THURSDAY 1 MARCH
John McHugh — 210 Live , Highwood ; Robert Cray Band — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; JW Williams & The Chi Town Hustlers — B . L . U . E . S , Chicago ; Light Coma / Rollo Tomasi / Hungry Man / A Complete Waste of Your Time & Money — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; BTS Express / Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Gabrielle Aplin / Hudson Taylor / John Splithoff — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Chicks With Picks — Brick City Tavern , Mt . Prospect ; Feudin ’ Hillbillies — Bub City , Chicago ; Judson Brown — Bub City , Rosemont ; Breezy Rodio — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Hunterchild / Purple Tokyo / Fee Lion / Dead Fires — Chop Shop , Chicago ; Doyle Bramhall II / Althea Grace — City Winery , Chicago ; Dylan Hankey & Brian Hoyt — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Open Mic Blues Jam w / Billy King Band — Cuzin ’ s Pub , Blue Island ; Yin Waster / Roots Of A Rebellion / Concrete Roots / Shiny Penny / The Bank Notes — Elbo Room , Chicago ; High Up / Whispertown — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Elmhurst College Jazz Band — Fitz Spare Keys , Elmhurst ; New Faces Night w / Wild Skies — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Robbie Gold — Four Winds Casino , New Buffalo , WI ; Andy Brown Solo Jazz Guitar / Alan Gresik Swing Shift Orchestra — Green Mill , Chicago ; Country Night — HOME Bar , Arlington Heights ; Live Band Burlesque & Variety Show — House of Blues , Chicago ; Mike Wheeler — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Win & Loo / Jacklndn / Ikon / Goodsex — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; The Screamin ’ End — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; Somo / Cay / Kid Quill — Metro , Chicago ; Stu Hamm / Sons of Ra — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Rivers Casino , Des Plaines ; Yndi Halda / Staghorn / Rhone — Schubas , Chicago ; Shelby Lynne — Space , Evanston ; Shallou / Hazy Eyes — Subterranean , Chicago ; Old 97 ’ s w / Cody Canada & The Departed / Matthew Ryan — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Buffalo Wabs and The Price Hill Hustle / Jaik Willis — Tonic Room , Chicago ; Jazz Jam w / Mike Walters Group — Tuscany , Oak Brook ; Dusty Carlson Trio / Jeremy Robinson — Uncommon Ground , Chicago ; DJ & Karaoke — Uptown Lounge , Chicago ; Good Clean Fun — Venuti ’ s , Addison ; Songwriters Showcase w / Ian Leith — Wire , Berwyn ; Dan Peters — ZaZa ’ s Tavola , Lake Barrington .
FRIDAY 2 MARCH
Marty Sammon Band w / Devon Allman — 210 Live , Highwood ; Tyler The Creator / Vince Staples — Aragon Ballroom , Chicago ; The Bodeans w / Tolan Shaw — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; John Primer & The Real Deal Band — B . L . U . E . S , Chicago ; TJ Hookz / Raptor The Rapper / JMC — Bada Brew , Crest Hill ; Wall of Denial — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Niche Duo — Bar Evolution ,
Batavia ; Niche Duo — Bar Evolution , Batavia ; Ryan Key / DJ Set — BaseCamp , Lisle ; JW Williams / Laretha Weathersby — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Windy City Rev Ups ( early )/ Crawpuppies ( late ) — Blue Chip Casino - Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Boy Band Review / DJ Night — Blue Chip Casino- It ’ s Vegas Baby , Michigan City , IN ; Autograf / Ramzoid / Edamame — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; The Seventh Sons / The Crook County Blues Band — BrauerHouse , Lombard ; Paul Willaert — Broken Oar , Port Barrington ; Suburban Cowboys — Bub City , Chicago ; Feudin ’ Hillbillys — Bub City , Rosemont ; Jamiah Rogers / Will Tilson — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Karoake — Chicago Loop , Streamwood ; Sebastien Maniscalco — Chicago Theater , Chicago ; Medasin / Equator Club / Stance — Chop Shop , Chicago ; Alan Doyle & Fortunate Sons — City Winery , Chicago ; Fuzz Bucket / The Anti-Trumpz / Headspins — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Matoma Night 1 — Concord Music Hall , Chicago ; Brian Lupo — Cuzin ’ s Pub , Tinley Park ; Eleventh Hour — Dock ’ s Bar , Wauconda ; Erik Donner — Draft Picks , Naperville ; Straight Skinny / Amzy / The Oakmen / The Why Store / Ludlow / Cameron / Foreman — Elbo Room , Chicago ; The Yawpers / Miss Remember — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Trouble Ahead — Evanston Rocks , Evanston ; Party Punch — Fitz Spare Keys , Elmhurst ; Dan Whitaker & The Shinebenders / Jenny Bienemann & Friends — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Smash Kings / DJ Dubbington — Four Winds Casino , New Buffalo , MI ; Rebel Reign — Fuel Room , Libertyville ; Chris Foreman on Organ / Donny McCaslin Quartet / After Hours Jam — Green Mill , Chicago ; Simply Sound — Harp & Fiddle , Park Ridge ; 7th Heaven — Hollywood Casino , Aurora ; Hillbilly Rockstarz — Hollywood Casino , Joliet ; Nerdvana — HOME Bar , Arlington Heights ; Between The Buried & Me — House of Blues , Chicago ; Sam Savage / Johnny Martinez — Incontro A Tavola , S . Barrington ; Walker Hayes / Semple — Joe ’ s Bar , Chicago ; The Marshall Tucker Band w / Chris Karabas — Joe ’ s Live , Rosemont ; Ron Stark Duo — Kennedy Pointe , Bristol ; Grace & John — Kerry Piper , Willlowbrook ; Joanna Connor / Shawn Holt — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Jonathan Wilson / Luke Henry — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Nashville Electric Company — Lucky Sta , rBartlett ; Red Baraat / Fatbook / Subhi — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; Watain / Destroyer 666 / Ares Kingdom — Metro , Chicago ; Vasen — Old Town School , Chicago ; Delta Rising / Band of Brothers — Penny Road Pub , S . Barrington ; Kayla Seeber — Pig Minds Brewing Co ., Machesney Park ; Portrait of Sound / The Lost Ones — Q Bar , Darien ; Stampy / Chris Siebold & Psycles / Git Up On It — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Too White Crew / Julian Jumpin Perez & DJ Q — Rivers Casino , Des Plaines ; Arrival - The Music of Abba — Rosemont Theater , Rosemont ; Crooked Colours / Running Touch —
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Schubas , Chicago ; The Accidentals — Space , Evanston ; Jordan Rakei — Subterranean , Chicago ; Smokin ’ Gunz — Sundance Saloon , Mundelein ; Live DJ — Tailgaters , Bolingbrook ; I ’ m With Her — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Jimmy Nick — The Cottage , Crystal Lake ; DJ Adam Luksetich — The Owl , Chicago ; Sal & Izy — Tilted Kilt , Bolingbrook ; Pride Night : SuperNova / Tasha / TBA — Tonic Room , Chicago ; ODG — TuscanyOak Brook ; Double Treble Dueling Pianos — Twisted Rose , Algonquin ; Rohde / Lucas Jack — Uncommon Ground , Chicago ; DJ & Karaoke — Uptown Lounge , Chicago ; R-Gang — Venuti ’ s , Addison ; Two Fellas — White Eagle Restaurant , Niles ; Slaves / Ghost Town / Dayshell / Kyle Lucas — Wire , Berwyn ; Good Clean Fun Duo — Zachary ’ s , Palos Heights .
SATURDAY 3 MARCH
Soul Message — 210 Live , Highwood ; Tyler The Creator — Aragon Ballroom , Chicago ; Y & T — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Vance Guitar Kelly w / Demetria Taylor — B . L . U . E . S , Chicago ; Mids / Condemned To Hell — Bada Brew , Crest Hill ; Planet Groove — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Double Treble Dueling Pianos — Bar Evolution , Batavia ; The Fleshtones / Jollys / Bluegrass Brunch — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; The Beat 2 — Bella Mia , Midlothian ; JW Williams / Laretha Weathersby — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Jamrose / Monterrey / Smarty Pants — Blue Chip Casino - Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Nightmares on Wax — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Mr . Blotto / Expo 76 — BrauerHouse , Lombard ; Melissa and Shawn — Brazen Head , Crestwood ; Acoustiholics — Broken Oar , Port Barrington ; Chad Bearden — Bub City , Chicago ; Senn Alan Band — Bub City , Rosemont ; Carlos Johnson / Harry Hmura — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Southern Jack — Bungalow Joe ’ s , Hanover Park ; Way Off Topic / Pavement Lines — Chicago Loop , Streamwood ; Sebastien Maniscalco — Chicago Theater , Chicago ; Report Suspicious Activity / Pegboy / Canadian Rifle / The Mons — Chop Shop , Chicago ; Scythian / Trinity School of Irish Dance — City Winery , Chicago ; Matoma Night 2 — Concord Music Hall , Chicago ; Five Guys Named Moe — Cuzin ’ s Pub , Blue Island ; Macks Creek Band — Cuzin ’ s Pub , Tinley Park ; Unfinished Business — Dock ’ s Bar , Wauconda ; Bodega / Dan Durley / Heat Stroke / Last Night Bull Fight — Elbo Room , Chicago ; The Evening Attraction ( Record Release )/ Lucille Furs ( Single Release ) — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Carla Cooke — Evanston Rocks , Evanston ; Bad Amp / The Cutscenes — Fitz Spare Keys , Elmhurst ; Webb Wilder & The Beatnecks / The Corsairs w / Chris Casello — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Styx (@ Silver Creek )/ Shok Roxy ( Hard Rock ) — Four Winds Casino , New Buffalo , MI ; Beggars
Banquet — Frankie ’ s Blue Room , Naperville ; Bella Cain — Fuel Room , Libertyville ; Donny McCaslin Quartet / The Paper Machete / After Hours Jazz w / Sabertooth — Green Mill , Chicago ; Gerry O ’ Keefe — Harp & Fiddle , Park Ridge ; Members Only — Hollywood Casino , Aurora ; Poison ’ d Crue — Hollywood Casino , Joliet ; Modern Day Romeos — HOME Bar , Arlington Heights ; Aaron Michael — Hoppy Pig , Bradley ; Why Don ’ t We — House of Blues , Chicago ; Hi Infidelity — Jenny ’ s Southside Tap , Mokena ; Rock Sonidero 2018 — Joe ’ s Live , Rosemont ; Indigo — Kennedy Pointe , Bristol ; Fat Shorts — Kerry Piper , Willlowbrook ; Joanna Connor / Shawn Holt — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; The Messengers — Lucky Star , Bartlett ; Steady Flow / The North 41 / Willy Dynomite / Case / Beach Bunny — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; Propagandhi / Iron Chic / La Armada — Metro , Chicago ; Alex Cesarini — Natural Law Cocktail Club , Blue Island ; It Takes Two Band / Feel Good Party Band — Noonan ’ s , N . Aurora ; Dressed To Kill Official / Sixxx — Penny Road Pub , S . Barrington ; Infinity — Pheasant Run Mainstage Theater , St . Charles ; Comedy Night w / Farewell to Kristen Lundberg — Pig Minds Brewing Co ., Machesney Park ; Hard Rock Decension — Q Bar , Darien ; My Metal Heart — Q Bar , Glendale Heights ; Indigo — Q Bar , Plano ; Hero Jr ./ Dead Feathers / Marbin / Genome — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; MGMT — Riviera Theater , Chicago ; Get The Led Out — Rosemont Theater , Rosemont ; Kayem / Bassel & The Supernaturals / Chai Tulani & The Bomba — Schubas , Chicago ; Night Train — Slapshots , Midlothian ; Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes — Space , Evanston ; Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers / The Black Moods — Subterranean , Chicago ; Hairmania I — Sundance Saloon , Mundelein ; Veilside / Kevin Lee & The Kings — Tailgaters , Bolingbrook ; Tune-Yards w / Sudan Archives — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Hi Fi Superstar — The Cottage , Crystal Lake ; DJ Esteban La Groue & DJ Danny Dan — The Owl , Chicago ; Mark Rose / Chris Leamy / Lucas Carpenter — Tonic Room , Chicago ; PopCulture — Tuscany , Oak Brook ; Gone Country — Twisted Rose , Algonquin ; Nate Frederick / John Whitaker — Uncommon Ground , Chicago ; Block 37 / DJ & Karaoke — Uptown Lounge , Chicago ; Julian Jumpin Perez — Venuti ’ s , Addison ; Rick Saucedo — White Eagle Restaurant , Niles ; Great Moments in Vinyl : Jimi Hendrix — Wire , Berwyn ; Swingability Slim & The Swingtones — Wise Owl , Chicago ; Good Fellas — Zachary ’ s , Palos Heights .
SUNDAY 4 MARCH
Soul Message — 210 Live , Highwood ; Big Dan & Friends — B . L . U . E . S , Chicago ; The Whiskey Bros . — Ballydoyle , Downers
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