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Andrews — Chicago Theatre, Chicago; Mr. Carmack — Chop
Shop, Chicago; Los Lobos — City Winery, Chicago; VoiceBox w/
Cathy Richardson — Fitzgerald’s, Berwyn; The Fat Babies —
Green Mill, Chicago; Sofa Kings — Hey Nonny, Arlington Heights;
Gentle Heat/Faux Furrs/The Bascinets — Hideout, Chicago;
Nigel Mack/Dir En Grey/Comedy Cocktail/Corey Dennison/
Nick Moss Band — House of Blues, Chicago; Giles Corey/
Michael Wheeler/Peaches Staten — Kingston Mines, Chicago;
Ultimately Fruitless/Architects of Beauty/Strangelets —
Martyrs, Chicago; Q Brothers Christmas Carol — Navy Pier,
Chicago; Mr. Blotto — Reggies, Chicago; Pete Galanis & Friends
/Dave Herrero — Rosa’s, Chicago; Jams the Flava Child —
Schubas, Chicago; The Spits/Mystery Actions/The Sueves/DJ
Tylor O — Sleeping Village, Chicago; Tuck & Patti/Sam Fazio —
Space, Evanston; Lincoln Lodge Christmas Show —
Subterranean, Chicago; BenDeLaCreme & Jinkx Monsoon —
Thalia Hall, Chicago; Song Circle — Two Way Street Coffee House,
Downers Grove; Gabby Henderson/Ilana & Dylan (Lakeview) —
Uncommon Ground, Chicago; Zoe Laverne/Cody Orlove & More
— WC Social Club, West Chicago.
WEDNESDAY 11 DECEMBER
Music Showcase Grand Finale — Arcada Theater, St. Charles;
Open Mic — Ballydoyle, Aurora; Open Mic w/Dave Kelly —
Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; Trivia Night — BaseCamp, Lisle; A
Very Rude Film Fest — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; JW Williams/
Laretha Weathersby — Blue Chicago, Chicago; Blues Jam
w/Rodney Brown & Hot Rod — BLUES, Chicago; Open Jam —
Brauer House, Lombard; Tucker Beathard/South City Revival —
Bub City, Chicago; MG Bailey — Bub City, Rosemont; The Special
20s — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Q-101 TNWSC w/Cage
The Elephant/Angels & Airwaves/The Federal Empire — Byline
Bank Aragon Ballroom, Chicago; Dan Rodriguez — City Winery,
Chicago; Food, Booze, & Tunes w/ Peter Sagal — Cubby Bear,
Chicago; Verluna/North By North/Jessica Mindrum — Empty
Bottle, Chicago; Sarah Borges & The Broken Shingles/Greg
Dudzienski Quartet — Fitzgerald’s, Berwyn; Alfonso Ponticelli/
Swing Gitan/Frank Catalano Sextet — Green Mill, Chicago; Cafe
Carly — Hey Nonny, Arlington Heights; Ariel Zetina/RXM Reality
/Cooper Crain/Lia Kohl/Beau Wanzer/Itsi/Sullivan Davis/Ben
Baker Billington/DJ Muqks — Hideout, Chicago; Keithan Banks
/Uncorked and Unplugged/Guy King — House of Blues, Chicago;
Corey Dennison/Michael Wheeler — Kingston Mines, Chicago;
Ezra Collective — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Great Moments in Vinyl
- The Kinks “Something Else” — Martyrs, Chicago; Ladytron/
New Canyons/Hiroko Yamamura — Metro, Chicago; Q Brothers
Christmas Carol — Navy Pier, Chicago; Beauty and The Beast —
Paramount Theatre, Aurora; Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing/Jake
Dewar — Phyllis’ Musical Inn, Chicago; Lurrie Bell/Lil’ Ed —
Rosa’s, Chicago; Common Holly/The Brazen Youth/Elise
Poirier — Schubas, Chicago; Zimmer/Redux/Duke Shin —
Sleeping Village, Chicago; Sam Fazio — Space, Evanston; Adam
Turley/Eric Bellinger/Ye Ali/Sy Ari Da Kid/Garren —
Subterranean, Chicago; Old 97’s w/CaseyMagic/Rhett Miller
— Thalia Hall, Chicago; Daybreaker/Highdiver/Solor/Sound
and Soma — The Burlington, Chicago; Acoustic Bluegrass Jam
Night — The Venue, Aurora; DJ & Karaoke — Uptown Lounge,
Chicago; Low-Reen & Maxwell St Market Blues Jam — Water
Hole Lounge, Chicago.
THURSDAY 12
Ho Ho Hoey: Gary Hoey Christmas Show — Arcada Theater, St.
Charles; Trivia Night — Ballydoyle, Aurora; Steve Petrovich —
Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; Gino G. — BaseCamp, Lisle; Red
Scarves/Faint Life — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; BTS Express/
Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago, Chicago; Pistol Pete — BLUES,
Chicago; The Joy Formidable/Bryde/Twen — Bottom Lounge,
Chicago; Clayton Mann — Bub City, Chicago; Chris Moran — Bub
City, Rosemont; Chuck-A-Luck — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago;
The 1975/Bob Moses/Allan Rayman — Byline Bank Aragon
Ballroom, Chicago; Chris Tomlin — Chicago Theatre, Chicago;
Kevin Ross — City Winery, Chicago; Cleveland Avenue/Action-
Adventure/Long Gone/Splits — Cobra Lounge, Chicago; Bad
Leather — Cubby Bear, Chicago; Roscoe Mitchell/Moor Mother
/Thurston Moore Group/Devin Brahja Waldman — Empty Bottle,
Chicago; PBJ — Evenflow Music, Geneva; Ron and Naomi’s
Christmas Special — Fitzgerald’s, Berwyn; Andy Brown/Alan
Gresik Swing Shift Orchestra — Green Mill, Chicago; Dean
Milano — HB Jones, Elmhurst; Anthony Bruno — Hey Nonny,
Arlington Heights; Matt Hendricks/Amalea Tshilds/Lizzie
Kirchner — Hideout, Chicago; Serendipity — Hollywood Casino,
Joliet; Mike Wheeler/Rodney Brown — House of Blues, Chicago;
Dylan Scott/Carly Pearce/Hardy — Joe’s Live, Rosemont;
Joanna Connor — Kingston Mines, Chicago; Goose — Lincoln
Hall, Chicago; Omega Moos — Martyrs, Chicago; Q Brothers
Christmas Carol — Navy Pier, Chicago; Beauty and The Beast —
Paramount Theatre, Aurora; Makeout/Jigsaw — Reggies,
Chicago; DJ Q — Rivers Casino, Des Plaines; Blues Jam Session
w/Lil Ed Williams — Rosa’s, Chicago; Tallies/Dotdotdot/Side
Hug — Schubas, Chicago; Guirro/Muddmann/Jeremiah Meece/
Club Politix — Smartbar, Chicago; Marshall Crenshaw Trio/The
Last Afternoons — Space, Evanston; Jacob Sigman/Holly/The
Inbetween Days/Capital Soiree — Subterranean, Chicago;
Through Fire/Brkn Love/Saul/Dead Posey — The Forge, Joliet;
DJ & Karaoke — Uptown Lounge, Chicago; Somber Reptiles/
THM NME/Springa Sonic Droogs/DJ Chrys Anthem — Wire,
Berwyn; Bill Serratella — ZaZa’s Tavola, Barrington.
FRIDAY 13
Too White Crew — 210 Live, Highwood; Open Mic Songwriters
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Showcase — Arlington Ale House, Arlington Heights; Dueling
Pianos — Austin’s Fuel Room, Libertyville; McNulty Irish Dancers
— Ballydoyle, Aurora; Sic To Midnight — Bannerman’s, Bartlett;
Tyler Krienitz — Bar Evolution, Batavia; Double Treble — Beacon
Tap, Des Plaines; Hi-Rez/Emilio Rojas/Loud Mouth/Space
Cadet/Books/Mentality — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; John Primer
/Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago, Chicago; Recycle The Day —
Blue Chip Casino, Michigan City, IN; Rico McFarland — BLUES,
Chicago; The Trifinity — Bottom Lounge, Chicago; Ethan Bell
Band — Bourbon Street, Merrionette Park; David Allan Coe/3 on
The Tree/Austin Edwards/Straight Jacket Romance/Faded
Flannel — Brauer House, Lombard; Daniel E. Johnson — Bub
City, Chicago; Clayton Mann — Bub City, Rosemont; The Original
Chicago Blues All Stars/Tomiko Dixon — Buddy Guy’s Legends,
Chicago; Q-101 TNWSC w/Twenty One Pilots/I Don’t Know How
But They Found Me — Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom, Chicago;
Concentric/Absolution — Cheers, Midlothian; Dave Koz and
Friends — Chicago Theatre, Chicago; Rodriguez — City Winery,
Chicago; Cover Me — Doc’s Victory Pub, Elmhurst; Call Me Jo —
Draft Picks, Naperville; The Hoyle Brothers/Thurston Moore
Group/Devin Brahja Waldman — Empty Bottle, Chicago; Modern
Day Romeos — Evenflow Music, Geneva; Ron and Naomi’s
Christmas Special/Bunkertown — Fitzgerald’s, Berwyn;
Cimorelli — Genesee Theatre, Waukegan; Chris Foreman/Mike
Jones Trio/Green Mill Quartet/Eric Schneider — Green Mill,
Chicago; The Waco Brothers/The Jacobson Organ — Hey Nonny,
Arlington Heights; Liam Kazar/Minor Moon/Adeline Hotel —
Hideout, Chicago; Scarlett Fever — Hollywood Casino, Aurora;
Gil Delapaz/PM Cool — Hollywood Casino, Joliet; The De Funked
— Home Bar, Arlington Heights; Haus of Drag/Mike Wheeler —
House of Blues, Chicago; Lounge Puppets — Jamo’s Live,
Mokena; Chicks w/ Picks — Jimmy’s Grill, Naperville; Morgan
Evans/Madison Kozak — Joe’s Bar On Weed, Chicago; Ace
Frehley/Ladrone/Like It — Joe’s Live, Rosemont; Friday at Five
— Kegler’s, Crest Hill; Jeff & Kurt’s Acoustic Refreshment —
Kennedy Pointe, Bristol; Joanna Connor Acoustic Set — Kingston
Mines, Chicago; Chadwick Stokes and The Pintos/Mihali —
Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Hudson Falcons & Friends — Live Wire,
Chicago; The Social Act/Nicholas Barron — Martyrs, Chicago;
Henry JBC — Metal Monkey, Romeoville; Emo Night Brooklyn/
Ryan Key — Metro, Chicago; Radio Heroes — Mickey Finn’s,
Libertyville; The North Poles — Pacman Entertainement,
Schaumburg; Beauty and The Beast — Paramount Theatre,
Aurora; Hot Tuna/Larry Campbell/Teresa Williams — Park West,
Chicago; Mr. Blotto/Lost Pyramids/Papa Squat and the Magic
Treehouse/Never Better/One Small Step/Baily Evert — Penny
Road Pub, Chicago; Dennis O’Brien — Pheasant Run, St. Charles;
Gallagher — Q-Bar, Glendale Heights; Dixie Crush — Quarry Pub,
Lemont; Funhouse Iggy Pop Show/Spaceface David Bowie
Tribute — Reggies, Chicago; Madball/Old Firm Casuals (Club) —
Reggies, Chicago; Ray Eng/DJ Q — Rivers Casino, Des Plaines;
Semple/Ray Eng/DJ Q — Rivers Casino, Des Plaines; Vino
Louden Band — Rosa’s, Chicago; Madison McFerrin/Gem Tree
Check illinoisentertainer.com for
concert previews, news, and reviews.
— Schubas, Chicago; J. Robbins Band/The Life And Times —
Sleeping Village, Chicago; Mike dunn/Garrett David/Leesh —
Smartbar, Chicago; Ana Gasteyer — Space, Evanston; Wicca
Phase/Springs Eternal/Glitterer/ANXIOUS/Creeks/Brother
Elsey/Morgan Powers — Subterranean, Chicago; Taught Abroad
/Color Card/Pure Shifter/Topaz — The Burlington, Chicago;
Fess Grandiose — The Owl, Chicago; Mick Archer Trio — The
Venue, Aurora; Omega Moos/Crosseyed/Phishless — The Vic
Theatre, Chicago; Ted Yoder — Two Way Street Coffee House,
Downers Grove; DJ & Karaoke — Uptown Lounge, Chicago; Paul
Kaye & the Blues Cartel — Water Hole Lounge, Chicago;
Psychostick/Downtown Brown/Face the Fire/Central Disorder
/Bareknuckle Bullseye/Outdregas — WC Social Club, West
Chicago; Decemberfest — Wire, Berwyn; James Libera —
Zachary’s, Palos Heights; Ken Qualter & Tim Burns — Zack’s On
Tap, Palos Heights; The A to Z’s — ZaZa’s Tavola, Barrington.
SATURDAY 14
The Letterman Christmas Show — 210 Live, Highwood; Ides of
March Christmas Show — Arcada Theater, St. Charles; Midnight
Band — Arlington Ale House, Arlington Heights; Bella Cain —
Austin’s Fuel Room, Libertyville; Remedy — Ballydoyle, Aurora;
Dina Bach — Bar Evolution, Batavia; The B-Side Band — Beacon
Tap, Des Plaines; Bluegrass Brunch/Kosha Dillz — Beat
Kitchen, Chicago; Blake Alexander — Bella Mia, Midlothian;
John Primer/Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago, Chicago; Rico
McFarland — BLUES, Chicago; Thriftworks/Jon1st & Shield —
Bottom Lounge, Chicago; The Ron Burgundys — Bourbon Street,
Merrionette Park; Grand Illusion/Barracuda — Brat Stop,
Kenosha, WI; Lovedrive/Diver Down/Nightsnake/Dan Whitaker
& The Shinebenders/David Quinn — Brauer House, Lombard;
Loop Rockers — Brazen Head, Crestwood; Fletcher Rockwell —
Bub City, Chicago; Over The Side — Bub City, Rosemont; Billy
Branch and the SOBs/Mojo Morganfield — Buddy Guy’s
Legends, Chicago; Q-101 TNWSC w/Mumford & Sons/Local
Natives — Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom, Chicago; Bad Boys/
Maiden Chicago/War Pigs — Cheers, Midlothian; Straight No
Chaser — Chicago Theatre, Chicago; Basta — Concord Hall,
Chicago; Believe in the Magic of Christmas — Copernicus
Center, Chicago; Brian Carmona Band — Cuzin’s Pub, Blue
Island; Kaina/drea the vibe dealer — Empty Bottle, Chicago;
Ralph Covert’s Acoustic Army/Brave Combo — Fitzgerald’s,
Berwyn; Wreking Crue — Genesee Theatre, Waukegan; The
Paper Machete/Mike Jones Trio/Pat Mallinger & Company —
Green Mill, Chicago; Bluegrass Brunch w/ Burnt Biscuits — Hey
Nonny, Arlington Heights; Chris White Trio — Hey Nonny,
Arlington Heights; Gia Margaret/Advance Base/Friendship/
Ruth Garbus — Hideout, Chicago; Gina Glocksen Band —
Hollywood Casino, Aurora; Faded Flannel — Home Bar, Arlington
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