BANJO AFTER DARK A Weekly Performance & Jam held on Thursdays. 7PM Performance, 8PM Jam. Location: Borelli’s Pizza 2124 West Lawrence Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60625 Host: Jonas Friddle Features: American Roots Music – inclusive of blues, bluegrass, old-time, song circle jam Description: A performance set opens the evening from 7-8PM and then area pickers gather…
Fresh from the Pacific Northwest, Never Come Down has hit the road for their spring tour this past week. You won’t want to miss their powerful, dynamic, original acoustic sound, and good news – they are coming to perform live in Chicago! We got to catch up with mandolinist, Kaden Hurst, to hear more about…
LUCKY PICKERS JAM A Monthly Jam held on the first Sunday of the month from 3-6PM Location: Black Lung Brewing Round Lake Beach, 2217 N IL-83, Round Lake Beach, IL 60073 Host: Lucky Pickers (Caleb Peters & Despina Pafralides) Features: bluegrass, old-time, circle jam Description: Lucky Pickers bluegrass jam! Hosts Despina Pafralides and Caleb Peters perform…
BLUEGRASS BREAKDOWN A Monthly Jam held on the first Sunday of the month from 4-6PM Location: Judson Moore Distillery, 3057 N Rockwell St Building 5, Chicago, IL 60618 Host: Aaron Smith Features: bluegrass, old-time, performance Description: Judson & Moore presents Chicago’s premiere bluegrass jam. Host Aaron Smith (Mulefoot, Paulina Hollers, Hackensaw Boys) gathers a top-notch…
Arrival is almost here! Wheels North has been hard at work playing live shows and preparing to release their first full-length studio album, Arrival. Their album release show is set for November 30th at Werk Force Brewing in Plainfield with special guest John Till. Details here! But before you go to the show, check out…
Yonder Mountain String Band will be at Bottom Lounge this Friday, March 6th, at 9pm! The band may hail from the foothills of Colorado, but two members of Yonder Mountain String Band are from much closer to home. Founding member and banjo player, Dave Johnston, is from Aurora, Illinois, and fiddle player, Allie Kral, grew…
Vince Herman and Drew Emmitt return to Chicago on their Duo tour this Saturday, February 29th, at City Winery. Drew Emmitt is an American mandolinist, guitarist, fiddle player, occasional flutist, and singer, and Vince Herman is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter, both well known for being two of the founding members of Leftover Salmon. The Duo first…
This Friday at Brauer House is the last chance to catch Chicago’s own Henhouse Prowlers in Chicago for a long time! Not only does the band tour constantly, putting on shows in the U.S. and Europe with their own brand of “straight-laced, tight-knit, barn-burning bluegrass” (Sound Fuse), but they also travel the world as Bluegrass…
Hailing from McHenry, Illinois, local bluegrass band Miles Over Mountains releases their third album, Work Harder Not Smarter, on February 15th. This also happens to be the band’s 6-year anniversary. They kick-off their album release tour with a show this Saturday night at Mackey’s Hideout, where they will be joined by Fox Crossing Stringband and…
FEBRUARY 14-15 The University of Chicago Folklore Society formed in the early 1950s and put on its first Folk Festival in 1961. Featuring such greats as Ralph and Carter Stanley, The New Lost City Ramblers, Elizabeth Cotton, Roscoe Holcomb and Willie Dixon. The Festival was a huge success, and over the next decade, exposed many…