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.
TUESDAY 1
It Lies Within/Kissing Candace/Decorah/Faith In Vain/Dead
Man’s Hand — Bada Brew, Crest Hill; Trivia Night — Ballydoyle,
Aurora; Trivia Night — Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; Pete Ellman
Big Band — Base Camp, Lisle; Ratboys/Oso Oso/Prince Daddy
& The Hyena/Dead Leaves/Anthony Jay Sanders/Chicago
Underground Comedy — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Charlie Love
Band w/Laretha Weathersby — Blue Chicago, Chicago;
Slaves/Capture The Crown/Myka, Relocate/Outline In Color/
Conquer DIvide — Bottom Lounge, Chicago; Tonight Alive/Set It
Off/The Ready Set/Saywecanfly — Bottom Lounge, Chicago;
David Mayfield/PM Buys — City Winery, Chicago; Frank Okay/
Mike Petruccelli/Marc Bannes/Beasti — Double Door, Chicago;
#Totally80s — Elbo Room, Chicago; GoZilla/The Roaring 420s/
Cedar Plank Salmon — Empty Bottle, Chicago; Toronzo Cannon/
Open Mic — Fitzgeralds, Berwyn; Cradle of Filth/Guy King/Nigel
Mack/Comedy Cocktail — House of Blues, Chicago; Maverick
Open Mic — JW Hollstein’s Saloon, Tinley Park; Pecha Kucha Vol.
37 — Martyrs’, Chicago; Blessthefall/Miss May I/The Plot In
You/Sirens & Sailors/A War Within — Metro, Chicago; Wit
Rabbit Reading Series/Bobco Open Mic Poetry — Quenchers
Saloon, Chicago; Old Lazarus’ Harp — Red Line Tap, Chicago;
Mr. Blotto/New Constellations — Reggie’s, Chicago; Pete
Galanis & Friends — Rosa’s Lounge, Chicago; Damien Dempsey
— Schubas, Chicago; Beach House — The Vic, Chicago.
WEDNESDAY 2
Open Mic w/John-O — Ballydoyle, Aurora; Open Mic w/Dave
Kelly — Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; The Good Mondays — Bar
145, Mt. Prospect; Emily Heller — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; JW
Williams Blues Band w/Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago,
Chicago; Blues Jam w/Big Ray & Chicago’s Most Wanted —
BLUES, Chicago; Kaleo/Firekid — Bottom Lounge, Chicago;
Willie Buck — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Michael Flatley’s
Lord of the Dance Dangerous Games — Chicago Theater,
Chicago; Altan — City Winery, Chicago; The Come Up: New
Music Showcase w/Smino/Jean Deaux — Double Door,
Chicago; Open Mic — Elbo Room, Chicago; MTV Ghosts/Jacob
Metcalf/Ty Maxon — Empty Bottle, Chicago; New Standard
Quartet — Fitzgeralds, Berwyn; Tinashe/Keithen Banks/Joanna
Connor — House of Blues, Chicago; Mumiy Troll/Gold
Web/Raised on Zenith — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Tributosaurus
Becomes...David Bowie — Martyrs’, Chicago; Pete Berwick —
Potbelly, Algonquin; Jacob Horn Trio/Stock Footage/Owen
Hemming — Quenchers Saloon, Chicago; DJ Tutt & Friends —
Red Line Tap, Chicago; Chinaa (Music Joint)/Rivers of Nihil/
Dark Sermon/Warforged (Rock Club) — Reggie’s, Chicago;
Paddy Maloney & The Chieftains — Rialto Square Theater, Joliet;
Sugar Blue Band — Rosa’s Lounge, Chicago; Edison/The
Soorley’s/Midwest — Schubas, Chicago; Fullbloods/Courtney/
Wet Mouth — The Burlington, Chicago; Screaming For Silence/
Sleep Signals — The Tree, Joliet; Benny — Underground Lounge,
Chicago; The IL Solo Artist Awards — Wire, Berwyn.
THURSDAY 3
Songwriter’s Showcase — Ballydoyle, Aurora; Brent Brown — Bar
145, Mt. Prospect; Live Band Karaoke w/Eric Donner/Girls
Night Out - The Show — Base Camp, Lisle; Conan/Serial Hawk/
Bottomed — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Maurice John Vaughan
w/Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago, Chicago; JW Williams & The
Chi Town Hustlers — BLUES, Chicago; The Word Alive/Fit For A
King/Out Came The Wolves/Daylight Dawns/Capital Vices —
Bottom Lounge, Chicago; Vino Louden — Buddy Guy’s Legends,
Chicago; Rickie Lee Jones — City Winery, Chicago; Less Than
Jake/Showoff/Counterpunch — Double Door, Chicago; Arc of
The Sun/Under Paris — Elbo Room, Chicago; Faux Ferocious/
Basement Family/Power Haunts — Empty Bottle, Chicago;
Brooks/Ju X[