Thursday 5/23/24

May 23, 2024

Thursday!

Lots of great music event opportunities in and around Chicago as the weekend starts getting underway… read on for the details and get out to enjoy one or more of these shows if you can… welcome to new folks and thanks to all for reading, subscribing to, and getting the word out by sharing Jerome’s Event List!

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5:00-7:15 Andy Brown at Green Mill

x 5:00-8:00 Surely You Jest at Catch 35, Beyond Night

5:00 The Tom Lowery Trio at Epiphany Center, Golden Hour

5:00 Dusk Dance Music at Epiphany Center, Golden Hour

5:30-8:00 Matt Hendricks acoustic at Buddy Guy's Legends

x 6:00, 8:15 Sabertooth at Andy's

6:00-2:00a ?, Nick Alexander Blues Band at Kingston Mines, $15

6:00-10:00 Dream Flowers at House of Blues Restaurant & Bar

6:00-8:00 CAA Creative Audio Archive DJ Night with DJ Lia Kohl at Middle Brow

6:00-9:00 Matthew Stromberg at Milk Money Brewing LaGrange

6:00-8:00 Joe Monahan at The Elm LaGrange

6:00-8:00 ? at Alter Brewing Company Downers Grove, Live Music Thursdays

6:00-9:00 Tony do Rosario Duo at Adelle's Restaurant Wheaton

6:00-9:00 Matthew Kopecky at Preservation Geneva

6:00-8:00 Rob Krause Duo at Alter Brewing & Kitchen St. Charles, Live Music Thursdays

6:00 Alessandra Liebman horn at Galvin Recital Hall, Northwestern University Evanston, free, Student Recitals

6:00 Ran Huo violin at Regenstein Master Class Room, Northwestern University Evanston, free, Festivals & Series

6:00 Pino Farina Band at Duke's Blues N BBQ East Dundee, Thirsty Thursday Street Fest

6:00-9:00 On The Air at Lindy's Landing Wauconda

6:00-9:00 Open Mic Thursdays at Church Street Brewing Itasca

6:30, 8:30 The Michael Lerich Generation 2.0 with Chris White, Joe Sonnefeldt, Mike Benning, Kurt Lubbe, Neal Alger at Winters Jazz Club, $23-28, album preview for “Joy-Us Spring”

6:30-9:00 Riley and The Red Hots at Encore Little Gem Oak Park, $7

6:30-9:30 Chuck Wilson at Girl In The Park Orland Park

7:00 John Lewandowski, Ray Moore at Montrose Saloon, songs from the heart of the beast

7:00 Knocked Loose, Loathe, Show Me the Body, Speed at Salt Shed Indoors, sold out?

7:00-10:00 TheArti$t presents The ARTchives Gallery Tour at Promontory, $20-60

7:00 Sage Huston, Ateeq Rehman at Cafe Mustache

7:00-9:00 Thursday Night Trad Irish Session hosted by James Conway & Michael Austin at Fifth Province Pub, Irish American Heritage Center

7:00-9:00 Zach Sorkin at Uncommon Ground, $10

7:00-10:00 The Ben Paterson Organ Trio at Le Piano, Laurens Hammond B3 Night

7:00-9:00 Shi-An Costello, Kelly Quesada, Dan Galat perform works from Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Britten, Ysaye, Ravel, Clarke, Shostakovitch at Colvin House, RSVP, $20, sold out, Candlelight Concerts

7:00-10:00 Augmented Hearts, Wine & Warpaint, Hemmingway Lane, Goodbye Sunshine at The Fallen Log, Kitchen 17, $10

x 7:00 Banjo After Dark with Jonas Friddle, Jug Band Happy Hour, Public Jam 8:00 at Borelli’s Pizza

7:00-2:00a The Wild Hare Sound System tribute to Beyonce at Wild Hare, free

x 7:00 La Lá from Peru at FitzGeralds Patio, RSVP, Pachanka Music Culture Presents

7:00-10:00 Bisceglia Brothers Band at Jonny Cab's Burr Ridge

7:00 Thirsty Boots Trio at Quigley’s Naperville

7:00-10:00 Rum at Double Clutch Brewing Company Evanston

7:00-9:00 David Hayes and Christian Chamberlain Duo at The Fat Shallot Evanston

7:00 Judson Brown Duo at Sideouts Sports Tavern Island Lake

7:00 Billy Nixon at Tighthead Brewing Company Mundelein

7:00 Songwriter Showcase hosted by Grant Milliren with Phil Partynski, Drew Isbell, Joe Leja, Stevie Shmeegan, Honeyspoon at Black Dog Vinyl Cafe Plainfield

7:00 John Condron at Chicago Street Pub Joliet, 1&1 originals and covers

x 7:00 Mark Dvorak Monthly Folk Jam at Friendly Community Room

7:00-10:00 Projam hosted by Geoffrey Lowe with Brother John Kattke at Shanahan’s Woodridge

7:00-10:00 Throw A Flow hip hop Open Jam at Pollyanna Brewing St. Charles

7:00 Open Mic hosted by Kent Lewis at Black Lung Brewing Co Round Lake Beach

7:00 Open Mic with Rich Nelson at Copper Fiddle Distillery Lake Zurich

7:20-11:59 P.O.D., Bad Wolves, Norma Jean, Blind Channel at The Forge Joliet, $29

7:30 The Tracies, Rotundos, Cellar Dwellar, Constant Headache, New Divine at Reggies Rock Club, $14-18

7:30 Marqueal Jordan & The Wachezaji with Patches Stewart at City Winery, $25-38

7:30 Mahler Resurrection conducted by Neeme Järvi at Symphony Center Orchestra Hall, $95-399

X 7:30 Neil Young & Crazy Horse at Northerly Island, $312+

7:30 Rose of Demise, Death By Technology, Obsidian Spine at LiveWire Lounge, $10, Savage Ladies of Metal present

7:30-9:30 Alejandro Meola, Hymns for Inanna at Comfort Station, Comfort Music

7:30 Chicago Composers’ Consortium presents BrassWorks C3 with Axiom Brass at Epiphany Center, $20, $10 students

7:30 Abbey Road tribute to The Beatles with Steve Kikoen, Jay Goeppner, Shawn Sommer, Ben Lewis, Adrian Ruiz, Chris “Bean” Weng, The Revolution Horns with Chuck Parrish, John Bowes, Rich Lapka, The Kaleidoscope Strings with Olya Prohorova, Dessi Nenova, Emi Tanabe, Ani Moravec, Emma Lyn at Arcada Theatre, $19-39

7:30-9:30 Iris at Moonlight Theatre St Charles, $10, Artists Showcase Series

7:30 Mozart's Così fan Tutte with Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Manis at Cahn Auditorium, $18, $8 students

7:30-10:00 Ladies of the Blues, Brandye Phillips tribute to Tina Turner at Des Plaines Theatre Bourbon ‘N Brass Speakeasy, free, Live Jazz & Blues, two drink or food equivalent minimum

7:30 Stephane Wrembel Band at Hey Nonny, $18-40

7:30 Open Mic Night hosted by Mitchell Turner at The Outta Space Berwyn

7:30 Open Mic Jam Night at At The Office Crestwood

8:00 Cold World at Reggies Music Joint, $20

8:00 Superdime, Daundry, Smackblaster at Schubas, $15

8:00 Josh Spinner, Ocean Child, Emily How at Lincoln Hall, $15-18

8:00 Lustsickpuppy, Prolaps, Casper Mcfadden at Subterranean, $20

8:00-12:00m Alan Gresik’s Swing Orchestra at Green Mill, $10

8:00-10:00 Gabriel Wade Sextet with Jared Schultz, Jackson Wheeler, Isaiah Jones Jr., Micah Collier, Frank Morrison, Stefan Lenthe Quintet with Miles Smith, Sam Taylor, Oliver Scott, Jake Rosenkalt at Fulton Street Collective, $15

8:00, 10:00 Joe Farnsworth Quartet with Sarah Hanahan, Peter Washington, Luther Allison at Jazz Showcase, $25-40

8:00 BTS Express with Shirley Johnson at Blue Chicago

8:00-11:00 Marques Carroll Quintet at California Clipper, $5

8:00-9:00 Cabaret Onchain with Megan "trogs" Troglio, Ann Marie Alanes, Vessy Mink, Tiffany Leard & Co at Davenport’s Cabaret, $15, 2 drink minimum

8:00 Joshua Robertson & The Saints host Open Jam Thursdays at The Tonk Chicago

8:00 Part Chimp, The Art Gray Noizz Quintet, Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends, Ills at Liar’s Club, $17

8:00 BashfortheWorld, Oodaredevil, NikoG4, RoadRun, CMoe, Amriye at Avondale Music Hall, $30-105

8:00 Næ, Sponj, Mass Affluent, Hedron1985 at Burlington Bar, $10

8:00 Of Wolves, Shrineburner, Reivers, Jurassic Kong at Cobra Lounge, $15-19

x 8:00 Jesse Daniel, Alex Williams at Carols Pub, $15

8:00-11:00 Stevie McVie tribute to Fleetwood Mac & Stevie Nicks at Firewater Saloon Edison Park

8:00 No Better Today, Guerrilla Troop, Anteeter, Starbender at Cubby Bear, $8

x 8:00 Al Scorch at Archie's

x 8:00 Ezra Bell, Kyle Brown & The Human Condition, Raynah at FitzGeralds Nightclub, $20-25

8:00 Female Featured Fourth Thursday hosted by Avol with Elizabeth Reichert Powell, Mardi Rose, Rachel Wilson at Friendly Tap Berwyn

x 8:00 Kent Rose and The Remedies, The James Dean Joint at Robert's Westside Forest Park, $14-19

8:00 DJ Frankie J, El Baron, Jed Walker at Salerno's Hodgkins, Sultry Salsa Thursdays, 8:15 lesson

x 8:00 Electric Six, Supersuckers, Volk at SPACE Evanston, $20

8:00 Evan Nesbitt Quartet with Dylan Bautista, Loren Stillman, Simon Hickey at Prairie Moon Evanston, free

8:00 Daryl Grady & Pete Calacci at Austin Community Tavern Steger, RSVP

8:00 Open Mic with Downtown Charlie Brown at The Studio Lockport

8:00 Luke Winslow-King & Roberto Luti at The Bur Oak Madison WI, $18-20

x 8:30 Bill MacKay album release for 'Locust Land' at Hideout, $18

x 8:30 Bethany Thomas and Band with Darling Shear dancers perform and interpret Lou Reed's Transformer at Constellation, $35

8:30 Andrew Barnes Jamieson, Tommaso Moretti"s Outside In with Norman W. Long, Mai Sugimoto, John Sutton, Tommaso Moretti at Elastic Arts, $15, $10 students, Improvised Music Series

8:30, 9:45, 11:00 Rosa's All-Stars Band with Lil Ed Williams, Joey J. Saye at Rosa’s, $10-20

8:30-11:30 Sami Scot at Davenport’s Piano Bar

x 8:30 Song of the Month Club hosted by Gerald Dowd with guest Rachel Drew at FitzGeralds Sidebar, RSVP

8:30 The Acoustiholics at Ballydoyle Downers Grove

8:30 Claire McLean percussion at Ryan Opera Theater, Northwestern University Evanston, free, Student Recitals

8:30 Leigh Wang piano at Galvin Recital Hall, Northwestern University Evanston, free, Student Recitals

9:00 Holy Family, Bottomed, Lnr Tmb, Voss at Empty Bottle, $12

9:00 5 for 50 Artifacts with Tomeka Reid/Nicole Mitchell/Mike Reed at Hungry Brain, $20

9:00 Nasty Snacks at Dorian's, $10 after 8:00

9:00 Nate Manos at Buddy Guy's Legends, $15

9:00 Pudding, Scuf at Cole's Bar, $13

9:00 Moonbird, Julia Morrison, Modern Cults at Cafe Mustache

9:00 City Pop with Van Paugam and Kadobara at The Whistler, vintage Japanese vinyl

9:00 Infunktious duo at House Pub St. Charles

9:00 Justin Clyde Williams at The Law Office Pub & Music Hall Yorkville, $20

9:00-11:55 Open Mic Night with Max Reeve at The Thirsty Tavern

9:00-12:00m Open Mic Night at Gallery Cabaret, signup at 8:30

9:00 Rock & Punk DJ Day Mary at Delilah’s

9:30 Human Eye, Strapped, Vamos at Sleeping Village, $14

9:30-11:50 Bonzo Squad at aliveOne

10:00 Tim Gleason at Bub City Chicago, RSVP

10:00 Reggae Gold at Subterranean

10:30 The Groove It Pro Jam at Andy’s, $15

Jerome’s highlights

x = recommended, interested, of note to me or friends

X = the plan, though that can change