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TUESDAY 23 JULY
Ben Lewis Trio/After Dark Von Freeman Tribute — Andy’s Jazz
Club, Chicago; The Psychedelic Furs/James — Aragon Ballroom,
Chicago; Righteous Brothers — Arcada Theater, St. Charles;
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; Buddy Guy’s Birthday
Bash — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; The Buttertones/Little
Church/Little Boy Jr. — Chop Shop/1St Ward, Chicago;
Baroness — Durty Nellies, Palatine; Open Mic — Empire,
Naperville; Star Tropics/Clever Girls/Underwire — Empty
Bottle, Chicago; Open Mic — Fitzgeralds, Berwyn; The Fat Babies
— Green Mill, Chicago; Judy Roberts & Greg Fishman — Hey
Nonny, Arlington Heights; Guy King/Sound of Summer feat.
Cam/Corey Dennison — House of Blues, Chicago; Gary Bartz
Quartet — Jazz Showcase, Chicago; Giley Corey/Omar Coleman
— Kingston Mines, Chicago; Just Between Us — Lincoln Hall,
Chicago; Lyle Lovett and His Large Band — Ravinia, Highland
Park; Hellzapoppin Circus Sideshow/The Vaudettes (Club) —
Reggies, Chicago; Mr. Blotto — Reggies, Chicago; Pete Galanis
& Friends/Dave Herrero — Rosa’s, Chicago; Burr Oak/Hanna
Ashbrook/Sick Day/Caroline Campbell — Schubas, Chicago;
Drugdealer/Charlie Reed/Jungle Green — Sleeping Village,
Chicago; Greg Koch & Rick Vito — Space, Evanston; Open Mic
Hip Hop/Mystery Skulls/Phangs/Snowblood — Subterranean,
Chicago; Modern Day Romeos — Summer Concert Series,
Hoffman Estates; This Is Not This Heat with Cleared — Thalia
Hall, Chicago; Thee Manalishi/The Golden Fleece — The
Hideout, Chicago.
WEDNESDAY 24
The Mary Jane Breakdown/Sing Your A$$ Off Karaoke — 115
Bourbon Street, Merrrionette Park; Judy Roberts & Greg
Fishman — 210 Live, Highwood; Andy Brown Quintet/Mike
Smith & The Jordan Baskin Trio — Andy’s Jazz Club, Chicago;
Sad Summer Festival w/The Maine/Mayday Parade/State
Champs/The Wonder Years/Mom Jeans/Just Friends/Stand
Atlantic — Aragon Ballroom, Chicago; Open Mic — Ballydoyle,
Aurora; Open Mic w/Dave Kelly — Ballydoyle, Downers Grove;
JW Williams/Laretha Weathersby — Blue Chicago, Chicago;
Summer Jam Showcase — Brauer House, Lombard; Rendition —
Bub City, Chicago; Jimmy Johnson — Buddy Guy’s Legends,
Chicago; Tortured Soul/DJ David Sabat — City Winery, Chicago;
Magic w/Dennis Christie — Club Arcada, St. Charles; Bikes &
Burlesque — Cobra Lounge, Chicago; Trivia Night — Empire,
Naperville; Temple of Angels — Empty Bottle, Chicago; Bourbon
& Brass — Evanston Rocks, Evanston; Ryan Schultz/Chad
McCullough Group — Fitzgeralds, Berwyn; The Shams Band —
Fitzgeralds, Berwyn; Tchaikovsky Swan Lake — Grant Park
Pritzker Pavilion, Chicago; Paper Machete/Alfonso Ponticelli/
Swing Gitan/Frank Catalano Sextet — Green Mill, Chicago;
Keithen Banks/Lights/Joanna Connor — House of Blues,
Chicago; Gary Bartz Quartet — Jazz Showcase, Chicago; Corey
Dennison/Micheal Wheeler — Kingston Mines, Chicago; Tom
Walker/Craig Stickland — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Arise — Metro,
Chicago; Vito Zatto Show — Moretti’s, Morton Grove; Brahms &
Rachmaninoff Cello Sonatas - Gary Hoffman/Jon Kimura Parker
— Ravinia, Highland Park; 3Teeth/Author & Punisher/Gost
(Club) — Reggies, Chicago; Black’s Backbone (Music Joint) —
Reggies, Chicago; Blues Jam Session w/ Mary Lane — Rosa’s,
Chicago; Win Noll and The Rockin’ Souls — Rosa’s, Chicago;
Molly Pardon/Carriers/Vender and the Cobras — Schubas,
Chicago; Gramps the Vamp/Deep Fayed/Family of Geniuses —
Sleeping Village, Chicago; Jacob Lee/Todd Kessler — Space,
Evanston; Conor Oberst/Joanna Sternberg — Thalia Hall,
Chicago; Summer Slaughter Tour w/Cattle Decapitation/
Carniflex/The Faceless/Rivers of Nihil/Nekrogoblikon/Lorna
Shore & More — The Forge, Joliet; Sam Taggart/Sarah Squirm
— The Hideout, Chicago; Jazz Night w/Brass Tracks Jazz
Orchestra — The Quarry Pub, Lemont. Chicago; CRTL ALT POP — Jimmy’s Grill, Naperville; Home Free
Dive Bar Saints (Album Release)/Karoake w/Reggie — Joe’s on
Weed, Chicago; Nellie Tiger Travis/Joanna Connor — Kingston
Mines, Chicago; John Paul White/Caleb Elliot — Lincoln Hall,
Chicago; Warren Dunes/Edward & Graham — Martyrs’, Chicago;
Karaoke — Mickey Finn’s, Libertyville; Richard Goode — Ravinia,
Highland Park; Rock & Ride (Roof Deck) — Reggies, Chicago;
They Might Be Giants Tribute/Tenacious D Tribute (Music
Joint) — Reggies, Chicago; Woodstock: 50 Years of Music,
Memories & Me w/Photographer Baron Wolman — Rialto
Square Theater, Joliet; Hairbanger’s Ball/Infinity — Ridgefest,
Chicago Ridge; Morgan Station Duo — Rock Bottom,
Bolingbrook; Atomic Punks — Rockin’ In The Park, Rosemont;
Paradise Fears/Hume — Schubas, Chicago; Davila 666/
Running — Sleeping Village, Chicago; Hozac Sadistic
Soundsystem — Sleeping Village, Chicago; Leesh/Flower Food/
Hootie/Hopscotch — Smart Bar, Chicago; The Reverend
Peyton’s Big Damn Band/Empty Pockets — Space, Evanston;
Strung Out — Sunset Soiree, Lemont; Devil In A Woodpile/The
Curls/J Fernandez/Fran — The Hideout, Chicago; Acoustic
Open Mic/Stranger Things Trivia — The Quarry Pub, Lemont;
Khalid — United Center, Chicago; Bikes & Blues — Water Hole
Lounge, Chicago; Yacht Rockettes — Wire, Berwyn; Eddie Ifft —
Zanies, Chicago.
THURSDAY 25 FRIDAY 26
The One Jr. — 115 Bourbon Street, Merrrionette Park; Pete
Benson Organ Trio/The Trumpet Summit — Andy’s Jazz Club,
Chicago; Screaming Females/Bad Cop/Bad Cop/Dark
Thoughts — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Luke Pytel/Shirley Johnson
— Blue Chicago, Chicago; Stick To Your Guns/Counterparts/
Terror/Sanction/Year of The Knife — Bottom Lounge, Chicago;
Motley II/Tarot Woman/Dirty Talk — Brauer House, Lombard;
Lance Carpenter — Bub City, Chicago; Ghost Town Blues Band
— Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Chris Karabas — Carol’s Pub,
Chicago; Oleta Adams — City Winery, Chicago; Murder Mystery
— Club Arcada, St. Charles; Quadeca — Cobra Lounge, Chicago;
7th Heaven — Community Fest, New Lenox; Mike Zabrin’s
Funktastic — Concert Thursdays, St. Charles; The Mild West/The
Foxies — Elbo Room, Chicago; Plastician/Klasey Jones — Empty
Bottle, Chicago; Bourbon & Brass — Evanston Rocks, Evanston;
Gin Palace Jesters/Smith & McMahon — Fitzgeralds, Berwyn;
Judy Roberts & Greg Fishman/Jeannie Lambert & Russ Phillips
— Fitzgeralds, Berwyn; Andy Brown Solo Jazz Guitar/Alan Gresik
Swing Shift Orchestra — Green Mill, Chicago; Eric Quigley — HB
Jones, Elmhurst; Duke Tumatoe — Hey Nonny, Arlington Heights;
Hammer’s House Party — Hollywood Casino Amphitheater, Tinley
Park; HiFi Superstar — Houlihan’s, Algonquin; Leroy Winn —
Houlihan’s, Geneva; Whiskey & Harmony — Houlihan’s,
Naperville; Whiskey & Harmony — Houlihan’s, Orland Park;
Nigel Mack/Between Me and My Mind/Funky Mojo Daddy —
House of Blues, Chicago; Gary Bartz Quartet — Jazz Showcase, Linkin Experience/For Samantha Benefit Concert — 115
Bourbon Street, Merrrionette Park; Soulbliss — 210 Live,
Highwood; Bowmanville Swing/Sax To The Bone Feat. Mike
Smith & Tom Garling — Andy’s Jazz Club, Chicago; Ready Set
Dance — Arlington Ale House, Arlington Heights; Raleigh Tuckers
— Bar Evolution, Batavia; Vibration Foundation — Beacon Tap,
Palatine; Ask Jimmy — Blarney Island, Antioch; Luke Pytel/
Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago, Chicago; Euphoria/The Bigger
Picture Band — Blue Chip Casino Rocks Lounge, Michigan City,
IN; Junkhead/After Forever/Rattlehead — Brauer House,
Lombard; Alan Turner & The Steel Horse — Bub City, Chicago;
Mississippi Heat/Alex Wilson — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago;
Lance Carpenter — Carol’s Pub, Chicago; Voodoo Children —
Cheers, Midlothian; Lord Huron — Chicago Theater, Chicago;
Louis Prima Jr & The Witnesses — City Winery, Chicago; Flat
Cats — Club Arcada, St. Charles; Infinity/The Jersey Girls —
Community Fest, New Lenox; Chris Minardi Duo — Doc’s Victory
Pub, Elmhurst; Double Treble — Eaglewood Resort, Itasca; Girl
Power Night w/ DJ Kayleigh Chaos - 9pm — Elbo Room, Chicago;
Harlequin Girls - 7pm — Elbo Room, Chicago; Covergirls
Chicago — Empire, Naperville; Banditos/Flesh Panthers/David
Quinn — Empty Bottle, Chicago; Sam Fazio/Magic w/Fred
Zimmerman — Evanston Rocks, Evanston; Cannonball —
Fitzgeralds, Berwyn; Paul Thorn/Alice Drinks The Kool Aid —
Fitzgeralds, Berwyn; Dave Koz & Friends — Four Winds Casino,
New Buffalo, MI; Hello Weekend — Four Winds Casino (Hard Rock
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Cafe), New Buffalo, MI; Risky Business — Frankie’s Blue Room,
Naperville; Super Diamond/Rosie & The Rivets — Friday
Concerts, Rosemont; Dvorak Symphony No. 7 — Grant Park
Pritzker Pavilion, Chicago; The “Flipside” Show w/ Chris
Hammond/Todd Herbert Quartet/Green Mill Quartet — Green
Mill, Chicago; Finger On The Trigger Party Recording — Hey
Nonny, Arlington Heights; The 66th Street Band — Hollywood
Casino, Aurora; Rico — Hollywood Casino, Joliet; Dave
Herrero/Obisoulstar/John Primer — House of Blues, Chicago;
VooDoo Child — Jimmy’s Grill, Naperville; Summer Rooftop Party
w/Reggaeton/DownLow & Friends — Joe’s LIve, Rosemont;
Billy Branch/Joanna Connor Acoustic Set — Kingston Mines,
Chicago; Modern Day Romeos — Lake Lawn Resort, Delavan, WI;
Alma Afrobeat Ensemble/ESSO/Seres de Luz — Martyrs’,
Chicago; Afrofest 2019: Chicago — Park West, Chicago; Hellboi
Tyurbo Stark/Sevensixx/Remey Le Flow/Mobb Action Click/
DramaCast/Illanoise/Absurd and The Ripper/Family Money
Music/Scarbone/Ya Boy MT/Kryptnotik/Preach/J Cuppz/
ToneTonic/Yeti/White Smoke — Penny Road Pub, Barrington; DJ
Rhinestone — Pheasant Run, St. Charles; Mahler’s Symphony
No.8 - CSO — Ravinia, Highland Park; Acoustic Alibi — Reefpoint
Brew House, Racine, WI; Khemmis/Cloak/Huntsmen (Club) —
Reggies, Chicago; Solemn Oath + Warpigs Pig Roast (Roof
Deck) — Reggies, Chicago; The Prizefighters/Pilfers/J. Navarro
& The Traitors/Stop The Presses/DJ Chuck Wren (Music Joint)
— Reggies, Chicago; Bodeans/Maggie Speaks — Ridgefest,
Chicago Ridge; The Mavericks/Los Lobos — RiverEdge Park,
Aurora; Kashmir — Rivers Casino, DesPlaines; Mike Wheeler
Band — Rosa’s, Chicago; The Weeks — Schubas, Chicago;
Serendipity — Sideouts, Island Lake; Resavoir/Yadda Yadda/
Lake James — Sleeping Village, Chicago; Acemo/Ariel Zetina/
B2B Morenxxx/Miss Twink USA — Smart Bar, Chicago; The
Darts/Teh Jetbeats/Mystery Actions/Durand Jones & The
Indications — Subterranean, Chicago; Jimmy Buffett Tribute w/
Mr. Myers — Summer Nights Concert Series, Brookfield Zoo; The
Selectones — Tailgater’s, Bolingbrook; The Marias/Paul Cherry
— Thalia Hall, Chicago; Vac (Album Release)/Stay Asleep — The
Burlington, Chicago; Dixie Crush — The Cottage, Crystal Lake;
Lud Foe — The Forge, Joliet; Itasca/Glyders/The Mountain
Movers/Junegrass/Traysh/DJ Eye Vybes — The Hideout,
Chicago; DJ Boogie Munsters — The Owl, Chicago; Jazz w/
Ernest Dawkins — Water Hole Lounge, Chicago; Freak On A
Leash/Sic/Lethal Dose — Wire, Berwyn.
SATURDAY 27
Fueled By Emo/The Hair Band Night — 115 Bourbon Street,
Merrrionette Park; Doors of Chicago — 210 Live, Highwood;
Good Fellas — 750 Cucina Rustica, Cary; Keri Johnsrud/Sax To
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