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Quiet Riot & Blackfoot — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Singer / Songwriter Slam # 4 — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Tender — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; BTS Express / Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Tony Ocean — Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Vino Louden — BLUES , Chicago ; No Warning / Down To Nothing / Backtrack / Twitching Tongues / Higher Power / Vein — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Shout Out — CD & Me , Frankfort ; Mr . Myers — Chandler ’ s , Schaumburg ; Avery * Sunshine — City Winery , Chicago ; Zepparella / Jailbreak Chicago — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Yasiin Bey — Concord , Chicago ; WC & The Fam / Heidi Burson Band / Two Ton Heads — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Don Harmon Special Session / Amy Speace — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Dean Milano — HB Jones , Elmhurst ; Scotch The Filmmaker / Joanna Connor — House of Blues , Chicago ; Penny & Sparrow / Lowland Hum — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Banda Magda / Nathan Holloway — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; Paul Strolia — Moretti ’ s , Edison Park ; Brian Kovacs — Nevin ’ s Brewing Company , Plainfield ; Inside / Out w / Cerqua Rivera Dance Theater — Old Town School , Chicago ; Prodigy R & B-Hip Hop Open Mic — Penny Road Pub , Barrington ; Live DJ — Q-Bar , Plano ; Nonagon / Knife The Symphony / Work / Hungry Man — Quenchers , Chicago ; Patrick Sweany / The Midnight Ghost Train / Sadie & The Stark — Reggie ’ s Music Joint , Chicago ; Jin & Tonic — Rivers Casino , Des Plaines ; J Balvin — Rosemont Theater , Rosemont ; Mighty Oaks / Tyler Sjostrom — Schubas , Chicago ; Bigspin / Kutz / Delamota / Diotropics / Fineprint / Selekta Steel / Rifle MC — Smart Bar , Chicago ; El Ten Eleven — Space , Evanston ; Magic Mike Tour — Star Bar , Chicago Ridge ; Kyle Young — Sweet Caroline ’ s , Hoffman Estates ; Here Come The Mummies — The Forge , Joliet ; Jon Stickley Trio — Tonic Room , Chicago ; Good Clean Fun — Venuti ’ s , Addison .
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Semple / Broseph E . Lee — 115 Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; Modern Day Romeos / Rockstar Rodeo / Serendipity / Kevin Mileski Trio / Two Filipinos — Apple Fest , Long Grove ; Daddy Yankee — Aragon Ballroom , Chicago ; Blues Legend Buddy Guy — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Resurrection Larry / The Shake ‘ Em Downs — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Too White Crew — Bannerman ’ s , Bartlett ; Friday Jackson Duo / Keys of G — Bar Evolution , Batavia ; Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Chicago Wind Blues Band — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; DJ Artie — Blue Chip Casino - Vegas Baby , Michigan City , IN ; Rebel Reign / Ultrafab — Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Carlos Johnson / Rob Blaine — BLUES , Chicago ; Gabrielle Aplin / Keelan Donovan — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; The Vibrators / The
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C-Sides / Johnny Automatic — BrauerHouse , Lombard ; Rendition — Bub City , Chicago ; Adair ’ s Run — Bub City , Rosemont ; Sweet Reminder — Chandler ’ s , Schaumburg ; Six To Midnight — Cheers , Midlothian ; Kami / Kweku Collins / Trapo / Valee — Chop Shop & First Ward , Chicago ; Terisa Griffin — City Winery , Chicago ; The Werks / Passafire — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Stevie Craig — Draft Picks , Naperville ; Pat McCurdy — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Airpark / Bodega / Ooraloo / Eraserhead — Elbo Room , Chicago ; The Novel Ideas / Golden Shoulders / Davia / Nick Moss ’ Rolling Chicago Blues Revival w / The Nick Moss Band / Guy King / Corey Dennison / Gerry Hundt — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Felix & Fingers Dueling Pianos — Genesee Theater , Waukegan ; The Record Company / Ted Leo & The Pharmacists / Filthy Friends — Goose Island Block Party , Chicago ; Back Country Roads — Hollywood Casino , Aurora ; Hillbilly Rockstarz — Hollywood Casino , Joliet ; Almond Grove Duo — Hoppy Pig , Bradley ; Company of Thieves / John Primer / Mike Wheeler — House of Blues , Chicago ; Sturgill Simpson — Huntington Bank Pavilion , Chicago ; Lava Rock — Huntley Fall Fest , Huntley ; Paul Strolia — Incontro A Tavola , South Barrington ; Erik Donner — Jen ’ s Guesthouse , Willow Springs ; Locash — Joe ’ s Live , Rosemont ; MySpace Emo Prom — Joe ’ s Bar , Chicago ; Sorry For Partying — JW Hollstein ’ s Saloon , Tinley Park ; Marianne Sullivan Karaoke — Kennedy Pointe , Bristol ; Chris Foreman / Gypsy Jass Festival / After Hours Jam Session — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Nora Jean Bruso / Vance
Kelly — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Simply Sound — Level 257 , Schaumburg ; Carbon Leaf / PM Buys — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Michael Heaton — M Supper Club , Crystal Lake ; Honey Island Swamp Band — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; The Afghan Whigs — Metro , Chicago ; Teenage Mutant 90 ’ s Turtles — MT Barrels , Schaumburg ; Dear John : Tribute To John Lennon — Nevin ’ s Brewing Company , Plainfield ; Suburban Cowboys — Niko ’ s Red Mill Tavern , Woodstock ; Trace Bundy — Old Town School , Chicago ; Midwest Music Support Show — Penny Road Pub , Barrington ; Just Enuff — Porter ’ s Pub , Elgin ; Boy Band Review — Q-Bar , Darien ; Live DJ — Q-Bar , Plano ; Little Yellow Dog / The Just Luckies / Scubadiver / Engines — Quenchers , Chicago ; The Skatalites / Chicago Jamaican Jazz Ensemble / DJ Chuck Wren — Reggie ’ s Rock Club , Chicago ; High Infidelity — Rivers Casino , Des Plaines ; Nellie Tiger Travis — Rosa ’ s , Chicago ; Miguel Bose — Rosemont Theater , Rosemont ; Adam Torres / Gia Margaret / Open Mike Eagle / Sammus — Schubas , Chicago ; Windy City Dueling Pianos — Sideouts , Island Lake ; Anthony Parasole — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Poi Dog Pondering — Space , Evanston ; SNST / Astrid S / Jasmine Thompson — Subterranean , Chicago ; Brothers — Sweet Caroline ’ s , Hoffman Estates ; Joseph / Bailen — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Michael Heaton Duo — The Harp & Fiddle , Park Ridge ; Rhiannon Giddens — The Vic , Chicago ; Dean Milano — Tilted Kilt , Bolingbrook ; Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re / The Many Colored Death / Fuzzy Machette — Township , Chicago ; Party Obvious — Twisted Rose ,
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Algonquin ; Bernie Glim & Country Roads — Uptown Tap , Plainfield ; The Mix — Venuti ’ s , Addison ; The Deutsch Meisters — White Eagle , Niles ; Sons of The Silent Age / NEW — Wire , Berwyn ; Mike & Joe — Wise Owl , Chicago ; Sal & Izy — World of Beer , Evanston .
SATURDAY 23
The Hair Band Night — 115 Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; TBA — Aahh ! Fest by Common , Chicago ; Scorpions — Allstate Arena , Rosemont ; Sixteen Candles / Boy Band Review / Run Forest Run / The Millenials / School of Rock — Apple Fest , Long Grove ; Caifanes — Aragon Ballroom , Chicago ; Tommy James & The Shondells — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Jaktripper — Bannerman ’ s , Bartlett ; Gerry O ’ Keefe — Bar Evolution , Batavia ; Dead Rider / Bloodiest / Bill McKay — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Afterglow — Bella Mia , Midlothian ; Midlife Crisis 1999 — Blarney Stone Pub , Oak Forest ; Chicago Wind Blues Band — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Lt . Dan ’ s New Legs — Blue Chip Casino - Vegas Baby , Michigan City , IN ; Ali Cat & The Rat Rods / Mike Zabrin ’ s Funktastics / Nawty — Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Kaken / Sithu Aye / Mammoth — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Herbal Flesh Tea / Showoff / Offyourself — BrauerHouse , Lombard ; Joe Fascetta — Brazen Head , Crestwood ; Senn Alan Band — Bub City , Chicago ; Rendition — Bub City , Rosemont ; Cover Story — Captain ’ s Quarters , Antioch ; Blackened / The Lost Ones — Cheers , Midlothian ; Margaret Cho — Chicago Theater , Chicago ; Dan Wilson — City Winery , Chicago ; Wovenhand / Subrosa / The Pirate Twins / School of Rock Chicago — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 / Bitori — Concord , Chicago ; Tribute to Seattle ( Nirvana / Pearl Jam / Stone Temple Pilots ) — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Absinthe — Cuzin ’ s , Tinley Park ; The Perqs — Draft Picks , Mt . Prospect ; 7th Heaven / Coverlicious — Draft Picks , Naperville ; Fool House / Addy ’ s Corner — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Flew The Coop / Amicus / The Recall / My Politic / Americana Soul — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Drew Bredup — Fatty Magoo ’ s , Bolingbrook ; Second Hand News / Charleston Reunion Party / Bunkertown — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Second Hand News / Charleston Reunion Party / Bunkertown — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Mellencougar — Frankie ’ s Blue Room , Naperville ; Tribute to Neil Diamond & Billy Joel w / Keith Allynn & 52nd Street — Genesee Theater , Waukegan ; Animal Collective / Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires / Joey Purp — Goose Island Block Party , Chicago ; BBI — Grand Victoria Casino , Elgin ; Tony Ocean Show — Hollywood Casino , Aurora ; R Gang — Hollywood Casino , Joliet ; Brad Paisley — Hollywood Casino Amphitheater , Tinley Park ; Moonshine Bros . — Hoppy Pig , Bradley ; Blue Olives / Jonny Lang / Corey Dennison — House of Blues , Chicago ; Umphrey ’ s
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