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Fever 333 — Seat Geek Stadium, Bridgeview; Abby Normal —
Shaker’s, Ottawa; Strung Out — Slapshots, Midlothian; The
Twilight Sad — Sleeping Village, Chicago; Mia Wallace/Aathee —
Smart Bar, Chicago; Alice Peacock/Korby Lenker — Space,
Evanston; Infinity — Square Celt Ale House, Orland Park;
Treadies/Blu & Exile/The Return of Bassriot — Subterranean,
Chicago; Echo & Ransom — Tangled Roots Brewing Co., Ottawa;
Bad Medicine/Mr. Blotto/The Tiny Hearts/School of Rock —
Taste of Glen Ellyn, Glen Ellyn; Yann Tiersen — Thalia Hall,
Chicago; DV8 — The Gambler, McHenry; DJ Esteban La Groue/
DJ Danny Dan — The Owl, Chicago; Hugh Too — The Piazza,
Aurora; Hillbilly Rockstarz — The Quarry, Lemont; Snarky Puppy
/Alina Engibaryan — The Riviera, Chicago; Preacher Lawson —
The Vic, Chicago; La Caccina — Uncommon Ground (Lakeview),
Chicago; Shooter McGavin — Uptown Lounge, Chicago; Julian
Jumpin Perez — Venuti’s VLounge, Addison; Sam Savage —
Zachary’s, Palos Heights.
SUNDAY 19 MAY
The Whiskey Brothers — Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; Ms. Jamie
From The Farm/Bear Hands — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Vibration
Foundation — Blarney Island, Antioch; Nellie Tiger Travis — Blue
Chicago, Chicago; Middle of The Road/Hoosier Highway — Blue
Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge, Michigan City, IN; Tarah From Lincoln
Don’t Lie — Bub City, Rosemont; Chris Antonik — Buddy Guy’s
Legends, Chicago; Joan Osborne Sings Bob Dylan — City Winery,
Chicago; 13-Piece Brass Band — Civil War Days, Naperville;
Spanish Love Songs/The Drew Thomson/Foundation/Turnspit
— Cobra Lounge, Chicago; Paul Strolia — Cuzin’s, Blue Island;
Taylor Street Duo — Cuzin’s Pub, Midlothian; Judson Brown
Band — Dock’s Bar, Wauconda; Bitches of The Sun/Wildcat/
Dendrons — Elbo Room, Chicago; Bur/Yours Are The Only Ears
— Empty Bottle, Chicago; Live Music — Festival of Cultures,
Skokie; Fifth House Ensemble — Hey Nonny, Arlington Heights;
Bringing Down The House-2019 Live Showcase/Gospel Brunch
— House of Blues, Chicago; The Spring Fling — Joe’s Live,
Rosemont; Blues Jam w/Linsey Alexander — Kingston Mines,
Chicago; Mortified — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Live Music —
Lincoln Park Wine Festival, Chicago; Midnight Riders/Anderlik,
Otto & Church — Long Grove Chocolate Fest, Long Grove; The
Petries — Mac’s On Slade, Palatine; Fern/Big Groove Time/1
FootIn, 1 Foot Out — Mainstage @Pheasant Run, St. Charles; 16
Candles/7th Heaven/Serendipity/Mr. Blotto/The Upbeat Band
— Mayfest, Chicago; Movements/Boston Manor/Trash Boat/
Drug Church — Metro, Chicago; Crawfish Boil/Hyde/Billy Flynn
/Tom Holland & The Shuffle Kings/Dave Katzman/Brother
John Kattke/David Sims — Reggies, Chicago; Scott Tipping Trio
/Melanie Devaney — Riverside Arts Weekend, Riverside; Ronnie
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Hicks & Masheen Company — Rosa’s, Chicago; Vivian Craig/Jim
Craig/Caroline Spence — Schubas, Chicago; Chicago Open Air
Fest w/System of A Down/Tool/Ghost/The Cult/Meshuggan/
Gojira/Beartooth/In This Moment/Code Orange/Fever 333 —
Seat Geek Stadium, Bridgeview; Girls Rock! Chicago Camp
Carnival — Sleeping Village, Chicago; Callaghan — Space,
Evanston; Tommy Wright III/Dead Sun — Subterranean,
Chicago; DJ Spin — Tailgater’s, Bolingbrook; Libido Funk Circus
/Tynan — Taste of Glen Ellyn, Glen Ellyn; Pedro The Lion/John
Vanderslice — Thalia Hall, Chicago; XXIX Club/Black Sheep —
The Forge, Joliet; Rebecca Loebe w/Makena Hartlin —
Uncommon Ground (Lakeview), Chicago.
MONDAY 20
Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Mike
Wheeler/Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago, Chicago; MG Bailey —
Bub City, Chicago; Brother John Hosts The Jam — Buddy Guy’s
Legends, Chicago; Joanne Shaw Taylor — City Winery, Chicago;
Feelgood — Cubby Bear, Chicago; Fauvely/Uma Bloo/Star
Tropics — Empty Bottle, Chicago; Corey Dennison/JW Williams
& The Chi-Town Hustlers — Kingston Mines, Chicago; Open Mic
Comedy/Bingo With Burke — Reggies, Chicago; Lurrie Bell —
Rosa’s, Chicago; Cub Sport/Minor Poet — Schubas, Chicago;
Garbage/The Jam Alker Band — The Riviera, Chicago; The Hives
/Refused/Bleached — The Vic, Chicago.
TUESDAY 21
Trivia Night with Pete Berwick — Austin’s, Libertyville; Trivia
Nite w/Pat O’Malley — Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; Chicago
Underground Comedy — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Luke Pytel/
Claudette Miller — Blue Chicago, Chicago; Sheryl Youngblood —
Blue Chicago, Chicago; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City, Chicago;
Live Band Karaoke — Bub City, Rosemont; Bad Influence —
Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Radio Heroes — Cubby Bear,
Chicago; Open Mic — Empire, Naperville; The Who — Hollywood
Casino Amphitheater, Tinley Park; I Prevail/Issues/Justin Stone
— House of Blues, Chicago; Giles Corey/Mike Wheeler/Peaches
Staten — Kingston Mines, Chicago; Friendly Fire Live Podcast —
Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Marcus Rezak’s Gateway to the Galaxy
(Record Release) — Martrys’, Chicago; L7/Le Butcherettes —
Metro, Chicago; Avantasia — Patio Theater, Chicago; Mr. Blotto
— Reggies, Chicago; Oliver Kennan — Schubas, Chicago; Get Up
With The Get Downs — Subterranean, Chicago; Karaoke w/
Jason — Tailgater’s, Bolingbrook; Saltwater Tap/Leah Jean &
Van Isaacson — Uncommon Ground (Lakeview), Chicago; Daniel
Lamar R&B Open Mic — Water Hole, Chicago.
WEDNESDAY 22
Open Mic — Ballydoyle, Aurora; Open Mic w/Dave Kelly —
Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; JW Williams/Laretha Weathersby —
Blue Chicago, Chicago; Rendition — Bub City, Chicago; Bear &
Jake — Bub City, Rosemont; The Cash Box Kings — Buddy Guy’s
Legends, Chicago; Roy Ayers — City Winery, Chicago; Mike
DiDomenico Magic — Club Arcada, St. Charles; Winnie Cooper —
Cubby Bear, Chicago; Little Birds — Elbo Room, Chicago; Alyssa
Allgood Sings Betty Carter — Hey Nonny, Arlington Heights;
Avatar Country — House of Blues, Chicago; Corey Dennison/
Mike Wheeler — Kingston Mines, Chicago; Weyes Blood —
Lincoln Hall, Chicago; The Distillers/Starcrawler — Metro,
Chicago; Cloud Rat/Minimum Wage Assassins/Handsome
Prick — Reggies, Chicago; Lolo Zouai/Jean Deaux — Schubas,
Chicago; The Iceman Special/Peter More — Subterranean,
Chicago; DJ Spin — Tailgater’s, Bolingbrook; Holly Herndon —
Thalia Hall, Chicago; Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band/Penny
& Sparrow — The Vic, Chicago; Dylan Holland/Peyton Lescher &
Brandon A. — Uncommon Ground (Lakeview), Chicago; Low-Reen
Maxwell St. Market Blues Jam — Water Hole, Chicago.
THURSDAY 23
Mulberry Street — 210 Live, Highwood; Trivia Night — Ballydoyle,
Aurora; Bluefront/Nicholas Tremulis — Beat Kitchen, Chicago;
BTS Express w/Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago, Chicago; The
Reason Why Band — Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge, Michigan
City, IN; Tire Swarm/Dan Whitaker & The Shinebenders —
Brauer House, Lombard; Reece Phillips — Bub City, Chicago; The
Chicago Rhythm & Blues Kings — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago;
Roy Ayers — City Winery, Chicago; Mike Vinopal — Cubby Bear,
Chicago; OPLIAM/Myles Bullen/Pest Control — Elbo Room,
Chicago; Ester/Emma Lee Toyoda — Empty Bottle, Chicago;
Bourbon & Brass Band w/Angel Spiccia — Evanston Rocks,
Evanston; Whiskey & Harmony — HB Jones, Elmhurst; Cash
Unchained — House of Blues, Chicago; Chase Rice/James
Barker Band/Adam Hambrick — Joe’s Live, Rosemont; Joanna
Connor — Kingston Mines, Chicago; Andrew Belle/William Wild
— Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Billy Nixon — Mac’s On Slade, Palatine;
Pup/Ratboys/Casper Skulls — Metro, Chicago; Dead Girls
Academy/City of The Weak — Penny Road Pub, South Barrington;
Deicide/Origin/Jungle Rot — Reggies, Chicago; Live Band
Karaoke — Rivers Casino, Des Plaines; Pete Galanis/Dave
Herrero — Rosa’s, Chicago; The Rad Trads/Holly — Schubas,
Chicago; Karaoke w/BT — Shaker’s, Ottawa; Alton Miller/
Ricardo Miranda/Roger That/Form — Smart Bar, Chicago;
Reggae Gold — Subterranean, Chicago; Guitar Shorty —
Tailgater’s, Bolingbrook; Local Natives — Thalia Hall, Chicago;
Texas Hippie Coalition — The Forge, Joliet; Thee Casual Hex/
Daydream Review/Happy Face — The Owl, Chicago; Open Mic —
The Quarry, Lemont; Uniform Distortion/Amo Amo — The
Riviera, Chicago; Uniform Distortion — The Vic, Chicago; Ira
Wolf/Lee Henke — Uncommon Ground (Lakeview), Chicago; The
Chicago Experience — Venuti’s VLounge, Addison; High Dive —
Wire, Berwyn; Diva Montell — ZaZa’s, Clarendon Hills.
FRIDAY 24
Maggie Speaks — 210 Live, Highwood; The Dancing Noodles/
The Fenians/Gerry & Kara Eadie/Steel City Rovers/BackWest
Music/The Fitzgeralds/Bernie Glim & Friends/Billow WoodJoe
Cullen/Gerald Haughey & Sean O’Donnell — 33rd Annual Irish
Fest@Chicago Gaelic Park, Chicago; The Return of Mr. Ali and
Carla Prather/Awards Presentation to Chip E/8FatFat8 — 4th
Annual House Music Festival @Millenium Park, Chicago; Steven
Adler of Guns N’ Roses — Arcada Theater, St. Charles; Eclipse —
Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; Make It A Double — Bar Evolution,
Batavia; Styles P — BaseCamp, Lisle; Restless Knites/Freddy
Jones Band — Blarney Island, Antioch; JW Williams/Laretha
Weathersby — Blue Chicago, Chicago; Jason Lee McKinney Band
/X-Girlfriend — Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge, Michigan City, IN;
Casey/Better Off/Ghost Key/Rarity/Anays — Bottom Lounge,
Chicago; Trippin Billies — Bourbon Street, Merrionette Park;
Couldn’t Stand The Weather feat. Tallan Noble Latz — Brauer
House, Lombard; Rendition — Bub City, Chicago; Reece Phillips
— Bub City, Rosemont; Nellie Tiger Travis/Jessi Terrell — Buddy
Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Rodrigo Y Gabriela — Chicago Theater,
Chicago; Rahsaan Patterson — City Winery, Chicago; Johnny
Rogers: History of Rock & Roll — Club Arcada, St. Charles;
Worriers & awakebutstillinbed/Pity Party — Cobra Lounge,
Chicago; TKA/Safire/Pure Pleasure/Chase/Mark Milan/
Sammy Zone — Concord Music Hall, Chicago; Addison Lane/Six
To Midnight/Shelter Line — Cubby Bear, Chicago; Mike & Eileen
— Doc’s Victory Pub, Elmhurst; Pet Rock — Dock’s Bar,
Wauconda; Pat McCurdy — Durty Nellie’s, Palatine; Semple —
Eaglewood Resort, Itasca; On My Six — Elbo Room, Chicago;
Chasms/Devon Church — Empty Bottle, Chicago; Bourbon &
Brass Band w/ Josie Falbo — Evanston Rocks, Evanston; Faded
Flannel — Fire Bar, Crystal Lake; Steve Martin & Martin Short
w/Chatham County LIne & Jeff Babko — Genesee Theater,
Waukegan; Chris Foreman/Sheilla Jordan Trio/After Hours Jam
— Green Mill, Chicago; Ebony & Ivory — Gruben’s Uptown Tap,
Plainfield; Joe Monahan — Harp & Fiddle, Park Ridge; Ouray —
Hey Nonny, Arlington Heights; Tony Ocean Show — Hollywood
Casino, Joliet; Marianas Trench — House of Blues, Chicago;
Peter & The Versatiles — Incontro A Tavola, S. Barrington; Erik
Donner’s Live Band Karaoke — Jimmy’s Grill, Naperville; Chicks
With Picks — Kegler’s, Crest Hill; Joanna Connor — Kingston
Mines, Chicago; Barry Manilow Tribute by Jay Gates —
Mainstage @Pheasant Run, St. Charles; Basement/Nothing —
Metro, Chicago; Members Only — Mickey Finn’s, Libertyville;
Sammy Jo and Alan Duo — Nevin’s Brewing Company, Plainfield;
Planet Filth: Monxx & Yookie/Og Nixin — Park West, Chicago;
Second Dimension/The Zealots — Penny Road Pub, South
Barrington; Whiskey & Harmony — Pheasant Run Resort, St.
Charles; Live DJs/Live Music/Lucha Libre TBA — Pilsen’s Mole
de Mayo Festival, Chicago; Shindig — Red, White & BBQ,
Westmont; Blood/Nunslaughter/Sqaush Bowels/Anarchus —
Reggies, Chicago; Tav Falco’s Panther Burns — Reggies Music
Joint, Chicago; 7th Heaven/Julian Jumpin Perez/DJ Q — Rivers
Casino, Des Plaines; Michael Bloom & The Blues Prophecy (CD
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