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Banquet / D Street Band / Gentleman of Leisure / Jailbreak Chicago / Keith Gras & Polka / Confetti / Lisa Renee Band — Taste of Polonia , Chicago ; Beatles Blast Fest / Beatlerama / Badge / Who ’ s Who / Rocks Off — The Cottage , Crystal Lake ; Club Shabazz — The Forge , Joliet ; Joe Monahan — The Harp and Fiddle , Park Ridge ; Rebel Soul Revival / Evan Stock Band — The Sandlot Wrigley , Chicago ; The Metermen / Bitters — Tonic Room , Chicago ; Dawn and Hawkes — Uncommon Ground , Chicago ; DJ / Karaoke w / Karoake Zach — Uptown Lounge , Chicago ; Julian Jumpin Perez — Venuti ’ s , Addison ; Vito Zatto Show — White Eagle , Niles ; Local Music Showcase w / MFML / Flowtone & More — Wire , Berwyn ; Sean & John — Zach ’ s On Tap , Palos Heights ; Randy McAllister / Taylor Street — Zachary ’ s Bar , Palos Heights .
SUNDAY 2 SEPTEMBER
Fall-For-Music Fest w / Paa Kow AfroFusion Jazz Pop — 210 Live , Highwood ; Twista / Shaggy / Seun Kuti & The Egypt 80 Band — 28th African Festival of The Arts @ Washington Park , Chicago ; Maceo Parker / Charles McPherson-Barry Harris Quartet / Arturo O ’ Farrill Sextet / Matt Ullery ’ s Loom Large / Big Shoulders Brass Band @ Pritzker Pavilion ; Fareed Haque & His Funk Brothers / Alejandro Urzagaste ’ s Flow / Quentin Coaxum Quintet @ Jazz Heritage Pavilion ; Eric Revis Quartet / Jason Stein Quartet / Jaimie Branch ’ s Fly or Die / John Wright Tribute @ Von Freeman Pavilion ; Jahari Stampley Ensemble / Greg Ulhmann ’ s Typical Sister / Morgan Pirtle + 5 / Cesar Martinez ’ s Cuicatl / Derek Duleba Quartet @ NextGenJazz — 40th Annual Jazz Festival , Chicago ; The Whiskey Brothers — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Shortly / Black Belt Eagle Scout / Shrug — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Mellencougar / Modern Day Romeos — Blarney Island , Antioch ; Smokin ’ Gunz / Jukebox Band / Alan Turner & The Steel Horse Band — Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; NCMF Afterparty w / Midnight Reunion / Porn & Chicken — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Hillbilly Rockstarz / American English — Broken Oar , Port Barrington ; Justin Russell / Brandon Maddox — Bub City , Chicago ; Morgan Station — Bub City , Rosemont ; There Goes The Neighborhood / 7th Heaven / Centerfold / Prairie Station / Robbie Gold / School of Rock Arlington Heights / Alegra Mexicana / — Buffalo Grove Days , Buffalo Grove ; Soda — Captain ’ s Quarters , Antioch ; Scott Sedlacek / Voices Found / Awesomemonsters Live / It ’ s ... Burlesque / Central Open / Mashmallow Party / Bands Central / — Chicago Fringe Festival @ Jefferson Park , Chicago ; Wedding Banned / Run Forrest Run / Eliminator / Big Bang Baby / Over The Side ( Main Stage ); Think Floyd / Without U2 / Deacon Blues / Karma Committee ( Second Stage ) — Cider & Sliders Festival @ West Lakeview , Chicago ; Howard Hewitt of Shalimar / Baritone — City Winery , Chicago ;
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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 ; The Fearless Flyers Northcoast Afterparty — Concord Music Hall , Chicago ; Caleb Kopta / Public Discoporch / Devan Mulvaney — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Laverne ( Record Release )/ Brittany Campbell / Daymaker — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Chicago Grandstand Big Band — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Theresa Caputo ( Silver Creek )/ Mike Talbot — 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 ; Uptown Poetry Slam / Soul Jazz Night w / Joel Paterson & Chris Foreman — Green Mill , Chicago ; Riv / Rainbo Reunion / Keithen Banks / Joanna Connor / Gospel Brunch — House of Blues , Chicago ; Fight Card Live Mixed Martial Arts — Joe ’ s Live , Rosemont ; Blues Jam w / Linsey Alexander — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Cheap Trick / Lucky Boys Confusion / Broseph / Eric Chesser / No Shirt No Shoes No Shirt All Party / Dixie Crush / Lincoln Don ’ t Lie — Last Fling , Naperville ; Kent Anderson Collective — Mac ’ s On Slade , Palatine ; Blue Shield Band — Niko ’ s Red Mill Tavern , Woodstock ; Jamrioquai / Yellow Claw / Gramatik / Mura Masa / Moon Taxi / Lil Xan / Jacob Banks / Rapsody / The Midnight / Nombe / Crywolf / Cofresi / Kami / Maddy O ’ Neal / Chicago ’ s Most Wanted / Midnight Conspiracy / Porn & Chicken // 2FAC3D and more ... — North Coast Festival , Chicago ; Hairbangers Ball / Threshold / Cowboy — Poopy ’ s , Savannah ; Stevie Craig — Port of Blarney , Antioch ; O . A . R ./ Matt Nathanson — Ravinia , Highland Park ; Simonie J & Volume 35 / Silent Party — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Jordanna / Sports Boyfriend / Glitter Moneyyy / Yomi — Schubas , Chicago ; Maddie & Tae / Gone Country // Nashville Electric Company — Septemberfest , Schaumburg ; Queen ! w / Derrick Carter / Michael Serafini / Garrett David / Mystic Bill / Lady D — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Red Woody / The Party Doctors / Catfight — Summer Sunset Festival , Lake In The Hills ; Libido Funk Circus / Neverly Bros / 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 ; Beatles Blast Fest / Kashmir / Beggar ’ s Banquet / BritBeat — The Cottage , Crystal Lake ; Afton Entertainment — The Forge , Joliet ; The Premium — Tonic Room , Chicago ; DJ / Karaoke / wZach — Uptown Lounge , Chicago . |
MONDAY 3
Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Karma Committee — Blarney Island , Antioch ; Rendition — Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Infinity / Diver Down — Broken Oar , Port Barrington ; Mike Geo — Bub City , Chicago ; The Stingrays — Buffalo Grove Days , Buffalo Grove ; Motown Throwdown Dance Party — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Accessory ( Tape Release )/ Freak Heat Waves / Kristian North / Fran — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Mike Struwin — Four Winds Casino , New Buffalo , MI ; Monkey Wrench — Hideout , Chicago ; Joanna Connor / Breezy Rodio — House of Blues , Chicago ; Arra / Take The Reins / Heart To Heartbreaker / Billy Elton — Last Fling , Naperville ; Steve Petrovich — Mac ’ s On Slade , Palatine ; Project 3:13 — Poopy ’ s , Savannah ; Little Joe — Port of Blarney , Antioch ; Jethro Tull — Ravinia , Highland Park ; Jethro Tull by Ian Anderson 50th Anniversary Tour — Ravinia , Highland Park ; Sugar Candy Mountain / Jude Shuma — Schubas , Chicago ; 7th Heaven / Infinity / The Ron Burgundys — Septemberfest , Schaumburg ; On The Sun / Philly D Slim / Chaos in Creation / Elysian Green — Subterranean , Chicago .
TUESDAY 4
Trivia Night w / Pat O ’ Malley — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City , Rosemont ; Native Son / Modern Vices DJs / Stevie Even — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Lil ’ Ed & The Imperials / Open Mic — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Prateek Kuhad / Good At Bad — Hideout , Chicago ; Mike Wheeler / Comedy Cocktail / Ten Foot Tail — House of Blues , Chicago ; Live Music on the Patio — Lincoln Park Zoo , Chicago ; Sir James Galway — Ravinia , Highland Park ; Mr . Blotto — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Pete Galanis & Friends — Rosa ’ s Lounge , Chicago ; Djuhah / Rookie / Blake Saint David — Schubas , Chicago ; Baked / Acceptor / Bethlehem Steel / Graham Hunt / Modern Bults / Open Mic Hip Hop — Subterranean , Chicago ; Black Stone Cherry / The Underground Thieves — The Forge , Joliet ; SJOD & Friends / DVDVSJOD / Cairns / Alex Frnr — Tonic Room , Chicago .
WEDNESDAY 5
Bill Porter Orchestra — 210 Live , Highwood ; Open Mic — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Open Mic w / Dave Kelly — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Vinyl Theater / Royal Teeth / The Catching — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Feel Good Country Boys — Bub City , Chicago ; Jalen Santoy — Chop Shop & 1st Ward , Chicago ; Average White Band — City Winery , Chicago ; MER ’ s Music Showcase — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Shawn Williams / Mary Lemanski — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Lollygagger / 8-Bit Creeps ( EP Release )/ Red Scarves — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; 2 Tenors and A Soprano — Evanston Rocks , Chicago ; Planet Flippo Quartet / Mario Abney — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; In One Ear — Heartland Cafe , Chicago ; Co Founder / Diagonal / Black Glass — Hideout , Chicago ; AV Exchange / Keithen Banks / Smiley Tillmon Band — House of
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THURSDAY 6
Soul Shine — 210 Live , Highwood ; Trivia Night — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Andy Frasco and The UN / Deep Fayed — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; The Rebel Pride Band — Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Poolside / Neil Frances — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Ben Gallaher — Bub City , Chicago ; Casettes on Tape — Chop Shop & 1st Ward , Chicago ; Darrell Scott — City Winery , Chicago ; Birdflesh / Condition Critical / Smash Potater / Toxic Ruin — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; The Corcoran Brothers — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Let ’ s Eat Grandma / Odetta Harman / Boniface — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Rare Earth — Evanston Rocks , Chicago ; Andrea Hunecke — Eviva !, Lisle ; 10 String Symphony / Ryan Joseph Anderson — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Robbie Gold — Four Winds Casino , New Buffalo , MI ; The Interview Show Festival — Hideout , Chicago ; Open Mic — HOME Bar , Arlington Heights ; Acoustiholics — Houlihan ’ s , Algonquin ; Griffin Crowder — Houlihan ’ s , Orland Park ; Rollover / Mers Showcase / Nicholas Barron — House of Blues , Chicago ; 311 / The Offspring — Huntington Bank Pavilion @ Northerly Island , Chicago ; Mashrou ’ Leila — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Live Music on the Patio — Lincoln Park Zoo , Chicago ; Morry Sochat & The Special 20 ’ s / The Flat Cats — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; Whiskey & Harmony — Nevin ’ s , Plainfield ; Tarja — Patio Theater , Chicago ; Dueling Pianos — Raue Center , Crystal Lake ; 50 Cent — Ravinia , Highland Park ; Austin Stirling / Gary Moore II / Hill Dunes — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Hillbilly Rockstarz — Rivers Casino , Des Plaines ; Ollie / Packy / Gianni Taylor — Schubas , Chicago ; Karaoke w / BT — Shakers , Ottawa ; Leesh / Nishkoshe / Hunter Vita — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Dumpstaphunk — Space , Evanston ; Superorganism / Yung / Mt . Joy / Michigander — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; The Good Batch — Tonic Room , Chicago ; The Mix — Unplug @ The District , Oak Brook ; DJ / Karaoke w / Zach — Uptown Lounge , Chicago ; Rick Lindy & The Wild Ones — Venuti ’ s , Addison .
FRIDAY 7
Pass The Peas — 210 Live , Highwood ; Virtual Self — Aragon Ballroom , Chicago ; Sara Evans / Dean Simms & The Hot Note Band ( Club Arcada ) — Arcada Theater , Chicago ; Six Speed Tranny / No Question — Austin ’ s Fuel Room , Libertyville ; Raleigh Truckers — Bar Evolution , Batavia ; The Pietasters / The Crombies / Boomtown United / DJ Chuck Wren — Beat Kitchen ,
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