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SATURDAY 1 OCTOBER
Jaripeo Sin Fronteras — Allstate Arena , Rosemont ; Brian Lynch / Trio Nexus — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; Alex Benjamin — Aragon Ballroom , Chicago ; Shock The System — Arlington Ale House , Arlington Heights ; Mike Wheeler Blues Band with Demetria Taylor — Blues Chicago , Chicago ; Rata Blanca — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Hank Ruff — Bub City , Chicago ; Jessie ' s Girl — Bub City , Rosemont ; BrotherViolet / Echo Point / Atarax — Burlington , Chicago ; John Ballantyne ' s Crazy Hearts — Carol ' s Pub , Chicago ; Michael Yo — Chicago Improv , Schaumburg ; ISOxo - Nightrealm : Phase 2 — Chop Shop , Chicago ; Club 950 Reunion — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Kyle Watson / Weiss / DOMii / Red Achinelli — Concord Hall , Chicago ; Vicky Chow — Constellation , Chicago ; Irish Heartbeat ( Van Morrison Show ) — Des PlainesTheatre , Des Plaines ; Face The Music — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Best Western ( Noon )/ Dead Inside ( 9pm ) — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Mr . Blotto / DJ — Evenflow , Geneva ; Red Elvises — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Andrew SA & Paisley Fields — FitzGerald ' s - Patio , Berwyn ; Doug Souvigny & Friends — FitzGerald ' s - SideBar , Berwyn ; Crawpuppies — Four Winds Casino - Kankakee Grill , New Buffalo , MI ; Ringo Starr & His All Star Band — Four Winds Casino - Silver Creek , New Buffalo , MI ; Cornerstones of Rock — Genesee Theatre , Waukegan ; Paper Machete / Makaya McCraven — Green Mill , Chicago ; Corey Dennison — Hard Rock Casino , Gary , IN ; Semple — Hard Rock Casino - Cafe , Gary , IN ; OKTO- BERFEST : The Collective — Heroes West , Joliet ; Alex Dupree / Annie Blackman / S . Raekwon — Hideout , Chicago ; Me First / Gimme Gimmes — House of Blues , Chicago ; One More Time ( Daft Punk ) — Impact Fuel Room , Libertyville ; Geof Bradfield — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Riblja Corba & Van Gogh — Joe ' s Live , Rosemont ; Ron Burgundy ' s — Joe ' s on Weed St ., Chicago ; Manowolves / Interlay / Preme — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; La Chica / Beats y Batería — Martyrs , Chicago ; Grungetober Fest — Metal Monkey , Romeovile ; The Avalanches / Kareem Ali — Metro , Chicago ; Darrell Markette / Pino Farina ( 9pm ) — Mickey Finns , Libertyville ; Lyons / Hungry Williams / Old Grand Dad / Matt Poison Boys — Montrose Saloon , Chicago ; Teen Open Mic — Old Town School of Folk Music , Chicago ; Opiuo / Maddy O ' Neal andA Hundred Drums — Park West , Chicago ; Open Jam — Polyanna Brewery , St . Charles ; Knife Party / Habstrakt — Prysym , Chicago ; Hillbilly Rockstarz — Q Bar , Darien ; NGHTMRE — Radius , Chicago ; Michael Robinson ( Midnight ) —
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Reggies - Comedy Shack , Chicago ; Jonathan Scales Fourchestra / Maurice / Victor Torres — Reggies - Music Joint , Chicago ; Cochise — Reggies - Rock Club , Chicago ; Lyrical Lemonade — Riviera Theatre , Chicago ; Mellencougar — Rochaus , West Dundee ; Sheryl Youngblood — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; Kelsea Ballerini — Rosemont Theatre , Rosemont ; Whiskeyfist — Saddle Up , Aurora ; The Misconstrued Tunes of Kriz Baronia — Schubas , Chicago ; Wednesday / Truth Club — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; Jamie 3:26 / Cratebug / Humbold / Arboreal Soundsystem — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Frank Orall Solo — SPACE , Evanston ; Social Experience : 90s / 2000s R & B / Indira Shawn — Subterranean , Chicago ; Jak Tripper / X-side — Sundance Saloon , Mundelein ; Train Wreck / Hard Vinyl — Tailgater ' s , Bolingbrook ; Jamestown Revival / David Ramirez — The Rave / Eagles Club , Milwaukee ; Pusha T / IDK — The Rave / Eagles Club , Milwaukee ; GBP — The Venue , Aurora ; Chapo Trap House — The Vic , Chicago ; Gerald McClendon — Untitled , Chicago ; Ifficial / DJ Sharp — Wild Hare , Chicago ; Zainab Johnson / Calvin Johnson — Zanies , Chicago ; Lynne Koplitz — Zanies , Rosemont .
SUNDAY 2
Andy Brown / Eric Schneider — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; Giveon — Aragon Ballroom , Chicago ; Modern Gentlemen ( Frankie Valli Show ) — Arcada Theatre , St . Charles ; LupusWarrior — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Demetria Taylor Band — Blues Chicago , Chicago ; When The Sun Sets / Good Hangs / Blueprint — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Michael Yo — Chicago Improv , Schaumburg ; Sergio Mendes — City Winery , Chicago ; Thomas Giles — Constellation , Chicago ; Medicine Singers & Yonatan Gat — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Chicago Grandstand — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Hoyle Brothers ( 11am ) — FitzGerald ' s - Patio , Berwyn ; Tae & The Neighborly — FitzGerald ' s - Patio , Berwyn ; Imphormal — Four Winds Casino - Kankakee Grill , New Buffalo , MI ; Soul Message — Green Mill , Chicago ; OKTOBERFEST : Wurst Kase Scenerio — Heroes West , Joliet ; Jazz Brunch : Devon Sandridge — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Lady Lamb — Hideout , Chicago ; Geof Bradfield — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Bez Obmegen — Joe ' s Live , Rosemont ; Sueco / Lil Aaron / Killboy — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Comedy — Madcats , Palatine ; Choifs Sessions — Martyrs , Chicago ; Michael J . Miles — OldTown School of Folk Music , Chicago ; Matt Hines Band — Polyanna Brewery , St . Charles ; David ' s BazaarAcoustic — Polyanna Brewing , Roselle ; Tyriq & The Souful Ones
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— Reggies - Music Joint , Chicago ; Ceremony — Schubas , Chicago ; Acoustic Brunch — Skooter ' s , Shorewood ; Oktoberfest — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; Queen ! : Michael Serafini / Garrett David / Roi Perez — Smart Bar , Chicago ; American English — SPACE , Evanston ; Smith & Tell / Draggy Things — Subterranean , Chicago ; Rumor Hazit / Bears Game /( Noon ) — Sundance Saloon , Mundelein ; Old 97s / Vandoliers — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Drowning Pool / Through Fire / Diemer — The Forge , Joliet ; Hispanic Heritage Music Night — The Venue , Aurora ; Golden Street Reggae Band — Wild Hare , Chicago ; Sohrab Forouzesh — Zanies , Chicago .
MONDAY 3
Trumpet Summit — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; Bloodywood / A Killer ' s Confession — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Paul Simon Story — City Winery , Chicago ; Motorcycle Monday : Custom — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; World Music Festival : Gili Yalo & Juan Pastor ’ s Chinchano — Constellation , Chicago ; Joel Paterson & Friends — Green Mill , Chicago ; DaniLeigh — House of Blues , Chicago ; Lauefy — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Hoyle Brothers ( 3pm ) — Martyrs , Chicago ; Open Jam with Whiskey Bob Taylor — Montrose Saloon , Chicago ; Karaoke — Q Bar , Darien ; Fallujah / Psycroptic / Interloper — Reggies - Rock Club , Chicago ; 454 — Schubas , Chicago ; Javier Reyes / Reno Cruz / Ondine — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; The Central / Candence Fox / Lower Automation — Subterranean , Chicago ; Open Mic / Karaoke — Tavern on LaGrange , Countryside ; Tortoise / Dead Rider — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Ryan Long — Zanies , Chicago .
TUESDAY 4
Mario Abney Effect — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; Chicago Underground Comedy — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Starset Acoustic — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Comedy : Aunt Nance — Carol ' s Pub , Chicago ; Open Jam — Evenflow , Geneva ; John Primer Hosted by Tom Marker — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Chicago Cellar Boys — Green Mill , Chicago ; Songrwriting Competition Final — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Architechts of Beauty / Barbara — Hideout , Chicago ; Payale Royale — House of Blues , Chicago ; Ira Sullivan / Jim Cooper — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Open Mic — Madcats , Palatine ; Brian OHern & the Model Citizens Big Band — Martyrs , Chicago ; Nice Motor / Charlie Cosey — Montrose Saloon ,
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Chicago ; TCHAMI — Prysym , Chicago ; Mr . Blotto — Reggies - Music Joint , Chicago ; Pete Galanis with Dave Herrero — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; S . G . Goodman / Le Ren — Schubas , Chicago ; Seffarine ( Morocco / USA ) / The Arab Blues ( Lebanon / Egypt / USA ) — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; Violent Femmes / Las Cafateras — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Carnifex / Spite / Oceano — The Forge , Joliet ; Testament / Exodus / DeathAngel — The Rave / Eagles Club , Milwaukee ; Open Mic — The Uptown , Westmont ; Lykke Li — The Vic , Chicago ; Ryan Long — Zanies , Chicago .
WEDNESDAY 5
Kyle Asche — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; Sheryl Youngblood Blues Band — Blues Chicago , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City , Chicago ; Supercorp / Don ' t Bite Your Tongue / slingjaw wrasse / The Tear Garden Collective — Burlington , Chicago ; Kælan Mikla / KANGA / Panic Priest — Chop Shop , Chicago ; Cem Adrian — City Winery , Chicago ; 2x4 — Constellation , Chicago ; William Basinksi / Forest Management — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Country Night — Evenflow , Geneva ; Gwen Jazz Jam — FitzGerald ' s - SideBar , Berwyn ; Alfonso Ponticelli — Green Mill , Chicago ; Jaywood / Justice Hill — Hideout , Chicago ; Dee Alexander Trio — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Sudan Archives — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Jagaloons — Madcats , Palatine ; 40,000 Headman — Martyrs , Chicago ; Singer Songwriter Night — Mickey Finns , Libertyville ; Nice Motor / Charlie Cosey / Kent Rose & Remedies — Montrose Saloon , Chicago ; Jaerv — Old Town School of Folk Music , Chicago ; Sigrid / Ber — Park West , Chicago ; Steve Lacy — Radius , Chicago ; Maiden Chicago ( 4pm ) — Reggies - Music Joint , Chicago ; The Vaudettes / Live Band Karaoke — Reggies - Music Joint , Chicago ; Fab Four — Rialto Square Theatre , Joliet ; Fred again .../ Joy Anonymous — Riviera Theatre , Chicago ; Ivy Ford Band — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; Demi Lovato — Rosemont Theatre , Rosemont ; World Music Festival : Eva Salina / Ana Everling — Schubas , Chicago ; Acoustic Jam — Shanahan ' s , Woodridge ; Skooter ' s Idol — Skooters , Shorewood ; Vanishing Twin / Jessica Risker / Crisis Walk-ins — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; Mimi Webb / Dylan Conrique / Phabo / Laya — Subterranean , Chicago ; Violent Femmes / Las Cafateras — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Carnifex / Spite / Oceano / Left To Suffer / Crown Magnetar — The Rave / Eagles Club , Milwaukee ; Sarah MarieYoung — Untitled , Chicago ; Mark Battles — WC Social Club , West
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