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e-mail iecal@illinoisentertainer.com. All dates subject to change; please contact venues to verify.
SUNDAY 30 SEPTEMBER
Ian Maksin/Gabriel Datcu — 210 Live, Highwood; Børns —
Aragon Ballroom, Chicago; Eric Burdon & The Animals/The
Stylistics — Arcada Theater, Chicago; The Whiskey Brothers —
Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; MC Chris is Dead w/Dual Core/Lex
The Lexicon Artist — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; South City
Revival/Little Giant — Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge, Michigan
City, IN; Pig/Curse Mackey — Bottom Lounge, Chicago; Cinful —
Broken Oar, Port Barrington; Kristin Kearns — Bub City, Chicago;
Kimi Hayes — Bub City, Rosemont; Joel DaSilva — Buddy Guy’s
Legends, Chicago; 4u: A Symphonic Celebration of Prince —
Chicago Theater, Chicago; Madball — Cobra Lounge, Chicago;
Cafe Tacvba/Ruen Brothers — Concord Music Hall, Chicago;
King Khan and The Shrines/Gabriella Cohen/Lie — Empty
Bottle, Chicago; Bill O’Connell’s Chicago Skyliners —
FitzGerald’s, Berwyn; Uptown Poetry Slam/Soul Jazz Night w/
Joel Paterson & Chris Foreman — Green Mill, Chicago; Small
Houses/Steve Plock — Hideout, Chicago; Funky Mojo Daddy/
Keithen Banks/Gospel Brunch — House of Blues, Chicago;
Jason Moran Celebrates Willie Pickens & Muhal Richard
Abrams (Logan Center);Dee Alexander/Junius Paul Quartet/
John “Poppy” Wright’s Pool Party Jam (Wagner Stage); Angel
DeCuba/Kenwood Academy Jazz Band (West Stage); Joey Brink
(Rockefellar Chapel) — Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Chicago; The
17th Letter Showcase — Joe’s Live, Rosemont; Foxing/Ratboys/
Kissippi — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Fortunate Sons — Mainstage
Pheasant Run, St. Charles; Alina Baraz/JMSN — Metro, Chicago;
Patio Daddy-O — Niko’s Red Mill Tavern, Woodstock; American
English/Polkaholics/InRoads/Ed Wagner’s Lustige Blaskapelle
/School of Rock — Oktoberfest @St. Alphonsus Lakeview,
Chicago; Dave Wilcox/The Revelers — Old Town School, Chicago;
Koo Koo Kangaroo/Hate Theory/Monster/Corium — Penny
Road Pub, Barrington; Special Forces — Poopy’s, Savannah;
David Liebe Hart/The Protomen — Reggie’s, Chicago; Chayanne
— Rosemont Theater, Rosemont; Deanna Devore (EP Release) —
Schubas, Chicago; Derrick Carter/Michael Serafini/Garrett
David/Jojo Baby/Nico/Jay Jay/Gidget Von Addams — Smart
Bar, Chicago; Madeleine Peyroux — Thalia Hall, Chicago.
MONDAY 1 OCTOBER
Island/The Blancos/Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Beat
Kitchen, Chicago; Mike Wheeler/Demetria Taylor — Blue
Chicago, Chicago; Metal Bingo — BrauerHouse, Lombard;
Robbie Gold — Bub City, Chicago; Jimy Burns Hosts The Jam —
Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Rupi Kaur — Chicago Theater,
Chicago; Imaginery Advice — Constellation, Chicago; Motown
Throwdown — Elbo Room, Chicago; Monkey Wrench/Arish
Singh/Weeds Poetry Open Mic — Hideout, Chicago; Joanna
Connor/Beartooth/Amanda Fish — House of Blues, Chicago;
Corey Dennison/JW Williams — Kingston Mines, Chicago; John
Mead/Boundary Waters/Morning — Martyrs’, Chicago;
Sepiatonic/Vourteque — Reggie’s, Chicago; Dream Wife/Russo
/Girl K — Schubas, Chicago; Noah Gunderson — Space,
Evanston; Mondo Cozmo — Subterranean, Chicago; Origami
Button/A New State/The Untold — The Burlington, Chicago;
Smile Empty Soul/Flaw/Code Red Riot — The Forge, Joliet;
Touched by Ghoul/Cusses/Djunah — The Owl, Chicago; Elysian
Green/Chaos In Creation — Tonic Room, Chicago; Ian Fitzgerald
/Eric Peter Schwartz & Eric Dinse/Open Mic — Uncommon
Ground, Chicago.
TUESDAY 2 OCTOBER
Sting & Shaggy — Aragon Ballroom, Chicago; Dire Straits
Legacy — Arcada Theater, St. Charles; Trivia Night w/Pat
O’Malley — Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; Pears/Still Alive/The
Eradicator/Salvation/Chicago Underground Comedy — Beat
Kitchen, Chicago; Tenry Johns/Claudette Miller — Blue Chicago,
Chicago; Monster Magnet/Electric Citizen/Dark Sky Choir/
Dead Feathers — Bottom Lounge, Chicago; System Resore/
Hybrids/Avenues — BrauerHouse, Lombard; Live Band Karaoke
— Bub City, Chicago; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City, Rosemont;
Alastair Greene — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Megan
Mullally & Nick Offerman — Chicago Theater, Chicago; Chelsea
Cutler/Christian French — Chop Shop 1st Ward, Chicago; DPR
Live/DJ DaQ — Concord Music Hall, Chicago; Chicago Wind/
Open Mic — FitzGerald’s, Berwyn; The Fat Babies — Green Mill,
Chicago; Mick & Ben/Haters Club — Hideout, Chicago; Mike
Wheeler/Comedy Cocktail/Levee Town — House of Blues,
Chicago; Joanna Connor/Mike Wheeler — Kingston Mines,
Chicago; STRFKR — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; The Bratwurst
Brothers — Public House, Chicago; Karaoke — Q-Bar, Darien;
Game of Thrones Trivia — Q-Bar, Glendale Heights; Pete Galanis
& Friends — Rosa’s, Chicago; Active Bird Community/Samia —
Schubas, Chicago; Sam Evian/Katie Von Schleicher — Space,
Evanston; The Birthday Massacre/Ghostfeeder/Phem/
NeverclearX/Open Mic Hip Hop — Subterranean, Chicago;
Karaoke — Tailgater’s, Bolingbrook; Stop Making Sense/
Storefront Hitchcock — Thalia Hall, Chicago; The Bananas/
Rivers Edge/Time Thieves — The Burlington, Chicago; From
Ashes To New/Bad Flowers/Dead Girls Academy/Killakoi — The
Forge, Joliet; SJOD & Friends — Tonic Room, Chicago; Open Mic
— Uncommon Ground, Chicago; BTS — United Center, Chicago;
Telltale/Thrift Store Halo/Blind Leaders — Wire, Berwyn.
WEDNESDAY 3 OCTOBER
Bill Porter Orchestra — 210 Live, Highwood; Open Mic Night —
Ballydoyle, Aurora; Open Mic w/Dave Kelly — Ballydoyle,
Downers Grove; Fickle Friends/Bulow/Sarah Ann Clausen/
Jakob Heinemann/Julian Kirschner/Peter Maunu — Beat
Kitchen, Chicago; JW Williams/Laretha Weathersby — Blue
Chicago, Chicago; Mod Sun/Caskey/CHXPO/Jimmy Bennet/
Lostinvegas/Forget Brennan — Bottom Lounge, Chicago; Open
Jam — BrauerHouse, Lombard; Over The Side — Bub City,
Chicago; Eric Perryman — Bub City, Rosemont; Dave Weld —
Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; St. Lucia/Now,Now — Concord
Music Hall, Chicago; Rockstar Roulette — Evanston Rocks,
Evanston; Marshall Vente’s Jazz Tropicale Quartet —
FitzGerald’s, Berwyn; Paper Machete/Alfonso Ponticelli &
Swing Gitan/Industry Late Night w/Frank Catalano Sextet —
Green Mill, Chicago; In One Ear — Heartland Cafe, Chicago; Reid
Coker/Aaron Smith/James Becker/Becca Wilcox/Girls of The
Golden West/Caroline Campbell — Hideout, Chicago; Beto
Cuevas En Concierto/Keithen Banks/Mike Wheeler/DJ
Afterparty — House of Blues, Chicago; Gilmore Girls Trivia —
Joe’s Bar, Chicago; Corey Dennison/Giles Corey — Kin gston
Mines, Chicago; STRFKR — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Dave Ulrich/
KY2K — Mac’s On Slade, Palatine; Radio Jarocho & Zenen
Zeferino — Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago; The Walking
Dead Trivia — Q-Bar, Darien; It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Trivia — Q-Bar, Plano; Rehasher/Pilfers/Jacob Horn Trio/Lost
Dog Street Band/Arlo McKinley/Billy Don Burns — Reggie’s,
Chicago; Ben Howard/Wye Oak — Riviera Theater, Chicago;
Alastair Greene Band — Rosa’s, Chicago; Sons of Kemet/Angel
— Schubas, Chicago; John Schofield Combo 66 — Space,
Evanston; Young Galaxy/Spaces of Disappearance/JS Mahlon
— Subterranean, Chicago; DJ Spin — Tailgater’s, Bolingbrook;
The Tundra Tour — Thalia Hall, Chicago; Brighter Death
Now/Malphas/Slavehouse — The Burlington, Chicago; Shamans
Harvest — The Forge, Joliet; The 4onthefloor/Holly — Tonic
Room, Chicago; Kid Elvis/Wildcat & RJ/Redline — Uncommon
Ground, Chicago; BTS — United Center, Chicago.
THURSDAY 4 OCTOBER
Skip Towne & The Greyhounds — 210 Live, Highwood; Richard
Marx — Arcada Theater, St. Charles; Trivia Night — Ballydoyle,
Aurora; Knowmads/Ness — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Two Fellas —
Bella Mia, Midlothian; BTS Express/Shirley Johnson — Blue
Chicago, Chicago; Densel Curry/Kid Trunks — Bottom Lounge,
Chicago; Basstory w/Dave Ellefson from Megadeth/Wraith/
Green Death — BrauerHouse, Lombard; 32 Below — Bub City,
Chicago; The Cash Box Kings — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago;
Ben Rector — Chicago Theater, Chicago; Lettuce — Concord
Music Hall, Chicago; Glenn Jones — Constellation, Chicago;
Ryan Cooper/Pine Travelers/Fuzzlove/Hickory Gridlock — Elbo
Room, Chicago; Bitters/Joey Landreth Trio/Dowd & Drew/
Roman Clarke — FitzGerald’s, Berwyn; Chris Behre — Four Winds
Casino, New Buffalo, MI; Andy Brown Solo Guitar/Alan Gresik
Swing Shift Orchestra — Green Mill, Chicago; Open Jam —
Gruben’s Uptown Tap, Plainfield; Devil In A Woodpile/Trad, Gras
Och Stenar/Endless Boogie — Hideout, Chicago; Open Mic —
HOME Bar, Arlington Heights; The Dirty River Boys — Joe’s Bar,
Chicago; Demetria Taylor/Mike Wheeler — Kingston Mines,
Chicago; Soccer Mommy/Sasami — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; The
Kozmic Kicks/The Jacks/Arbor Creek/Lisa Lightning — Live
Wire Lounge, Chicago; Liverpool Acoustic — Mac’s On Slade,
Palatine; Them Guilty Aces — Martyrs’, Chicago; The Presets —
Metro, Chicago; Saturday June Band — Pumpkin Fest, Highwood;
The Freeks/Sun God Ra/Us As Caravan/Carach Angren/Mors
Principium Est/Wolfheart — Reggie’s, Chicago; Country Night
w/Line Dancing — Rivers Casino, Des Plaines; The Growlers/
Kirin J Callinan — Riviera Theater, Chicago; James Wheeler/Lil
Ed Williams — Rosa’s, Chicago; Parsonsfield/Bubbles Brown —
Schubas, Chicago; Hiroko Yamamura/Kobe Dupree/Zooey
Glass — Smart Bar, Chicago; Carbon Leaf/Freddy Francine —
Space, Evanston; Reggae Gold — Subterranean, Chicago; Bob
Moses/Mansionair — Thalia Hall, Chicago; Davey Dynamite/
Cheatin’ At Solitaire — The Burlington, Chicago; Cowboy Troy —
The Forge, Joliet; Wild Adriatic/CBDB — Tonic Room, Chicago;
Lucas Jack/CHNNLL/Hong Kong — Uncommon Ground, Chicago;
DJ & Karaoke — Uptown Lounge, Chicago; Spirit Fingers — Wire,
Berwyn.
FRIDAY 5 OCTOBER
Luciano Antonio/Alpaca Smokes/Ravinia Ramblers — 210 Live,
Highwood; Ozuna — Allstate Arena, Rosemont; ZHU — Aragon
Ballroom, Chicago; Ratt feat. Stephen Pearcy — Arcada Theater,
St. Charles; Motown Nation — Austin’s Fuel Room, Libertyville;
Epic — Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; Rick Lindy & The Wild Ones
— Bannerman’s, Bartlett; David’s Bazaar — Bar Evolution,
Batavia; The Beths/Mother Evergreen/Special Death — Beat
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