MER’s Music Showcase Cubby Bear Wrigleyville
Wed, 3/22/23, 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Event by MER and Paul Ramirez
Public · Anyone on or off Facebook
Chicago’s longest running songwriter showcase returns to Cubby Bear on Wed, March 22nd for a FREE event. Join us for this Nashville-style round robin featuring Chicago’s premier singer-songwriters as they share their stories and inspirations behind their music in an intimate “unplugged” setting.
Host: MER
Featuring: Paul Ramirez, Blue & Dylan, Ben Warner of Vandalay, and Lydia Cash Duo
Featuring: Paul Ramirez, Blue & Dylan, Ben Warner of Vandalay, and Lydia Cash Duo
Doors: 7pm | FREE | 21+
Venue Information
Name: | The Cubby Bear |
Address: | 1059 West Addison Street Chicago, IL 60613 |
Website: | http://www.cubbybear.com/ |
The New Deal is BACK at Open Outcry Open Outcry Brewing Company
Wed, 3/22/23, 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Event by Jeff Pinzino
Duration: 2 hr 30 min
Public Anyone on or off Facebook
It's been a long time coming, but it's time to get some hot jazz and cold brews right here in Beverly!
Listen to the timeless sounds of 1930’s acoustic jazz at Beverly’s own Open Outcry brewpub. The New Deal plays jazz manouche in the style of Django Reinhardt. You're gonna love it.
Kids welcome
No cover
No cover
Venue Information
Name: | Open Outcry Brewing Company |
Address: | 10934 S. Western Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60643 |
Website: | http://www.openoutcrybrewing.com/ |
Tiny Country at Mockingbird Bar + Garden
Thu, 3/23/23, 6:00 PM - Thu, 3/23/23, 9:00 PM
Event by Tiny Country
Duration: 3 hr
Public Anyone on or off Facebook
Come for dinner and enjoy live music by Despina on a Thursday evening! 6-9pm
Despina is an artist from the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Her musical influences span many genres are tied together with a love of beautiful melodies and creative storytelling. She performs solo acoustic when she’s not being front woman of her band, Tiny Country.
You can also catch her playing fiddle in her all-female bluegrass group, Fox Crossing Stringband, and acoustic duet Lucky Pickers.
You can stay up to date with these groups at https://www.tinycountryband.com/ , www.foxcrossingstringband.com, and
www.facebook.com/LuckyPickers/
You can also catch her playing fiddle in her all-female bluegrass group, Fox Crossing Stringband, and acoustic duet Lucky Pickers.
You can stay up to date with these groups at https://www.tinycountryband.com/ , www.foxcrossingstringband.com, and
www.facebook.com/LuckyPickers/
Venue Information
Name: | Mockingbird Bar + Garden |
Address: | 217 Barrington Ave, East Dundee, IL, United States, Illinois |
Website: | mockingbirdbarandgarden.com |
Chicago Farmer 20th Anniversary w/Head For The Hills at Martyrs'!
Thu, 3/23/23, 8:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Event by Martyrs', Chicago Farmer and Head for the Hills
Tickets
martyrslive.com/fri-mar-3-8pm-20
Public · Anyone on or off Facebook
Chicago Farmer returns to Martyrs' Friday, March 3rd for his 20th Anniversary! 8:00pm. $20. 21+. Very special guest Head For The Hills opens the night up.
Tickets on sale now!
MUSIC IS GOOD FOR YOU
3855 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
3855 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
The son of a small town farming community, Cody Diekhoff logged plenty of highway and stage time under the name Chicago Farmer before settling in the city in 2003. Profoundly inspired by fellow midwesterner John Prine, he’s a working-class folk musician to his core. His small town roots, tilled with city streets mentality, are turning heads North and South of I-80.“I love the energy, music, and creativity of Chicago, but at the same time, the roots and hard work of my small town,” he shares. Growing up in Delavan, Illinois, with a population less than 2,000, Diekhoff’s grandparents were farmers, and their values have always provided the baseline of his songs.He writes music for “the kind of people that come to my shows. Whether in Chicago or Delavan, everyone has a story, and everyone puts in a long day and works hard the same way,” he says. “My generation may have been labeled as slackers, but I don’t know anyone who doesn’t work hard - many people I know put in 50-60 hours a week and 12 hour days. That’s what keeps me playing. I don’t like anyone to be left out; my music is for everyone in big and very small towns.”He listened to punk rock and grunge as a kid before discovering a friend’s dad playing Hank Williams, and it was a revelation. Prine and Guthrie quickly followed. The name Chicago Farmer was originally for a band, but the utilitarian life of driving alone from bar to bar, city to city - to make a direct connection to his audience and listener, took a deeper hold."It's apparent Chicago Farmer has a refreshingly firm grip on where he comes from. The songs are covered to the elbows in dirt from the fields and smell of the sweaty factory floors. If the Midwest is looking for a voice, the search is over.” - No Depression“Chicago Farmer represents the best qualities of Midwestern U.S.A. His lyrics, his stories and his heart are true. He’ll give you that feeling of ‘going home’. He’ll make you want to say all those things you’ve been meaning to say but were too afraid. At the same time his songs can make you ask yourself some deep questions. His songs give you hope. If you didn’t know him I believe just his voice would make you believe every word he says. Definitely one of my favorite singers out there today.” - Pokey LaFarge“I love Chicago Farmer’s singing and playing and songs, but it’s the intention behind the whole of his work that moves me to consider him the genuine heir to Arlo Guthrie or Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. He knows the shell game that goes on under folk music… which is sacred to me. Chicago Farmer is my brother; if you like me, you’ll love him.” - Todd Snider“Chicago Farmer has his finger on the modern Roots pulse with a display of gritty Country Rock and Folk from the gut amid a Folksingers mesh of lyrical humor and problems with a groove.” - The Alternate Root
Venue Information
Name: | Martyrs' |
Address: | 3855 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago, IL |
Website: | http://www.martyrslive.com |
Robert Rolfe Feddersen LIVE at ILLUMINATED BREW WORKS-NORTHSIDE RECORD RELEASE PARTY!
Thu, 3/23/23, 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Event by Robert Rolfe Feddersen
Duration: 2 hr
Public Anyone on or off Facebook
Join Robert Rolfe Feddersen LIVE at ILLUMINATED BREW WORKS for the NORTHSIDE Record Release Party of THE DISTANCE! 180 Gram VINYL Copies will be available for purchase!! 7:30pm-9:30pm CDT. Norwood Park, Chicago,IL.
Rosie & The Rivets at Club Arcada
Fri, 3/24/23, 8:30 PM - 11:30 PM
Event by Rosie & The Rivets
Public Anyone on or off Facebook
Join us at the fabulous Club Arcada for a night of dinner and dancing.
Venue Information
Name: | Club Arcada Speakeasy & Restaurant |
Address: | 105 E Main St., Saint Charles, IL, United States, Illinois |
Website: | clubarcada.com |
Reclaim the Stage Festival Reggies
Sat, 3/25/23, 1:00 PM - Sun, 3/26/23, 1:00 AM
Event by Josh Nutting, Sawyer Season and 5 others
Public Anyone on or off Facebook
Jahshie P. and Whitney Flynn present:
Reclaim the Stage Festival 2023
A celebration of strong and fierce female performers!
The Last Gang
Sunny War
Whitney Flynn
Volk
She/her/hers
Tiger Sex
Run Rabbit Run
Flubbox
Shitizen
Boybrain
The Dilators
Toy Dynamite
White Rose Motor Oil
Blue Ribbon Glee Club
+one more headliner TBA!
Venue Information
Name: | Reggie's Rock Club |
Address: | 2109 South State Street Chicago, IL 60616 |
Website: | www.reggieslive.com |
Robert Rolfe Feddersen RECORD RELEASE PARTY at HAILSTORM BREWING CO!
Sat, 3/25/23, 6:00 PM - Sat, 3/25/23, 9:00 PM
Event by Robert Rolfe Feddersen
Duration: 3 hr
Public Anyone on or off Facebook
Join Robert Rolfe Feddersen for THE DISTANCE record release party! 180 gram VINYL RECORDS will be available at the show plus a special THE DISTANCE HAILSTORM IPA!! Sat Mar 25th from 6pm-9pm CDT. C'MON NOW!!!
Venue Information
Name: | Hailstorm Brewing Co., Tinley Park, IL |
Address: | 8060 186th St, Tinley Park, IL, United States, Illinois |
Website: | hailstormbrewing.com |
Midnight Iris at Shannon's in Lombard! 3/25
Sat, 3/25/23, 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Event by Midnight Iris
Public · Anyone on or off Facebook
Join us for a FUN night of LIVE MUSIC from Midnight Iris! Shannon's in Lombard 7pm!
Venue Information
Name: | Shannon's Deli, Lombard, IL |
Address: | 11-15 S. Park Ave, Lombard, IL, United States, Illinois |
Website: | shannonsdeli.net |
Saturday Night on the Square at Winestock Market and Lounge!
Sat, 3/25/23, 7:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Duration: 3 hr
Public Anyone on or off Facebook
Michael brings the Love Songs to the Historic Woodstock Square. Join him for wonderful selections and stories from the Great American Songbook and more! Always a great time, great food and wine!
Venue Information
Name: | Winestock, Woodstock, IL |
Address: | 136 Cass Street Woodstock, IL 60098 |
Website: | https://www.facebook.com/Winestockmarket |
INTERNATIONALISTS / THE FAILERS / POINER COCKBUSCH - Friday, March 24th Montrose Saloon
Friday, March 24th
21+ / $10
Sat, 3/25/23, 8:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Event by Montrose Saloon
Public · Anyone on or off Facebook
Friday, March 24th
21+ / $10
INTERNATIONALISTS / 11
THE FAILERS / 10
TBD / 9
POINER COCKBUSCH / 8
THE FAILERS / 10
TBD / 9
POINER COCKBUSCH / 8
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Venue Information
Name: | Montrose Saloon |
Address: | 2933 W. Montrose Ave., Chicago, IL 60618 |
Website: | http://www.facebook.com/pages/Montrose-Saloon/116600338363739 |
Steve Kessler and The Saturday June Band Teddy O'Brian's
Sat, 3/25/23, 8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Event by Saturday June Band
Duration: 3 hr
Public Anyone on or off Facebook
Come kick off spring with Steve Kessler & The Saturday June Band!
Venue Information
Name: | Teddy O'Brian's, Highwood, IL |
Address: | 432 Sheridan Rd Highwood, IL 60040 |
Website: | https://www.facebook.com/teddyobrianshighwood/ |