FRIDAY 29 SEPTEMBER
Jimmy Sarr — 115 Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; Broken Social Scene — Aragon Ballroom , Chicago ; Accept — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Evolution — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Classical Blast — Bannerman ’ s , Bartlett ; Mark Konzen — Bar Evolution , Batavia ; Mike Wheeler / Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Hoosier Highway — Blue Chip Casino - Vegas Baby , Michigan City , IN ; R-Gang / Spoken Four — Blue Chip Casino- Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Nellie Tiger Travis — BLUES , Chicago ; David Allan Coe — BrauerHouse , Lombard ; Fletcher Rockwell — Bub City , Chicago ; Jake Dodds — Bub City , Rosemont ; Fifty-One Lincoln Band / Superfly Redneck — Cheers , Midlothian ; Moon Hooch / Jackson Whalan / Lavender Fields — Chop Shop & First Ward , Chicago ; Isaac Mizrahi : Does This Song Make Me Look Fat ?/ Wasabassco Burlesque — City Winery , Chicago ; TroyBoi / Slumberjack — Concord , Chicago ; Non Exotic / Wayside Story / Autumn Reverie / The Inventors — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Leroy Winn — Draft Picks , Naperville ; EGi / Brothers Gow — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Blunt / Acceptor / Sorespot / Moonstruck — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Semple — Empire , Naperville ; Torche — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Speed of Sound — Fitz ’ s Spare Keys , Elmhurst ; Cannonball / Expo ‘ 76 — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Wilson Phillips w / The Rembrandts — Genesee Theater , Waukegan ; Poison ’ d Crue / Backlash / Generation / Deleterious — Grundy County Corn Festival , Morris ; Maggie Speaks — Hollywood Casino , Aurora ; The Xceptions — Hollywood Casino , Joliet ; Joe Fascetta — Hoppy Pig , Bradley ; Selena Experience / Soul 2The Bone Band / Guy King — House of Blues , Chicago ; Blake Alexander — Jen ’ s Guesthouse , Willow Springs ; Chase Rice w / Jacob Davis — Joe ’ s Live , Rosemont ; South City Revival — JW Hollstein ’ s Saloon , Tinley Park ; Chris Foreman / Katie Thiroux Trio / After Hours Jam Session — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Hi Fi Superstar — Level 257 , Schaumburg ; Jennifer Ramsey — M Supper Club , Crystal Lake ; Start Making Sense — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; Cold Waves VI — Metro , Chicago ; Wunderlich — MT Barrels , Schaumburg ; Whiskey & Harmony — Nevin ’ s Brewing Company , Plainfield ; Smokin ’ Gunz — Niko ’ s Red Mill Tavern , Woodstock ; Modern Day Romeos — Oktoberfest , Wheeling ; Rio Bamba — Old Town School , Chicago ; Saint Etienne — Park West , Chicago ; Complete Chaos / Straight Jacket Romance / Ten96 — Penny Road Pub , Barrington ; The Essence of Elvis Spectacular w / Joe Tirrito — Pheasant Run , St . Charles ; Live DJ — Q-Bar , Plano ; Kyle Young — Reefpoint Brew House , Racine , WI ; Vale of Pnath / First Fragment / Virvum / Misanthropy / Caecus — Reggie ’ s Music Joint , Chicago ; Wizard Fest Chicago Dance Party —
Reggie ’ s Rock Club , Chicago ; 7th Heaven — Rivers Casino , Des Plaines ; Nick Murphy / Charlotte Cardin / Heathered Pearls — Riviera Theater , Chicago ; Chicago Wind w / Deitra Farr & Matthew Skoller — Rosa ’ s , Chicago ; Grieves / Dem Atlas / Ajani Jones — Schubas , Chicago ; DJ Wizz Kid — Sideouts , Island Lake ; Gothsicles / Curse Mackey / DJ Philly Peroxide — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Horseshoes and Hand Grenades / Kitchen Dwellers — Space , Evanston ; Dick Diamond & The Dusters — Square Celt , Orland Park ; 97Nine / 16Candles / Boy Band Review / The Gingers — St . Alphonusus Oktoberfest , Chicago ; The Bratwurst Brothers — St . Benedict Oktoberfest , Chicago ; Bobby K — State & Lake @ The Wit , Chicago ; Crumb / Hovvdy / Paperhaus — Subterranean , Chicago ; Cirrus Falcon — Sweet Caroline ’ s , Hoffman Estates ; Exodus / Obituary / Power Trip / Dust Bolt — The Forge , Joliet ; MIke Geo — The Harp & Fiddle , Park Ridge ; Makena Hartlin — Tilted Kilt , Bolingbrook ; J Livi & The Party / Astro Samurai / DJ Mr . Gac — Tonic Room , Chicago ; 413 — Twisted Rose , Algonquin ; El Bandolero — Venuti ’ s , Addison ; Chi- Town — White Eagle , Niles ; When We Was Kids / Silverside / Soulsharer — Wire , Berwyn ; DJ Marc Esses & Nu Vintage — World of Beer , Evanston ; The Baked Potatoes — Zachary ’ s , Palos Heights .
SATURDAY 30 SEPTEMBER
Last Call — 115 Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; Yellow Claw — Aragon Ballroom , Chicago ; Dennis Quaid & The Sharks — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Kathleen Battle — Auditorium Theater , Chicago ; Rick Lindy & The Wild Ones — Bar Evolution , Batavia ; Run Forest Run — BaseCamp , Lisle ; Twinsmith — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Jim Bulanda — Bella Mia , Midlothian ; Dave Schmidt & The Snouts — Blarney Stone Pub , Oak Forest ; Mike Wheeler / Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Killer Flamingos — Blue Chip Casino - Vegas Baby , Michigan City , IN ; The Stingers / Backdated / The Romantiques — Blue Chip Casino- Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Annika Chambers — BLUES , Chicago ; Between Buried and Me / The Contortionist / Polyphia / Toothgrinder — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Chicks With Picks — Brazen Head , Crestwood ; Jake Dodds — Bub City , Chicago ; Sunfallen — Bub City , Rosemont ; Plymouth Lane — Bungalow Joe ’ s , Hanover Park ; Pirate Radio — Captain ’ s Quarters , Antioch ; Trainwreck — Cheers , Midlothian ; Dick Diamond & The Dusters — Chili & Beer Fest , Forest Park ; Obanion ’ s Reunion — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Against Me !/ Bleached / The Dirty Nil — Concord , Chicago ; Gary Lee Kirkpatrick Band — Cuzin ’ s , Tinley Park ; The Wind Gypsys — Draft Picks , Mt . Prospect ; Planet
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Groove — Draft Picks , Naperville ; Mike & Joe — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Hundred Waters / Lafawndah — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Mark Taylor — Fatty Magoo ’ s , Bolingbrook ; Who ’ s Best / Cypress Grove — Fitz ’ s Spare Keys , Elmhurst ; Barktoberfest — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Wild Belle / Mucca Pazza / Golden Horse Ranch Band / The Hoyle Brothers / Archie Powell & The Exports / Faithful Anchor — Fulton Market Harvest Festival , Chicago ; Shindig — Grand Victoria Casino , Elgin ; High Wire / The Long Run / 45rpm / Ghost Ryder / Lost Vinyls / River Road Trio — Grundy County Corn Festival , Morris ; Modern Day Romeos / Hillbilly Rockstarz / Diva / DJ Coach Josh — Harvest Fest , Downers Grove ; Chi-Town Soul — Hollywood Casino , Aurora ; Tynan — Hollywood Casino , Joliet ; Mack Creek Trio — Hoppy Pig , Bradley ; Lovedrive Chicago / Dirty Talk / Photograph / Chicago Rhythm & Blues Kings / Breezy Rodio / House of Burlesque — House of Blues , Chicago ; James Libera — Incontro A Tavola , South Barrington ; Bows & Pearls Chicago Salsa Gala — Joe ’ s Live , Rosemont ; Chase Rice — Joe ’ s Bar , Chicago ; Chix , Pix & Stix — JW Hollstein ’ s Saloon , Tinley Park ; The Paper Machete / Katie Thiroux Trio / Sabertooth — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Wand / The Peacers / Darto — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Kimi Hayes — Lone Buffalo , Ottawa ; Start Making Sense — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; Cold Waves VI — Metro , Chicago ; LIghts Out Chicago / Bad Motor Scooter — MT Barrels , Schaumburg ; Tricky Mission — Nevin ’ s Brewing Company , Plainfield ; Chicks With Picks 2.0 — Niko ’ s Red Mill Tavern , Woodstock ; HiFi Superstar / Kimi Hayes — O ’ Brien ’ s Riverwalk Cafe , Chicago ; The Bratwurst Brothers — Oktoberfest , Tinley Park ; Universal Slim & Blue Kangaroos — Pal Joey ’ s , West Chicago ; Prodigy Entertainment Show — Penny Road Pub , Barrington ; Boy Band Review — Q-Bar , Glendale Heights ; Live DJ — Q-Bar , Plano ; Rev Gusto / Westerners / CS Luxem / Dream Version — Quenchers , Chicago ; Acoustic Alibi — Reefpoint Brew House , Racine , WI ; Tyce / Alex Nester / Altered Stage Throwdown — Reggie ’ s Music Joint , Chicago ; Agnostic Front / Spare Change / Crime Spree / Decline — Reggie ’ s Rock Club , Chicago ; Kinsey Report — Rosa ’ s , Chicago ; Tei Shi — Schubas , Chicago ; Moon Money — Sideouts , Island Lake ; Bombadier vs . End . User / DJ SJ & Jena Max — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Frankie Cosmos / Ian Sweet / Nice Try — Space , Evanston ; Libido Funk Circus / Too White Crew / Polkaholics / One Night Band / Trippin ’ Billies / Stache / Helicopters / To The 9s / Ed Wagner ’ s Lustige Blaskapelle — St . Alphonusus Oktoberfest , Chicago ; Second Hand Soul / The McGowens — St . Benedict Oktoberfest , Chicago ; Skylar Spence / Jonah Baseball / Bummers / Velours — Subterranean , Chicago ; Simple Remedy — Sweet Caroline ’ s , Hoffman Estates ; Veilside ( CD Release ) —
Tailgater ’ s , Bolingbrook ; Mighty Joe — The Cottage , Crystal Lake ; Pat Tomasulo — The Forge , Joliet ; Mallory Lennon — The Gambler , McHenry ; Get Back Chicago — The Horseshoe Grill , Barrington ; Chicks With Picks — Tilted Kilt , Bolingbrook ; The Mike Dillon Band — Tonic Room , Chicago ; Rebel Reign — Twisted Rose , Algonquin ; Swingabilly Slim & The Swingtones — Uptown Lounge , Chicago ; Southern Jack — Uptown Tap , Plainfield ; Crook County Blues Band — White Eagle , Niles ; Too Fighters / Facelift / Stone Type Thing — Wire , Berwyn ; Unfinished Business — Wise Owl , Chicago ; Whiskey & Harmony — Zachary ’ s , Palos Heights .
SUNDAY 1 OCTOBER
Tribute to Andy Williams w / Jimmy Osmond — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; The Whiskey Brothers — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; The Boogers / Fire Garden / Sioum — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Seven Soul — Blarney Island , Antioch ; Luke Pytel & Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Between Buried and Me / The Contortionist / Polyphia / Toothgrinder — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Screaming Females / Street Eaters / Rad Payoff — BrauerHouse , Lombard ; Sunfallen — Bub City , Chicago ; Kimi Hayes — Bub City , Rosemont ; Sheryl Youngblood — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Arlo Guthrie w / Abe & Sarah Lee Guthrie — City Winery , Chicago ; Salsa Sunday w / Humboldt Park Orchestra — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Open Mic w / The Billy King Band — Cuzin ’ s , Tinley Park ; Whiskey & Harmony or Superfly Redneck Host Open Mic — Cuzin ’ s Pub , Midlothian ; Harvey / Irma Relief Benefit w / Catfight / Senn Alan Band / Ten Foot Tail / Wall of Denial / Aly Jados / Jason Picchiotti / Kevin Mikelski — Durty Nellie ’ s , Palatine ; Van Gordon Martin / Bifunkal / Restless Knites / Riddlez / Ian Fitzgerald — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Deerhoof / Sad13 / Lily & Horn Horse /# EB25 — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Shout Section Big Band — Fitz ’ s Spare Keys , Elmhurst ; Chicago Grandstand Big Band — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Kristin Chenoweth — Genesee Theater , Waukegan ; Uptown Poetry Slam — Green Mill , Chicago ; Breezy Rodio / Joanna Connor / Gospel Brunch — House of Blues , Chicago ; Billy Ocean / The Ron Burgundy ’ s / Kenny “ Jammin ” Jason — Joe ’ s Live , Rosemont ; Linsey Alexander / Claudette Miller / Blues Jam — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Magic City Hippies / Lovejoy — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Rush Hicks — Live Wire , Chicago ; Cold Waves VI w / KMFDM / Ohgr / Pankow / Boy Harsher / Cyanotic / Lord of The Lost — Metro , Chicago ; Time Machine — Niko ’ s Red Mill Tavern , Woodstock ; Chicago Cabaret Professionals Gala — Park West , Chicago ; Throw The Fight / Glass Houses — Penny Road Pub ,
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