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Plainfield; Julian Jumpin Perez — Venuti’s, Addison; Rick Lindy
& The Wild Ones — White Eagle, Niles; Freestyle Takover — Wire,
Berwyn; Hi-Fi Stereotypes — Zach’s On Tap, Palos Heights; Blues
Power — Zachary’s Bar, Palos Heights.
SUNDAY 17 FEBRUARY
Alfonson Ponticelli & Swing Gitan — 210 Live, Highwood; The
Whiskey Brothers — Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; Wendy & DB
and The Band — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Chicago Wind Blues
Band w/Deitra Farr — Blue Chicago, Chicago; Middle of The
Road/Tony Ocean — Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge, Michigan
City, IN; Jess Piano — Bub City, Chicago; Grace & John — Bub
City, Rosemont; Giles Corey — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago;
Kandace Springs/Chicago Philharmonic Chamber Players —
City Winery, Chicago; Megalodon/Dirt Monkey/Tsimba —
Concord Music Hall, Chicago; Tortoise — Empty Bottle, Chicago;
The Teflons & Sunnyside Up/Bill O’Connell’s Chicago Skyliners
/Teen Artist Open Mic — FitzGerald’s, Berwyn; Uptown Poetry
Slam/Soul Jazz Night w/Joel Paterson Trio & Chris Foreman —
Green Mill, Chicago; Jazz Brunch w/Abigail Riccards/Russian
Romance Piano Duo — Hey Nonny, Arlington Heights; STS9 Day
3/World Famous Gospel Brunch/Luca Chiellini — House of
Blues, Chicago; Cross The Line — Joe’s Live, Rosemont; Linsey
Alexander/Claudette Miller — Kingston Mines, Chicago;
Deerhunter/FACS — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Lost Pyramids —
Mac’s On Slade, Palatine; Chicago Loves Rock & Roll —
Reggie’s, Chicago; You And Me Sister/Next Town Down —
Schubas, Chicago; Burn Down The Mission: Songs of Elton
John(early)/Chris Greene Quartet — Space, Evanston; Mandolin
Orange — Thalia Hall, Chicago; Dreadwolf/Moonraker/The
Requirements — The Burlington, Chicago; Meds & Jazzeros/
Ryan Simpson — Uncommon Ground Lakeview, Chicago; DJ &
Karaoke w/Karaoke Zach — Uptown Lounge, Chicago.
MONDAY 18
Extraordinary Popular Delusions/Crystal Lake/Archers/Still
World — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Mike Wheeler/Demetria Taylor
— Blue Chicago, Chicago; Juke Box Band/The Moods — Blue
Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge, Michigan City, IN; Griffin Crowder —
Bub City, Chicago; Jimmy Burns Hosts The Jam — Buddy Guy’s
Legends, Chicago; Donavon Frankenreiter/Matt Grundy — City
Winery, Chicago; John Hawkwood’s Blackfoot Sun/Foresight —
Elbo Room, Chicago; Patricia Barber Trio — Green Mill, Chicago;
Travis Greene & Mosaic MSC/Dave Specter/Joanna Connor —
House of Blues, Chicago; Corey Dennison/JW Williams —
Kingston Mines, Chicago; Maribou State & Guest — Lincoln Hall,
Chicago; Louder Than A Mom — Martyrs’, Chicago; Another
F*ckin’ Open Mic-Comedy Edition/Token — Reggie’s, Chicago;
Project T.A.P. w/Pooky/Gal Gun & Special Guests — Schubas,
Chicago; The Moth StorySLAM — Space, Evanston; Open Mic —
Uncommon Ground Lakeview, Chicago.
TUESDAY 19
Trivia Nite w/Pat O’Malley — Ballydoyle, Downers Grove;
Chicago Underground Comedy — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Live
Band Karaoke — Bub City, Chicago; Live Band Karaoke — Bub
City, Rosemont; Dave Weld — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago;
Victor Garcia — City Winery, Chicago; Open Mic — Empire,
Naperville; Pussy Foot/The Cell Phones/Lilac — Empty Bottle,
Chicago; Sean Rowe/Open Mic — FitzGerald’s, Berwyn; The Fat
Babies — Green Mill, Chicago; Claire Bryant & The Babes — Hey
Nonny, Arlington Heights; Wiz Khalifa & Curren$y/Guy
King/Hoodoo Brown/Comedy Cocktail — House of Blues,
Chicago; Giles Corey/Mike Wheeler & Peaches Staten —
Kingston Mines, Chicago; Current Joys/Gap Girls/Pool
Holograph — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Harmonica Hoedown 2019 —
Martyrs’, Chicago; Mr. Blotto — Reggie’s, Chicago; Pete Galanis
& Friends w/Dave Herrero — Rosa’s Lounge, Chicago; Hailey
Knox/Anna Agosta/Meagan Hickman — Schubas, Chicago; DW
Jazz Orchestra — Space, Evanston; Gungor/The Brilliance —
Subterranean, Chicago.
WEDNESDAY 20
Blues Jam w/Big Ray & Chicago’s Most Wanted — B.L.U.E.S.,
Chicago; Open Mic — Ballydoyle, Aurora; Open Mic w/Dave
Kelly — Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; Cruxshadows — Beat Kitchen,
Chicago; Two Fellas — Bella Mia, Midlothian; JW Williams/
Laretha Weathersby — Blue Chicago, Chicago; Folk Yeah — Bub
City, Chicago; Judson Brown — Bub City, Rosemont; Frank Bang
& The Secret Stash — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Bluewater
Kings Band — Chop Shop/1st Ward, Chicago; Procol Harum —
City Winery, Chicago; Fred Zimmerman — Club Arcada, St.
Charles; Le Butcherettes/Stars At Night/Mutts — Cobra
Lounge, Chicago; James Manno — Cubby Bear, Chicago; Hot
Spot/Jet Setting Band/Forks of Ivy/Pip The Pansy — Elbo
Room, Chicago; Big Band Dance w/APOL/Jarod Bufe Quartet
— FitzGerald’s, Berwyn; Paper Machete/Alfonso Ponticelli &
Swing Gitan/Late Night Industry Set w/Frank Catalano Sextet
— Green Mill, Chicago; Steven Lynerd Group — Hey Nonny,
Arlington Heights; Dave Specter/Keithen Banks — House of
Blues, Chicago; Corey Dennison/Mike Wheeler — Kingston
Mines, Chicago; Adrianne Lenker/Luke Temple — Lincoln Hall,
Chicago; Rhodee & The Garifuna Flava Band — Old Town School,
Chicago; Carrie Nation & The Speakeasy — Reggie’s, Chicago;
John Primer & Steve Bell — Rosa’s Lounge, Chicago; Welles/
Diagonal — Schubas, Chicago; Ian Hammond & The Realistics/
Steel/Jeris Giril/North Lodge — Subterranean, Chicago; Cody
James/Eugene Grey & Ian Leith — Uncommon Ground Lakeview,
Chicago.
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THURSDAY 21
Rob Schneider Stand Up Comedy — Arcada Theater, St. Charles;
Trivia Night — Ballydoyle, Aurora; Mark V — Ballydoyle, Downers
Grove; That 1 Guy — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; BTS Express/
Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago, Chicago; Like A Storm/Royal
Tusk/Afterlife — Bottom Lounge, Chicago; The One Jr. Singing
Competition — Bourbon Street, Merrionette Park; Jason Martin
& Guests/Rebels In Stereo/Superbig/The Recall/ — Brauer
House, Lombard; Moonlight Pickers — Bub City, Chicago; New
Orleans Beau — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Babes Only
Concert — Chop Shop/1st Ward, Chicago; Procol Harum — City
Winery, Chicago; Nick Pontarelli Band — Club Arcada, St.
Charles; RILEY/Davey Muise/Michael Barr/CRLO/Austin
Fillmore — Cobra Lounge, Chicago; G Jones/Tsuruda/Chee —
Concord Music Hall, Chicago; 70’s Southern Rock w/OTIS —
Cubby Bear, Chicago; 4th Annual Battle of The Bands — Elbo
Room, Chicago; The People Tree — Empire, Naperville; Fletcher
Rockwell — FitzGerald’s, Berwyn; Brian Kovacs — Four Winds
Casino, New Buffalo; Andy Brown Solo Jazz Guitar/Alan Gresik
Swing Shift Orchestra — Green Mill, Chicago; Stevie Craig — HB
Jones, Elmhurst; Guy King — Hey Nonny, Arlington Heights;
Keithen Banks/Linsey Alexander — House of Blues, Chicago;
Joanna Connor/Rico McFarland — Kingston Mines, Chicago;
Mother Mother & Guest — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Simply Sound
— M Supper Club, Crystal Lake; The 208 — Mac’s On Slade,
Palatine; Yung Gravy/Bbno$/Triiiiiiip — Metro, Chicago; Dessa
— Old Town School, Chicago; Mass Appeal/Alysha Monique —
Reggie’s, Chicago; Shaun Boothe Presents The Unauthorized
Biography Series — Rialto Square Theater, Joliet; Blues Night
w/Wayne Baker Brooks — Rivers Casino, Des Plaines; The
Kooks/Barns Courtney/Future Feats — Riviera Theater, Chicago;
Justin Moore — Rosemont Theater, Rosemont; Bailen & Guest —
Schubas, Chicago; Tourist/Gilligan Moss — Sleeping Village,
Chicago; Joe Jackson — Thalia Hall, Chicago; Late/Shed/
Numerical Control Society — The Owl, Chicago; Travis Scott —
United Center, Chicago; DJ & Karaoke w/Karaoke Zach —
Uptown Lounge, Chicago; Rick Lindy & The Wild Ones —
Venuti’s, Addison; Andres — Wire, Berwyn; Superfly Redneck —
Zach’s On Tap, Palos Heights.
FRIDAY 22
Deacon Blues — 210 Live, Highwood; Kelly Clarkson — Allstate
Arena, Rosemont; Jonny Lang — Arcada Theater, St. Charles;
Jetsetters DJs — Arlington Ale House, Arlington Heights; Lava
Rock — Austin’s Fuel Room, Libertyville; Arra/April Kats —
Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; Libido Funk Circus — Bannerman’s,
Bartlett; Tyler Krienitz — Bar Evolution, Batavia; The John Mayer
Experience — Base Camp, Lisle; Flora/Human Bloom/D’Zhari —
Beat Kitchen, Chicago; John Primer/Laretha Weathersby — Blue
Chicago, Chicago; Ginger & Her Baked Goods/Spoken Four —
Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge, Michigan City, IN; The One
Singing Competition — Bourbon Street, Merrionette Park;
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Whitey Morgan/Alex Williams/Rio & The Rockabilly Revival/
THe Bama Lamas — Brauerhouse, Lombard; John Guarnieri —
Broken Oar, Port Barrington; Josh Melton — Bub City, Chicago;
Bobby McLendon — Bub City, Rosemont; Lil Ed & The Blues
Imperials/Charlie Brown — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago;
Sunset Strip/Warpath — Cheers, Midlothian; Snow Shoe w/Old
Snow Shoe & Ben Miller Band — Chop Shop/1st Ward, Chicago;
Bobby McFerrin & Gimme5: CircleSongs — City Winery, Chicago;
WHUT?/Penitentiary/Vile Secretion/Absent Mind/Sarin —
Cobra Lounge, Chicago; Liquid Stranger/LSDream/Champagne
Drip/G-Rex/Lucii — Concord Music Hall, Chicago; The
Movement/Kbong — Cubby Bear, Chicago; HiFi Superstar —
Dock’s Bar, Wauconda; Doub Bardolph — Dock’s Victory Pub,
Elmhurst; The Corcoran Brothers/Soul Daddy — Elbo Room,
Chicago; Peter Murphy 40 Years of Bauhaus feat. David J.
Performing “In The Flat Field”/Ty Segall & White Fenc/Axis:
Sova — Empty Bottle, Chicago; Elton Dan & Gypsies, Doves &
Dreams — Evanston Rocks, Evanston; Cannonball — FitzGerald’s,
Berwyn; DJ Jesse — Four Winds Casino, New Buffalo; Boom Tic
Boom/The Flipside Show w/Chris Forman/After Hours Jam —
Green Mill, Chicago; Mark V — Harp & Fiddle, Park Ridge; Rosie
& The Rivets — Hey Nonny, Arlington Heights; Rhinestone DJ D
— Hollywood Casino, Aurora; Head Honchos — Hollywood Casino,
Joliet; Gin Blossoms/Mississippi Gabe Carter/Mike Wheeler
Band — House of Blues, Chicago; Beth Haines — Incontro A
Tavola, S. Barrington; Walker Hayes/Filmore — Joe’s Live,
Rosemont; Josh Abbott Band/Casey Donahue — Joe’s on Weed,
Chicago; Whiskey & Harmony — JW Hollstein’s, Tinley Park;
Good Clean Fun — Kennedy Pointe, Bristol; Sal & Izy — Kerry
Piper, Willowbrook; TBD — Kingston Mines, Chicago;
Acoustiholics — Level 257, Schaumburg; Bob Mould Band/
Airstream Futures — Metro, Chicago; Jimmy Nick & Don’t Tell
Mama — Mickey Finn’s, Libertyville; Cadillac Groove/Sal & Izy —
Nevin’s Brewing Co., Plainfield; Kevin Presbrey & The Midwest —
Niko’s R&R, Marengo; Sierra Hull — Old Town School, Chicago;
MiS — Penny Road Pub, Barrington; Hard Gravity — Q-Bar,
Darien; Cloud Zero/Silent Party — Reggie’s, Chicago; Tiffany
Jenkins — Rialto Square Theater, Joliet; Hairbanger’s Ball/DJ Q
— Rivers Casino, Des Plaines; Beirut/Helado Negro — Riviera
Theater, Chicago; Nora Jean Band — Rosa’s Lounge, Chicago;
CNCO — Rosemont Theater, Rosemont; Graves/Hex Cougar —
Schubas, Chicago; Nightmares On Wax/Turtle Bugg/Merrick
Brown — Smart Bar, Chicago; Tyler Ramsey & Carl Broemel —
Space, Evanston; Face to Face — Subterranean, Chicago; Joe
Jackson — Thalia Hall, Chicago; DJ Boogie Munsters — The Owl,
Chicago; Andy Mead Acoustic — The Sandlot Wrigley, Chicago; A
Bowie Celebration — The Vic, Chicago; Budy Bodies —
Uncommon Ground Lakeview, Chicago; Shxde/Resonata/Joki/
w/out/Plvgues/Satanic Hispanic — Underground Lounge,
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