabriel Alegria Afro Peruvian Sextet — Green Mill , Chicago ; Robbie Fulks / Don Stiernberg / Weeds Poetry Open Mic — Hideout , Chicago ; Chris Young — Joe ’ s Bar , Chicago ; Corey Dennison / JW Williams & The Chi Town Hustlers — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Deathscribe — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Sean Cleland & Jesse Langen / Motion To Fix — Martyrs , Chicago ; Improv Night w / Sand and Spitbllin ’/ Open Mic Night — Quenchers , Chicago ; Open Mic w / Bernie & The Wolf — Red Line Tap , Chicago ; Goran Ivanovic Trio ( Music Joint ) — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Slotface / Bloom / The Hot Moms — Schubas , Chicago ; The Chicago Moth StorySLAM : Risk — Space , Evanston ; L . A . Vangogh / U . G . Wavyw / Calez / Joseph Chilliams / Via Rosa — Subterranean , Chicago .
TUESDAY 6
It Lies Within — Bada Brew , Crest Hill ; Tuesday Night Trivia — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Trivia Night — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Luke Pytel Blues Band / Laretha Weathersby — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City , Rosemont ; The Special 20 ’ s — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Avant — City Winery , Chicago ; # BelovedGang Ting / ProDuNKTion / Groovebox / GreedPhresh / Handome Ass Dan / Jamprov — Double Door , Chicago ; Secrets , Lies & Alibis — Elbo Room , Chicago ; The Mystery Lights / Warbly Jets — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; York High School Ensemble — Fitz Spare Keys , Elmhurst ; Nick Moss Band / Open Mic — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ;
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The Fat Babies — Green Mill , Chicago ; Junius Paul Collective / Makaya McCraven — Hideout , Chicago ; Pub Trivia — HOME , Arlington Heights ; Mike Wheeler / Abi Sanchez Comedy / Scott Stapp of Creed — House of Blues , Chicago ; Chris Moran — JW Hollstein ’ s , Tinley Park ; Giles Corey Blues Band / Michael Wheeler Blues Band — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Dragonette / Gibbz / Heaven Malone — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Whiskey & Harmony — Mackell ’ s Inn , Chicago ; Broken Cycles / Big Black Bird / The Wistful Larks — Martyrs , Chicago ; Wit Rabbit Reading Series / Bobco Open Mic Poetry — Quenchers , Chicago ; Mr . Blotto / Lost In The Rye ( Music Joint ) — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Pete Galanis & Friends w / Dave Herrero — Rosa ’ s , Chicago ; Sabrina Carpenter — Schubas , Chicago ; Duke Robillard Band — Space , Evanston ; LeAnne Rimes Christmas Show — Star Plaza Theater , Merrillville , IN ; Clearance / Joshua Powell & The Great Train Robbery — Subterranean , Chicago ; Chanticleer Christmas — Symphony Center , Chicago ; Dan Allen ( Lakeview ) — Uncommon Ground , Chicago .
WEDNESDAY 7
Open Mic — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Open Mic — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Joe Bordenaro / Beta Males / Max Loebman / Wilde — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; JW Williams / Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Judson Brown Dueling Strings // Kevin Presbrey — Bub City , Chicago ; Ronnie Hicks — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats w / Mavis Staples — Chicago Theater , Chicago ; Davina & The Vagabonds — City Winery , Chicago ; Katinka Kleijn & Corey Smythe — Constellation , Chicago ; Open Mic — Elbo Room , Chicago ; The Empty Bottle ’ s Enthralling Cavalcade of Remarkable Anybodies , Special Somebodies & Incredible Everybodies — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Sidebar Sessions w / Ben Lewis Trio — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Alfonso Ponticelli & Swing Gitan / Late Night Set w / Frank Catalano Sextet — Green Mill , Chicago ; Cool Girl Show / Lyra Hill / Molly Hewitt / Vail feat . Heather Lynn — Hideout , Chicago ; Full House Trivia — HOME , Arlington Heights ; Keithen Bankd / Digitour Winter / Ten Foot Tail — House of Blues , Chicago ; Corey Dennison / Mike Wheeler / Peaches Staten — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; A Tribe Called Red / DJ Intel — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Tin Lynott — Martyrs , Chicago ; Electric Sheep / Sparkletears / Rat Shank — Quenchers , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Lil ’ Ed Williams Blues Jam — Rosa ’ s , Chicago ; Homeshake / Paul Cherry / Ricky Mirage — Schubas , Chicago ; Jim Lauderdale w / Ralph Covert — Space , Evanston ; Forever Undefined / Astonish / Sisi Dior / Trell Love — Subterranean , Chicago ; Chanticleer Christmas — Symphony Center , Chicago ; EDW — The Underground , Chicago ; Marianne Sullivan Open Mic Karoake — Tilted Kilt , Bolingbrook ; Sylvan Lacue / Joe Woody — Wire , Berwyn .
THURSDAY 8
Roger Hodgson ( Supertramp ) — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ;
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Bally ’ s Got Talent Auditions — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Lybria ( Album Release )/ I Made You Myself / Domestic Men / Lower Automation — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Jimmy Niteclub Show — Bella Mia , Midlothian ; Keys of G / Soul Town — Berghoff , Chicago ; Maurice John Vaughn / Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Tyler Hammond — Bub City , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City , Rosemont ; Lauren Mitchell Feat . Jose Ramirez — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Jerry Seinfeld — Chicago Theater , Chicago ; Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives w / Colin Elmore — City Winery , Chicago ; Fifth House Ensemble — Constellation , Chicago ; One Night w / The Doors : Autoimmune Disease Fundraiser — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; The Lawrence Arms 2nd Annual War on Christmas / Dead To Me / The Bollweevils — Double Door , Chicago ; 13th Annual Rockin ’ For A Cure w / Libido Funk Circus — Durty Nellie ’ s , Palatine ; Foodman / DJ Fulltono / Traxman / Diamond Soul — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; No Dough Show w / Kongos — Fitz Spare Keys , Elmhurst ; Exposure Local Music Showcase w / Thomas Comerford Band / Mint Mile / Advance Base / Ron & Naomi ’ s Special Christmas — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Andy Brown Solo Jazz Guitar / Alan Gresik Swing Shift Orchestra — Green Mill , Chicago ; Joe Stamm — HB Jones , Elmhurst ; Devil In A Woodpile / David Singer & The Sweet Science / Bora Bora — Hideout , Chicago ; Jake “ The Snake ” Roberts Comedy / Karaoke — HOME , Arlington Heights ; Dave Herrero / Windy City Rev Ups — House of Blues , Chicago ; Vance Kelly & The Backstreet Candy Lickin ’ Blues Band / Joanna Connor — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Bawdy Storytelling — Martyrs , Chicago ; Songs of Good Cheer w / Mary Schmich & Eric Zorn — Old Town School , Chicago ; Nutcracking Holiday Revue — Paramount Theater , Aurora ; Pete Yorn — Park West , Chicago ; The River Valley Rangers / Lost In The Rye / Found Hounds ( Music Joint )/ Trapo / Supa Bwe / DJ Vic Lloyd ( Rock Club ) — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Nick Lynch — Rivers Casino , DesPlaines ; The James Wheeler Blues Jam Hosted by Lil ’ Ed Williams / Melody Angel — Rosa ’ s , Chicago ; Klove Christmas 2016 — Rosemont Theater , Rosemont ; The War on Peace / Saint Aubin — Schubas , Chicago ; For Spanky Benefit : DJ Pierre / Farley Jackmaster Funk / Roy Davis Jr . — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Old Salt Union w / Growler — Space , Evanston ; Lizzo — Subterranean , Chicago ; The Mix — Sweet Caroline ’ s , Hoffman Estates ; Party Time Lounge / Scotch the Filmmaker / Faintlife — The Burlington , Chicago ; Don Diablo — The Mid , Chicago ; Sol of the City — Wire , Berwyn .
FRIDAY 9
Second Hand Soul Band — 210 Bar , Highwood ; Roger Hodgson ( Supertramp ) — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Blue Sky Blind / The Absentees — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; R-Gang — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Red Woody — Bannerman ’ s , Bartlett ; Fantasy Masters Jazz Band — Bar Evolution , Batavia ; Paul Willaert — Bar Louie ,
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