Monday!
Some great music event opportunities are happening 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!
x 5:30-8:00 Real Pretenders at Kenilworth Park District, Food Truck Mondays
x 5:30-7:00 Chicago Jazz Orchestra with Abigail Riccards at Jazz Showcase, $25-40
6:00, 8:15 Shout Section Big Band at Andy's, $20
6:00-8:00 Pro/Am Open Mic Night at On Tour Brewing
6:00 Chris Fisher at Shanahan's Woodridge, blues & jazz
6:00-9:00 Open Mic/Open Jam Monday with host Aaron Kelly at Preservation Geneva
6:00-7:30 Strung Out at Chicago Botanic Garden Esplanade Glencoe, 70s rock, soul, funk
x Mon 8/19? 7:00 Greg Garing's Windy City Circus at Montrose Saloon, weekly residency
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
Mon 8/21 7:00-9:00 Steve Haberichter & Friends at Beverly Arts Center, $5, Music Mondays, bluegrass
7:00-9:40 Hey, Okra with caller Wren Eisenhauer at Irish American Heritage Center 4th Floor Ballroom, $5-10, Chicago Barn Dance Contra & Square Dance, Lesson at 6:30
x 7:00 Macie Stewart/Lia Kohl/Whitney Johnson, BSA Gold, Jackson/Baker/Kirshner at Sleeping Village, free
Mon 8/19? 7:00 Open Mic hosted by Rob Lane & Rick Dale at Elmhurst Brewing Company
7:30 Nathan Chester at City Winery, $25-40, soul singer songwriter
7:30 Chicago Gypsy Jazz Festival with Ana Everling Quartet with Edinho Gerber, Hunter Diamond, Kenny Reichert, opener Alfonso Ponticelli solo at SPACE Evanston, $15 SRO remain
7:30 Open Mic at The Irish Patriot Orland Park, signup at 7:00
7:30 Traditional Irish Music Session hosted by John Condron at Chicago Street Pub Joliet
X 8:00 L'abortion Variety Hour Cavalcade of Cooch hosted by Lizz Winstead & Jill Hopkins with Lizz Winstead, Marcella Arguello, Rebecca O'Neal, Jon Langford & Sally Timms, Bethany Thomas, Nora O'Connor, Dannie Diesel aka Danielle Colby from American Pickers at Metro, $35-40 benefits Abortion Access Front
8:00 Extraordinary Popular Delusions at Beat Kitchen
8:00 KFC Murder Chicks, DJ Rozwell, Dawn Division, Destruction. esk, Embrasa, sulfur at Beat Kitchen, $18-25
8:00 Henry True, Jack Brereton, Growing Boys at Schubas, free, 100% off
x 8:00 Joel Paterson & Friends at Green Mill, $10
x 8:00 Model Citizens Big Band at Gallery Cabaret, jazz night
8:00 Raise Our Culture progressive mixer with Estelle, Goapele, Futuristic, Raheem Davaughn, Michael Minelli, Doug E Fresh, Oswin Benjamin, Khaliyah X, ++ at Joe's on Weed, $10 benefits One Fair Wage and Black Voters Matter
8:00 Monday Night Open Jam at The Atlantic Bar & Grill
8:00-11:00 Open Mic with Andrew Blendermann at Davenport’s Piano Bar
8:00-11:30 Jam Session at Cole's Bar, suggested donation
8:00 Open Mic hosted by MC Tōru-Sama and The Buddies at Four Treys Tavern
8:00-11:00 Tom Muellner's Jazz Jam at Rhapsody Theater Bar
8:00-11:00 Rattleback Records DJs Tuff N' Such, Tromblau, Echinacea at Pizza Lobo Andersonville
8:00-12:00m Open Mic hosted by Sean Shiel at Mackey's Hideout McHenry
9:00 The Deals, Dust Star, Options Computer Music at Empty Bottle, free Mondays
9:00-2:00a Punk Rock DJ Day Mary spins Joe Strummer’s B-day at Delilah’s
x 9:00 DJ ? at Simon's Tavern
Jerome’s highlights
x = recommended, interested, of note to me or friends
X = the plan, though that can change
x 5:30-8:00 Real Pretenders at Kenilworth Park District, Food Truck Mondays
x 5:30-7:00 Chicago Jazz Orchestra with Abigail Riccards at Jazz Showcase, $25-40
x Mon 8/19? 7:00 Greg Garing's Windy City Circus at Montrose Saloon, weekly residency
x 7:00 Macie Stewart/Lia Kohl/Whitney Johnson, BSA Gold, Jackson/Baker/Kirshner at Sleeping Village, free
X 8:00 L'abortion Variety Hour Cavalcade of Cooch hosted by Lizz Winstead & Jill Hopkins with Lizz Winstead, Marcella Arguello, Rebecca O'Neal, Jon Langford & Sally Timms, Bethany Thomas, Nora O'Connor, Dannie Diesel aka Danielle Colby from American Pickers at Metro, $35-40 benefits Abortion Access Front
x 8:00 Joel Paterson & Friends at Green Mill, $10
x 8:00 Model Citizens Big Band at Gallery Cabaret, jazz night
x 9:00 DJ ? at Simon's Tavern
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