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WEDNESDAY 4
Open Mic — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Open Mic w / Dave Kelly — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; JW Williams / Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Judson — BubCity , Chicago ; Smiley Tillmon w / Kate Moss — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Funkadesi — City Winery , Chicago ; Beatlerama ! — Double Door , Chicago ; Open Mic — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Peanut Butter Day Vol . 3 w / IT- XPO / Getclean / Sasquatch — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Sidebar Session w / Suenos — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Alfonso Ponticelli & Swing Gitan / Late Night w / Frank Catalano Sextet — Green Mill , Chicago ; Keithen Banks / Mallory Lennon / Windy City Indie : Audiobakery — House of Blues , Chicago ; Corey Dennison / Mike Wheeler w / Peaches Staten — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Cornmeal Winter Wednesdays — Martyr ’ s , Chicago ; Pete Berwick — Potbelly , Algonquin ; Cascader / Fieldmates / Horrible / Beaut / Frank Okay — Quenchers , Chicago ; The Boy Illinois / Zverse / Juno Lostkause / Justin Ruff / Beekay / Add-2 — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Sports / Kept Close / Mom Jeans / Graduating Life — Schubas , Chicago ; Detention Hall Winter Break Edition — The Hideout , Chicago ; Marianne Sullivan Open Mic — Tilted Kilt , Bolingbrook ; Bowmanville Gypsy Jazz Band — Uncommon Ground , Chicago ; Heather Styka — Uncommon Ground Lakeview , Chicago ; Dingus Khan / Lexi Alvarado / Rescue Dawn / Bring The Fallout — Wire , Berwyn .
THURSDAY 5
Bally ’ s Got Talent Round 3 — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Micawber / Bloodletter / Withering Soul / Tenebrism — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Maurice John Vaughan Blues Band w / Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Fletcher Rockwell — BubCity , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — BubCity , Rosemont ; Buddy Guy w / Lazer Lloyd
— Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Old Wounds / Exalt / Safe To Say — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; New Orleans / Stardusk Encounter — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Pete Berwick & Julie Heeren Bingo & Comedy — Cuda ’ s Bar & Grill , Antioch ; Shooter McGavin ’ s House Party — Durty Nellie ’ s , Palatine ; The Level Up Tour / Tyler Michael Law / Pop Royalty Dance Party — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Mad Alchemy Liquid Light Show w / Dead Feathers / Calliope / Diagonal — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Andy Brown / Alan Gresik Swing Shift Orchestra — Green Mill , Chicago ; Annalee Hooson / Jeezy ’ s Juke Joint Takeover — House of Blues , Chicago ; Big C Jamboree / Rosie & The Rivets — Martyr ’ s , Chicago ; Non Exotic / Racecar Melody / Comet & The Tree / The End of Music — Quenchers , Chicago ; Stardust Big Band — Red Line Tap , Chicago ; Blackbear ( Rock Club )/ The Green Waves ( Music Joint ) — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Cowboy Junkies — Rivers Casino , Des Plaines ; The James Wheeler Blues Jam w / Lil Ed Williams — Rosa ’ s Lounge , Chicago ; DJ SJ / Jena Max — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Reggae Gold — Subterranean , Chicago ; Devil In A Woodpile / Flux Bikes — The Hideout , Chicago ; Wednesday 13 / Bourbon Cow / The Illogical / When Night Falls — Wire , Berwyn .
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FRIDAY 6
Mr . Blotto ’ s Procrastinator ’ s Ball — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Hey Jimmy — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Risky Business — Bannerman ’ s , Bartlett ; Blake Alexander — Bella Mia , Midlothian ; JW Williams / Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Monterrey / Jamrose / Ear Candy — Blue Chip-Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; That ’ s What She Said / Crawpuppies — Blue Chip-Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; DJ Night — Blue Chip- Vegas Baby , Michigan City , IN ; Lil ’ Ed and The Blues Imperials — BLUES , Chicago ; Larry Anthony / Vilas / Midwest / James Ghareeb / Rolfe Neigenfind — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Maggie Speaks / Rockstar Rodeo — Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; Kofi Baker ’ s Cream Experience — Brauer House , Lombard ; Kimi Hayes — Broken Oar , Port Barrington ; Adairs Run — BubCity , Chicago ; Buddy Guy w / Mike Wheeler — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; The Flat Live — City Winery , Chicago ; Sean McKeough Memorial Benefit w / Naked Raygun / Deal ’ s Gone Bad — Concord , Chicago ; Daylight Sinners / YOKO / Luke Schmitt & The Cold Ones / Neon Creek — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Joe Fascetta — Cuzin ’ s , Tinley Park ; Ian ’ s Party 2017 : Absolutely Not / A Giant Dog / Ono / Typesetter / Salvation / Fake Limbs / Door No . 3 / The Howl / Lala Lala / Walking Bicycles / Drool / Storm Clouds / More Gorgeous / Big Baby — Double Door , Chicago ; Semple — Draft Picks , Naperville ; Old School Hip Hop Dance Party w / DJ Kayleigh Chaos — Durty Nellie ’ s , Palatine ; Six To Midnight — Durty Nellie ’ s , Palatine ; The McNary Experience / North Breeze / Strangers Among Us / Shallowdive — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Bionic Caveman / Lil Tits / Plastic Crimewave / Syndicate / Los Black Dogs / Velcro Lewis Group / DJs / Hard Country Honky- Tonk w / The Hoyle Brothers — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Modern Day Romeos — Fire Bar , Crystal Lake ; American English / Chip Taylor — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Chicago Dueling Pianos — Four Winds Casino ( Hard Rock ), New Buffalo , MI ; Junkyard Groove — Grand Victoria Casino , Elgin ; The Flipside Show w / Chris Foreman / John Moulder Group / After Hours Jam — Green Mill , Chicago ; Lita Ford / Jack Russell ’ s Great White / Kip Winger / Autograph and My Metal Heart — H . O . M . E . Bar , Arlington Heights ; Dr . Feelgood & The 80 ’ s Babies — Hollywood Casino , Aurora ; Spoken Four — Hollywood Casino , Joliet ; Bryan w / Presley , Perkins , Lewis & Cash / DJ Delaney — House of Blues , Chicago ; Perry Hutchins Band — J . W . Hollstein ’ s Saloon , Tinley Park ; Deja Vu — Jambalaya @ Pheasant Run , St . Charles ; The Disappointments — Joe ’ s Bar , Chicago ; Phil Vassar / Carter Winter — Joe ’ s Live , Rosemont ; Dave Eno Smooth Rockin ’ Jazz — Kennedy Pointe , Bristol ; Joanna Connor — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Saba / Joseph Chilliams / MFN Melo / DinnerwithJohn — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Flabby Hoffman — Livewire , Chicago ; Tributorsaurus becomes ... The Bee Gees — Martyr ’ s , Chicago ; Dixie Crush — MT Barrels , Schaumburg ; Vicious Circle / Judas Beast / Cover Dogs — Penny Road Pub , Barrington ; Pete Berwick — Potbelly , Gurnee ; The Rockers — Q-Bar , Darien ; Live DJ — Q- Bar , Glendale Heights ; The Phonographs / Swell Suburbia /
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Harlan Flo — Quenchers , Chicago ; Growler / Coyote Riot / Them Coulee Boys — Red Line Tap , Chicago ; The Statues of Liberty ( Music Joint )/ Mano ( Rock Club ) — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Wedding Banned — Rivers Casino , Des Plaines ; Nick Moss Band — Rosa ’ s Lounge , Chicago ; Paradise Fears / Jesse Sheppard — Schubas , Chicago ; The Train to Somewhere — Sideouts , Island Lake ; Juan Atkins / Kimyon / Sevron — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Eddie “ The Chief ” Clearwater — Space , Evanston ; Go For Broke — State & Lake at the WIT , Chicago ; Ian ’ s Party / The Lincoln Lodge / — Subterranean , Chicago ; DJ Dubbington — Tailgaters , Bolingbrook ; Interview Show w / Justin Kaufmann / Rodrick Dixon / San Andreas Fault — The Hideout , Chicago ; Trap vs Juke — The MID , Chicago ; Paul Strolia — Tilted Kilt , Bolingbrook ; Kimi Hayes — Tilted Kilt , Woodridge ; Cheating at Solitaire / Dig Engine / Solor — Underground Lounge , Chicago ; Empire State Express — Village Inn , Skokie ; Elle Casazza Band / The Root Cause / Kingery / Hydro Static Union — Wire , Berwyn ; Vito Zatto Show — Zachary ’ s , Palos Heights .
SATURDAY 7
Kashmir — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Semple — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Anthem — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Hi Infidelity — Bannerman ’ s , Bartlett ; Paul Strolia Acoustic — Bar Evolution , Batavia ; Complex Theory / Vex The MC / Freaks For Geeks / Walter J . Liveharder Feat . Jed Sed — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Afterglow — Bella Mia , Midlothian ; Usual Chaos — Blarney Stone Pub , Oak Forest ; JW Williams / Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Killer Flamingos — Blue Chip-Vegas Baby , Michigan City , IN ; Lil ’ Ed and The Blues Imperials — BLUES , Chicago ; Face The Fire / Gravesend / Withing The Trenches / Welp — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; The Hair Band Night — Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; Terrapin Flyer — Brauer House , Lombard ; Related Rhapsody — Brazen Head , Crestwood ; Just Janet and I — Broken Oar , Port Barrington ; Adairs Run — BubCity , Chicago ; Stetsin & Lace — BubCity , Rosemont ; Buddy Guy w / Guy King — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Whiskey Thunder — Bungalow Joe ’ s , Hanover Park ; Real Friends & Knuckle Puck Holiday Show w / Matt Kerekes / Homesafe / Sleep On It / Belmont / Caving — Concord , Chicago ; Dr . Feelgood & The 80 ’ s Babies — Cuzin ’ s , Tinley Park ; DJ ’ s For You Karaoke — Cuzin ’ s Tavern , Midlothian ; Ian ’ s Party 2017 : The Cell Phones / Lucy Stoole and The Ladies of Fabitat / Oreo Jones / Dim / Bow and Spear / Sophagus / Door No . 3 / Nnamdi ’ s Sooper-Dooper Secret Side Project / Truman and His Trophy / Hawley / Ego / Sol Patches / Bloodhype — Double Door , Chicago ; Members Only — Draft Picks , Naperville ; Mike and Joe — Durty Nellie ’ s , Palatine ; All The Wine / Badwater Sound / The Tomblands / This Inspired / Brooks Ritter & The Lower Lights — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Blizzard Babies / Udusic / Peach Fuzz / Goody Gel / MFA Opening w / Steven Husby / DJ No Kokomo / No Love — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Griffin Crowder — Fatty McGoo ’ s , Bolingbrook ; The Belvideres / Kack Swain ’ s Big O — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; DJ Aaron Hodge — Four Winds Casino
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( Hard Rock ), New Buffalo , MI ; Classical Blast — Grand Victoria Casino , Elgin ; The Paper Machete / John Moulder Group / After Hours Jazz Party w / Sabertooth — Green Mill , Chicago ; Lita Ford / Jack Russell ’ s Great White / Kip Winger / Autograph — H . O . M . E . Bar , Arlington Heights ; Girl Next Door — Hollywood Casino , Aurora ; Arra — Hollywood Casino , Joliet ; Trippin Billies / DJ Matt Play — House of Blues , Chicago ; Hitsleep — J . W . Hollstein ’ s Saloon , Tinley Park ; The Boy Band Night — Joe ’ s Bar , Chicago ; Joanna Connor — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Cracker / Camper Van Beethoven — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Jap Herron ( CD Release ) — Livewire , Chicago ; Mr . Perfect / Wunderlich — MT Barrels , Schaumburg ; Teen Open Mic — Old Town School , Chicago ; Ghost Citizen / Four Rifts / So Called Saints / All Out Mutiny / Atlanta Is Burning / All of Me — Penny Road Pub , Barrington ; Satchmo Saturday w / Corey Wilkes / Afro Fusion New Year Party — Promontory Theater , Chicago ; Trainwreck — Q-Bar , Darien ; Fletcher Rockwell — Q-Bar , Glendale Heights ; Faade / Blind Elephant / Corral — Quenchers , Chicago ; Seet / Hickory Gridlock / Rich Tan Buff / The Dirty Dangerous — Red Line Tap , Chicago ; Hell Awaits ( Rock Club )/ The Saltflowers ( Music Joint ) — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Mike Wheeler Band — Rosa ’ s Lounge , Chicago ; The Vulgar Boatmen / Obleeks — Schubas , Chicago ; Moon Money — Sideouts , Island Lake ; Lauren Flaxx / Samone / Mindy Sherman — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Ezra Furman — Space , Evanston ; Ian ’ s Party w / Yeesh / Rash / Mykelle Deville — Subterranean , Chicago ; Kevin Presbrey — Sweet Caroline ’ s , Hoffman Estates ; Twista — Tailgaters , Bolingbrook ; Janeane Garofalo — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Chicks With Picks — The Cottage , Crystal Lake ; Dance Party w / DJ Ryan Weinstein / Radio Free Honduras / The New Constellations — The Hideout , Chicago ; Kennedy Jones & Helena Legend — The MID , Chicago ; Jerry Armstrong Show — Tilted Kilt , Bolingbrook ; Dreadwolf / The Obsession / Headpins / Andrew Palmer — Uncommon Ground , Chicago ; Julian Jumpin
Perez — Venuti ’ s , Addison ; Rooks / Barrier / Pains / Bitter Thoughts / SOR Oak Park : Very Best of Pink Floyd / Pat , Debbie & Joan Throwdown — Wire , Berwyn ; Dan Peters — Wise Owl , Chicago ; Makena Hartlin Duo — World of Beer , Evanston ; Whiskey & Harmony — Zachary ’ s , Palos Heights .
SUNDAY 8
Actual Murderers / Winterfest / Music For The People / Ice Cream Vendors / The Young Stracke Allstars — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Nellie Tiger Travis Blues Band — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Bernie Glim & Country Roads / Highnoon — Blue Chip- Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Makena Hartlin Duo — BubCity , Chicago ; Ethan Bell — BubCity , Rosemont ; Buddy Guy w / Jamiah Rogers — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Ian ’ s Party 2017 : Meat Wave / Vacation Bible School / Heart Shaped Hate / Lifestyles /
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