FRIDAY 1 JUNE
Dave Herrero Band / Marty Sammon — 210 Live , Highwood ; Pink Floyd / Echoes of Pompeii — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; David Byrne — Auditorium Theater , Chicago ; Fool House — Austin ’ s Fuel Room , Libertyville ; Lil ‘ Ed & The Blues Imperials — B . L . U . E . S ., Chicago ; Moody Twos — Bar Evolution , Batavia ; Moody Twos — Bar Evolution , Batavia ; The Lighthouse & The Whaler — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Better With Bacon — Blarney Island , Antioch ; John Primer / Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Crawpuppies / Tynan — Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; DJ Night — Blue Chip Casino-Vegas Baby , Michigan City , IN ; Mad Caddies / Jacob Horn Trio / Radattack — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Mystic Moon / Phil Angotti & The Night Watchmen — BrauerHouse , Lombard ; Goin South — Broken Oar , Port Barrington ; State Line Band / Jobe Fortner — Bub City , Chicago ; Jerica Paliga Band — Bub City , Rosemont ; Larry McCray — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Stevie Craig Band — Bungalow Joe ’ s , Hanover Park ; Israel & The New Breed / The Canton Spirituals / Chicago Church Girls Rock Too / Paster Dan Willis & ChoZen Youth Choir / Elder Thomas Singers / LaVargna Hubbard / Wendell Parker / Gospel Hip Hop Showcase / Meesha / VJ McCoy & Worship Experience / Morgan Park High School Choir — Chicago Gospel Festival , Chicago ; AFK v Svdden Death — Chop Shop , Chicago ; Eric Roberson / Killiam Shakespeare — City Winery , Chicago ; The Braver Days / Counterpunch / Still Alive / Butchered — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; American English / China Grove — Community Days , Gilberts ; Freestyle Forever : Soul Sonic Forec / Corina / C-Bank / Nyasia / Chrissy I-Eece / Willie Valentin — Concord , Chicago ; Drift City Ranson / Saltwater Tap / Ryan Burns — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Ted Leo & The Pharmacists / Lala Lala / Modern Vices ( Empty Bottle East Stage )/ La Luz / bad Bad Hats / Peel ( Subterranean West Stage ) — Do Division Street Fest , Chicago ; Rhinestone DJ D — Doc ’ s Victory Pub , Elmhurst ; Dirty Canteen — Dock ’ s Bar , Wauconda ; Hairbangers Ball — Durty Nellie ’ s , Palatine ; The Mix Trio — Eaglewood Resort , Itasca ; The Why Store / Torch The Hive / The Phones — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Do Division Fest Day 1 : Martin Rev / Divine Enfant / Wolf Eyes / Mystic Ruler / Bentley Anderson / DJ Eye-Vybe — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Joe Valentino Prohibition Band / Rocky Laporte — Evanston Rocks , Evanston ; Jenny Bienemann & Friends / The Business — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Robbie Gold / Zero — Four Winds Casino , New Buffalo , MI ; Trailer Park Twisters — Frankie ’ s Blue Room , Naperville ; The Flipside Show w / Chris Foreman / Joe Magnarelli Quartet / After Hours Jam Session — Green Mill , Chicago ; Finnbar Fagan Band — Harp & Fiddle , Park Ridge ;
Death Cult Fest — Heartland Cafe , Chicago ; Zanius / Fee Lion / Visceral Anatomy — Hideout , Chicago ; Summer of Love — Hollywood Casino , Joliet ; Dick Diamond & The Dusters — Hollywood Casino , Aurora ; The Good , The Bad & The Blues / Tributes to Def Leppard , Scorpions , Poison & AC / DC / Mississippi Gabe Carter — House of Blues , Chicago ; Ebony & Ivory — Incontro A Tavola , S . Barrington ; Ethan Bell Band — Jimmy ’ s Grill , Naperville ; The Boy Band Night — Joe ’ s Bar , Chicago ; Anthony Orio — Joe ’ s Live , Rosemont ; Sorry For Partying — Joe ’ s Rooftop , Chicago ; AM / FM — JW Hollstein ’ s , Tinley Park ; Stark Guitar Duo — Kennedy Pointe , Bristol ; Leroy Winn — Kerry Piper , Willowbrook ; Mike Ledbetter / Nora Jean Bruso / Doktu Rhute — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Mike Geo — Level 257 , Schaumburg ; Parker Millsap / Travis Linville — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Sixteen Candles / Karma Committee — Lincoln Park Greek Fest , Chicago ; Sinister Deed / The Bad Applez / Redacted — Live Wire , Chicago ; Moon Lasso Band — Lone Buffalo , Ottawa ; DJ Dave — Lucky Star , Bartlett ; Phenix — Maifest , Chicago ; Eclipse — Mainstage Theater @ Pheasant Run , St . Charles ; Maurice Mobetta Brown — Martyr ’ s , Chicago ; Grouplove / Mighty — Metro , Chicago ; Too White Crew — Navy Pier , Chicago ; Dirty Ernie — Nevin ’ s Brewing Co ., Plainfield ; The Gilligans — Niko ’ s Red Mill Tavern , Woodstock ; BBE & Bella Voce / Kirk and Sesh / Kishi Bashi — Old Town School of Folk Music , Chicago ; CTA / Hair Band Nights — Orland Days , Orland Park ; Rick Lindy & The Wild Ones — Pal Joey ’ s , Batavia ; Good Clean Fun — Pearce ’ s Pub , Oswego ; Erik Donner — Pheasant Run Resort , St . Charles ; Nathaniel Kalish & The Last Callers — Pig Minds Brewing Co ., Machesney Park ; Dead Lucid / Badge Man — Q-Bar , Darien ; Serendipty — Q-Bar , Glendale Heights ; Double Feature / Drones / Bike Tuff / Krayola / Boardinghouse Reach — Quencher ’ s , Chicago ; Los Lobos / Los Lonely Boys / Ozomatli — Ravinia , Lake Forest ; Inter Arma / Railway Gamblers — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Infinity / DJ Erge — Rivers Casino , Des Plaines ; Miss DJ Meg — Roof @ The Wit , Chicago ; Sugar Blue — Rosa ’ s Lounge , Chicago ; Camouflage Sun / Woogie — Rose Festival , Roselle ; Nasty Snacks / Bumpus / DJ Bonita Appleblunt — Schubas , Chicago ; Shawn Colvin w / Danny Kravits — Space , Evanston ; Red City Radio / Turnspit / Blood People — Subterranean , Chicago ; Strawdawg — Sundance Saloon , Mundelein ; My Metal Heart / Rokkor / Live DJ — Tailgaters , Bolingbrook ; Efusivo / Respeto De La Sierra / Grupo Chi-Oax / Groupo Alamanque / Afa 3 / DJ Bombo Latino — Taste of Mexico ( Little Village ), Chicago ; Live Bands TBA — Taste of Wheaton , Wheaton ; Tooty & Friends — Tonic Room , Chicago ; MFM — Tuscany , Oak Brook ; David Paige / Julianne Q & The Band — Uncommon Ground ( Edgewater ),
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Chicago ; Eric Sommer / Nick Jester — Uncommon Ground ( Lakeview ), Chicago ; Spooktacular / The Glass Eyes / Graphics — Underground Lounge , Chicago ; Depeche Mode — United Center , Chicago ; DJ Karaoke — Uptown Lounge , Chicago ; Langdon Kennedy Duo — Uptown Tap , Plainfield ; R-Gang — Venuti ’ s , Addison ; LIttel Giant — White Eagle , Niles ; Trouble Ahead — Wire , Berwyn ; Feel Good Party Duo — World of Beer , Evanston ; William Buccellatio — Zach ’ s On Tap , Palos Heights ; Two Fellas — Zachary ’ s Bar , Palos Heights .
SATURDAY 2 JUNE
Kings of The Lobby / Stephanie Aaron — 210 Live , Highwood ; Tracye Eileen / Eddie Taylor Jr ./ Matt Hendricks — 57th Street Art Fair , Chicago ; Shining Star — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; David Byrne — Auditorium Theater , Chicago ; Off The Record — Austin ’ s Fuel Room , Libertyville ; Lil ‘ Ed & The Blues Imperials — B . L . U . E . S ., Chicago ; Hobo Junkies — Bannerman ’ s , Bartlett ; Felix & Fingers — Bar Evolution , Batavia ; Bad Bad Habits — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Run Forest Run / Big Sugar — Blarney Island , Antioch ; John Primer / Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Ear Candy / Beggars Banquet / Jamrose — Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Karma Committee — Blue Chip Casino-Vegas Baby , Michigan City , IN ; Dang Blasted Cranks — BrauerHouse , Lombard ; American English / Kashmir — Broken Oar , Port Barrington ; The Country Night / Steamin ’ Barracudas — Bub City , Chicago ; Anthony Orio — Bub City , Rosemont ; Mike Wheeler — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Pet Rock — Captain ’ s Quarters , Antioch ; Donald Lawrence & The Tri-City Singers / The Walls Group / Gospel House Legacy / The Music of Edwin Hawkins / Le ’ Andria Johnson / Oakdale Christian Academy / Better Man Group / Mylan Pheloan / Destinee & LaDajah Lee / Joshua Leak — Chicago Gospel Festival , Chicago ; Prom-A-Llama w / Springtime Carnivore / Daryn Alexus & more — Chop Shop , Chicago ; Dead Original / Void The Light / Murder City Saints / The Syndicate — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; 97Nine / Petty Kings / ARRA / The Belvederes / Dairyland Aces — Community Days , Gilberts ; Snow Tha Product — Concord , Chicago ; Tributes to Tool / Foo Fighters / Alice in Chains — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Macks Creek Band — Cuzin ’ s , Blue Island ; Chicago Indigo — Cuzin ’ s , Tinley Park ; Deerhoff / Frankie Rose / Carla Dal Forno / Holy Wave / Goon Sax / Divino Nino ( Empty Bottle East Stage )/ Bear vs . Shark / Chris Farren / Bad Veins / ESSO / Hiddden Hospitals / Cse / Little Kids Rock ( Subterranean West Stage ) — Do Division Street Fest , Chicago ; The Mosquitos — Dock ’ s Bar , Wauconda ; Power Chord — Draft Picks , Mt . Prospect ; Sweet
Diezel Jenkins / DJ Little Lisa — Durty Nellie ’ s , Palatine ; LOL Show — Eaglewood Resort , Itasca ; Kill Your TV Alt Rock / Indie Showcase — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Wooden Ships / Holy Wave / Dommengang — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Old School R & B Jam / Joe Valentino Prohibition Band — Evanston Rocks , Evanston ; The What4 — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Hello Weekend / Brian Kovacs — Four Winds Casino , New Buffalo , MI ; The Rhythm Rockets — Frankie ’ s Blue Room , Naperville ; The Flipside Show w / Chris Foreman / Joe Magnarelli Quartet / Sabertooth — Green Mill , Chicago ; Acoustiholics — Harp & Fiddle , Park Ridge ; Death Cult Fest — Heartland Cafe , Chicago ; Ariel ’ s Party / Super Secret Guest / AP DJ Team — Hideout , Chicago ; Dario Radio Dueling Pianos — Hollywood Casino , Joliet ; Chi-Town Soul — Hollywood Casino , Aurora ; Chronic Edge — Home Bar , Arlington Heights ; Bobby Rex — Hoppy Pig , Bradley ; Matt Hendricks / Delilah / Vino Louden — House of Blues , Chicago ; DJ Mike P / Franchise / Joe Kollege / Jay ILLA / Boi Jeanius / Hip Hop in Hyde Park w / DJ Clark Kent / DJ D-Nice / Dave Jeff — Hyde Park Brew Fest , Chicago ; True Company — Jimmy ’ s Grill , Naperville ; Howl2Go Dueling Pianos — Joe ’ s Live , Rosemont ; Justin Russell Duo — Joe ’ s Rooftop , Chicago ; Stereo Types — JW Hollstein ’ s , Tinley Park ; The Sylvies — Kerry Piper , Willowbrook ; Mike Ledbetter / Nora Jean Bruso / Doktu Rhute — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Ric Wilson / Victor / Family Reunion // Odinaka — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Perifania / Ormi Orchestra — Lincoln Park Greek Fest , Chicago ; Contra / Consume The Divide / Capital Vices / West Berlin / Speaker / Coyote Man — Live Wire , Chicago ; Echo and Ransom / Kevin Presbrey — Lone Buffalo , Ottawa ; Phil and Patti — M Supper Club , Crystal Lake ; Paloma / Phenix — Maifest , Chicago ; Too Bad Company — Mainstage Theater @ Pheasant Run , St . Charles ; Terrapin Flyer — Martyr ’ s , Chicago ; Bishop Briggs / Foreign Air — Metro , Chicago ; Shaken Not Stirred / Accidentally on Purpose — MT Barrels , Schaumburg ; Nick Pontarelli / Shazam Bangles — Navy Pier , Chicago ; Snapshot — Nevin ’ s Brewing Co ., Plainfield ; Gerald and Camille — Niko ’ s Pointers Saloon , Marengo ; Teen Open Mic / Reggio “ The Hoofer ” McLaughlin — Old Town School of Folk Music , Chicago ; Infinity / The Hat Guys — Orland Days , Orland Park ; Serendipity — Pal Joey ’ s , West Chicago ; Triguna / She Ate A Scorpion / High Stakes / Joy Stick — Penny Road Pub , Barrington ; Windy City Rev Ups — Pheasant Run Resort , St . Charles ; Cole Brandt — Pig Minds Brewing Co ., Machesney Park ; Last Call / Flew The Coop — Q-Bar , Glendale Heights ; Tough ‘ Ombres — Q-Bar , Plano ; Berto Fest / Wide Angles / Oscar Bait / Dog & Wolf / Fuck You Idiot — Quencher ’ s , Chicago ; Diana Ross — Ravinia , Lake Forest ; The
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