Submissions due the 15th of the preceding month, for example, August listings by July 15th.
Mail to Illinois Entertainer, 4223 W. Lake, Suite 420, Chicago, IL 60624, fax (773) 717-5666, or
e-mail [email protected]. All dates subject to change; please contact venues to verify.
SUNDAY 30 JUNE
Olivia Ports Band Make A Wish Fundraiser — Arcada Theater, St.
Charles; The Whiskey Brothers — Ballydoyle, Downers Grove;
Harry & The Potters/Richard Album & The Singles — Beat
Kitchen, Chicago; Joe Bachman & The Party — Blarney Island,
Antioch; Sheryl Youngblood — Blue Chicago, Chicago; Superfly
Redneck/Meteors — Blue Chip Rocks Lounge, Michigan City, IN;
Chris Corsale — Bub City, Rosemont; Paul Nelson — Buddy Guy’s
Legends, Chicago; The Fortunate Sons — Cantigny Concert
Series, Wheaton; 97Nine — Captain’s Quarters, Antioch; Sergio
Mendes — City Winery, Chicago; Pride Party w/Abbarama —
Cubby Bear, Chicago; Uptown Poetry Slam/Soul Jazz Night with
Joel Patterson Trio — Green Mill, Chicago; World Famous Gospel
Brunch/Mike Wheeler/Anberlin/Darren Jay & The Delta Souls
— House of Blues, Chicago; Blues Jam With Linsey Alexander/
Claudette Miller Blues Band — Kingston Mines, Chicago; Hop
Along/Speedy Ortiz/The Beths/Future Generations/Sweet
Crude/Kaleta & Super Yamba Band/Froth/Twen/ Resavoir/
Versing/Mykele Deville/No Men/Half Gringa/Glad Rags/
Wyatt Waddell/A Flor De Piel/Grimss & Blacknight/Madera
Once/Title K & Friends/Intonation All-Stars/Vocalo’s Quest for
Best DJ — Logan Square Arts Festival, Chicago; Jim & Justin —
Mickey Finn’s, Libertyville; Total Recall — Niko’s Red Mill Tavern,
Woodstock; Elmhurst College Jazz Band — Pheasant Run
Mainstage, St. Charles; Chicago Mariachi Festival — Pritzker
Pavilion, Chicago; Shake Sumthin’ — Promontory Theater,
Chicago; Sugarland — Ravinia, Highland Park; Half Baked Goods
(Brunch) — Schubas, Chicago; Live Music TBA — Seat Geek
Stadium, Bridgeview; Twen (DJ Set) — Sleeping Village, Chicago;
Jodee Lewis & Jonas Friddle — Space, Evanston; Zac Brown
Band/The National/Brothers Osbourne/3 Doors Down/Catfish
& The Bottlemen/Lake Street Drive/Los Lonely Boys/Jimmie
Allen/Riley Green/Guided By Voices/Ozomatli/Reverend
Horton Heat/Adia Victoria/Rhythm Kings/The Group/Hotel
California — Summerfest, Milwaukee; DJ Spin — Tailgaters,
Bolingbrook; Afton Presents All Ages Show — The Forge, Joliet;
Alencia w/Rachel & Alan/Dearie — Uncommon Ground
(Lakeview), Chicago; Jennifer Lopez — United Center, Chicago.
MONDAY 1 JULY
Eric Schneider Quartet/Juan Pastor’s Chinchano — Andy’s Jazz
Club, Chicago; Extraordinary Popular Delusions/Mercury
Hamlet — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Mike Wheeler/Demetria Taylor
— Blue Chicago, Chicago; Brother Jon Hosts The Jam — Buddy
Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Varaha/Yatra/Cloud Cruiser — Chop
Shop/1St Ward, Chicago; Tony Terry — City Winery, Chicago;
Blaqrock/Burned In Effigy/Nikki Love Project/Morgan Gold/
Chi Slim/Kvng Lxnell/Pulliam Kennedy/Ari Lockheart — Elbo
Room, Chicago; The Curls/Spirits Having Fun (Record Release)
/The Hecks/Sewingneedle — Empty Bottle, Chicago; Chicago
Jazz Orchestra/Abgail Riccards Quintet — Green Mill, Chicago;
August Burns Red — House of Blues, Chicago; Pat Mallinger —
Jazz Showcase, Chicago; Corey Dennison/Vance Kelly & The
Back Street Blues Band — Kingston Mines, Chicago; Musical
Monday Pop Up — Mac’s On Slade, Palatine; Ike Reilly/Betty
Soul/Fun Monkey — Mickey Finn’s, Libertyville; Chicago
Skyliners — Phyllis’s Musical Inn, Chicago; Open Mic — Q-Bar,
Glendale Heights; Karaoke — Q-Bar, Darien; Steve Miller Band —
Ravinia, Highland Park; Open Mic Comedy — Reggies, Chicago;
The Radiators/Blush Scars/Interstage Seperation — Schubas,
Chicago; The Moth StorySLAM: Chemistry — Space, Evanston;
Casserole/Shatter Cones — The Burlington, Chicago; Monkey
Wrench w/ Adam H. Johnson (Comedy) — The Hideout, Chicago;
Headache/Asumaya/Dr. Pete Larson — The Owl, Chicago;
Industry Night — The Quarry Pub, Lemont; Ronnie Carter/
Christina Eltrevoog/Cara (Edgewater) — Uncommon Ground,
Chicago; Dwayne Kennedy — Zanies, Chicago.
TUESDAY 2 JULY
Ben Lewis Trio/After Dark Von Freeman Tribute — Andy’s Jazz
Club, Chicago; Trivia Nite w/Pat O’Malley — Ballydoyle, Downers
Grove; Chicago Underground Comedy — Beat Kitchen, Chicago;
Chicago Wind Blue Band/Deitra Farr — Blue Chicago, Chicago;
Live Band Karaoke — Bub City, Chicago; Anthony Moser — Buddy
Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Mulberry Street - A Billy Joel Tribute —
City Winery, Chicago; Open Mic — Empire, Naperville; Kedr
Livanskiy/Born Days/Jenny Purple — Empty Bottle, Chicago;
Cash Box Kings — Fitzgeralds, Berwyn; Open Mic — Fitzgeralds,
Berwyn; Night Out in The Park — Grant Park Pritzker Pavilion,
Chicago; The Fat Babies — Green Mill, Chicago; Songwriters In
The Round w/Laura Glyda — Hey Nonny, Arlington Heights; Guy
King/X Ambassadors/Corey Dennison — House of Blues,
Chicago; Pat Mallinger — Jazz Showcase, Chicago; Giles Corey/
Micheal Wheeler/Peaches Staten — Kingston Mines, Chicago;
Wake The Sun/Bishops Daredevil Stunt Club — Livewire,
Chicago; T.I. — Ravinia, Highland Park; Mr. Blotto — Reggies,
Chicago; Pete Galanis & Friends/Dave Herrero — Rosa’s,
Chicago; Desert Liminal/Dogs At Large/Jessica Risker —
Schubas, Chicago; Kory Quinn & Railheart/The Hoyle Brothers
— Space, Evanston; Open Mic Hip Hop — Subterranean, Chicago;
Michael Albert/Devin Flower/Suenolas — The Hideout, Chicago;
Marshall Hayes/MX Mistles/Secret Lives — Uncommon Ground
Lakeview, Chicago; The Recall/Remnant — Wire, Berwyn. Celebration, Cary; Mollow/The Glacial Speek/FCKR Jr. — The
Owl, Chicago; Jazz Night w/Brass Tracks Jazz Orchestra — The
Quarry Pub, Lemont.
WEDNESDAY 3 JULY THURSDAY 4 JULY
Judy Roberts & Greg Fishman — 210 Live, Highwood; Andy
Brown Quintet/Mike Smith & The Jordan Baskin Trio — Andy’s
Jazz Club, Chicago; Open Mic — Ballydoyle, Aurora; Open Mic
w/Dave Kelly — Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; The 4 C Notes/Tony
Ocean Show — Bartlett Fest, Bartlett; Stars, Stripes and Beats
— Base Camp, Lisle; A Very Rude Film Fest — Beat Kitchen,
Chicago; Rise — Blarney Island, Antioch; JW Williams/Laretha
Weathersby — Blue Chicago, Chicago; Summer Jam Showcase —
Brauer House, Lombard; Bear Williams — Buddy Guy’s Legends,
Chicago; Lone Wolf Band — Carol’s Pub, Chicago; Dave Hollister
— City Winery, Chicago; Magic w/Keith Cobb — Club Arcada, St.
Charles; Class System/Zor/Anger/Splatter Pattern — Cobra
Lounge, Chicago; James Manno — Cubby Bear, Chicago; Sweet
Diezel Jenkins — Durty Nellies, Palatine; Trivia Night — Empire,
Naperville; Mattson 2/Campdogzz/DJ Alvin Piranhas — Empty
Bottle, Chicago; Bourbon & Brass — Evanston Rocks, Evanston;
JD McPherson/Sarah Shook & The Disarmers/Waco Brothers/
Robbie Fulks & Redd Volkaert/Salty Dogs/Joel Paterson Organ
Trio/Fox Crossing String Band/Sunny War/Chicago Farmer/
The Commonheart/Coyote Riot/Alewife/Cannonball/Bunkertown
— Fitzgeralds, Berwyn; 7th Heaven — Frontier Days, Arlington
Heights; Paper Machete/Alfonso Ponticelli/Swing Gitan/Frank
Catalano Sextet — Green Mill, Chicago; Deacon Blues w/Paul
Wertico & Richard Patterson — Hey Nonny, Arlington Heights;
Dave Matthews Band — Hollywood Casino Amphitheater, Tinley
Park; Keithen Banks/Tom Holland & The Shuffle Kings — House
of Blues, Chicago; Pat Mallinger — Jazz Showcase, Chicago;
Corey Dennison/Micheal Wheeler — Kingston Mines, Chicago;
Tynan/High Infidelity — Lions Club Festival, Mt. Prospect; Abby
Kay — Mac’s On Slade, Palatine; Stevie Craig — Moretti’s,
Morton Grove; Modern Day Romeos — Party In The Park, Roselle;
Morse & Wagner — Phyllis’s Musical Inn, Chicago; Fred Hersch
(Late) — Ravinia, Highland Park; Robert Levin (Early) — Ravinia,
Highland Park; Conan/Witchkiss/Inebrium (Club) — Reggies,
Chicago; Live Band Karaoke (Music Joint) — Reggies, Chicago;
Monster/Mixtape Junkies/Faded Flannel/Challenge Butter/
The Millenials/OMT — Ribfest, Naperville; Luca Kiella — Rosa’s,
Chicago; Princess Cuts/Pixel Grip — Sleeping Village, Chicago;
Fit Siegel/Doc Sleep/Sassmouth — Smartbar, Chicago; The E-
Town Get Down — Space, Evanston; Coverlicious — Summer Epic — 4th of July Concerts, New Lenox; Stevie Craig —
Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; Modern Day Romeos — Bartlett Fest,
Bartlett; Karaoke — Base Camp, Lisle; Euphoria — Blarney
Island, Antioch; BTS Express/Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago,
Chicago; Jason Owens — Bub City, Chicago; Terrapin Flyer/Kara
Cavanaugh Band — City Winery, Chicago; Good Fellas —
Eaglewood Resort, Itasca; John Maus/Spaces of Disappearance
/Boy Harsher DJ Set — Empty Bottle, Chicago; Kevin Lee & The
Kings/The Millenials/iPop/Run Forrest Run — Eyes To The
Skies Balloon Festival, Lisle; Tributosaurus/The Cactus
Blossoms/Nikki Hill/NRBQ/Blackfoot Gypsies/Kevin Gordon/
Jon Dee Graham & The Fighting Cocks/Katy Guillen/Hannah
Wicklund & The Steppin’ Stones/The Shortcuts/The Heavy
Sounds Stax Revue/South City Revival/Peter Joly Group/Curtis
McMurtry/Mike and The Moonpies/Wild Earp/Matt and The
Natural Disasters/Sunshine Boys — Fitzgeralds, Berwyn; Make
America Rock — Four Winds Casino (Hard Rock Cafe), New
Buffalo, MI; Scott Stapp of Creed — Frontier Days, Arlington
Heights; Independence Day Salute — Grant Park Pritzker Pavilion,
Chicago; Andy Brown Solo Jazz Guitar/Alan Gresik Swing Shift
Orchestra — Green Mill, Chicago; Keithen Banks — House of
Blues, Chicago; Dick Diamond & The Dusters — Independence
Day, Channahon; Pat Mallinger — Jazz Showcase, Chicago; Mike
Zabrin’s Funktastic — Jimmy’s Grill, Naperville; Nora Jean
Bruso/Joanna Connor — Kingston Mines, Chicago; Bella Cain —
Lake Forest Festival, Lake Forest; The Chicago Experience/Gone
Country/Smarty Pants/BandX — Lions Club Festival, Mt.
Prospect; Karaoke — Mickey Finn’s, Libertyville; The Gingers/
Boy Band Review/One Hot Mess — Northwest Fourth Fest,
Hoffman Estates; All Star Jam — Phyllis’s Musical Inn, Chicago;
Brandi & The Alexanders/Common Allies/Billy Croft & The 5
Alarm/Pearce Road — Ribfest, Naperville; Bruce In The USA —
RiverEdge Park, Aurora; Lisa McClowry — Rockin’ In The Park,
Rosemont; Justindemus/DJ A-Lista/Melvin Henry — Smart Bar,
Chicago; Acoustic Open Mic — The Quarry Pub, Lemont;
Wedding Banned/Low Down Brass Band/Cowboy Jukebox —
Windy City Ribfest Uptown, Chicago; Pat Benkowski Trivia — Wise
Owl, Chicago.
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