FRIDAY 1 SEPTEMBER
Libido Funk Cirucs — 115 Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; Paa Kow — 210 Music Lounge , Highwood ; Tim McGraw & Faith Hill Soul2Soul Tour — Allstate Arena , Rosemont ; Hairball — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Mighty Joe — Bar Evolution , Batavia ; Scout Ripley / Anti-Beyond / MAKS The Fox — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Cadillac Three — Blarney Island , Antioch ; Tenry Johns Band / Claudette Miller — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Rockstar Rodeo — Blue Chip Casino - Vegas Baby , Michigan City , IN ; The Neverly Brothers / Crawpuppies — Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; DJ Night — Blue Chip-Vegas Baby , Michigan City , IN ; Chicago Wind / Scott Nev — BLUES , Chicago ; Manic Focus / Russ Liquid North Coast Aftershow — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Remembering Mic One : Dirty MF / Swangz / DJ Handz Solo / Nightwalker / Pozlyrix / Matlock / Mass Hysteria / Pugz Atomz / Griffen / Encyclopedia Brown / Sarcastik — BrauerHouse , Lombard ; Nathan Dean & The Damn Band — Bub City , Chicago ; Corey Cox — Bub City , Rosemont ; Jason Moran / Dr . Lonnie Smith Trio / Donny McCaslin Group / Dana Hall ’ s Spring / Stu Katz Shearing Redux / Reggie Thomas Quintet / Joe Poliscastro Trio / Slavic Soul Party / Rob Denty / Tim Mulvenna Duo / Steve Gibbons Gypsy Rhythm / Tim Fitzgerald ’ s Full House — Chicago Jazz Festival @ Millenium Park , Chicago ; Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit — Chicago Theater , Chicago ; Deacon Blues — City Winery , Chicago ; Mugen Hoso / Bad Sons / Criminal Kids — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Julianne Q / Red Ransom / Doves of Mercury / Stereobone / The Max Tribe — Elbo Room , Chicago ; The Atomic / Bitchwax / Fistula / Electric Hawk — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; The Viaducts / Wooly Rhinos / Allegra Malone & The Revival — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Whiskey Dixie — Frankie ’ s Blue Room , Naperville ; The Giving Tree Band / Hush Train / Concrete Roots / Future Stuff — Great American Lobster Fest @ Navy Pier , Chicago ; Run Forest Run — Hollywood Casino , Aurora ; Classical Blast — Hollywood Casino , Joliet ; I Am They / Jennie Williamson — Hometown Days Fest , Yorkville ; Rumours : The Ultimate Fleetwood Mac Tribute — House Of Blues , Chicago ; Mike Wheeler / Rumours : Fleetwood Mac Tribute / Sheryl Youngblood — House of Blues , Chicago ; Michael Heaton — Jen ’ s Guesthouse , Willow Springs ; Kinky — Joe ’ s Bar , Chicago ; Whiskey & Harmony — JW Hollstein ’ s Saloon , Tinley Park ; Kayambe — Kewanee Hot Dog Days , Kewanee ; Chris Foreman / Frank Catalano-Jimmy Chamberlin Group / After Hours Jam Session — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Larry McCray / Joanna Connor — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Lanco / Emily Anne Roberts / Scott Marek — Last Fling , Naperville ; The Rob Post Band — Level 257 , Schaumburg ; Kevin
DEE ALEXANDER September 2 Chicago Jazz Festival , Jay Pritzker Pavilion , Millennium Park , Chicago .
Morby / Shannon Lay — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Mallory Lennon — M Supper Club , Crystal Lake ; Tony Ocean Show — Maria SS Laurentana Society Festival , Niles ; Mucca Pazza / Slavic Soul Party — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; Block 37 — Nevin ’ s Brewing Company , Plainfield ; Nashville Electric Company — Niko ’ s Red Mill Tavern , Woodstock ; Deadmau5 / Eric Prydz / Gucci Mane / Bonobo / Lil Dicky / Lettuce / Badbadnotgood / Autograf / London On Da Track / Harrison Brome / Websterex / Akenya / Edamame / DJ Skolie / Dudley Noon / Evie / Jesus Face / Manny Muscles / Pranas / Statik / Vapor Eyes — North Coast Music Festival @ Union Park , Chicago ; Milonga Cumparsita — Old Town School , Chicago ; FLANL — Pal Joey ’ s , Batavia ; The Aperture Schematic / Sober Luck / Inbound — Penny Road Pub , Barrington ; Live DJ — Q-Bar , Plano ; Bobby Burg / Can of Beans / Blake / Turn N ’ Fire / Sam Vicari — Quenchers , Chicago ; Michael Bolton / Gladys Knight — Ravinia , Lake Forest ; Kofi Baker ’ s Cream Experience — Reggie ’ s Music Joint , Chicago ; Stick Men / Grape Juice Plus — Reggie ’ s Rock Club , Chicago ; Semple — Rivers Casino , Des Plaines ; Vance Kelly & The Backstreet Blues Band — Rosa ’ s , Chicago ;
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Aventurera — Rosemont Theater , Rosemont ; Cloakroom / The Life and Times / Sweet Cobra — Schubas , Chicago ; Mr . Myers — Sideouts , Island Lake ; Oskar Offerman / Phillip Stone — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Fareed Haque / Goran Ivanovic — Space , Evanston ; Buk of Psychodrama / Dawreck / Sherm N Demand — Star Bar , Chicago Ridge ; Tom Keifer / Stephen Pearcy — Star Plaza Theater , Merrillville , IN ; Sal & Izy — State & Lake @ The Wit , Chicago ; Surf Curse / The Whoevers — Subterranean , Chicago ; Jefferson Starship — Summer Concert Series , Rosemont ; Infinity / Second Hand Soul Band — Summer Sunset Fest , Lake In The Hills ; Nick Pontarelli Band / Lake Effect / Explosive Sounds Entertainment / John Anthony / Tony Caponi / Karaoke-Greg Rini — Taste of Melrose Park , Melrose Park ; Tributosaurus becomes Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers / Heartless / The Ampol Aires — Taste of Polonia , Chicago ; War Brides / Buildings / Gay Witch Abortion / Space Blood — The Burlington , Chicago ; Rick Foxx — The Harp & Fiddle , Park Ridge ; World ’ s Finest — Tonic Room , Chicago ; Bill Donlan / Poppy Mallows — Township , Chicago ; Good Fellas — Twisted Rose , Algonquin ; Leroy Winn — Uptown
Tap , Plainfield ; The Moods — Venuti ’ s , Addison ; Unforgiven / Freak On A Leash / Sandblasted Skin / Sic — Wire , Berwyn ; Erik Donner — World of Beer , Evanston ; The Beat 2 — Zachary ’ s , Palos Heights .
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Cuz This Is How We Roll / The Bread Machines — 115 Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; Rollover — 210 Music Lounge , Highwood ; Faces of The King w / Cody Slaughter / Jake Rowley / Shawn Klush — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Good Fellas — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Sal & Izzy — Bar Evolution , Batavia ; Midwest Sing & Stomp Festival / Old Lazarus ’ Harp — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; GooRoos — Blarney Island , Antioch ; Crosstown Classics — Blarney Stone Pub , Oak Forest ; Tenry Johns Band / Claudette Miller — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Monterrey / Jamrose / Euphoria — Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Dick Diamond & The Dusters — Blue Chip- Vegas Baby , Michigan City , IN ; Joanna Connor — BLUES , Chicago ; EOTO North Coast Aftershow — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Revolt Coda / The Isolated Brigade — BrauerHouse , Lombard ; Shawn Lacy — Bub City , Chicago ; Smokin ’ Gunz — Bub City , Rosemont ; Anthem — Captain ’ s Quarters , Antioch ; Ellabration ! 100 Years of Ella Fitzgerald w / Brad Williams Trio , Sheila Jordan , Dee Alexander , Frieda Lee , Spider Saloff & Paul Marinaro / Low Down Brass Band / Shawn Maxwell ’ s New Tomorrow / Typhanie Monique / Mary Halvorson Octet / Hearts & Minds / Gustavo Cortinas Snapshot / Charles Heath Quartet / Roosevelt U . Jazz Ensemble / Kenwood Academy Jazz Band / Kely HS Jazz Band / Whiney Young Jazz Combo / Jones College Prep Jazz Combo / Morgan Park HS Jazz Combo — Chicago Jazz Festival @ Millenium Park , Chicago ; Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit — Chicago Theater , Chicago ; Chuck Inglish / Kami / Knox Fortune / DJ Phil — Chop Shop & First Ward , Chicago ; Eyehategod / Cro- Mags / Sweet Cobra / Minimum Wage Assasins — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Spafford / Gente DeZona — Concord , Chicago ; Chicks With Picks — Draft Picks , Mt . Prospect ; Big D & The Nomads — Draft Picks , Naperville ; Dixie Crush / Cover Story — Eaglewood Resort , Itasca ; Dharma Station / Cosmic Drift / Carrying Torches / Raysdude / Erin & The Project — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Acid King / Minsk / Wolvhammer / Bottomed — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Makena Hartlin — Fatty Magoo ’ s , Bolingbrook ; South City Revival / Dozen Buzzin ’ Cousins — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; 16 Candles / Wedding Banned / Mr . Funny Man / Seventh Sons — Friends of Labor Festival @ Steelworkers Park , Chicago ; Rosie & The Rivets — Grand Victoria Casino , Elgin ; Cherry Poppin ’
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