DonJuans — City Winery , Chicago ; Funeral Nation / Bones / DeathCult / Lethal Shock — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Tchami / Mercer — Concord , Chicago ; Jefferson Starship — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Eric Ortiz — Cuzin ’ s Pub , Midlothian ; Five Guys Named Moe — Cuzin ’ s Pub , Tinley Park ; Restlesss Knites — DC Cobb , Woodstock ; Mallrats — District Bar , Rockford ; Sixteen Candles — Durty Nellie ’ s , Palatine ; Nashville Electric Company — Dusty Boots Saloon , Rockford ; The Inventors / Heavy Looks / Oceans Over Airplanes / Eric Bolander / Derek Spencer — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Six String Crossing / Gallery Band — Evenflo , Geneva ; Whiskey & Harmony — Fatty Magoo ’ s , Bolingbrook ; Prairie Station — Fireside Ale House , Streamwood ; John Riggins — Firewater Saloon , Edison Park ; St . Patrick ’ s Day Parade w / Red Rebel Country / Celtic Arres / Trinity Irish Dancers — Fitz ’ s Spare Keys , Elmhurst ; FM Stars — Four Winds Casino , New Buffalo , MI ; Dokken / Warrant / Firehouse — Genesee Theater , Waukegan ; Shindig ! — Grand Victoria Casino , Elgin ; Greg Osby 4 — Green Mill , Chicago ; Bear & Jake — Harp & Fiddle , Park Ridge ; Chicago Latin Groove — Hollywood Casino , Aurora ; Kashmir — Hollywood Casino , Joliet ; Semple / DJ Maurice Halsted — HOME , Arlington Heights ; Metal Blades w / Whitechapel / Cattle Decapitation / Goatwh ** e / Allegaeon / Necromancing The Stone / John Primer / Matt Hendricks — House of Blues , Chicago ; Six To Midnight — Jenny ’ s Southside Tap , Mokena ; Rod Tuffcurls & The Bench Press — Joe ’ s Bar , Chicago ; Stereo Types — JW Hollstein ’ s Saloon , Tinley Park ; Greg Graffin of Bad Religion — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; HiFi Superstar — Lone Buffalo , Ottawa ; Hi Infidelity / DJ MarcO — Lucky Star , Bartlett ; Terrapin Flyer — Martyrs , Chicago ; Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears / Dam of The West / The Lilacs / Material Reissue / The Bad Examples — Metro , Chicago ; The Lilacs / Material Reissue / The Bad Examples — Metro , Chicago ; Judas Rising / Vicious Circle / Sixx — MT Barrels , Schaumburg ; Mbongwana Star — Old Town School , Chicago ; Iron Horse / Unforgiven / Maiden Chicago / Call Me Karizma — Penny Road Pub , Barrington ; Big Bang Baby / Fist A Gon — Q-Bar , Darien ; Person To Person — Q-Bar , Glendale Heights ; Sass Dragons / City Mouse / Dethwarrant / Child ’ s Mind — Quenchers , Chicago ; Greg Rekus / Flatfoot 56 / Prognation — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Big James — Rosa ’ s , Chicago ; Get The Led Out — Rosemont Theater , Rosemont ; Faintlife ( Record Release )/ See Creatures / Blake Davis / Parsonsfield / Them Coulee Boys / Susan Salidor w / Matt Yanny-Tillar — Schubas , Chicago ; GooRoos — Sideouts , Island Lake ; DAPHNE 2017 : Heidi / Lux / Loren — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Booker T . Jones — Space , Evanston ; Dick Diamond & The Dusters — Square Celt Ale House , Orland Park ; Chi-Town Blues Festival w / Sir Charles Jones / Willie Clayton / Clarence Carter / Theodis Ealey / Bishop Bullwinkle / Denise LaSalle — Star Plaza Theater , Merrillville , IN ; Falter / Animal Factory — Subterranean , Chicago ; Blackened / TNT — Sullivan ’ s Irish Pub , Midlothian ; Paul Strolia / Mark & Jim — Sweet Caroline ’ s , Hoffman Estates ; Ross Benson — T Bar , Island Lake ; 7th Heaven / My Metal Heart — Tailgater ’ s , Bolingbrook ; The Radio Dept ./ Germans — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Acoustiholics |
— The Cottage , Crystal Lake ; Semple — Tilted Kilt , Bolingbrook ; Crazy X / DJ & Karaoke — Uptown Lounge , Chicago ; Tributosaurus becomes Cat Stevens — Wire , Berwyn ; Empire State Express — Wise Owl , Chicago ; Jerry Armstrong & Blast To The Past — Zachary ’ s Bar , Palos Heights .
SUNDAY 5
Angel of Music : Salute to Andrew Lloyd Webber w / Glory Crampton & Franc D ’ Ambrosio — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Ronnie Hicks & Masheen Co . — B . L . U . E . S ., Chicago ; The Whiskey Bros . — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; The Boogers — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Luke Pytel / Laretha Weathersby — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Smokin ’ Gunz — Blue Chip Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Hectic Knife Film Screening — Brauer House , Lombard ; Sorry For Partying — Bub City , Chicago ; Sean Skyler — Bub City , Rosemont ; One Woman Sex & The City Parody / Sierra Hull — City Winery , Chicago ; Sunday Funday Open Mic & Jam — Cuzin ’ s Pub , Midlothian ; Sunday Funday Open Mic & Jam / w / Billy King Band — Cuzin ’ s Pub , Tinley Park ; Andrew Price & Friends / Welcome To Jonestown / Bonnieswag / G88 / Rocky Bottom — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Bagshot Row — Evenflo , Geneva ; Chicago Big Band Grandstand — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Gospel Brunch / Breezy Rodio / Windy City Duo — House of Blues , Chicago ; Rock Chicago Records — Q-Bar , Glendale Heights ; Dog Brain / Fieldmates / General Joystick / Reverend Ruin — Quenchers , Chicago ; Rebel Soul Revival w / Dirty Water / Matthew Kopecky — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Lindsay Lour & The Flatbellys / The Crane Wives — Schubas , Chicago ; Conjunto Primavera Concierto Baile — Sears Center , Hoffman Estates ; Queen ! w / Derrick Carter / Michael Seraphini / Garrett David — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Rock Chicago Records — Sullivan ’ s Irish Pub , Midlothian ; DJ Jeff Overstreet — Tailgater ’ s , Bolingbrook ; JD Eicher / Ruby Rose / Lex Miller / Brad Yeoman / Zack Baumgartner — Wire , Berwyn .
MONDAY 6
WWE Raw — Allstate Arena , Rosemont ; Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Tenry Johns / Claudette Miller — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Matt Poss — Bub City , Chicago ; Buzzed Spelling Bee — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Pub Trivia — Fitz ’ s Spare Keys , Elmhurst ; Majority Says Trivia — HOME , Arlington Heights ; Secondhand Serenade / Hawthorne Heights / Ronnie Winter / Kenny Holland — Metro , Chicago ; Glass Houses / Growing — Penny Road Pub , Barrington ; Improv Night w / Sand & Spitballin ’/ Open Mic — Quenchers , Chicago ; Seeker — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Gaelynn Lea / Sarah Potenza — Schubas , Chicago ; Devendra Banhart — Thalia Hall , Chicago .
TUESDAY 7
Trivia Night — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Trivia Night — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Pete Ellman ’ s Big Band — Base Camp , Lisle ; Chicago Underground Comedy — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Mike
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Dangeroux / Inetta Visor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Mae / Owel / Constellations — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Trivia / Bingo Night — Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City , Rosemont ; Marcia Ball — City Winery , Chicago ; Secrets , Lies & Alibis — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Open Jam Night — Evenflo , Geneva ; Trivia Night — Evivva , Lisle ; Billy Branch & Sons of Blues / Open Mic — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Cirk La Putyka Slapstick Sonata — Genesee Theater , Waukegan ; Pub Trivia — HOME , Arlington Heights ; The Lox w / Don Flamingo / Mike Wheeler / Keith Scott — House of Blues , Chicago ; Griffin Crwoder Duo — JW Hollstein ’ s Saloon , Tinley Park ; Whiskey & Harmony — Mackell ’ s Inn , Chicago ; Great American Ghost — Penny Road Pub , Barrington ; Wit Rabbit Reading Series / Bobco Open Mic Poetry — Quenchers , Chicago ; Little Sims / Mr . Blotto — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Living Body / Love of Everything / Rust Ring — Schubas , Chicago .
WEDNESDAY 8
Blues Jam w / Rodney Brown & Hot Rod — B . L . U . E . S ., Chicago ; Open Mic — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Open Mic — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Spice Series / Daniel Wyche / Ted Gordon / Aaron Zarzutzki / Peter Maunu — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; JW Williams w / Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Architects / Stray From The Path / Make Them Suffer — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Over The Side — Bub City , Chicago ; Griffin Crowder — Bub City , Rosemont ; Open Mic / Appetite For Rock N ’ Roll Storytelling — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Shoop Dogs — Evenflo , Geneva ; Peter Lerner / Joe Rendon Latin Jazz Coalition — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Breaking Bad Trivia — HOME , Arlington Heights ; Funky Mojo Daddy / Keithen Banks — House of Blues , Chicago ; G Herbo & Lil Bibby / Trill Sammy / Drayco McCoy — Metro , Chicago ; Lazer Lloyd — Old Town School , Chicago ; Open Mic w / Willie Max — Penny Road Pub , Barrington ; Ooraloo / skul . kid / Justin Carter / Dottie — Quenchers , Chicago ; Dead Meadow / Yak — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Okean Elzy — Riviera , Chicago ; Inc . No World / Jeremiah Meece — Schubas , Chicago ; Dave Eno Smooth Rockin ’ Jazz — Tilted Kilt , Bolingbrook ; Kings Of Leon — United Center , Chicago ; Home Grown — Wire , Berwyn .
THURSDAY 9
Jimmy Burns — B . L . U . E . S ., Chicago ; Best Band In The Land Competition — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Erik Donner & Special Guest DJs — Base Camp , Lisle ; The Unlikely Candidates / Friday Pilots Club / Karma Wears White Ties — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ;
Karaoke Night — Bedrocks , Shorewood ; Maurice John Vaughn w / Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; We The Kings / Cute Is What We Aim For / Plaid Brixx / Astro Lasso — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Psychostik / Lords of The Trident — Brauer House , Lombard ; Jerry Jacobs — Bub City , Chicago ; The Subdudes / Vance Gilbert — City Winery , Chicago ; Party Games & Live DJ — Durty Nellie ’ s , Palatine ; Papa Hero / Lustera / Aviatrix On Fire /# Girlpower Video Dance Party — Elbo Room , Chicago ;
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Strawdawg — Firewater Saloon , Edison Park ; Elmhurst College Jazz Band — Fitz ’ s Spare Keys , Elmhurst ; Exposure Local Music Showcase w / Blue Lincolns / Gills / St . Patrick ’ s Day Celebration for Catholic Charities — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; . 38 Special / Uncle Kracker — Genesee Theater , Waukegan ; Jeff Ulus — HB Jones , Elmhurst ; Jens Lekman / Lisa / Liza — Metro , Chicago ; Kaleido — Penny Road Pub , Barrington ; Two Ton Jack / Blue Horse Blue / Stephen Lee — Quenchers , Chicago ; Coyote Man / Western Star — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Derringer And Rye — Rivers Casino , Des Plaines ; Ina Garten — Rosemont Theater , Rosemont ; Jak Night / Nick Hakim / Solo Woods — Schubas , Chicago ; DAPHNE 2017 : T . Mixwell / Lovebug / Haus-Arrest — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Tennis / Overcoats — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; The Blackout Diaries — Wire , Berwyn .
FRIDAY 10
Spoken Four — 210 Bar , Highwood ; The Greg Kihn Band w / The Dream Police Cheap Trick Tribute — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Wedding Banned — Austin ’ s Fuel Room , Libertyville ; Lil Ed & Blues Imperials — B . L . U . E . S ., Chicago ; Magic Mike Tour — Bada Brew , Crest Hill ; Wild Colonial Bhoys — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Red Rebel Country — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Rick Saucedo — Bannerman ’ s , Bartlett ; Billy Elton — Bar Evolution , Batavia ; Moment of Circus / Yuri Lane / DJ Sound Culture / Head North / Heart Attack Man / Movies About Animals — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Final Say — Bedrocks , Shorewood ; JW Williams w / Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; That ’ s What She Said / Sheryl & Say Yes ! — Blue Chip Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; DJ Night — Blue Chip Vegas Baby , Michigan City , IN ; Save Ferris / Baby Baby / Get Up With The Get Downs — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; 7th Heaven / Hillbilly Rockstarz — Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; Wayne Baker Brooks — Brauer House , Lombard ; Nashville Electric Company / Two Hand Jesters Comedy — Brick Lounge , Plano ; Todd Donnelly of Mr . Myers / Matthew Kerr — Broken Oar , Port Barrington ; Jerry Jacobs — Bub City , Chicago ; Judson Brown Band — Bub City , Rosemont ; Bobby K — Carlucci , Downers Grove ; Axe The Band — Chicago Loop Niteclub , Streamwood ; Joe Bonamassa — Chicago Theater , Chicago ; Cherish The Ladies — City Winery , Chicago ; Hexbombs / Squared Off / Halligan — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Borgore / 12th Planet / Prince Fox — Concord , Chicago ; PriMary / Markit Eight / The Struggs / Element — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; H2 Music — Cuzin ’ s Pub , Tinley Park ; EGI / Soap / Celtic Folk Showcase w / Katie Sullivan Duo — Durty Nellie ’ s , Palatine ; Speak Easy / Arclight / Glass Mansions / Echo Telegraphy — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Gina Gonzalez & The Wingmen — Fire Bar , Crystal Lake ; Jason Owen — Firewater Saloon , Edison Park ; 24th Street Wailers / Cast Iron Skillet — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; 38 Special ( Silver Creek )/ DJ Dubbington / Rock Band Karaoke ( Hard Rock )
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