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Charles ; Inferious Bystander / Bottomfeeder / Suncrusher / Rites of Torment — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Sheryl Youngblood Blues Band — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Makeout — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Kristin Hersh / Ernie Hendrickson — City Winery , Chicago ; Mickey Dolenz of The Monkees — Des Plaines Theatre , Des Plaines ; Soul Message — Green Mill , Chicago ; Lyfe Jennings — House of Blues , Chicago ; Bill Belemy — Improv Chicago , Schaumburg ; Cyrus Chestnut Trio — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; QAnon Anonymous Live — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Katatonia / The Ocean Collective / Cellar Darling — Metro , Chicago ; Joint Operation / Overland Flyer — Montrose Saloon , Chicago ; Zoe Keating — Old Town School of Folk Music , Chicago ; Herencia de Patrones — Park West , Chicago ; Harakiri For The Sky / Ghost Bath / Unreqvited — Reggies - Club , Chicago ; Morry Sochat & Special 20s — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; ALDN / Poptropicaslutz ! — Schubas , Chicago ; Skullcrusher / Babehoven / Mal — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; Mike Mangione & Band / Laura Glyda — SPACE , Evanston ; Indigo Girls — SPACE at Cahn Auditorium , Evanston ; J2B2 John Jorgenson Bluegrass — The Venue , Aurora ; Golden Street Reggae — Wild Hare , Chicago ; Matt McCusker — Zanies , Chicago ; Fritz Nothagel — Zanies , Rosemont .
MONDAY 21
Trumpet Summit — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; Secrets / Palisades / Archetypes Collide — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Tone Stith with Jon Vinyl / TJ Atoms / PxRRY / Lily Massie — City Winery , Chicago ; Break The Cycle / Killing Me / Bovice — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Rose City Band / Rosali — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Joel Paterson and Friends — Green Mill , Chicago ; Karaoke — Heroes West , Joliet ; Amy LaVere / Will Sexton — Hideout , Chicago ; Alexis Lombre — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Karaoke — QBar , Darien ; Branson Good / John Duty — Reggies - Joint , Chicago ; Durry / Sunday Cruise / Connor McLaren — Schubas , Chicago ; Open Mic & Karaoke — Tavern on LaGrange , Countryside ; Kinanesgiving — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; DePaul Comedy Class — Zanies , Chicago .
TUESDAY 22
Mario Abney Effect — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; Yung Gravy & bbno $ — Aragon Ballroom , Chicago ; Kindred the Family Soul — City Winery , Chicago ; Sorry — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Open Jam — Evenflow , Geneva ; Chicago Cellar Boys — Green Mill , Chicago ; Heritage Jazz Orchestra : Ella Fitzgerald at the Apollo — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Midwestern Dirt / Blinker / ChinaRose — Hideout , Chicago ; Stand Up Comedy — House of Blues - Foundation Room , Chicago ;
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SOEN — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Mr . Blotto / Dani Rabin Trio — Reggies - Joint , Chicago ; Pete Galanis & Friends with Dave Herrero — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; Acassi / Forget Basment / Neurotica — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; Landlady / Maciw Stewart / Dave Miller / Sima Cunningham — SPACE , Evanston ; Kinanesgiving — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Open Mic — The Uptown , Westmont ; Pete Ellman Big Band with Aurora West High School — The Venue , Aurora ; Taco Tuesday : Sean Mac — Wild Hare , Chicago ; Case of The Mondays Showcase — Zanies , Chicago .
WEDNESDAY 23
Andrew Toombs — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; El Tri — Aragon Ballroom , Chicago ; Brett Michaels Home for the Holidays — Arcada Theatre , St . Charles ; Echoes of Pompeii — Art Thunder , Hobart , IN ; Karaoke — Basecamp , Lisle ; Luke Pytel Blues Band / Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Black Road / Sabbatha / Buzz Worthys — Brauerhouse , Lombard ; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City , Chicago ; Space Age Zereos — Burlington , Chicago ; ' 90s Country Playlist Night — Carol ' s Pub , Chicago ; Kindred the Family Soul — City Winery , Chicago ; Too Much Molly — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Cloud Nothings / ONO — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Lounge Puppets — Evenflow , Geneva ; Ronnie Baker Brooks — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Alfonso Ponticelli — Green Mill , Chicago ; Infinity — Hard Rock Casino - Cafe , Gary IN ; Vino Louden — Hard Rock Casino - Council Oak , Gary IN ; Loudernow — Heroes West , Lemont ; Edward David Anderson — Hey Nonny , Arlington Hts ; Chicago Bam Orchestra — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Sad Night Dynamite / Saiah — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Fun Monkey / DJ Sylkk — Mickey Finns , Libertyville ; Harmonía del Parnàs — Old Town School of Folk Music , Chicago ; Silent Disco — Pollyanna Brewing , St . Charles ; Hair Night Songs / Cue U — QBar , Darien ; Dead Bolts / Diet Lite / Totally Cashed — Reggies - Club , Chicago ; Mr . Blotto — Reggies - Joint , Chicago ; Lil Ed with Mama Rosa ' s All-Stars — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; La Arrolladora Banda Limón — Rosemont Theatre , Rosemont ; OTNES / Carlile / Kasia — Schubas , Chicago ; Open Acoustic Jam — Shanahan ' s , Woodridge ; Zebra Katz / Morenexx — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; Things That Go Bump In The Night with Derrick Carter — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Peppermint / Jujubee & OneUpDuo — SPACE , Evanston ; Corrosion Of Conformity / Spirit Adrift / The Native Howl — The Forge , Joliet ; Bad Omens / Dayseeker / Make Them Suffer / Thousand Below — The Rave / Eagles Club , Milwaukee , WI ; Velvet Teen / No Stranger — WC Social Club , West Chicago ; Tim Smith — Zanies , Chicago ; John Caponera — Zanies , Rosemont .
THURSDAY 24
Micah Collier — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; Ryan Brashear — Bub City , Chicago ; PBJ — Evenflow , Geneva ; Andy Brown / Alan Gresik ' s Swing
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Orchestra — Green Mill , Chicago ; Greg Ward Quintet — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Pro Open Jam — Shanahan ' s , Woodridge ; Reggae Gold ( 10pm ) — Subterranean , Chicago ; J Grant Experience — Tavern on LaGrange , Countryside ; Larry Reeb — Zanies , Chicago .
FRIDAY 25
Piano Man : Elton John & Billy Joel Night — Arcada Theatre , St . Charles ; DJ Don Carlo — Arlington Ale House , Arlington Heights ; Puppy Pals ( 7pm ) — Art Thunder , Hobart , IN ; Windborne ’ s The Music of Queen Performed by The Chicago Philharmonic featuring Guest Conductor Brent Havens Vocalist MiG Ayesa and a full rock band — Auditorium Theatre , Chicago ; Dave East — Avondale Music Hall , Chicago ; ModernColor / They Are Gutting a Body Of Water — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Sheryl Youngblood Blues Band — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Jordy — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Sam Reaper / Ralph Porter / Jack Kenny — Brauerhouse , Lombard ; Ryan Brashear — Bub City , Chicago ; The Country Night — Bub City , Rosemont ; Dry County Line — Carol ' s Pub , Chicago ; The BoDeans — City Winery , Chicago ; 2 Nights Live / The Faces of Miami , IL — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Bad Omens / Dayseeker / Make Them Suffer / Thousand Below — Concord Hall , Chicago ; Pat McCurdy — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Hoyle Bros / Dark Music Fest — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Hairbanger ' s Ball / DJ Night — Evenflow , Geneva ; Zimmerman perform Last Waltz — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Chris Foreman — Green Mill , Chicago ; Ally Venable — Hard Rock Casino - Cafe , Gary IN ; John Primer — Hard Rock Casino - Council Oak , Gary IN ; The Bad Examples — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Emo Night Brooklyn — House of Blues , Chicago ; Steve Byrne — Improv Chicago , Schaumburg ; Greg Ward Quintet — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; North 41 / Sneezy / Bumpus — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Demi Clara — Metal Monkey , Romeoville ; Petey — Metro , Chicago ; Hillbilly Casino — Mickey Finns , Libertyville ; Henhouse Prowlers / Allie Kral / Old Shoe / Fox Crossing Stringband — Park West , Chicago ; Tim Gleason Band — Pollyanna Brewing , St . Charles ; Sacha Robotii — Prysm , Chicago ; Sashimi on Rye — QBar , Darien ; Louis The Child / Lupe Fiasco / Levity — Radius , Chicago ; MIDWXST / Dro Kenji — Reggies - Club , Chicago ; Bit Brigade / Super Guitar Bros — Reggies - Joint , Chicago ; Bumsy & The Moochers / Beat The Smart Kids / Space Monkey Mafia — Reggies - Joint , Chicago ; Gerald McClendon Soul Keeper — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; Luis R Conriquez — Rosemont Theatre , Rosemont ; Line Dance
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Party ( 7pm ) — Saddle Up , Aurora ; TheMind — Schubas , Chicago ; Tommy Four Seven / DJ Hyperactive / Brenda — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Nicholas Tremulis & Prodigals — SPACE , Evanston ; Dark Music Festivals — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Machine Head — The Forge , Joliet ; Corduroy / Feltwell / Curse / The Tracies — The Venue , Aurora ; Sharon Jones Tribute / Brooke & The Nice Things — Untitled , Chicago ; Jumex — WC Social Club , West Chicago ; Baby J & Golden Street Reggae — Wild Hare , Chicago ; Larry Reeb — Zanies , Chicago .
SATURDAY 26
Amon Amarth — Aragon Ballroom , Chicago ; Cornerstones of Rock : The Buckinghams / The Cryan Shames / The New Colony Six / The Shadows of Knight / The Ides of March — Arcada Theatre , St . Charles ; Trans Infinity Orchestra — Art Thunder , Hobart , IN ; Semple — Basecamp , Lisle ; The Dangerous / Summer Like / Pacific Kid — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Sheryl Youngblood Blues Band — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Taco — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Mock Star — Brauerhouse , Lombard ; August Son Band — Bub City , Rosemont ; The BoDeans — City Winery , Chicago ; Synth Goes Emo — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Bear Grillz / Oddprophet / OG Nixin / Muerte — Concord Hall , Chicago ; Echoes of Pompeii Pink Floyd Show — Des Plaines Theatre , Des Plaines ; Karaoke — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Mike & Joe — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Interstate 90s / DJ Night — Evenflow , Geneva ; Ha Ha Tonka / Allen Epley — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Marie Osmond — Four Winds - Silver Creek , New Buffalo , MI ; Nate Venturelli — Hard Rock Casino - Cafe , Gary IN ; Smiley Tilmon Band with Kate Moss — Hard Rock Casino - Council Oak , Gary IN ; Trainwreck — Heroes West , Lemont ; Broken Roberts — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Steve Byrne — Improv Chicago , Schaumburg ; Greg Ward Quintet — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; John Walt Day : 5 Year Anniversary : Saba / MFnMelo / Joseph Chilliams / Frsh Waters / daedaePivot — Metro , Chicago ; Jukebox JBC — Pollyanna Brewing , Roselle ; Afternoon Logic — Pollyanna Brewing , St . Charles ; Fuze — QBar , Darien ; Louis The Child / What So Not / Nez — Radius , Chicago ; Lakeyah — Reggies - Club , Chicago ; Michael Johnson / Michael Robinson ( Midnight ) — Reggies - Comedy Shack , Chicago ; Ultimate Freestyle Super Jam — Rosemont Theatre , Rosemont ; Whiskey Road — Saddle Up , Aurora ; Two Lanes / Happyghost — Schubas , Chicago ; Jockstrap / Ernest Rareberrg — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; Mark Farina — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Expo ' 76 & Total Pro continues on page 30
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