SATURDAY 1 APRIL
Amanda Miguel Y Diego Verdaguer / Leo Dan / King Clave — Aragon Ballroom , Chicago ; Lee Rocker — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Smarty Pants Band — Arlington Ale House , Arlington Heights ; The Glamorous Life w / Sheila E & Morris Day & The Time — Auditorium Theater , Chicago ; Mallrats — Austin ’ s Fuel Room , Libertyville ; Diamond / Gravity / Powerhouse — Bada Brew , Crest Hill ; Boy Band Review — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Sh ’ Bang / TNT — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; American English — Bannerman ’ s , Bartlett ; The Three Beards — Bar Evolution , Batavia ; Lounge Puppets / Rumor Hazit — Base Camp , Lisle ; Boo Seeka / Emblems / As Giants / Faux Furrs — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; James Libera — Bella Mia , Midlothian ; The Walk-Ins — Blarney Stone Pub , Oak Forest ; John Primer / Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Monterrey / Jamrose / Fu5ion Band — Blue Chip-Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Maggie Speaks — Blue Chip-Vegas Baby , Michigan City , IN ; Shawn Holt & The Teardrops — BLUES , Chicago ; Fishbone / Downtown Brown / Skapone / DJ Chuck Wren — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Blackened / Fools Brew / Kenny — Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; Capadonna of Wu-Tang Clan / King Magnetic / Recognize Ali / Mood Swangz / DJ Handz Solo — BrauerHouse , Lombard ; Superfly Redneck — Brazen Head , Crestwood ; Erik Donner — Broken Oar , Port Barrington ; Smokin ’ Gunz — Bub City , Chicago ; Cowboy Jukebox — Bub City , Rosemont ; Coco Montoya ( CD Release ) — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Midnight Road — Bungalow Joe ’ s , Hanover Park ; Sam Savage — Carlucci , Downers Grove ; Billy Crystal — Chicago Theater , Chicago ; Dude York & Paws — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; La Gran Batalla : Band vs . Bachata — Concord , Chicago ; James Falzone ’ s Allos Musica — Constellation , Chicago ; Queens of The Stone Age , Deftones and Muse Tributes — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Five Guys Named Moe — Cuzin ’ s , Tinley Park ; Ken Qualter — Cuzin ’ s Pub , Midlothian ; Poison ’ d Crue — District Bar & Grill , Rockford ; Wedding Banned — Durty Nellie ’ s , Palatine ; Daniel Weatherspo / Minus Montgomery / Badge Man / Silver Liz / Country Priest — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Nana Grizol / Al Scorch / Toby Foster — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Mr . Blotto / Lil Band — Evenflow , Geneva ; Chicks With Picks — Fatty McGoo ’ s , Bolingbrook ; Focal Point — Fireside Ale House , Streamwood ; Special Concensus / Chris Jones & The Night Drivers — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; DJ Uncle Jesse / Shock Roxy ( Hard Rock ) — Four Winds Casino , New Buffalo , MI ; Taylor Dayne / Expose — Genesee Theater , Waukegan ; R-Gang — Grand Victoria Casino , Elgin ; Paper Machete / Stephane Wrembel / Sabertooth — Green Mill , Chicago ; Heart To
Heartbreaker — Hollywood Casino , Aurora ; Junkyard Groove — Hollywood Casino , Joliet ; The Hair Band Night / Lava Rock — HOME Bar , Arlington Heights ; MaKenna Hartlin — Hoppy Pig , Bradley ; Simple Plan / Nicholas Barron / Rod Tuffcurls & The Benchpress — House of Blues , Chicago ; Prairie Station — Jambalaya @ Pheasant Run , St . Charles ; True Company — Jenny ’ s Southside Tap , Mokena ; 7th Heaven — Joe ’ s Live , Rosemont ; Windy City Dueling Pianos — Kennedy Pointe , Bristol ; Joanna Connor / Vance Kelly — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Mipso / Tyler Childers — LIncoln Hall , Chicago ; Phat Kiss / Sinister Deed / Hymen Moments — Live Wire , Chicago ; Colleen Wild — Lone Buffalo , Ottawa ; The Stray Birds / Manny Torres Band / Willy Dynomite / Two Filipinos — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; Adrian Belew Power Trio / Saul Zonana / Loudon Wainwright III / Teen Open Mic — Old Town School , Chicago ; Hayley Kyoko / Flor — Park West , Chicago ; Black Market Democracy / So Called Saints / Convoy / Wrecked / Mark Rose and Larry Lesniak — Penny Road Pub , Barrington ; Mark Rose and Larry Lesniak — Penny Road Pub , Barrington ; Paul Mooney Comedy — Portage Theater , Chicago ; Kashmir / Close The Door Band — Q-Bar , Darien ; Hi Infidelity / School of Rock Glen Ellyn — Q-Bar , Glendale Heights ; Whiskey Romance — Q-Bar , Plano ; White Shape / The Idle Rich / Doves of Mercury — Quencher ’ s , Chicago ; Days N Daze / Silent Party / Shawn Maxwell ’ s New Tomorrow Quintet — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; The Dig — Schubas , Chicago ; Soul Clap — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Dalton Rappatoni / Shemekia Copeland — Space , Evanston ; Home Burial / Jain — Subterranean , Chicago ; Motley II / Photograph — Sullivan ’ s Irish Pub , Midlothian ; Soda Lite — Sweet Caroline ’ s , Hoffman Estates ; Shockjaw — T Bar Ranch , Island Lake ; Coverlicious / Chosen Ground — Tailgater ’ s , Bolingbrook ; Son Volt / Anders Parker — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Frontwoman Fest 2017 — The Burlington , Chicago ; Undercover — The Cottage , Crystal Lake ; Wham City Comedy / Christine Ferrera — The Hideout , Chicago ; Dixie Crush — The Lodge on 64 , St . Charles ; Jax Jones — The Mid , Chicago ; DJ Metro — The Roof @ The Wit , Chicago ; Bernie Glim — Tilted Kilt , Bolingbrook ; Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein — Top Fuel Saloon , Braidwood ; Kurt Baker Combo / Indonesian Junk / Mono In Stereo / Soraia — Township , Chicago ; Max Subar / Starving In the Belly Of The Whale / RJ Nordlund — Uncommon Ground , Chicago ; Party Obvious — Uptown Lounge , Chicago ; Unforgiven / The Gingers / Kevin Lee & The Kings — Wire , Berwyn ; AM / FM — Wise Owl , Chicago ; Downtown Charlie Brown — Zachary ’ s Bar , Palos Heights .
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SUNDAY 2
The Commodores / The NuBlu Band Feat . Carlisle Guy — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; The Whiskey Bros . — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Bury Your Dead / Counterweight / Endmember / Mr . Singer & The Sharp Cookies — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Sheryl Youngblood — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Spike & The Spitwads / Rebel Pride — Blue Chip-Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Ronnie Hicks & Masheen Co . — BLUES , Chicago ; Party Apple Peel / White Siberian Tigers / Frequilibrium / The Metro Project / Wilde — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Salute Office Gary Hughes — Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; Devin Clemons Band — Bub City , Chicago ; Scott Dubose — Bub City , Rosemont ; Mary Lane — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Billy Crystal — Chicago Theater , Chicago ; Kris Kristofferson — City Winery , Chicago ; Nebs / t0nb0t / Sjod / Kuh Lida — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Crystal Fighters / Machineheart — Concord , Chicago ; Matthew Duval — Constellation , Chicago ; A Little Fire Scarecrow / Lake Toba / Something Good Comedy — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Arnold Dreyblatt & Tim Kinsella — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Bagshot Row — Evenflow , Geneva ; Star Fall Orchestra — Fitz Spare Keys , Elmhurst ; Chicago Grandstand Big Band — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Uptown Poetry Slam / Soul Jazz Night — Green Mill , Chicago ; Gospel Brunch / Corey Dennison / Rob Stone — House of Blues , Chicago ; 4Podium — Joe ’ s Bar , Chicago ; Linsey Alexander / Claudette Miller — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Maggie Rogers / Jil — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; The Amazing Heeby Jeeby ’ s / Razorhouse / Xoe Wise — Live Wire , Chicago ; Loudon Wainwright III — Old Town School , Chicago ; Radiomen ( All Ages ) — Q-Bar , Darien ; Goalie Fight / DoubleSpeak / The Glazzies / StereoViolet — Quencher ’ s , Chicago ; Archspire / Slapshot — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; The Regrettes / Active Bird Community — Schubas , Chicago ; Queen ! w / Derrick Carter / Michael Serafini / Garrett David — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Deb Talan w / Carsie Blanton — Space , Evanston ; Blaklite Productions — Star Bar , Chicago Ridge ; Aseethe & Bereft — Subterranean , Chicago ; Rock Chicago Records — Sullivan ’ s Irish Pub , Midlothian ; Sunday Funday — Tailgater ’ s , Bolingbrook ; Sonny & The Combovers — The Harp & Fiddle , Park Ridge ; Greg Ward Quintet — The Hideout , Chicago ; Zenith Quartet — Uncommon Ground , Chicago ; The Remedies / Brian Sees Stars / Ben Russell / Pronto Zombie — Wire , Berwyn .
MONDAY 3
Bastille / Mondo Cozmo — Aragon Ballroom , Chicago ; Lisa Prank / Dogbreth / Richard Album / Pledge Drive / Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Tenry Johns /
Claudette Miller — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Brecken Miles — Bub City , Chicago ; Jimmy Burns Hosts The Jam — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Joshua James ( Album Release ) w / Timmy The Teeth — City Winery , Chicago ; Shaun Peace / Kahrion / Delron Hubbard — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Scribecash / Buzzed Spelling Bee — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Cosmonauts / The Molochas / La Cosa / Eye Vybe DJs — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Abigail Riccards — Green Mill , Chicago ; Joanna Connor / Doktu Rhute — House of Blues , Chicago ; Corey Dennison / JW Williams — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Kate Tempest — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; S . O . A . D ./ DJs — Live Wire , Chicago ; Kilgubbin Brothers — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; Sleaford Mods / Negative Scanner — Metro , Chicago ; Straight Outta Oz — Portage Theater , Chicago ; Improv Night w / Sand N Spitballin ’/ Open Mic — Quencher ’ s , Chicago ; Bingo w / Burke / Trivia Night — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Deap Vally / Crosstown — Schubas , Chicago ; Bridget Kearney — Space , Evanston ; Staring Problem — Subterranean , Chicago ; Sohn / William Doyle & Nylo — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Nebs / t0nb0t / Shaun Peace / Kahrion / Delron Hubbard — The Burlington , Chicago ; Songs Of Love and Hate / Weeds Poetry Open Mic — The Hideout , Chicago ; Sinema Obscura : Runaway + I , Robot — Township , Chicago ; Backtrack / Open Mic — Uncommon Ground , Chicago .
TUESDAY 4
Marshall Tucker Band — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Trivia Night w / Mark — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Trivia Night — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Pete Ellman ’ s Big Band Jazz — Base Camp , Lisle ; Chicago Underground Comedy — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Luke Pytel / Laretha Weathersby — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City , Chicago ; LIve Band Karaoke — Bub City , Rosemont ; Mz . Peachez — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Mute Duo w / Garrit Hatcher & Russ Calderwood — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Secrets , Lies & Alibis — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Open Mic — Empire , Naperville ; Open Jam Night — Evenflow , Geneva ; Chicago Wind feat . Matthew Skoller & Deitra Farr / Open Mic — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Fat Babies — Green Mill , Chicago ; Pub Trivia — HOME Bar , Arlington Heights ; Mike Wheeler / Comedy Cocktail / Funky Mojo Daddy — House of Blues , Chicago ; Mike Wheeler / Giles Corey — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Thao / Yowler — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Superfly Redneck — Mackell ’ s Inn , Chicago ; Caution — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; Wit Rabbit Reading Series / Bobco Open Mic Poetry — Quencher ’ s , Chicago ; Mr . Blotto / UK Subs — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Jeff Austin Band w / Donnie Biggins — Space , Evanston ; Charlie Curtis- Beard / Open Mic Hip Hop — Subterranean , Chicago ; Karaoke —
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