FRIDAY 31 AUGUST
Twista / Shaggy / Seun Kuti & The Egypt 80 Band — 28th African Festival of The Arts @ Washington Park , Chicago ; Louis Hayes Quintet / Dianne Reeves / Sabertooth Orang Quartet 25th Anniversary / Big Shoulders Brass Band @ Pritzker Pavilion / Million Brazilian Project w / Sarah Marie Young & Guy King @ Chase Promenade ; Gret Ward & 10 Tongues / Chris Speed Trio / Quin Kirchner Quartet / Junius Paul Quartet @ Von Freeman Pavilion — 40th Annual Jazz Festival , Chicago ; Zebra ! — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Michael Riser — Bar Evolution , Batavia ; LVL Up — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Trippin ’ Billies — Blarney Island , Antioch ; Mike Wheeler / Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Zane ’ s Way — Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; The Delta Bombers / Bailey Dee / The Gravetones — Brauer House , Lombard ; Anthony Gomes — Broken Oar , Port Barrington ; Nathan Dean & The Damn Band — Bub City , Chicago ; Simple Remedy — Bub City , Rosemont ; The Original Chicago Blues All-Stars / JB Ritchie — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Euphoria Band / Suburban Cowboys / Tanglewood / Andrew Blendermann — Buffalo Grove Days , Buffalo Grove ; Scott Sedlacek / Voices Found / Awesomemonsters Live / It ’ s ... Burlesque / Central Open / Mashmallow Party / Bands Central / — Chicago Fringe Festival @ Jefferson Park , Chicago ; Midwest Live & Loud 2018 — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Concrete Roots / Signal the Launch / Personal Blend — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Doug Bardolph — Doc ’ s Victory Pub , Elmhurst ; Deja Vu — Dock ’ s Bar , Wauconda ; Murph — Eaglewood Resort , Itasca ; 90 ’ s Throwback — Empire , Naperville ; Big Suit : Tribute to The Talking Heads / Cannonball — FitzGeralds , Berwyn ; Havana Nights / Paul Decker / DJ B3 — Four Winds Casino , New Buffalo , MI ; Free Fallin ’/ Rico / The 17th Floor / South of Disorder / Smiley Tillmon Band / Aniba Hotep & The Soul Collective / Bassel & The Supernaturals / Little Big Fat / School of Rock / Buffalo Rose and more — Great American Lobster Fest @ Navy Pier , Chicago ; Whiskey & Harmony — Gruben ’ s Uptown Tap , Plainfield ; Handful of Peter — Harp & Fiddle , Park Ridge ; Paulie & The Shakers — Hollywood Casino , Aurora ; Final Say — Hollywood Casino , Joliet ; John Primer — House of Blues , Chicago ; Vito Zatto Show — Incontro A Tavola , S . Barrington ; Simple Remedy — Joe ’ s Live , Rosemont ; Feel Good Country Boys — JW Hollstein ’ s , Tinley Park ; Dana French — Kennedy Pointe , Bristol ; Larry McCray / Joanna Connor — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Lance Bass / OTown / Aaron Carter / Ryan Cabrera / Tyler Hilton — Last Fling , Naperville ; Joe Fascetta — Level 257 , Schaumburg ; Tynan / This is It — Maria SS Lauretana Society Festival , Niles ; Libido Funk Circus — Niko ’ s
Red Mill Tavern , Woodstock ; Miguel / Axwell Ingrosso / Snails / DVSN / Smokepurpp / Juice Wrld / Too Many Zooz / Barclay Crenshaw / Two Friends / Drezo / Bryce Vine / Monte Booker / Beak Nasty / Takerover / The Cool Kids / Iris Temple / Vic Lloyd / Babes Only / Marty Mars / Pachanga / DJ King Marie / Kaina & Sen Morimoto / Esquire — North Coast Festival , Chicago ; Dave Eno Smooth Rockin ’ Jazz — Pearce ’ s Pub , Oswego ; Jason Stone — Pheasant Run Mainstage , St . Charles ; Live Music — Q Bar , Glendale Heights ; Culture Club / The B-52 ’ s / Thompson Twins w / Tom Bailey — Ravinia , Highland Park ; Venom Inc ./ Metalfier / Sons of Famine — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; 7th Heaven — Rivers Casino , Des Plaines ; Lurrie Bell Blues Band — Rosa ’ s , Chicago ; DJ Ranger — Shakers , Ottawa ; Prairie Station — Sundance Saloon , Mundelein ; Libido Funk Circus / Neverly Brothers / One Foot In The Groove / Out of Storage / Prissillas / The Student Bodies / Take Five / The Hat Guys / Think Floyd USA / Tributosaurus / 28 Days / Ampol Aires / Beggars Banquet / D Street Band / Gentleman of Leisure / Jailbreak Chicago / Keith Gras & Polka / Confetti / Lisa Renee Band — Taste of Polonia , Chicago ; Giorgio Moroder / Little Boots — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; The Baked Potatoes — The Kerry Piper , Willowbrook ; Space Bastards — The Sandlot , Chicago ; DJ / Karaoke w / Karoake Zach — Uptown Lounge , Chicago ; Jack Miuccio — White Eagle , Niles ; Hi-Fi Stereotypes — Zach ’ s On Tap , Palos Heights .
SATURDAY 1 SEPTEMBER
Fall-For-Music Fest w / Liquid Soul / My Boy Elroy DJ-Beatbox / Luciano Antonia Jazz — 210 Live , Highwood ; Twista / Shaggy / Seun Kuti & The Egypt 80 Band — 28th African Festival of The Arts @ Washington Park , Chicago ; Ramsay Lewis / Darcy James Argue ’ s Secret Society / Kenny Barron Quintet / Willie Pickens Tribute / Big Shoulders Brass Band @ Prizker Pavilion ; Nolatet / Chuck Webb Band w / Margaret Murphy / Bruce Henry @ Jazz Heritage Pavilion ; Amina Claudine Myers Trio / Matthew Ship & Ivo Perelman / Dustin Laurenzi & Natural Language / Black Diamond @ Von Freeman Pavilion ; Kenwood Academy Jazz Band / Whitney Young HS Jazz Ensemble / Eric Solorio HS Jazz Ensemble / CYSO Jazz Combo / Morgan Park HS Jazz Combo / ChiArts Jazz Combo @ Young Lions — 40th Annual Jazz Festival , Chicago ; Faces of The King Elvis Tribute / Flat Cats ( Club Arcada ) — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Ebony & Ivory — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Hott Mess — Bar Evolution , Batavia ; Futurbirds / Gazebo Effect — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Futurebirds / Gazebo Effect — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; 90 ’ s Daughter / Lewis Brice Band — Blarney Island , Antioch ; Mike Wheeler / Demetria
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Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Monterrey / Fusion Band / Jamrose — Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Boogie Dynomite — Blue Chip Casino-Vegas Baby , Michigan City , IN ; NCMF Aftersparty w / Cory Wong — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Captain Crayon & The Fuzzy Bastards — Brauer House , Lombard ; Eric Sequeria — Brazen Head , Crestwood ; Semple / Heartache Tonight — Broken Oar , Port Barrington ; Morgan Station — Bub City , Chicago ; Brandon Maddox — Bub City , Rosemont ; Nublu Band / Scotty & The Bad Boys — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; The Gingers / Boy Band Night / Barefoot Hawaiians / Six On Friday / JB Jazz Quartet / Industrial Drive / Eve 6 — Buffalo Grove Days , Buffalo Grove ; We ’ ll Be Right Back — Bungalow Joe ’ s , Hanover Park ; Rebel Reign — Captain ’ s Quarters , Antioch ; Tributes to Nine Inch Nails , Pantera & Alice in Chains — Cheers , Midlothian ; Scott Sedlacek / Voices Found / Awesomemonsters Live / It ’ s ... Burlesque / Central Open / Mashmallow Party / Bands Central / — Chicago Fringe Festival @ Jefferson Park , Chicago ; Rock Candy / Hello Weekend / Girl Power Night / Don ’ t Speak / The Doors of Chicago ( Main Stage ); 97Nine / Jukebox Luke / Pearl Jam Tribute Chicago / The Gingers ( Second Stage ) — Cider & Sliders Festival @ West Lakeview , Chicago ; Midewest Live & Loud 2018 w / Hardsell / Deals Gone Bad / Old Firm Casuals / Fear City / Brassknuckle Boys / Antagonizers ATL / Dog Company / The Lower Orders / Oxley ’ s Midnight Runners / Drink and Destroy Crew / Streetlight Saints / The Uncouth / Assault and Battery / The Unruly Boys / Thug Boots / Bad Assets / F . A . V . I ./ Liberty & Justice / Squared Off / Negro Terror / Anger Lawless — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Breaking Biscuits / Thriftworks Northcoast Afterparty — Concord Music Hall , Chicago ; Cowboy Jukebox — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Class of ‘ 68 — Dock ’ s Bar , Wauconda ; One Hott Mess — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Prairie Station — Eaglewood Resort , Itasca ; Emory Gap / ART / Vision In The Rhythm — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Scorched Tundra X / Suman / Yakuza / In The Company of Serpents / Couch Slut — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Kool & The Gang Tribute — Evanston Rocks , Chicago ; The Flat Five — FitzGeralds , Berwyn ; Theresa Caputo ( Silver Creek )/ HiFi Superstar / Dan Reisen — Four Winds Casino , New Buffalo , MI ; Free Fallin ’/ Rico / The 17th Floor / South of Disorder / Smiley Tillmon Band / Aniba Hotep & The Soul Collective / Bassel & The Supernaturals / Little Big Fat / School of Rock / Buffalo Rose and more — Great American Lobster Fest @ Navy Pier , Chicago ; Fareeh Haque / The Paper Machete / After Hours Jam w / Sabertooth — Green Mill , Chicago ; Aaron Williams Band — Gruben ’ s Uptown Tap , Plainfield ; Cirrus Falcon — HB Jones , Elmhurst ; The Imperial Sound / DJ Daniel Villarreal — Hideout , Chicago ; The Bigger Picture — Hollywood Casino ,
Aurora ; Bliss — HOME Bar , Arlington Heights ; Blink 180- True / Guy King / Corey Dennison / DJ Lucy — House of Blues , Chicago ; Afterglow — Jen ’ s Guesthouse , Willow Springs ; Ethan Bell Band / The Three Beards — Joe ’ s Bar , Chicago ; Ramon Ayala — Joe ’ s Live , Rosemont ; Related Rhapsody — Kerry Piper , Willowbrook ; Larry McCray / Joanna Connor — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Buckcherry / P . O . D ./ Lit / Alien Ant Farm / The Ron Burgundy ’ s / 3AM / OMT / Coverlicious / Planet Groove — Last Fling , Naperville ; Kimi Hayes / Woodrock Ranger — Lone Buffalo , Ottawa ; Jennifer Ramsey — M Supper Club , Crystal Lake ; Covington Groove — Mac ’ s On Slade , Palatine ; Aqualung / Piano Run — Mainstage Pheasant Run , St . Charles ; Infinity / Sealed With A Kiss — Maria SS Laurentana Festival , Niles ; Chaos In Creation / Crime Nite — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; Nocturna / Autumn — Metro , Chicago ; Rokkor / Physical Grafitti — MT Barrels , Schaumburg ; Burning Bridges — Nevin ’ s , Plainfield ; Reckless Cowboys — Niko ’ s Red Mill Tavern , Woodstock ; DJ Snake / Vulfpeck / The Revivalists / RL Grime / Cashmere Cat / The Strumbellas / Lil Skies / Robert Delong / The Polish Ambassadors & The Diplomatic Scandal / Knower / Tauk / Yheti / Edamame / Lyrical Lemonade Takeover / Madeintyo / Warhol . ss / Comethanzine / Lil Gnar and more ... — North Coast Festival , Chicago ; Joystick — Pal Joey ’ s , West Chicago ; Prowess / Satanic Panic / Los Black Dogs — Penny Road Pub , Barrington ; Black Diamond / The Fortunate Sons / Anthem — Poopy ’ s , Savannah ; White Magic / Pop Machine — Q Bar , Glendale Heights ; Culture Club / The B-52 ’ s / Thompson Twins w / Tom Bailey — Ravinia , Highland Park ; The Woggles / Barrence Whitfield / Baby Money / The Down Payments / Los Pies Negros / Malafacha / Nahuales Underground — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; DJ Q & DJ Erge — Rivers Casino , Des Plaines ; Vance Kelly & The Backstreet Blues Band — Rosa ’ s Lounge , Chicago ; Ancient River / Flavor Crystals / Gosh ! — Schubas , Chicago ; Jimmy Nick & Don ’ t Tell Mama / Mike DelGuidice / Sea Salt Band — Septemberfest , Schaumburg ; DJ Manlee Danlee — Shakers , Ottawa ; Smells Like Dave Grohl / What ’ s Our Age Again — Sideouts , Island Lake ; Charlotte De Witte / Lowki — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Sal & Izy — Square Celt Ale House , Orland Park ; Tabitha De La O / DJ Just Jacob / DJ JO- Z / Marty P / Mike Grove / Kaoz Monroe — Subterranean , Chicago ; 7th Heaven / Tres Moustache / Dick Diamond & The Dusters — Summer Sunset Festival , Lake In The Hills ; Diver Down / Lady Evil — Tailgaters , Bolingbrook ; Libido Funk Circus / Neverly Brothers / One Foot In The Groove / Out of Storage / Prissillas / The Student Bodies / Take Five / The Hat Guys / Think Floyd USA / Tributosaurus / 28 Days / Ampol Aires / Beggars
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