Chicago; Naomi Ashley/Andon Davis — Wire, Berwyn.
THURSDAY 30 MAY
Electric Gypsy & The Mighty Grouper — 210 Live, Highwood;
Juice WRLD w/Ski Mask The Slump God — Aragon Ballroom,
Chicago; Trivia Night — Ballydoyle, Aurora; Adam Jensen — Beat
Kitchen, Chicago; Luke Pytel/Claudette Miller — Blue Chicago,
Chicago; Identity Crisis — Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge,
Michigan City, IN; Anthony Orio — Bub City, Chicago; Daniel E.
Johnson — Bub City, Rosemont; Laura Rain — Buddy Guy’s
Legends, Chicago; Eddie Izzard — Chicago Theater, Chicago;
Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio — City Winery, Chicago; Mike
Silvestri — Cubby Bear, Chicago; The Last Great Riot/What
About This — Elbo Room, Chicago; Felix Kubin — Empty Bottle,
Chicago; Bourbon & Brass Band w/Nicole Kestler — Evanston
Rocks, Evanston; Doug Bardolph — HB Jones, Elmhurst;
Terrapin Flyer — Hey Nonny, Arlington Heights; The Damned &
X/The Detroit Cobras — House of Blues, Chicago; Joanna
Connor — Kingston Mines, Chicago; Live Music TBA — Maifest
German Fest, Chicago; Empire of The Sun — Metro, Chicago;
Echo Five — Orland Days, Orland Park; Reggies Bike Night: Rock
N’ Ride/Classic Album Night: Foo Fighters — Reggies, Chicago;
Reckless — Rivers Casino, Des Plaines; The Four C Notes —
Rockin’ In The Park, Rosemont; Pete Galanis/Dave Herrero —
Rosa’s, Chicago; Ollie/Joey Burbs — Schubas, Chicago;
Karaoke w/BT — Shaker’s, Ottawa; Horse Feathers — Space,
Evanston; Reggae Gold — Subterranean, Chicago; Vital Signs/
True Company/A&R Band — Taste of Wheaton, Wheaton; Bless
The Fall/Palisades/Slaves/Glass Houses — The Forge, Joliet;
Cold Beaches/Southpaw Sonata/New Senses — The Owl,
Chicago; Open Mic — The Quarry, Lemont; Diesel w/Klexos &
Six Paths — Underground Lounge, Chicago; Tony Ocean —
Venuti’s VLounge, Addison; Hurricane Reggae Band — Water
Hole, Chicago; Spooky Boo/Carrying Torches/The Flips/
Contronyms — Wire, Berwyn; Ebony & Ivory — ZaZa’s, Clarendon
Hills.
FRIDAY 31
Sponge — 210 Live, Highwood; George Clinton’s Farewell Tour
w/One Nation Under a Groove/P-Funk/Galactic/Fishbone/
Miss Velvet and the Blue Wolf — Aragon Ballroom, Chicago; BB
King’s Blues Band feat. Michael Lee from The Voice — Arcada
Theater, St. Charles; Tyler Krienitz — Bar Evolution, Batavia; 7th
Heaven/Sal & Izy — BaseCamp, Lisle; The Clarks — Beat
Kitchen, Chicago; Low-Reen & The Lazy Dogs/Charles Delta
Blues Hog Hayes — Big Ed’s BBQ, Waukegan; Grand Illusion/
Barracuda — Blarney Island, Antioch; Nellie Tiger Travis — Blue
Chicago, Chicago; Downtown Charlie Brown Band/Carlos
Ramos Band — Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge, Michigan City, IN;
Remo Drive/Slow Pulp/Slow Bullet — Bottom Lounge, Chicago;
Richrath 3:13/Midnight Road/The Karen Hart Band
Pretending — Brauer House, Lombard; Jake Hoods — Bub City,
Chicago; Vino Louden — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Ricky
Dillard & New G/The Music of Percy Bady & Percy Gray/
Amazing Grace: Music of Aretha Franklin/Praise Party feat.
Assembly Praise Team (Pritzker Pavilion); Jonathan Traylor/
Travis D. Crockett & The Powerful Voices of Praise/Leanne
Faine & Favor/Providence St. Mel’s Choir/Angel Sharkey/
Delagraentiss/The Bournes/Mechele Burtley/Dave Martin &
GSM (Cultural Center) — Chicago Gospel Festival, Chicago;
Eddie Izzard — Chicago Theater, Chicago; Mason Jennings — City
Winery, Chicago; Diva’s Dance Bankd — Club Arcada, St. Charles;
Act of Destruction/War Curse/Tyrant/Reign — Cobra Lounge,
Chicago; Zveri — Concord Music Hall, Chicago; Local H — Cubby
Bear, 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; Simply Sound — Doc’s Victory
Pub, Elmhurst; Bliss — Dock’s Bar, Wauconda; Rocks Off —
Durty Nellie’s, Palatine; Wic/River Kittens — Elbo Room,
Chicago; Hey Jimmy — Empire, Naperville; Arlene Bardelle —
Evanston Rocks, Evanston; Evanston After Dark DJs — Evanston
Rocks, Evanston; Run Forrest Run — Fire Bar, Crystal Lake;
Bronte Fall — Fitzgeralds, Berwyn; Criss Angel Raw — Genesee
Theater, Waukegan; Chris Foreman/Jean Michl Pilc/After
Hours Jam — Green Mill, Chicago; Joe Fascetta — Gruben’s
Uptown Tap, Plainfield; Sarah Eide & The Oh Yeahs (Album
Release) — Hey Nonny, Arlington Heights; Rockstar Rodeo —
Hollywood Casino, Joliet; Southern Accents Tom Petty Tribute —
Joe’s Live, Rosemont; Loudernow — Joe’s on Weed, Chicago;
Whiskey & Harmony — Kegler’s, Crest Hill; Joanna Connor —
Kingston Mines, Chicago; Great Good Fine OK/Vesperteen —
Lincoln Hall, Chicago; 16 Candles/Northside — Lincoln Park
Greek Fest, Chicago; Expo ‘76/Kelly Hogan & Robert Cornelius
— Martrys’, Chicago; Live Bands — Milk Days, Harvard; Recycle
The Day/Doug Bardolph — Nevin’s Brewing Company, Plainfield;
The Hair Band Night/Kaleidoscope Eyes — Orland Days, Orland
Park; Chromatics/Desire/In Mirrors — Park West, Chicago;
Tamar Braxton — Patio Theater, Chicago; Everyly Brother &
Sister/Dianne Christine/Growing With Archers — Penny Road
Pub, South Barrington; Cover Story — Pheasant Run Resort, St.
Charles; Ramsey Lewis/Phillip Bailey/John Pizzarelli Trio/Ann
Hampton Callaway — Ravinia, Highland Park; Torche/Forming
The Void — Reggies, Chicago; T.S.O.L./Bollweevils/The Mons —
Reggies Music Joint, Chicago; Hello Weekend/DJ Q — Rivers
Rosemont; Ages and Ages/Kyle Emerson — Schubas, Chicago;
Matthew Milia (Record Release)/Paul Cherry — Sleeping Village,
Chicago; Derrick Carter — Smart Bar, Chicago; Brett Dennen —
Space, Evanston; Fool House — Tailgater’s, Bolingbrook; Crash
— Tangled Roots Brewing Co., Ottawa; Live Music — Taste of
Mexico @ Little Village, Chicago; Libido Funk Circus/97Nine/
The Pheromones — Taste of Wheaton, Wheaton; Randy Rainbow
Live — Thalia Hall, Chicago; Gerald & Camille — The Gambler,
McHenry; I.E. Kokoro/David Coulbson — Uncommon Ground
(Lakeview), Chicago; The Mix — Venuti’s VLounge, Addison; DJ
Smichocfritz — World of Beer, Evanston; Th eBaked Potatoes —
Zachary’s, Palos Heights.
SATURDAY 1 JUNE
Trippin Billies — 210 Live, Highwood; Wu-Tang Clan/Reignwolf/
The Soul Rebels — Aragon Ballroom, Chicago; Warrant — Arcada
Theater, St. Charles; Double Treble — Bar Evolution, Batavia; The
Skatalites/Akasha/Charlie Organaire/DJ Chuck Wren — Beat
Kitchen, Chicago; 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;
Junoflo — Bottom Lounge, Chicago; American Idiot Chicago/
Chained — Brauer House, Lombard; 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 (sponsored by Wild Hare) — Chicago Wing Out
@St. Michael’s Church, Chicago; Raskahuele/Tone Zone Skam/
Ensamble Calavera/Still Alive/The Bank Notes — 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 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; Mikai Cronin — Empty Bottle,
Chicago; Rico: Santana Tribute/Kimberly Gordon — Evanston
Rocks, Evanston; Paul Cebar/Tomorrow Sound/The Claudettes
— Fitzgeralds, Berwyn; Stone Temple Pilots — Four Winds Casino
(Silver Creek), New Buffalo, MI; Live Bands — Gold Coast Art Fair
@Grant Park Chicago; The Ragbirds — Hey Nonny Arlington Hts;
Check illinoisentertainer.com for
concert previews, news, and reviews.
Adam Sandler — Hollywood Casino Amphitheater, Tinley Park;
Live Music — Hyde Park Brew Fest, Chicago; Joanna Connor —
Kingston Mines, Chicago; Skeletonwitch/Soft Kill/Martyrdod/
Wiegedood/Devil Master — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Ormi
Orchestra — Lincoln Park Greek Fest, Chicago; Bands TBA — Live
on The Lake @Navy Pier, Chicago; Live Music — Maifest German
Fest, Chicago; Empire of The Sun — Metro, Chicago; The Great
Affairs — Mickey Finn’s, Libertyville; Live Bands — Milk Days,
Harvard; Too Band Company/Travelin’ Pettys — Nevin’s Brewing
Company, Plainfield; DJ Kate Versage/Where’s Maggie?/The
Box Band/Adam Yarger & Lenny Martelli/Bill Uhler (various
venues) — North Shore Pride Fest, Highwood; Infinity/Johnny
Russler & The Beach Bum Band — Orland Days, Orland Park;
Coolio (performing Gangsta’s Paradise) — Patio Theater,
Chicago; Tash Sultana/Pierce Brothers — Ravinia, Highland
Park; Coven/Blood Ceremony/Demon Lung/6 Bands (3pm) —
Reggies, Chicago; Royal Outsiders — Reggies Music Joint,
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; Live Music —
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; Flotsam & Jetsam/Dead By Wednesday/Wrath/Teh
Everscathed/Inner Decay/Memories Wither — The Forge, Joliet;
DJ Esteban La Groue/DJ Danny Dan — The Owl, Chicago; Gone
Crazy — The Quarry, Lemont; Gogol Bordello — The Riviera,
Chicago; Lena Elizabeth/Brianna Kocka/Sam Sherman —
Uncommon Ground (Lakeview), Chicago; Julian Jumpin Perez —
Venuti’s VLounge, Addison; Live DJ’s — Wave Wall Wax, Navy Pier.
Check illinoisentertainer.com
for live music updates.
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