TUESDAY 28 FEBRUARY
Trivia Nite — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Trivia Nite — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Pete Ellman Big Band Jazz — Base Camp , Lisle ; Lauren Giraldo / Chicago Underground Comedy — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; BTS Express / Laretha Weathersby — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; GZA / Meyhem Lauren — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City , Rosemont ; Sonic Soul — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Kathy Mattea w / Bill Cooley — City Winery , Chicago ; Snack Attack — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Withered / Immortal Bird / Varaha — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Fat Tuesday Party w / Terrence Simien & The Zydeco Experience — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; The Fat Babies — Green Mill , Chicago ; The Girl Talk w / Jen Sabella / Erika Wozniak & The Monthly Squad / The Grelley Duvall Show — Hideout , Chicago ; Jeezy / Rollover — House of Blues , Chicago ; Mike Wheeler Blues Band / Gary Corey Band — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Superfly Redneck — Mackell ’ s Inn , Chicago ; Harmon Hoedown — Martyrs , Chicago ; Karaoke — Q Bar , Darien ; Pub Trivia — Q Bar , Glendale Heights ; Waco Brothers — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Dan Harvey — Roof @ The Wit , Chicago ; Pete Galanis & Friens w / Dave Herrero — Rosa ’ s , Chicago ; The Go Rounds + Guest — Schubas , Chicago ; Amasa Hines / Josefina — SPACE , Evanston ; Longface / Knocked Loose / Open Mic Hip Hop — Subterranean , Chicago ; Lee Fields & The Expressions — Thalia Hall , Chicago .
WEDNESDAY 1 MARCH
Blues Jam w / Big Ray & Chicago ’ s Most Wanted — B . L . U . E . S ., Chicago ; Open Mic — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Open Mic — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Cold Roses / The Lucky Dutch / BD & Jackrabbits — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Henry JBC — Berghoff , Chicago ; Judson Brown Band — Bub City , Chicago ; Straw Dawg — Bub City , Rosemont ; The Ides of March Feat . Jim Peterik — City Winery , Chicago ; Open Mic / Heydaze / Mack Sterr — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Jake Mack Band — Evenflo , Geneva ; Trivia Night — Evivva , Lisle ; Taylor Shannon — Firewater Saloon , Edison Park ; New Standard Quintet — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Game of Thrones Trivia — HOME , Arlington Heights ; Dashboard Confessional / Keithen Banks / Rollover — House of Blues , Chicago ; 7th Heaven — Joe ’ s Live , Rosemont ; Open Mic w / Willie Max — Penny Road Pub , Barrington ; Pete Berwick — Potbelly , Algonquin ; Looms / Minihorse / Moist Clown / Cookbook — Quenchers , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Dawes — Riviera , Chicago ; Vallis Alps / Matt Maeson — Schubas , Chicago ; Electric Guest / Nin Pound Shadow — Thalia Hall ,
Chicago ; Hyuna — The Vic , Chicago ; Marianne Sullivan Karaoke — Tilted Kilt , Bolingbrook ; Milkdud Mackenzie w / Greg Obis — Wire , Berwyn .
THURSDAY 2 MARCH
Judy Night Quartet — 210 Bar , Highwood ; Brantley Gilbert — Allstate Arena , Rosemont ; JW Williams & The Chi Town Hustlers — B . L . U . E . S ., Chicago ; Best Band In The Land Auditions — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Erik Donner & Special Guest DJs — Base Camp , Lisle ; Nothing / RLYR / Luggage — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Karaoke Night — Bedrocks , Shorewood ; Maurice John Vaughn w / Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Unknown Hinson / Sugar Gardocki — Brauer House , Lombard ; Martin McDaniel — Bub City , Chicago ; Laith Al Saadi w / Bubbles Brown — City Winery , Chicago ; Hollow Earth / Greg Bennick / Great Reversals / Thieves / Burdened — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; The Lacs / Party Games & Live DJ — Durty Nellie ’ s , Palatine ; The Depth & The Whisper / Resistance / Richard Finn / Old School Hip Hop Dance Party — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Evenflo , Geneva ; Elmhurst College Jazz Band — Fitz ’ s Spare Keys , Elmhurst ; Trivia Night — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Amaranthe / Failure Anthem / Citizen Zero — HOME , Arlington Heights ; The Good , The Bad & The Blues / Dave Herrero — House of Blues , Chicago ; Maren Morris — Joe ’ s Bar , Chicago ; Los Campesinos / Crying — Metro , Chicago ; Nick Cox — Nevin ’ s Brewing Company , Plainfield ; Sam Bush — Old Town School , Chicago ; Dada / John San Juan — Park West , Chicago ; Dude Same / The Band Ice Cream / Terroir / Panthatone — Quenchers , Chicago ; The Cerny Brothers — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Ginger Road — Rivers Casino , Des Plaines ; Brantley Gilbert — Rosemont Theater , Rosemont ; J . E . Sunde / V . V . Lightbody / The Oarsman — Schubas , Chicago ; Rhythm of Time w / DJ SJ / Jena Max — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Commander Cody & His Lost Airmen — Space , Evanston ; Mover Shaker / Pale Lungs / The Moose — Township , Chicago ; Manasseh / Daniel Lamar / Dani Carpenter — Wire , Berwyn ; Billy Crystal — Chicago Theater , Chicago ; Kris Kristofferson — City Winery , Chicago .
FRIDAY 3 MARCH
Rollover — 210 Bar , Highwood ; April ’ s Reign — Ameristar Casino , East Chicago , IN ; Sting — Aragon Ballroom , Chicago ; Stephen Pearcy / Enuff Z ’ Nuff — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Varsity Vocals ’ A Cappella Competition Semifinals — Auditorium Theater , Chicago ; Boy Band Review — Austin ’ s Fuel Room , Libertyville ; Demetria Taylor — B . L . U . E . S ., Chicago ; Roaring Records — Bada
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Brew , Crest Hill ; One Hot Mess — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; One Hot Mess — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Orange Star — Bannerman ’ s , Bartlett ; Raleigh Truckers — Bar Evolution , Batavia ; Coverlicious — Bedrocks , Shorewood ; Jimmy O . & Rhonda Lee — Bella Mia , Midlothian ; Maurice John Vaughn w / Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; R-Gang / Crawpuppies — Blue Chip Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; DJ Night — Blue Chip Vegas Baby , Michigan City , IN ; Mickey Avalon / Vapor Eyes — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Maggie Speaks Gone Country — Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; Six Speed Tranny — Brauer House , Lombard ; Karaoke — Brazen Head , Crestwood ; Two Hand Jesters Comedy — Brick Lounge , Plano ; Matthew Kerr / Dan Peters — Broken Oar , Port Barrington ; Martin McDaniel — Bub City , Chicago ; Over The Side — Bub City , Rosemont ; Cary Kanno — Carlucci , Downers Grove ; Karaoke — Chicago Loop Niteclub , Streamwood ; Deacon Blues w / Howard Levy — City Winery , Chicago ; Souls / Through N Through / Sarin / Filth Sermon — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; TrollPhace / Skism / Trampa — Concord , Chicago ; Kelroy / Them Dead Poets / Colin Morris / Trio / Mike Flood & Co ./ Maddie Rabin — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Pat Taylor & Friends — Cuzin ’ s Pub , Tinley Park ; Blackened — District Bar , Rockford ; Mungion / Chachuba / Celtic Folk Showcase w / Katie Sullivan Duo — Durty Nellie ’ s , Palatine ; Tougher Than You Thought / Metorana / Radiant Devices — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Libido Funk Circus — Empire , Naperville ; Dick Diamond & The Dusters — Evenflo , Geneva ; Modern Day Romeos — Fire Bar , Crystal Lake ; Hoosier Highway — Firewater Saloon , Edison Park ; Soul Kats — Fitz ’ s Spare Keys , Elmhurst ; The Giving Trio / American English — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Frank Caliendo / DJ Rawzhel / Chicago Dueling Pianos — Four Winds Casino , New Buffalo , MI ; Sealed With A Kiss — Grand Victoria Casino , Elgin ; Cirrus Falcon — Harp & Fiddle , Park Ridge ; Planet Groove — Hollywood Casino , Aurora ; Spoken Four — Hollywood Casino , Joliet ; Finally Fridays w / Shawn Kay / GH4SHI — HOME , Arlington Heights ; Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular / Vino Louden / Soul 2 The Bone — House of Blues , Chicago ; Mike & Joe — Jenny ’ s Southside Tap , Mokena ; Sister Hazel — Joe ’ s Bar , Chicago ; In The Flesh / Paradise Waits — Joe ’ s Live , Rosemont ; Recycle The Day — JW Hollstein ’ s Saloon , Tinley Park ; Adia Clark Lay w / Zach Goforth — Kennedy Pointe , Bristol ; Butterfly in Traffic — Lone Buffalo , Ottawa ; The Menzingers / Jeff Rosenstock / Rozwell Kid — Metro , Chicago ; Imperial Blue Dogs — MT Barrels , Schaumburg ; What Lies Ahead / Backlash / Soulsharer — Penny Road Pub , Barrington ; Kimi Hayes — Pig Minds Brewing Co ., Machesney Park ; Sweet Figurines / Ampline / Burned Or Buried / Comet & The Tree — Quenchers , Chicago ; Uli Jon Roth / Anthem / Dark Trilogy —
Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Too White Crew — Rivers Casino , Des Plaines ; Pete Galanis & Friends — Rosa ’ s , Chicago ; Velours / Brisco Darling / California Guitar Trio — Schubas , Chicago ; Deja Vu — Sideouts , Island Lake ; DAPHNE 2017 : Elysia Crampton / La Spacer / Ariel Zetina — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Whiskey & Harmony — Stampede Saloon , Manteno ; Maiden Chicago / The Unforgiven — Sullivan ’ s Irish Pub , Midlothian ; Live Pete — Sweet Caroline ’ s , Hoffman Estates ; DJ Murphy — Tailgater ’ s , Bolingbrook ; Las Cafeteras / Beats y Bateria — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Dean Milano — Tilted Kilt , Bolingbrook ; Kick Back — Tilted Kilt , Woodridge ; Soda — Twisted Rose , Algonquin ; DJ & Karaoke — Uptown Lounge , Chicago ; Black 4 / Panic Switch / Wrecked / Fuzz Bucket — Wire , Berwyn ; Eric Ortiz — World of Beer , Evanston ; Just The Two of Us — Zachary ’ s Bar , Palos Heights .
SATURDAY 4 MARCH
Deja Vu — 210 Bar , Highwood ; April ’ s Reign — Ameristar Casino , East Chicago , IN ; Intocable — Aragon Ballroom , Chicago ; Uli Jon Roth / Graham Bonnet / Frank DiMino — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Varsity Vocals ’ A Cappella Competition Semifinals — Auditorium Theater , Chicago ; 97Nine — Austin ’ s Fuel Room , Libertyville ; Carlos Johnson & The Serious Blues Band — B . L . U . E . S ., Chicago ; Send In The Clones — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; American English — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Brock & Abrams — Bar Evolution , Batavia ; Modern Day Romeos / Little Orphan Monkey — Base Camp , Lisle ; Loudernow / The Taste of Emo Night / Band From the Back Porch — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Jimmy Niteclub Show — Bella Mia , Midlothian ; Maurice John Vaughn w / Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Jamrose / Rebel Rain / Tynan / Corporate Rock Band — Blue Chip Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Radio Tokyo — Blue Chip Vegas Baby , Michigan City , IN ; AJR — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Too White Crew — Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; St . Baldricks Benefit w / Royal Bliss / Saddlebrook / Rafael Mendez & The Fabulous House Rockers — Brat Stop , Kenosha , WI ; Veilside / Boneshaker / Wrecked / Lynch — Brauer House , Lombard ; Joe Fascetta — Brazen Head , Crestwood ; Sal & Izy — Broken Oar , Port Barrington ; Senn Alan Band — Bub City , Chicago ; Martin McDaniel — Bub City , Rosemont ; James Armstrong — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Mary Needs Meds / Pieces of Van Gogh — Bungalow Joe ’ s , Hanover Park ; Cover Story — Carlucci , Downers Grove ; Sun Stood Still / RetroActive — Chicago Loop Niteclub , Streamwood ; Celebration of the 70 ’ s Tour w / The Stylistics / The Emotions / The Bluenotes / The Floaters / Heatwave — Chicago Theater , Chicago ; Tom Paxton w / The
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