Submissions due the 15th of the preceding month, for example, April listings by March 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 1
Holy Hour House Band/Freedonian Municipal Band — Abbey
Pub, Chicago; Sunday Night Trivia — Act One Pub, Chicago;
Dreamtree Shakers/The Brokedowns/Meat Wave/Canadian
Rifle/Foul Tip — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Peaches Staten Band —
Blue Chicago, Chicago; Rock Chicago — Bobby McGee’s,
Chicago Ridge; Lucky Town — Bub City, Chicago; Nicholas
Barron/1st Call Band — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Ed
Kowalczyk/Scythian — City Winery, Chicago; Fulcrum Point
New Music Project — Constellation, Chicago; Sunday School
Session: Reverend Gene Farris/Deacons Mathis Rousseau &
Jame$ Dean — Double Door, Chicago; Sonic Highways Episode
#4 w/Captain Coopersmith — Elbo Room, Chicago; Cajun
Dance Party/Chicago Cajun Aces/Side Action Warrior
Tribes/Ribbonhead/The Nesmins — Empty Bottle, Chicago;
Chicago Grandstand Big Band/Jefferson Jr. High School
Band/Music Institute of Chicago’s Jazz Combo — FitzGerald’s,
Berwyn; Pirate Radio — Grand Victoria Casino, Elgin; Kirk
Franklin’s Gospel Brunch/Justin Sumler — House Of Blues,
Chicago; Blues Jam/Claudette Miller/Linsey Alexander —
Kingston Mines, Chicago; GKS Music Showcase — Q-Bar, Darien;
La Dia Crudo Con Cochino Y Los Pistoleros — Quenchers,
Chicago; Frnkiero And The Cellabration/Homeless Gospel
Choir/Modern Chemistry — Reggie’s Rock Club, Chicago; Ewert
& The Two Dragons/James & The Drifters — Schuba’s, Chicago;
DAPHNE w/Michael Serafini/Garrett David/CZBoogie/T.
Mixwell — Smart Bar, Chicago; Travis Tritt — Star Plaza Theater,
Merrillville, IN; Samba Sundays — Subterranean, Chicago; Bob
Noise/Clamor And Claw/Tasty Gasoline — The Burlington,
Chicago; Syth Meet/Get Off The Couch/Honey & The 45’s/Lee
Ketch/Jess McIntosh/Emmi Chen — The Hideout , Chicago.
MONDAY 2
Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Beat Kitchen, Chicago;
Claudette Miller/Tenry Johns Band — Blue Chicago, Chicago;
Gone Country — Bub City, Chicago; Eddie Taylor Jr./Brother
John Hosts The Jam — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Hot
Sardines w/Mipso — City Winery, Chicago; Like Rats/Disrotted
/Young&Dead/Future Cops — Cobra Lounge, Chicago; Peep
Show: Rachel Damon/Synapse Arts/The Ruffians/Morgan
Krauss — Constellation, Chicago; Twinsmith/Panoramic & The
True Power Haunts — Empty Bottle, Chicago; Ronnie Hicks/JW
Williams — Kingston Mines, Chicago; Cashmere Cat/DJ
Spinn/Different Sleep — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Improv Night
w/Sand And Spitballin’/Open Mic Night — Quenchers, Chicago;
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Dee-1/Solarfive/Super Fresh Bros — Schuba’s, Chicago; Robbie
Fulks/I Heart Doc Watson — The Hideout, Chicago.
TUESDAY 3
Open Mic — Abbey Pub, Chicago; Singing For Your Supper — Act
One Pub, Chicago; Ariana Grande w/Rixton — Allstate Arena,
Rosemont; Chicago Underground Comedy — Beat Kitchen,
Chicago; Tenry Johns Band — Blue Chicago, Chicago; Matt
Hendricks/Special 20’s — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; David
Broza — City Winery, Chicago; The Trap House/Real
Juicy/Khaos Kay/Hot Mess — Double Door , Chicago; Forty
Whacks/American Pinup/Sean Nagata (lounge) — Elbo Room,
Chicago; Moon Duo/Verma/Richard Vain — Empty Bottle,
Chicago; Open Mic — FitzGerald’s, Berwyn; Ronnie Hicks/Mike
Wheeler — Kingston Mines, Chicago; Misterwives/Borns/
Handsome Ghost — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Bobco: Working Class
Poets — Quenchers, Chicago; Mr. Blotto/Kalo/Ayoh/Zaramela
/The Lucky Dutch — Reggie’s Music Joynt, Chicago; Reggie’s
Takover — Reggie’s Rock Club, Chicago; Dan Mangan +
Blacksmith/J.E. Sunde/Astral Swans — Schuba’s, Chicago;
Open Mic Hip Hop — Subterranean, Chicago; Secretarial
Creep/Oscillator Bug — The Burlington, Chicago; Joan Of Arc
Gang’s Residency/Birthmark/Melina Ausikaitis — The Hideout,
Chicago.
WEDNESDAY 4
Terrapin Flyer — Abbey Pub, Chicago; Canzonissime — Arcada,
St. Charles; Power Trip/Build And Destroy/Extinction
A.D./Thought Crusade/Pillage — Beat Kitchen, Chicago;
Demetria Taylor/JW Williams Band — Blue Chicago, Chicago;
Judson Brown’s Dueling Strings — Bub City, Chicago; Anthony
Moser/Eddie Taylor Jr./Mo Jo Daddy — Buddy Guy’s Legends,
Chicago; Buckwheat Zydeco w/Sanctified Grumblers — City
Winery, Chicago; Mutilation Rites/Polyptych/River Coffin/Pig
Champion — Cobra Lounge, Chicago; Clif Wallace Trio —
Constellation, Chicago; Joe Renardo/Mike Golden/Claire
Stahlecker/Mallory Lennon — Cubby Bear, Chicago; Ultimate
Painting — Double Door, Chicago; Moxie Strings/Flocks & The
Lookout — Elbo Room, Chicago; Power Trip/Build & Destroy/
Extinction A.D./Thought Crusade/Michael Rault/Clearance —
Empty Bottle, Chicago; SideBar Sessions w/New Standard
Quintet — FitzGerald’s, Berwyn; Megan Trainor w/Sheppard —
House Of Blues, Chicago; Carl Weathersby/Mike Wheeler
w/Peaches Staten — Kingston Mines, Chicago; The Lone Bellow
/Odessa — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Crab Juice Comedy/Popcorn
And Pasties: Burlesque & Variety Review — Quenchers, Chicago;
Umbra and TheVulcan Siege — Reggie’s Music Joynt, Chicago;
OCD: Moosh & Twist — Reggie’s Rock Club, Chicago; Hostage
Calm Farewell Show/True Love/Luke Schwartz — Schuba’s,
Chicago; DAPHNE w/Scary Lady Sarah/Boy Alberto/Eeks
Laroo — Smart Bar, Chicago; Celine Neon/Rapper Chicks —
Subterranean, Chicago; Shilpa Ray/Post Honeymoon/
Displeasures/Corral — The Burlington, Chicago; Art Shay/Tony
Fitzpatrick/Dmitry Samarov w/Chuck Sudo — The Hideout,
Chicago.
THURSDAY 5
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