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Good Country Boys — Bub City , Chicago ; Brother John Hosts The Jam — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Dennis Quaid & The Sharks — City Winery , Chicago ; Kevin Tyler — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Diagonal ( Record Release )/ Lake of Fire / Plastic Crimewave Syndicate / Black Road — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Chicago Jazz Orchestra / Georges Fludas Quartet — Green Mill , Chicago ; Tom Holland & The Shuffle Kings / Joanna Connor — House of Blues , Chicago ; Paramore — Huntington Bank Pavilion @ Northerly Isle , Chicago ; Corey Dennison / JW Williams & The Chi-Town Hustlers — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Amanda & Ivan of Rosaries — Live Wire , Chicago ; Snarky Puppy / Damien Escobar / Jacob Collier — Ravinia Festival , Lake Forest ; Natalie Grace Alford / Bingo w / Burke / Trivia Night — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Doobie / Krash Minati / DJ Hylyte — Schubas , Chicago ; The Naked and Famous — Space , Evanston ; Blacker Face / Peach Lavender / First Responders / Arts & Letters — Subterranean , Chicago ; Peggy Tenderass / Otto Rollo — The Owl , Chicago ; Yeh Boi / Open Jam — Tonic Room , Chicago ; Open Mic — Uncommon Ground Lakeview , Chicago .
TUESDAY 3 JULY
Trivia Nite w / Pat O ’ Malley — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Chicago Underground Comedy — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Tenry Johns Blues Band / Claudette Miller — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Matt Nanke — Board & Barrel , Naperville ; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City , Rosemont ; Linsey Alexander — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Miki Howard — City Winery , Chicago ; Hello Weekend — Durty Nellie ’ s , Palatine ; Alabaster / The Data Waves — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Open Mic — Empire , Naperville ; Pooky / Space Gators / Blind Moon — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; 37th Annual American Music Festival — Fitzgeralds , Berwyn ; Makena Hartlin / Make America Rock — Four Winds Casino-Hard Rock , New Buffalo , MI ; Melissa Etheridge — Four Winds Casino-Silver Creek , New Buffalo , MI ; The Fat Babies — Green Mill , Chicago ; Bridget Kelly Band / Mike Wheeler — House of Blues , Chicago ; Dick Diamond & The Dusters — Independence Day Extravaganza , Lemont ; Joanna Connor / Michael Wheeler Band / Peaches Staten — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Satanic Panic / Canyonero / Sunset Witch — Live Wire , Chicago ; Howard & The White Boys — Mac ’ s on Slade , Palatine ; Karaoke — Q-Bar , Plano ; Mr . Blotto / Rich Homie Quan — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; DJ Erge — Rivers Casino , Des Plaines ; Mick Flannery — Schubas , Chicago ; The E-Town Get Down — Space , Evanston ; Open Mic Hip Hop — Subterranean , Chicago ; Pirates Over 40 — Summer Concert Series , Downers Grove ; Karaoke — Tailgater ’ s , Bolingbrook ; 97Nine / Nashville Electric Company / Martini Lunch / DJ X — Taste of Oak Brook , Oak Brook ; SJOD & Friends / Garvin The Martian / Beats by Smitty / Kuh Lida
STRAY CATS JULY 4 Naperville Rib Fest , Knoch Park , 724 South West St ., Naperville , IL 60540
— Tonic Room , Chicago ; Open Mic — Uncommon Ground Edgewater , Chicago ; Vista / Farhampton — Wire , Berwyn .
WEDNESDAY 4
Open Mic — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Open Mic w / Dave Kelly — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Modern Day Romeos / Soda / Friday Jackson / Terata / Anuelusion / Los Treboles Negros — Bartlett Fest , Bartlett ; Average Joe Band / Pet Rock — Blarney Island , Antioch ; JW Williams Blues Band / Laretha Weathersby — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; All Stars — Broken Oar , Port Barringtons ; Over The Side — Bub City , Chicago ; Revered Peyton ’ s Big Damn Band / Devil In A Woodpile / Al Scorch — City Winery , Chicago ; Mer ’ s Music Showcase — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Stevie Craig — Eaglewood Resort , Itasca ; Chris Behre — Four Winds Casino-Hard Rock , New Buffalo , MI ; Jim Hay — Frankie ’ s Blue Room , Naperville ; Kool & The Gang and The Commodores — Grand Victoria Casino , Elgin ; In One Ear — Heartland Cafe , Chicago ; Maurice John Vaughn / Keithen Banks — House of Blues , Chicago ; Luke Schmitt & The Cold , Cold Ones — Jimmy ’ s Grill , Naperville ; Semple / Johnny Russler & The Beach Bums / Suburban Cowboys / Nashville Electric Company / Joe Diamond — Lakeside Festival , Crystal Lake ; Stray Cats / Melissa Etheridge / The Buckinghams / Billy Croft & The 5 Alarm / The Chicago
Experience / Junkyard Groove / OMT Band / Lime Forest / Joyce Lane — Naperville Rib Fest , Naperville ; The Prissillas / Marina City — Navy Pier , Chicago ; Average Joe Band / Pet Rock — Port of Blarney , Antioch ; Karaoke — Q-Bar , Glendale Heights ; Fourth of July Celebration — RiverEdge Park , Aurora .
THURSDAY 5
The Stares — 210 Live , Highwood ; Trivia Night — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; American English / Brock & Abrams Band / Sam Savage — Bartlett Fest , Bartlett ; Chicago Aboveground Film Festival — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Gasoline & Matches — Blarney Island , Antioch ; BTS Express / Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Rebel Pride Band — Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Brian Allison — Board & Barrel , Naperville ; Chitown Country Revival — BrauerHouse , Lombard ; Scott Dubose & The 101 Ranch — Bub City , Chicago ; Tony Ocean Band — Bub City , Rosemont ; Mz . Peaches — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Maria Lourdes ’ s ABCH Neurotix Taco Shock — Cheers , Midlothian ; Janelle Monae — Chicago Theater , Chicago ; Mindi Abair & The Boneshakers — City Winery , Chicago ; Michael Jackson Tribute — Durty Nellie ’ s , Palatine ; Brittany Lee Moffitt — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Michael Rault / The Evening Attraction — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Mark Ficks — Four Winds Casino-Hard Rock , New
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Buffalo , MI ; Dave Bovyn DJ — Frankie ’ s Blue Room , Naperville ; Andy Brown Solo Jazz Guitar / Alan Gresik Swing Shift Orchestra — Green Mill , Chicago ; Open Mic — H . O . M . E ., Arlington Heights ; Brian Kovacs — Houlihan ’ s , Orland Park ; Stevie Craig — Houlihan ’ s , Algonquin ; Rollover / Nicholas Barron — House of Blues , Chicago ; R-Gang — Jimmy ’ s Grill , Naperville ; Michael Wheeler — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Bella Cain / Pirates Over 40 — Lakeside Festival , Crystal Lake ; Body Void / Lesser Glow / Ghost Ape / Scumlord — Live Wire , Chicago ; Scott Jensen — Mac ’ s on Slade , Palatine ; Strung Out Band — Market in the Park , Orland Park ; Slink Moss / The Bama Lamas w / Gabrielle Sutton — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; Pitbull / J Boog / Semple / Libido Funk Circus / True Company / Mix Tap Junkies / Big Brothers Vinyl — Naperville Rib Fest , Naperville ; Sheryl & Say Yes !/ Shawn Lent & Friends — Navy Pier , Chicago ; Prodigy ’ s Open Mic — Penny Road Pub , Barrington ; Gasoline & Matches — Port of Blarney , Antioch ; Chosen Few Festival Kick-Off w / Mike Dunn / Tony Hatchett / Andre Hatchett — Promontory Theater , Chicago ; DJ Chris Ullrich & Ian Spacee — Q-Bar , Darien ; Inanimate Existence / The Last of Lucy / Fields of Elysium / Misanthropy — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; 97Nine / Speed of Sound / Village Green — Rock ‘ N Wheels , Addison ; James Wheeler Jam — Rosa ’ s Lounge , Chicago ; Baiee / Striz / Zooey Glass — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Shout Out Band — Sounds of Summer , N . Riverside ; Reggae Gold — Subterranean , Chicago ; Patrick Gemkow Acoustic — The Sandlot Wrigley , Chicago ; Patrick Sweany / Hotel Ten Eyes — Tonic Room , Chicago ; Mark Gibson / Todd Kessler / Lucy Isabel — Uncommon Ground Edgewater , Chicago ; Caleb Ryan Martin w / John McDonough & Heather Kropf — Uncommon Ground Lakeview , Chicago ; 1976 — Uniquely Thursdays , Hinsdale ; DJ / Karaoke — Uptown Lounge , Chicago ; Rick Lindy & The Wild Ones — Venuti ’ s , Addison ; Green Day St . Jimmy — Wicker Park Summer Concerts , Highland , IN ; Giana Casale — Zaza ’ s Tavola , Lake Barrington .
FRIDAY 6
Beggars Banquet / Tina Turner Experience — 210 Live , Highwood ; Moody Twos — Bar Evolution , Batavia ; Poets & Pirated Band / Smokin ’ Gunz / Rick Lindy & The Wild Ones — Bartlett Fest , Bartlett ; Genevieve / The Just Luckies / Hairdryer — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; BTS Express / Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Crawpuppies / Visions of Santana — Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Junkyard Groove — Board & Barrel , Naperville ; Johnny Alletto / Miles Maxwell — BrauerHouse , Lombard ; Dick Diamond & The Dusters — Broken Oar , Port Barringtons ; Arra — Brookfield Zoo Summer Nights Concerts , Brookfield ; Mitchell Tenpenny — Bub City , Chicago ; Preston James — Bub City , Rosemont ; Corey Dennison / Bridget Kelly — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Corky Siegel ’ s Chamber Blues /
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Sat , July 21st
The Acorn Theater
107 Generations Dr Three Oaks , MI 49128 acorntheatre . org
Fri , August 10th
Concert Under The Stars
Veterans Park 316 Island Dr Island Lake , IL 60042
Bookings : ReelyDan @ gmail . com
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