Mystery — Des Plaines Theatre , Des Plaines ; Music Bingo — Draft Picks , Naperville ; Yuma Abe / Lake J — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Lowdown Brass Band — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Chris Greene Quartet — FitzGerald ' s Sidebar , Berwyn ; Alfonso Ponticelli — Green Mill , Chicago ; Dinner Show : Serrano Guitar Duo — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Dee Alexander — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Elyanna — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Folk You ! — Montrose Saloon , Chicago ; Peter Jericho & MGeni — Old Town School , Chicago ; Jared Robin / Dirty Rooks / Teen Beat — Reggies – Music Joint , Chicago ; The Kills / The Paranoyds — Riviera Theatre , Chicago ; The Jersey Girls — Rookies RocHaus , West Dundee ; Crying at the Shed — Salt Shed , Chicago ; Dan Navarro — Schubas , Chicago ; Acoustic Jam — Shanahan ' s , Woodridge ; Phil Angotti & Friends — Space , Evanston ; Simply Sound — Stage 119 , Elmhurst ; Line Dancing — Sundance Saloon , Mundelein ; Valentine ' s Dinner : Anthony Cassano — Tailgater ' s , Bolingbrook ; Rachael & Vilray / May Erlewine — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Night Lovell / HAARPER / Germ — The Rave Eagles Club , Milwaukee , WI ; Plain White T ' s / Pollyanna — The Rave Eagles Club , Milwaukee , WI ; Comedy Open Mic — Uncommon Ground , Chicago ; Lili K — Untitled , Chicago ; Rat Pack — Vixen , McHenry ; Vinyl Wednesday — Will County Brewing , Joliet ; Chris Bader — Zanies , Chicago .
THURSDAY 15
Open Jam — Alibi Pub , Wonder Lake ; Bonzo Squad — Alive One , Chicago ; The Alectet — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; Dirty Dancing Lessons ( 7pm ) — Arcada Theatre , St . Charles ; Echoes of Pompeii — Arcada Theatre , St . Charles ; Uncle Lazer — Art Theatre , Hobart , IN ; Karaoke — Austin ' s , Libertyville ; BackForward — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Open Mic — Black Lung Brewing , Round Lake Beach ; Mike Wheeler Blues Band / Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Silent Planet / Thornhill / Aviana — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Lloyd Snyder and The Big Rig Band — Bub City , Chicago ; Morry Sochat & Special 20s — Buddy Guy ' s Legends , Chicago ; Lawrence Tome / Dogcatcher — Carol ' s Pub , Chicago ; Widespread Panic — Chicago Theatre , Chicago ; Sango — Concord Music Hall , Chicago ; Junegrass / SPVD / DJ Glu — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Evenflow , Geneva ; Nathan Graham — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; 2 Steppin — Four Winds - Kankakee Grill , New Buffalo , MI ; Rob Yocom — Four Winds - Kankakee Grill , South Bend , IN ; Andy Brown / Alan Gresik — Green Mill , Chicago ; Chris Foreman — Green Mill , Chicago ; Jim Peterik & Friends — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Stand Up Comedy — House Of Blues - Foundation Room , Chicago ; Karaoke — Jamo ' s Live , Mokena ; Dee Alexander Quartet — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; The Damn Quails / Thunder & Rain — Joe ' s Bar , Chicago ; La Dinastia Rosario — Joe ' s Live , Rosemont ; Open Mic & Jam — Johnny ' s Blitz , Westmont ; Corey Dennison / Joanna Connor — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Thumpasaurus — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Karaoke — Madcats ,
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Palatine ; The Transference / TalusBlu / Modern Daybreak — Montrose Saloon , Chicago ; Open Mic — Polyanna , St . Charles ; Tinashe / UNiiQU3 — Radius , Chicago ; Red ' s Hot Chili Peppers / 505 — Reggies – Music Joint , Chicago ; Terrapin Flyer — Robert ' s Westside , Forest Park ; Rosa ' s All-Stars Band Feat . Lil Ed Williams — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; Crying at the Shed — Salt Shed , Chicago ; Comedy Open Mic — Schubas , Chicago ; La Rosa Noir / Daylongsigh / Sawamura No Hitter — Schubas , Chicago ; Pro Jam — Shanahan ' s , Woodridge ; Laura Jane Grace ( Album Release )/ Sincere Engineer / Calicoloco — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; Jax Hollow — Space , Evanston ; Reggae Gold — Subterranean , Chicago ; Singo — Sundance Saloon , Mundelein ; Indigo De Souza / Mia Joy — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Carisa — Uncommon Ground , Chicago ; Unbridled Burlesque — Untitled , Chicago ; Jessi Jetski Johnson / Roast Battle — Zanies , Chicago .
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Kings of Rodeo / The Country Night — 115 Bourbon St ., Merrionette Park ; DJ Boathouse — Alive One , Chicago ; Brent Griiffn Jr ./ Jimmy Farace — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; Jonny Lyons & The Pride — Arcada Speakeasy , St . Charles ; Echoes of Pompeii — Arcada Theatre , St . Charles ; DJ — Arlington Ale House , Arlington Heights ; Dave Matthews Tribute Band — Art Theatre , Hobart , IN ; J . Robbins Band — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; DJ Eternal — Black Lung Brewing , Round Lake Beach ; Demetria Taylor Blues Band — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Civl Fest : Nuovo Testamento — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Lloyd Snyder and The Big Rig Band — Bub City , Chicago ; Robbie Gold — Bub City , Roselle ; Mississippi Heat — Buddy Guy ' s Legends , Chicago ; Wire & Nail — Carol ' s Pub , Chicago ; Widespread Panic — Chicago Theatre , Chicago ; PINES — Chop Shop , Chicago ; 10,000 Maniacs — City Winery , Chicago ; Mathame — Concord Music Hall , Chicago ; Paige Naylor / Olivia Block / Lula Asplund — Constellation , Chicago ; Ultrabeat — Corrigan ' s Pub , Shorewood ; Thrift Store Halo / Paul Coady / Edsel Brothers — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Mr . Big — Des Plaines Theatre , Des Plaines ; DJ ( 10:30pm ) — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Line Dancing ( 6:30pm ) — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Hoyle Brothers ( 5:30pm ) — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Hairbanger ' s Ball — Evenflow , Geneva ; Rocks Off — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Joe Probst — Four Winds - Copper Rock , South Bend , IN ; The 1985 — Four Winds - Kankakee Grill , New Buffalo , MI ; Shiny Shiny Black — Four Winds - Kankakee Grill , South Bend , IN ; Jesus Christ Superstar — Genesee , Waukegan ; Head Honchos — Hard Rock Casino – Council Oak , Gary , IN ; Happy Hour : David Hayes — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Jim Peterik & Friends — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Nightcap ( 9:30pm ): Michael Rawls — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Sixteen Candles — House Of Blues , Chicago ; Big Jay Oakerson — Improv , Schaumburg ; Dee Alexander Quartet — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Smoak & Sip — Joe ' s Bar , Chicago ;
Rod Tuffcurls & The Bench Press — Joe ' s Live , Rosemont ; Al Spears & Hurricane — Johnny ' s Blitz , Westmont ; Joanna Connor / Mike Wheeler — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Tkay Maidza — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Mareakesh Express — Lyric Theatre , Blue Island ; Woogie — Mickey Finn ' s , Libertyville ; Beta Dog / Animal Audio / The Rosetones — Montrose Saloon , Chicago ; Mia X Ally — Park West , Chicago ; Bill Uhler — Polyanna , Lemont ; JD Kostyk — Polyanna , Roselle ; Nightmares On Wax / Romare / Frechette — Prysm , Chicago ; Mr . Blotto ( 11pm ) — Reggies – Music Joint , Chicago ; Josefina Single — Robert ' s Westside , Forest Park ; Dancing Queen — Rookies RocHaus , W . Dundee ; Cash Box Kings — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; Cold War Kids / Joe P — Salt Shed , Chicago ; Crying at the Shed — Salt Shed , Chicago ; Alaina Stacey / Madeleine Kelson / Max Subar — Schubas , Chicago ; Piano Bar — Shanahan ' s , Woodridge ; Second Hand News — Space , Evanston ; Whiskey Thunder & Line Dance Instruction — Stage 119 , Elmhurst ; The Back Alley — Subterranean , Chicago ; Vampires Everywhere ! — Subterranean , Chicago ; 7th Heaven / Velvet Rose — Tailgater ' s , Bolingbrook ; Indigo De Souza / Truth Club — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Veil of Maya / Angelmaker / Until I Wake / Reflections / Alluvia — The Forge , Joliet ; Gerald McClendon — The Venue , Aurora ; Cruel Intention — Thirsty Beaver , Crestwood ; Mathilde Marsot / Rachael Kirby — Uncommon Ground , Chicago ; Kendre Music — Untitled , Chicago ; Josie Scott ' s Saliva / Westwood — Vixen , McHenry ; Jake Johann — Zanies , Chicago ; Andrew Dismukes — Zanies , Rosemont .
SATURDAY 17
Boy Band Night / Blackened — 115 Bourbon St ., Merrionette Park ; Brent Griiffn Jr ./ Jimmy Farace — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; Cumbia Love — Aragon Ballroom , Chicago ; Rosie & Rivets — Arcada Speakeasy , St . Charles ; Adrian Vanderberg — Arcada Theatre , St . Charles ; Bonfitre / Big City Lights ( AC / DC & Scorpions Tributes ) — Art Theatre , Hobart , IN ; Willie Barcena — Avondale Hall , Chicago ; Hazard Chicago — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Libido Funk Circus — Basecamp , Lisle ; Bluegrass Brunch — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; SnuzFest — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Mid Atlantic — Black Lung Brewing , Round Lake Beach ; Demetria Taylor Blues Band — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; The Simple Remedy — Bub City , Chicago ; Yankee Cowboy — Bub City , Roselle ; Nublu Band featuring Carlise Guy — Buddy Guy ' s Legends , Chicago ; New Heartaches — Carol ' s Pub , Chicago ; Widespread Panic — Chicago Theatre , Chicago ;
Funky Nights Soul Session : Peven Everett / Twilite Tone / Billie Jewell — Chop Shop , Chicago ; 10,000 Maniacs — City Winery , Chicago ; Truth Or Consequences New Mexico — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Tourist / Amtrac — Concord Music Hall , Chicago ; Justin Adams & Mauro Durante — Constellation , Chicago ; Tributes to Nirvana / System of a Down / Soundgarden — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Chicago Alive / Danny Seraphine / Jeff Coffey — Des Plaines Theatre , Des Plaines ; DJ Karaoke ( 10:30pm ) — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Floats / Demo Division / Yada Yada — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Anchor ' s Away — Evenflow , Geneva ; Michael McDermott — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Mister Dave Music ( 10am ) — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Greg Jacks & Brother Help ( Noon ) — FitzGerald ' s Sidebar , Berwyn ; Jonas Friddle / Heavy Sounds ( Album Release ) — FitzGerald ' s Sidebar , Berwyn ; Lepolion — Four Winds - Kankakee Grill , New Buffalo , MI ; Michael & Amber — Four Winds - Kankakee Grill , South Bend , IN ; Johnny Cash Experience — Genesee , Waukegan ; Arganica / Groovin Kiki / Mazen Rimawi — GMan Tavern , Chicago ; Paper Machete — Green Mill , Chicago ; DJ Lori — Hard Rock Casino – Council Oak , Gary , IN ; Nate Venturelli — Hard Rock Casino – HR Cafe , Gary , IN ; Happy Hour : Kim Schaefer — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Jennifer Knapp / Thunder Rain — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Nightcap Series ( 9:30pm ) — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Big Jay Oakerson — Improv , Schaumburg ; Dee Alexander Quartet — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Then Again — Joe ' s Bar , Chicago ; Bob Stroger & Friends — Johnny ' s Blitz , Westmont ; Joanna Connor / Mike Wheeler — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Totally Cashed / Blind Equation / Edging / Scumbag Skippy — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Franc D ' Ambrosia — Lyric Theatre , Blue Island ; Andy Frasco & The U . N ./ Melt — Metro , Chicago ; Members Only — Mickey Finn ' s , Libertyville ; Rosehill Collective / Fin Talbot / CrashDive — Montrose Saloon , Chicago ; Parker Millsap / Caleb Caudle — Old Town School , Chicago ; Eric Bellinger / Zae France — Park West , Chicago ; 3 Evils — Piazza , Aurora ; Young Issac — Polyanna , Roselle ; Beer , Charity , Music / Matt Keen — Polyanna , St . Charles ; Twinsick / BKAYE / Ryan Lee / Dom Chap — Prysm , Chicago ; Dr . Fresch / Habstrakt / Wuki / CHYL / Michael Sparks / Neon Steve / Qlank — Radius , Chicago ; Mr . Blotto ( 11pm ) — Reggies – Music Joint , Chicago ; Windy City Ramblers — Robert ' s Westside , Forest Park ; Melvin Taylor & The Slack Band — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; Dancing with the Stars Live 2024 — Rosemont Theatre , Rosemont ; Varsity / No Star — Schubas , Chicago ; Girrl ! — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; Eddie 9V — Space , Evanston ; Infinity / Full Volume — Stage 119 ,
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