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The Musical Offering
"Join Musical Offering divas Kirsten Hedegaard, Victoria Holland, Tina Pappademos, and Sarah Ponder in a program of operatic gems. Duos, trios and quartets by Gluck, Handel, Mozart, Bizet and more will be presented. Pianist Jennifer McCabe will be the orchestra. A very family-friendly program and all for the price of a movie!
3PM - $12 in advance/$8 for students // $15 day-of/$10 for students - Musical Offering's site
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Joe Firstman & Ernie Halter
with Miggs
Joe Firstman bought an $18 cross-country Greyhound ticket from his home in North Carolina to Los Angeles, arriving with a beat-up guitar and head full of songs. He quickly found the big stage. It all happened quickly: first came the big Hollywood gigs, then the industry buzz, then the big deal with Atlantic Records and national tours with big rock stars like Sheryl Crow, Jewel, and Willie Nelson. There was ego and excess and beautiful ladies and music, music, music. Firstman wrote it all down and sang his songs like his life depended on it.
Singer-songwriter Ernie Halter went through an emotional roller coaster this year.
"The new record is called ‘Starting Over’ for a reason,” says Halter. “I wanted the title to be direct, simple, and set the tone for the album. In this past year, I experienced the ending of a marriage and the birth of my first son. It was during this year that I wrote the material for the new record and performed over 150 shows.”
“More than ever I think it’s important to be as open and honest as possible, both as a songwriter and as a person,” Halter continues. “One positive side to the tumultuous year I’ve had is this new-found freedom to say it as it is, to admit who I am and where I’ve been. I feel this is a total crossroads for me.”
Genre: Rock/Acoustic
8PM - $10 in advance // $14 day-of // $18 reserved table seating - Joe's site - Ernie's site - Miggs' site
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Dan Dyer
with The Right Now
Dan Dyer greets his second decade as a musician with a self-titled album. From this soul-revivalist recording, produced out of an old snake-charmer church turned studio on the East side of Austin, emerges a spooky, diaphanous, and bright release drawn from an ever-deepening soul.
"The Right Now is not afraid to channel Motown soul, punch it up with groovy funk, or lay down some radio ready pop hooks. The rhythm section keeps it bouncing as the horn section alternately defines or smoothes the edges with jazzy panache." - 365 Ink
Genre:
Soul/Rock
8PM - $8 in advance // $12 day-of // $18 reserved table seating - Dan's site - The Right Now 's site
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Girlyman
with Lucy Wainwright Roche
Can the members of Girlyman read each other's minds? Sometimes it seems so. Onstage they often finish one another's sentences or burst into improvised three-part ditties so tight they seem rehearsed. Truth is, the Atlanta-based trio has had years to develop this rapport. Doris Muramatsu and Tylan Greenstein became best friends in second grade. The two met Nate Borofsky in college at a talent show, and since then they've been creating their own unique language of three-part harmony.
Informed by 60s vocal groups like Simon & Garfunkel and The Mamas and the Papas, and infused with years of classical and jazz training, Girlyman's songs are a dance of melody and suspensions - an irresistible blend of acoustic, Americana, and rock The Village Voice calls "really good, really unexpected, and really different."
Lucy Wainwright Roche grew up in Greenwich Village, New York City. She is the daughter of two performing musicians, Loudon Wainwright and Suzzy Roche (The Roches). Her childhood was spent living out of a suitcase, either on the road, with her parents or being ferried around to different relatives in her big musical clan.
Genre:
Folk Rock/Indie
SOLD OUT
8PM- Girlyman 's site - Lucy's site
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Deep Blue Organ Trio
Celebrating the classic jazz combo configuration of the Hammond B3 organ, guitar and drums, as well as the Black-American experience through music, Chris Foreman, Greg Rockingham and Bobby Broom bring a modern edge to a musical timepiece.
The Deep Blue Organ Trio began its journey in 1992 playing engagements at Chicago 's Cotton Club and Back Room. At the Cotton Club, a weekly gig which lasted for two years, the group began to develop its sound and musical connection. A connection which in large part began in the 1970s, when as teenagers Chris, Greg and Bobby were studying the organ jazz sounds which would soon become classic.
Genre:
Jazz
8PM - $12 in advance // $15 day-of // $20 reserved table seating - Deep Blue Organ Trio's site
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This Must Be The Band: Talking Heads Tribute
with Savvy
Since forming in May 2007, This Must Be The Band has been burning down the house
throughout Chicago and the entire Midwest. With a rapidly expanding repertoire from the Talking Heads' catalog of countless hits, This Must Be The Band highlights the best of the Talking Heads, equipped with their very own Bernie Worrell, Adrian Belew, Lynn Mabry, and Ednah Holt.
Genre: Talking Heads
8PM - $12 in advance // $15 day-of // $22 reserved table seating - TMBTB 's site
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Dempster St. Pro Musica presents:
The Calisto Enesmble with oboist Michael Henoch in a program of Mozart, Beethoven, and Shostakovich
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Soundpainting II : Songwriters Illuminate the Masters
featuring vocalist Jamie O’Reilly and the songs of Michael Smith
THE ARTISTS: Leopold Segedin, Painter, Iwona Biedermann, Photographer
& Featuring Gabriella Boros, Painter
THE MUSICIANS: Bob Weber (cello), Peter Swenson (guitar), Al Ehrich (bass), and "The Three Muses:” Sarah Chang, Meg & Nia O’Reilly Amandes (harmony vocals)
8PM - $18 in advance // $20 day-of // $25 reserved table seating - Jamie's site
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Club Zumba with Suzy Crawford and Iida Borges
The Zumba® program fuses hypnotic Latin rhythms and easy-to-follow moves to create a one-of-a-kind fitness program that will blow you away. Our goal is simple: We want you to want to work out, to love working out, to get hooked. Zumba® Fanatics achieve long-term benefits while experiencing an absolute blast in one exciting hour of calorie-burning, body-energizing, awe-inspiring movements meant to engage and captivate for life! The routines feature interval training sessions where fast and slow rhythms and resistance training are combined to tone and sculpt your body while burning fat. Add some Latin flavor and international zest into the mix and you've got a Zumba® class! In the past years, the Zumba® program has become nothing short of a revolution, spreading like wildfire, and positioning itself as the single most influential movement in the industry of fitness.
Genre:
Latin/Fitness
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Cracker (special acoustic performance)
with Brandi Shearer
Cracker, the group that veritably introduced brash irreverence and irony into alt-rock, are back and in top form on their 429 Records debut, Sunrise In The Land Of Milk And Honey.
This rich new trove of sharp-witted songs showcases a bristling, late 70’s – early 80’s power pop punk aesthetic which hits as hard as it did at the band’s formation 17 years ago. Eight albums (one platinum and three gold) and a barrel full of anthemic hit songs later, Cracker endures, using their ability to weave decades of influences into an album that is seamlessly riveting.
The cover to Love Don’t Make You Juliet, the new album by Brandi Shearer, shows the musician bruised, taped up, fists out and ready to brawl.
Listening to the record, however, you might be surprised to hear acoustic guitars, a hint of soul, and a couple of piano ballads not to mention blasts of electric guitar and some percussive jams.
Genre: Rock
8PM - $20 in advance // $25 day-of // $34 reserved table seating - Cracker 's site - Brandi's site
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Greg Laswell Winter Residency
with Rachele Eve
L.A. based songwriter Greg Laswell’s star has been on the rise since the release of Through Toledo, his 2006 Vanguard debut. With bright, orchestral melodies, melancholy and soul-searching lyrics, he’s won legions of fans and has become a favorite of film and television music supervisors.
Laswell's songs have been featured in a number of television shows including: Grey's Anatomy (he had four placements last season alone-- including an original song called "Off I Go" recorded specifically for the season finale), True Blood, The Hills, 90210, and Smallville. He's also had some success in the film arena with placements in Confessions of a Shopaholic, My Sister’s Keeper and the HBO Original Film, Taking Chance.
In a little more than three years he’s also delivered the hit EP, How the Day Sounds, and his second Vanguard album, Three Flights from Alto Nido. Laswell continues his winning ways with COVERS, a five song EP full of rich, cinematic arrangements and captivating vocals.
Genre:
Singer/Songwriter
8PM - $12 in advance // $15 day-of // $24 reserved table seating- Greg 's site - Rachele's site
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Tony Furtado and Trina Hamlin
Tony is an extremely skilled musician with a riveting voice who blends rock music with elements of Americana, folk, and pop. His musical reach is broad enough to resonate with fans of Ry Cooder, The Band, Bruce Springsteen, CCR, Bela Fleck and Tom Petty, among others. Furtado’s extremely impressive, furious slide guitar skills and 25+ years of banjo experience will blow away the musicos; for the lovers of a story in a song, Furtado has a few tales to tell; and to those who are looking for a performance, get ready to be captivated, charmed, and entertained.
Trina Hamlin combines gentle understanding with raw emotion in a way that is, quite simply, captivating from the first note. With a rich, powerful voice, Hamlin reveals a rare confluence of Midwestern innocence, contemplative focus, and raw passion while adding a disarmingly sharp wit in her stage banter. She seamlessly moves from guitar to piano with self accompaniment on harmonica leaving many who have seen her wondering what she can't do. Regarded as one of the best harmonica players around, she presents a driving, sensuous rhythm in her performance reawakening audiences to the art of the instrument.
Genre:Folk Rock/Americana
8PM - $12 in advance // $15 day-of // $20 reserved table seating - Tony's site - Trina's site
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93XRT welcomes An Intimate Evening With Allen Toussaint
Allen Toussaint is one of America’s greatest musical treasures. Singer, pianist, songwriter, arranger and producer — the New Orleans native has been making hit records for over forty years. His massive influence on American music reaches deep into the idioms of rhythm and blues, pop, country, musical theater, blues and jazz.
In New Orleans, Toussaint is revered for his distinguished record in public service, consistently devoting his talents to a variety of community and charity programs including New Orleans Artists Against Hunger and Homelessness, an organization he co-founded with Aaron Neville.
Genre:R&B
8PM - $38 standing room // $52 general admission seated // $78 reserved table seating - Alan's site
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Cyril Neville
One of the four Neville Brothers, Cyril Neville was the youngest, Cyril picked up his love of music from his parents and his older brothers at an early age. Largely inspired by the outlandish and brazen character of his uncle, the late Big Chief Jolly, Cyril Neville represents the true, gritty character of New Orleans machismo in all its multihued splendor. Since the hurricane ravaged his city, Neville has been the most outspoken of New Orleans musicians, serving as a lightning rod for those affected negatively by post-Katrina politics. The joys as well as the complications and frustrations of growing up in the oppressed South can be heard through-out his catalog as a solo Artist as well as his work with his brothers
Genre:
New Orleans/Funk
8PM - $17 in advance // $20 day-of // $28 reserved table seating - Cyril's site
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An Evening with Marc Cohn
with Kristina Train
Marc Cohn was born July 5, 1959, the youngest of four boys. He grew up in Cleveland, where he began playing guitar in grade school. Through the local rock radio stations, Marc was in¬troduced to the music of Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, and Jackson Browne, all of whom remain among his most enduring influences.
“I remember buying Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush in 1970,” said Cohn. “It had a lyric sheet that you could fold out in Neil’s own writing, with stuff crossed out or words put back in. It was at that moment that I first realized: This is his living. Somebody works at this.”
“I always had a feeling that music wouldn’t just be in my life,” declares singer Kristina Train. “It would be my life.”
Hearing Kristina Train for the first time is nothing less than a revelation: her sunny, easygoing demeanor and youthful good looks belie the heart-wrenching power of her voice. Train’s Blue Note debut, Spilt Milk, is urbane and soulful, lush in its arrangements but intimate in its emotions, built on a foundation of classic and deeply felt southern soul.
Genre: Singer/Songwriter
SOLD OUT
7PM - Marc's site - Kristina's site
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Chicago Barn Dance
The Chicago Barn Dance Company sponsors and supports contra dance, traditional square dance and old-time music in the Chicago area. Our old-fashioned barn dances are open to the public, with no costume, partner or experience necessary. Beginners are welcome and should arrive early in the evening, when the dances are usually easier and taught more completely.
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Guggenheim Grotto
with Tiger Cooke
Over the past three years Mick Lynch and Kevin May of pop/folk act The Guggenheim Grotto have touched U.S. and U.K. audiences in a way the duo couldn’t have imagined. From setting out as Dublin songwriter circuit to building a devoted cult following in the U.S. with warm embraces from media and competitive iTunes charting, the band has captivated audiences and tastemakers on both sides of the pond with its mix of poetic, often literature-inspired lyrics set to timeless, soaring pop melodies.
Genre:
Singer/Songwriter
8PM - $8 in advance // $12 day-of // $18 reserved table seating- Guggenheim's site - Tiger's site
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The Main Men, The Jewish Cowboy, & Buttercud
The Main Men were formed in 2008 at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Their music is a mix between rock, folk, and progressive rock, heavily influenced by the classic rock movement. The Main Men consist of Mike Johnson on lead vocals and guitars; Chris Kim on keyboards, Bryant Millet on vocals and bass, and Zack Levine on percussion. From February to May 2009, they recorded their eponymous debut album, which is now available on I-tunes and other digital music retailers, as well as in CD format.
The Jewish Cowboy is a Chicago based ukulele rocker whose eclectic songwriting has captured the hearts of those who mistake him for his more famous Jewish relations. After four studio albums and multiple Grammy broadcasts, The Jewish Cowboy finally caved under pressure from fans to perform live. His newly formed band sports over six members and will include luscious vocal harmonies, badass shred solos, and unforgettable choruses. Come hear Jewish Cowboy classics as well as new songs off his latest album Infectious Diseases Are The New Pink. The Jewish Cowboy is: Josh Fink, Michelle Kim, Andrew Jamieson, Evan Vivic, Jason Seed, Aaron Menninga, and Joseph Gonzalez.
Genre:
Rock
8PM - $5 - proceeds to benefit Northwestern SEED - The Main Men's site
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The Twilight Hours
with Frisbie
A beautiful name, The Twilight Hours. And the music is ravishing.
But who are these two men from Minneapolis? Can the hearts of John Munson and Matt Wilson be as pure as these songs we hear?
No. These are two practical and desperate gentlemen who have scrubbed around in the underbrush of music long enough to have touched glory and to have been gored by humiliation. Imagine the most moldy dressing room inside the loneliest bar. Now imagine two middle-aged men on a vinyl couch, crying in their underwear. There have been some sad moments.
Genre: Indie Rock
8PM - $10 in advance // $14 day-of // $18 reserved table seating - The Twilight Hours's site - Frisbie's site
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Catie Curtis
with Ingrid & the Unicorns
featuring Ingrid Graudins, Steve Frisbie, Rob Berry and TC Furlong
Catie Curtis has been a fan favorite on the acoustic music scene for a number of years now. Her well-deserved reputation as one of our very best singer/songwriters has followed her through nine critically-acclaimed recordings. With her tenth and newest project, Hello Stranger, released in August 2009, she gifts her loyal fan base and entices new listeners with a recording that captures some of the magic of her live performances. With the help of her Nashville-based record label, Compass Records, she selected a few of Nashville's best musicians to make an album featuring fiddle, mandolin and banjo as well as acoustic guitar.
Genre: Folk
8PM - $18 in advance // $22 day-of // $30 reserved table seating - Catie's site - Ingrid's site
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