Monday!
There are some great music event opportunities happening tonight in and around Chicago… get out to enjoy one if you can… welcome to new subscribers, and thanks to everyone for reading, subscribing to, sponsoring, and especially sharing Jerome’s Event List!
6:00, 8:15 The Blueshift Big Band at Andy's, $20
6:00-8:00 Pro/Am Open Mic Night at On Tour Brewing
6:00 Industry Night at Hideout, free RSVP
6:30 Indivisible Chicago at Hideout, free RSVP
6:30-9:30 Abigail Riccards Trio at Eddie V's Oak Brook
7:00-12:00m Zack's Open Mic with Zack Fedor, Blake Burkhart at Reggies Music Joint, free, 3 songs and an interview, acoustic guitars, piano, hand drums, no drumset or aux cord
7:00 Rare Privilege with caller Bev Bernbaum at Irish American Heritage Center 4th Floor Ballroom, $7-10 adults, $5 seniors & students, Chicago Barn Dance Contra & Square Dance, Lesson at 6:30
x 7:00 Christy Bennett's Fumée with Art Davis, Don Stiernberg, Christian Dillingham, Don Stille, Juli Wood? at Rogers Park Social, free, Manouche Mondays, gypsy-swing jazz
7:00-11:00 Open Mic Blues Jam at Johnny's Blitz Sports Bar Westmont
7:00 Open Mic hosted by Rob Lane & Rick Dale at Elmhurst Brewing Company
7:00 Open Mic at OKAY Cannabis/West Town Bakery 100 Howard Evanston, free
7:30 Polky at City Winery, $25-45, Polish folk
x 7:30 The Sullivan Sisters, Jonas Friddle at SPACE Evanston, $15, sold out
7:30-9:30 Doug Horne and the Rhythm Makers Orchestra at Smokey Jo's Crete, swing dance lesson at 6:30
7:30 Traditional Irish Music Session hosted by John Condron at Chicago Street Pub Joliet
8:00 Extraordinary Popular Delusions at Beat Kitchen, free
x 8:00-12:00m Joel Paterson & Friends with Natalie Scharf, Joe Policastro, Mike Schlick at Green Mill, $10
8:00-11:00 Big Band Boom at Gallery Cabaret
8:00-12:30a Tate Danger Presents at Cafe Mustache
8:00 Jan Jam 2025 at Elastic Arts, free, Pleiades Series
8:00 Industry Night with DJ Matt Grimm at Sleeping Village, free RSVP
8:00-11:00 Rattleback Records DJs Tuff N' Such, Tromblau, Echinacea at Pizza Lobo Andersonville
8:00-11:00 Open Mic Monday at Johnny's Blitz Westmont
8:00-12:00m Open Mic hosted by Sean Shiel at Mackey's Hideout McHenry
8:30-1:30 Stephen at The Zebra Lounge
9:00 Facing, justindemus, gs70 at Empty Bottle, free, free Mondays
9:00 Jam Session with Kabir Dalawari at Easy Does It
? 9:00 Acoustic Open Mic hosted by Buschy at Four Treys
9:00 2025 Define Your Shine at Subterranean, $10 door
9:00-2:00a Punk Rock Monday with DJ Matt Lite at Delilah’s
Jerome’s highlights
x = recommended, interested, of note to me or friends
X = the plan, though that can change
x 7:00 Christy Bennett's Fumée with Art Davis, Don Stiernberg, Christian Dillingham, Don Stille, Juli Wood? at Rogers Park Social, free, Manouche Mondays, gypsy-swing jazz
x 7:30 The Sullivan Sisters, Jonas Friddle at SPACE Evanston, $15, sold out
x 8:00-12:00m Joel Paterson & Friends with Natalie Scharf, Joe Policastro, Mike Schlick at Green Mill, $10
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