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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.
SATURDAY 1 JUNE
Trippin Billies — 210 Live, Highwood; MyTyme — 750 Cucina
Rustica, Cary; Academy Brunch/Soul Message Band/Sax To
The Bone — Andy’s, Chicago; Wu-Tang Clan/Reignwolf/The Soul
Rebels — Aragon Ballroom, Chicago; Warrant — Arcada Theater,
St. Charles; Rico McFarland — B.L.U.E.S., Chicago; Chicks With
Picks — Ballydoyle, Aurora; Fossil Fuel — Ballydoyle, Downers
Grove; Double Treble — Bar Evolution, Batavia; Skatalites/DJ
Chuck Wren — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; The Skatalites/Akasha/
Charlie Organaire/DJ Chuck Wren — Beat Kitchen, Chicago;
Afterglow — Bella Mia, Midlothian; Kyle Young Band/The All
Stars — Blarney Island, Antioch; Nellie Tiger Travis — Blue
Chicago, Chicago; The Man in Black — Blue Chip - Stardust Event
Center, Michigan City, IN; Melodious Funk/Jamrose/Ear Candy
— Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge, Michigan City, IN; The Man In
Black — Blue Chip Casino-Stardust Events Center, Michigan City,
IN; Melodious Funk/Jamrose/Ear Candy — Blue Chip Rocks
Lounge, Michigan City, IN; Junoflo — Bottom Lounge, Chicago;
American Idiot Chicago/Chained — Brauer House, Lombard;
Hairbangers Ball/American Idiot Chicago/Buzz Worthy’s —
Brauerhouse, Lombard; Anthony Orio — Bub City, Chicago; Jake
Dodds — Bub City, Rosemont; Joe Moss/Reggie King Sears —
Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Forget Hannah — Bungalow Joe’s,
Hanover Park; Lava Rock — Captain’s Quarters, Antioch; The
Doors of Chicago — Cheers, Midlothian; Six To Midnight —
Chicago Ale Fest @Grant Park, Chicago; Pastor Daniel X. Smith
& NSMIC/ChicagoMade Feat. Stars of Heaven & VJ McCoy &
Worship Experience/Ron Poindexter/Tone Ross & Inspired/
Bridgette Hurt/A4L/Jubilate Ensemble/Min. Shannon T. Lowe
feat. FYRE Choir & Jr. Vessels/Celestial Ministries Drum Line
(Spirit Stage); The Stellar Awards Honoring Black Music Month
& The National Museum of Gospel Music w/Hezekiah Walker,
Anthony Brown Group, therAPY, Koryn Hawthorne, Tasha Page
Lockhard, Maranda Curtis (Pritzker Pavilion) — Chicago Gospel
Festival, Chicago; Daniel Tosh — Chicago Theater, Chicago;
Reggae Bands TBA (sponsored by Wild Hare) — Chicago Wing
Out @St. Michael’s Church, Chicago; J. Davis Trio/School of
Rock Naperville — Chop Shop/1st Ward, Chicago; Nick@Night —
Club Arcada, St. Charles; Raskahuele/Tone Zone Skam/
Ensamble Calavera/Still Alive/The Bank Notes — Cobra Lounge,
Chicago; Skalamadre 6 — Cobra Lounge, Chicago; Midnight
Tyrannosaurus/Kai Wachi/Yakz/Cromatik — Concord Music
Hall, Chicago; The Modern Age/The Stone Chromatics/
Resurrection Larry/Breakfast Beer — Cubby Bear, Chicago;
Russian Circles/WHY?/The Skatalites/Meat Puppets/The
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Cool Kids/Mikal Cronin/Pile/Makaya McCraven/Ryley
Stevenson/Kari Faux/Varsity/REZN/Brittany Campbell/Paul
Cherry/Sweet Spirit/Habibi/JJUUJJUU/Bumpus/Green Room
Rockers/Void of Sabbath/CJ Run/Lowdown Brass Band/State
Champion/Manwolves/Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs/Bardo/
Free Snacks/Bardo Effect/School of Rock Chicago — Do
Division Street Fest, Chicago; X-Side — Dock’s Bar, Wauconda;
Rick Lindy & The Wild Ones — Eaglewood Resort, Itasca;
Lunchroom Rejects/Philly D Slim/Joe Shelton/Kevin Conaway
/This Is Riot Fest — Elbo Room, Chicago; Mikai Cronin/Troy
Anderson/Jungle Green — Empty Bottle, Chicago; Rico: Santana
Tribute/Kimberly Gordon — Evanston Rocks, Evanston; Gone
Country — Firewater Saloon, Mt. Greenwood; Paul Cebar/
Tomorrow Sound/The Claudettes — Fitzgeralds, Berwyn; The
1985 — Four Winds Casino-Hard Rock, New Buffalo, MI ; Stone
Temple Pilots — Four Winds Casino-Silver Creek, New Buffalo, MI;
Cirrus Falcon/Brad Cole & Jeff Libman — Gold Coast Art Fair
@Grant Park, Chicago; Live Bands TBA — Gold Coast Art Fair
@Grant Park, Chicago; Paper Machete/Jean Michael Trio/After
Hours Jazz — Green Mill, Chicago; The Ragbirds — Hey Nonny,
Arlington Heights; The Ragbirds/Cox’s Army — Hey Nonny,
Arlington Heights; Tynan — Hollywood Casino , Aurora; Final Say
— Hollywood Casino, Joliet; Adam Sandler — Hollywood Casino
Amphitheater, Tinley Park; Omar Coleman/Thunderstruck/
Mississippi Heat/House of Burlesque — House of Blues,
Chicago; Live Music TBA — Hyde Park Brew Fest, Chicago; 7th
Heaven — Joe’s Live, Rosemont; Dirty Water Boys/Reece
Phillips — Joe’s on Weed, Chicago; Joanna Connor Acoustic Set
— Kingston Mines, Chicago; Skeletonwitch/ Soft Kill/
Wiegedood/ Devil Master — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Ormi
Orchestra — Lincoln Park Greek Fest, Chicago; Bands TBA — Live
on The Lake @Navy Pier, Chicago; Enuff Z’Nuff — Live Wire
Lounge, Chicago; petRock — Mac’s On Slade, Palatine; Live
Music TBA — Maifest German Fest, Chicago; Kelly Finnigan &
The Atonements/ Renaldo Domino with The Heavy Sounds —
Martyrs, Chicago; Empire Of The Sun — Metro, Chicago; The
Great Affairs — Mickey Finn’s, Libertyville; Live Bands TBA —
Milk Days, Harvard; Wave Wall Wax — Navy Pier, Chicago; Too
Band Company/Travelin’ Pettys — Nevin’s Brewing Company,
Plainfield; Jess Piano/Six To Midnight — Niko’s R&R Supper
Club, Marengo; Rob Post Band — Niko’s Red Mill Tavern,
Woodstock; DJ Kate Versage/Where’s Maggie?/The Box
Band/Adam Yarger & Lenny Martelli/Bill Uhler (various ven-
ues) — North Shore Pride Fest, Highwood; National Tap
Day/Teen Open Mic — Old Town School, Chicago; Infinity/
Johnny Russler & The Beach Bum Band — Orland Days, Orland
Park; Coolio (Performing Gangsta’s Paradise) — Patio Theater,
Chicago; Robb Young Music/Ronin/Halfdog/Jester’s Metal
Freak Show — Penny Road Pub, Barrington; Blackened/
Chained — Pheasant Run Mainstage, St. Charles; Steve Roth —
Pheasant Run Resort, St. Charles; Local Boys/Rips Ups — Phyllis’
Musical Inn, Chicago; Espinoza & Coffey — Pig Minds Brewing
Co., Machesney Park; Naked Bootleg — Q-Bar, Glendale Heights;
Tash Sultana/Pierce Brothers — Ravinia, Highland Park; Altered
Stage (Noon)/Royal Outsiders/Weekend Run Club/Fruit
Leather — Reggies, Chicago; Chicago Doomed and Stoned Fest:
Coven/ Blood Ceremony (Club) — Reggies, Chicago;
Coven/Blood Ceremony/Demon Lung/6 Bands (Club 3pm) —
Reggies, Chicago; Royal Outsiders (Joint) — Reggies, Chicago;
DJ Q/DJ Trilogy/DJ Erge — Rivers Casino, Des Plaines; Lil’ Ed
& The Blues Imperials — Rosa’s, Chicago; Ludlow/ Vandalay/
Trickshooter Social Club — Schubas, Chicago; Wesley School of
Music — Schubas, Chicago; The Allan Rayman Show — Sleeping
Village, Chicago; Black Asteroid/Jeff Derringer — Smart Bar,
Chicago; Brett Dennen — Space, Evanston; Meat Puppets —
Subterranean, Chicago; Epic — Tailgaters, Bolingbrook; Perry
Hutchins Duo — Tangled Root Brewing Co., Ottawa; Live Music
TBA — Taste of Mexico @Little Village, Chicago; Hi Infidelity/
Planet Groove/Chemically Imbalances/Summer Son/Stark
Raving Dad — Taste of Wheaton, Wheaton; Randy Rainbow Live
— Thalia Hall, Chicago; Good Fellas — The Cottage, Crystal Lake;
Flotsam & Jetsam/Dead By Wednesday/Wrath/Teh
Everscathed/Inner Decay/Memories Wither — The Forge, Joliet;
The Dream Syndicate/Eleventh Dream Day — The Hideout,
Chicago; DJ Esteban La Groue & DJ Danny Dan — The Owl,
Chicago; 5 Gone Crazy — The Quarry, Lemont; Gogol Bordello
/Nuy Folk Rebel Alliance — The Riviera, Chicago; Lena Elizabeth
/Brianna Kocka & Sam Sherman — Uncommon Ground
(Lakeview), Chicago; Faction: Depeche Mode vs. New Order —
Underground Lounge, Chicago; 3 and A Half Men — Uptown
Lounge, Chicago; Julian Jumpin Perez — Venuti’s, Addison; Live
DJ’s — Wave Wall Wax, Navy Pier; Rat Salad — White Tavern,
Naperville.
SUNDAY 2 JUNE
The Love Beatles Tribute — 210 Live, Highwood; Tracye Eileen/
Matt Hendricks — 57th Street Art Fair, Chicago; Ben Vereen —
Arcada Theater, St. Charles; Rock Academy/The Whiskey
Brothers — Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; Alex’s Music Studio
Spring Recital — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Tynan — Blarney Island,
Antioch; Sheryl Youngblood — Blue Chicago, Chicago; South
City Revival — Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge, Michigan City, IN;
Spike & The Spitwads/Rebel Pride Band — Blue Chip Rocks
Lounge, Michigan City, IN; Hot Mulligan/Belmont/Fredo
Disco/Future Teens — Bottom Lounge, Chicago; Olivia Strong —
Bourbon Street, Merrionette Park; Chuckapalooza — Brauer
House, Lombard; Dirty Water Boys — Bub City, Chicago;
Sunfallen — Bub City, Rosemont; Mason Rivers — Cantigny
Afternoon Concerts, Wheaton; I Pop — Captain’s Quarters,
Antioch; Tom Segura — Chicago Theater, Chicago; Reggae
Bands TBA (sponsored by Wild Hare) — Chicago Wing Out @St.
Michael’s Church, Chicago; Kake 3/School of Rock Adults —
Chop Shop/1st Ward, Chicago; Morgan James — City Winery,
Chicago; Vince Amore @Ron’s Family Feast — Club Arcada, St.
Charles; Santuary South One Day Mini-Fest — Cobra Lounge,
Chicago; Russian Circles/WHY?/The Skatalites/Meat Puppets
/The Cool Kids/Mikal Cronin/Pile/Makaya McCraven/Ryley
Stevenson/Kari Faux/Varsity/REZN/Brittany Campbell/Paul
Cherry/Sweet Spirit/Habibi/JJUUJJUU/Bumpus/Green Room
Rockers/Void of Sabbath/CJ Run/Lowdown Brass Band/State
Champion/Manwolves/Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs/Bardo/
Free Snacks/Bardo Effect/School of Rock Chicago — Do
Division Street Fest, Chicago; I AM Fest/School of Rock
Highwood — Elbo Room, Chicago; The God Awful Small
Affairs/Bernie & THe Wolf — Empty Bottle, Chicago; Diver
Down/Eli Hernandez — Firewater Saloon, Mt. Greenwood;
Bluesday Tuesday: Wayne Baker Brooks — FitzGerald’s, Berwyn;
Cirrus Falcon/Brad Cole & Jeff Libman — Gold Coast Art Fair
@Grant Park, Chicago; Uptown Poetry Slam/Soul Jazz Night
with Joel Patterson Trio — Green Mill, Chicago; Gospel Brunch
— House of Blues, Chicago; Live Music TBA — Hyde Park Brew
Fest, Chicago; Raise It For Rossi Benefit — Joe’s Live, Rosemont;
Blues Jam With Linsey Alexander/ Claudette Miller Blues Band
— Kingston Mines, Chicago; Ormi Orchestra — Lincoln Park
Greek Fest, Chicago; Bands TBA — Live on The Lake @Navy Pier,
Chicago; Toni Callahan & Her Jazz Guys — Mac’s On Slade,
Palatine; Live Music TBA — Maifest German Fest, Chicago;
Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird/ Shtumer Alef — Martyrs,
Chicago; New Odyssey — Milk Days, Harvard; Strawdawg —
Niko’s Red Mill Tavern, Woodstock; Steve Earle & The Dukes (at
Maurer Hall) — Old Town School, Chicago; The Ron Burgundy’s/
Grungeworthy/Matt, Zach & Tom — Orland Days, Orland Park;
Wayne Messmer Quartet — Pheasant Run Mainstage, St. Charles;
EE Performance — Phyllis’ Musical Inn, Chicago; Live Music —
PorchFest Lakeview, Chicago; David Murray/Kahil El’Zabar
Quartet — Promontory Theater, Chicago; TFT/BGT/Fern/Dream
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