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dlle Up , Aurora ; Comedy Open Mic — Schubas , Chicago ; Wishy / Joyer / Graham Hunt — Schubas , Chicago ; Pro Jam — Shanahan ' s , Woodridge ; I ' m Laughing Because I ' m Crying ( The Show ) — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; Green Machine x Entropic : Flower Food / DJ Got Worms / Duck Trash / Josh Tong — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Ana Gasteyer — Space , Evanston ; Reggae Gold — Subterranean , Chicago ; Singo — Sundance Saloon , Mundelein ; Marc Rebillet / Donna Francesca — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Leather & Lacefronts — The Forge , Joliet ; Evan McIntosh / Wyatt Wadell — Uncommon Ground , Chicago ; Gideon / Orthodox / Stolen Sun — WC Social Club , West Chicago ; Steve Rannazisi — Zanies , Chicago ; Steve Dahl Birtday Birthday Party — Zanies , Rosemont .
FRIDAY 6
Blink 312 / Fueled By Emo / From Here to Infirmary / Fearless — 115 Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; DJ Boathouse — Alive One , Chicago ; Pancho Barraza — Allstate Arena , Rosemont ; McQuintent / Shawn Maxwell — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; Thunderstruck : AC / DC Christmas Show / Sabbath — Arcada Theatre , St . Charles ; DJ Don Carlo — Arlington Ale House , Arlington Heights ; Dueling Pianos — Avenue 912 , Griffith IN ; Hajime Kinkoko & Marie Sauvage — Avondale Hall , Chicago ; Coalesce / Meth — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Mike Wheeler Blues Band & Mzz Reese — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Emo Night Karaoke / When The Sun Sets — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Altered Five — Buddy Guy ' s Legends , Chicago ; Cool Heat / ClubDrugs / Bad Bloom — Burlington , Chicago ; Duke & The American Dream / Mike Himebaugh — Carol ' s Pub , Chicago ; Alletcvt — Chop Shop , Chicago ; Robert Gasper — City Winery , Chicago ; Scarlet House / Interlay — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Will Clarke / Audion / Rose Ryot — Concord Music Hall , Chicago ; Catalytic Sound Festival — Constelllation , Chicago ; David ' s Bazaar — Coom ' s Corner , Lockport ; Serendipity — Corrigan ' s , Shorewood ; Lou Grammm — Des Plaines Theatre , Des Plaines ; DJ — Draft Picks , Mt . Prospect ; DJ Marc Esses ( 10:30pm ) — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; The Hoyle Brothers — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Beyond The Blonde — Evenflow , Geneva ; Menards / Decemberists — FitzGerald ' s Sidebar , Berwyn ; Joe Probst — Four Winds Casino , South Bend , IN ; DJ Jelliefish — Four Winds Casino - C Bar , New Buffalo , MI ; Sidestreets — Four Winds Casino - C Bar , South Bend , IN ; Bill Cessna — Four Winds Casino - Copper Rock , South Bend , IN ; Heart to Heartbreaker — Four Winds Casino - Grille , New Buffalo , MI ; Mike Struwin — Four Winds Casino - Grille , South Bend , IN ; Andrew Bird / Mary Lattimore : Gezelligheid Concerts — Fourth Presbyterian Church , ChIcago ; Chris Foreman / Mighty Blue Kings — Green Mill , Chicago ; Mike & Joe — Hard Rock Casino - Cafe , Gary , IN ; Duke Tomatoe ' s Power Trio — Hard Rock Casino - Council Oak , Gary , IN ; Happy Hour : Jon Allegretto — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Nightcap ( 9:30pm ): Aaron Kelley — Hey Nonny , Arlington
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Heights ; Peppermint Patties — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; EMO NIGHT : All American Throwbacks — Hobart Art Theatre , Hobart , IN ; Steve Brown — Improv , Schaumburg ; 7th Heaven — Jamo ' s Live , Mokena ; Greg Ward — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; The Boy Band Night — Joe ' s Live , Rosemont ; Austin Snell — Joe ' s on Weed , Chicago ; Oliver Hazard / Max Morton — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Combichrist — Live Wire , Chicago ; The Moods Christmas Classics — Lyric Theater , Blue Island ; Mr . Myers Band — Madcats , Palatine ; Tributosaurus Becomes David Bowie — Martyrs ', Chicago ; The Lawrence Arms 10th Annual War on Xmas / Smoking Popes / Royal Dog — Metro , Chicago ; Super Creeps / Made of Stone — Montrose Saloon , Chicago ; Funkadesi 28th Anniversary Concert / Amyna Love — Old Town School , Chicago ; Jim Norton — Park West , ChIcago ; Magician Pat Flanagan — Pollyanna , Lemont ; Billy Denton — Pollyanna , Roselle ; Archie Hamilton / Josh Butler — Prysm , Chicago ; Eleven — Q Bar , Darien ; DNB Allstars — Radius , Chicago ; Constellations / Night Swims / Rain Garden — Reggies - Music Joint , Chicago ; Cirque Musica Hoiday — Rialto Sqaure Theatre , Joliet ; Find Your People — Robert ' s Westside , Forest Park ; Smells Like Nirvana — Rochaus , West Dundee ; John Primer and The Real Deal Blues Band — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; Screening of Home Alone with Macaulay Culkin — Rosemont Theatre , Rosemont ; Line Dancing & DJ — Saddlle Up , Aurora ; The Alright Maybes / Violet Crime — Schubas , Chicago ; Piano Sing-along — Shanahan ' s , Woodridge ; Horse Meat Disco / Harry Cross / Your Girlfriend — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Widemouth / Sleeper ' s Bell / Midwest Blender Company — Space , Evanston ; Semple — Stage 119 , Elmmurst ; Emo Nite — Subterranean , Chicago ; Country DJ Artie — Sundance Saloon , Mundelein ; Indika — Tailgaters , Bolingbrook ; Marc Rebillet / Donna Francesca — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Mavis Staples Birthday Celebration with special guest sets by Jackson Browne and Margo Price — The Auditorium , ChIcago ; Brett Eldredge — The Chicago Theatre , Chicago ; Louder Now / Grunge County — The Piazza , Aurora ; Karaoke Storytellers — The Promontory , ChIcago ; Drake White / Reid Haughton — The Rave , Milwaukee ; Joe Russo ' s Almost Dead — The Salt Shed , Chicago ; Dave Sills & His Band — The Venue , Aurora ; Who Dat Dere — Thirsty Beaver , Crestwood ; FoCo — Tony D ' s , Elmwood Park ; I Guess So with Zach Porlier — Uncommon Ground , Chicago ; Dan Soder — Vic Theatre , ChIcago ; Chris Stapleton Tribute / Tenesee Whiskey — Vixen , McHenry ; Terrapin Flyer — WC Social Club , West Chicago ; Tryouts — Whistler , Chicago ; Jim Flannigan — Zanies , Chicago ; Steve Rannazzisi — Zanies , Rosemont .
SATURDAY 7
The Ron Burgundy ' s — 115 Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; DJ Boathouse — Alive One , Chicago ; McQuintent / Shawn Maxwell — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; Tommy James and his Shondells — Arcada Theatre , St .
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Charles ; DJ — Arlington Ale House , Arlington Heights ; Marrakesh Express — Avenue 912 , Griffith IN ; Music for the Masses : Dark 80 ' s New Wave Nite — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Mike Wheeler Blues Band & Mzz Reese — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Harms Way / Weekend Nachos / Inclination — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Ivan Singh — Buddy Guy ' s Legends , Chicago ; What Gives / Sprite / Annabel — Burlington , Chicago ; Whaddayaknow Trivia — Carol ' s Pub , Chicago ; Rufus Du Sol Fred Again Dance Party — Chop Shop , Chicago ; Staleys / Thompson Springs / Jacob on the Moon — Chop Shop , Chicago ; Benamin Clementine — City Winery , Chicago ; it ' s murph / JEV — Concord Music Hall , Chicago ; Catalytic Sound Festival : Percussion Discussion / Dorothy Carlos / Vandermark Lane Tech — Constelllation , Chicago ; In The Stix — Corrigan ' s , Shorewood ; Thunderstruck – AC / DC Christmas Show / Sabbath — Des Plaines Theatre , Des Plaines ; Karaoke ( 10:30pm ) — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; My Metal Heart / Boneyard — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Girli — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Big Bang Baby — Evenflow , Geneva ; Cash Box Kings — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Christmas Brunch — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Sunshine Boys — FitzGerald ' s Sidebar , Berwyn ; DJ Fury — Four Winds Casino - C Bar , New Buffalo , MI ; Karaoke — Four Winds Casino - C Bar , South Bend , IN ; Donald Neale — Four Winds Casino - Copper Rock , South Bend , IN ; Raucous Leo — Four Winds Casino - Grille , New Buffalo , MI ; Marta Koonce — Four Winds Casino - Grille , South Bend , IN ; Take It Easy — Geneva Stage , Lalke Geneva ; Paper Machete / Mighty Blue Kings — Green Mill , Chicago ; Rearview — Hard Rock Casino - Cafe , Gary , IN ; DJ Kevin Allen — Hard Rock Casino - Council Oak , Gary , IN ; Joe / Amerie — Hard Rock Casino - Live , Gary , IN ; BLKBOK — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Happy Hour : Ian Leith — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Nightcap ( 9:30pm ): Nick Scarpino — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Christopher Owens — Hideout , Chicago ; MegaBeatles — Hobart Art Theatre , Hobart , IN ; The Comfy Show : Porch Music / DJ Hydrate / Skeet Pete — House of Blues , Chicago ; Steve Brown — Improv , Schaumburg ; Anthem — Jamo ' s Live , Mokena ; Greg Ward — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Mr . Dave ' s Holiday Jamboree / Covers For Cover — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Combichrist — Live Wire , Chicago ; Physical Graffiti — Madcats , Palatine ; The Lawrence Arms 10th Annual War on Xmas / with American Steel / Still Alive — Metro , Chicago ; Holidays a cappella - Family Edition ( 3pm ) — Old Town School , Chicago ; Irish Christmas in America — Old Town School , Chicago ; Teen Open Mic — Old Town School - Armitage Hall , Chicago ; Wonho — Outset , Chicago ; Brendan Bayliss & Jake Cinninger featuring Andy Farag / Aron Magner |
of the Disco Biscuits / Mike Racky ( Holiday Show ) — Park West , ChIcago ; Christian Hansen — Pollyanna , Lemont ; Matt Keen ( 1pm ) — Pollyanna , St . Charles ; MK — Prysm , Chicago ; Brookwood Drive — Q Bar , Darien ; LP Giobbi — Radius , Chicago ; Michael Johnson & Marc Levalle ( Open Mic Comedy - Midnight ) — Reggies - Comedy Shack , Chicago ; Christian Death / Xentrifuge / Black Season Witch — Reggies - Music Joint , Chicago ; Echoes of Pompeii Pink Floyd Show — Reggies - Rock Club , Chicago ; Mowtown Christmas — Rialto Sqaure Theatre , Joliet ; Loudernow — Robert ' s Westside , Forest Park ; In The Flesh — Rochaus , West Dundee ; Toronzo Cannon — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; Line Dancing & DJ / Country Night — Saddlle Up , Aurora ; Illiterate Light / Palmyra — Schubas , Chicago ; Avernus ( Record Release )/ Varaha / Nightshade — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; Robert Hood / Shaun J . Wright / BLACKCLUB — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Laurie Berkner / Robert Ellis / Joe Pug — Space , Evanston ; Hannah Bahng — Subterranean , Chicago ; School of Rock Chicago West — Subterranean , Chicago ; Irish Heartbeat — Sundance Saloon , Mundelein ; The Selectones — Suzy ' s , Yorkville ; Hairbanger ' s Ball — Tailgaters , Bolingbrook ; Marc Rebillet / Donna Francesca — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Brett Eldredge — The Chicago Theatre , Chicago ; Light Up The Night : Reggaeton and EDM Party — The Rave , Milwaukee ; Luar La L — The Rave , Milwaukee ; Mason Ramsey / Halle Kearns — The Rave , Milwaukee ; Lil ' Ed & The Blues Imperials — The Venue , Aurora ; Member ' s Only — Tony D ' s , Elmwood Park ; Ahona M ./ Javan Whitney-Warner — Uncommon Ground , Chicago ; Gerald McClendon — Untitled , Chicago ; John Crist — Vic Theatre , ChIcago ; Christmas Wizards — Vixen , McHenry ; Christmas Dance : Cardenas Project — WC Social Club , West Chicago ; Feelgood — Whistler , Chicago ; Jim Flannigan — Zanies , Chicago ; Stand Up For Kids ( 2pm ) — Zanies , Chicago ; Steve Rannazzisi — Zanies , Rosemont .
SUNDAY 8
Living Room Sessions / Crushes — Alive One , Chicago ; Andy Brown — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; The Ides of March Christmas Show ( 3pm ) — Arcada Theatre , St . Charles ; The Lennon Project — Arcada Theatre , St . Charles ; Nate Manos & Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Ghalia Volt — Buddy Guy ' s Legends , Chicago ; Tunes & Toys for Tots Toy Drive ( 2pm ) — Chicago Street Pub , Joliet ; Soul Brunch Christmas — City Winery , Chicago ; The Englisl Beat — City Winery , Chicago ; Sinatra Suncontinues
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