09/01 Bob Bovee & Gail Heil, Fox Valley Folk Fest./Geneva
09/01 Bryan Bowers Fox Valley Folk Fest./Aurora
09/01 Curtis & Loretta Fox Valley Folk Fest./Geneva 612/781-9537
09/01 Lee Murdock Fox Valley Folk Fest/Geneva 630/897-3655
09/01 Leela & Ellie Grace, Fox Valley Folk Fest./Geneva
09/01 Phil Cooper, Margaret Nelson & Kate Early, Fox Valley Folk
Fest./Geneva 630/584-1262
09/01 Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen, Fox Valley Folk Fest./Geneva
630/897-3655
09/04 Red Rose Ragtime Band, FitzGerald's/Berwyn 708/788-2118
09/05 Backyard Tire Fire, Metro/Chicago
09/05 Dale Watson FitzGerald's/Berwyn (w/Gin Palace Jesters)
708/788-2118
09/05 Damien Dempsey Schuba's/Chicago 773/525-2508
09/05 Slaid Cleaves FitzGerald's/Berwyn 708/788-2118
09/05 The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, House of Blues BackPorch
Stage/Chicago
09/06-7 Samantha Crain Old Town Schl/Chicago (w/Sam Phillips)
773/728-6000
09/06 Bob Bovee & Gail Heil, Public Library/Champaign
09/06 Paula Nelson Band FitzGerald's/Berwyn 708/788-2118
09/06 Richie Havens Beverly Arts Ctr/Chicago
09/06 Tom Chapin Ravinia Fest./Highland Park (w/Jon
Cobert, Michael Mark) 847/266-5100
09/06 Vance Gilbert Blue Moon Cfhs/Bloomington
09/07 Bryan Bowers Nature Ctr/Ceeria
09/07 Bua Fox Valley Irish Fest./West Dundee
09/09 Slaid Cleaves High Dive/Champaign 217/778-0767
09/10 Slaid Cleaves Uptown Grill Playlist Thtr/LaSalle
815/224-4545
09/12 Bruce Robison FitzGerald's/Berwyn (w/Guy
Forsyth, Luke Sayers) 708/788-2118
09/13-14 Beoga Celtic Fest Chicago/Chicago
09/13-14 Cara Celtic Fest Chicago/Chicago
09/13-14 Cecile Corbel Celtic Fest Chicago/Chicago
09/13-14 Old Blind Dogs Celtic Fest Chicago/Chicago
09/13 Bill Kirchen FitzGerald's/Berwyn 708/788-2118
09/13 John Sebastian Glen Oak Amp./Peoria
09/13 The Duke Robillard Band, House of Blues/Chicago
09/14 David Lindley The Heartland Cafe/Chicago
09/14 Erica Wheeler Art & Wine Fest. at Carlyle Lake/Carlyle
618/594-2484
09/14 Mike Mangione On the Map House Concert/Highland Park
09/14 Sones de Mexico Ensemble, Mexican Independence Day
Parade/Beardstown
09/14 Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys, Old Town Schl/Chicago
773/728-6000
09/16 Paul Weller House of Blues/Chicago
09/17-18 David Lindley The Uptown Grill/La Salle
09/18 Vince Gill Rialto Square Thtr/Joliet
09/19-21 Elise Witt Children's Music Network conf./Chicago
09/19 February Sky Common Good Cfhs/Chicago 773/338-0256
09/19 Justin Townes Earle, Oak Park Music Fest./Oak Park
09/19 Phil Cooper, Margaret Nelson & Kate Early, Common Good
Cfhs/Chicago (benefit, w/February Sky) 630/584-1262
09/19 Rupa & the April Fishes, Morse Thtr/Chicago
09/20-21 Rachel Unthank & the Winterset, Chicago World Music Fest/Chicago
09/20 Bucky Halker Dickson Mounds Museum/Havana 309/833-4838
09/20 Giant Sand Hideout Block Party/Chicago
09/20 Griffin House Vic Thtr/Chicago (w/Xavier Rudd)
09/20 Jan Krist Congr. Church/Deerfield
09/20 Monte Montgomery FitzGerald's/Berwyn 708/788-2118
09/20 Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas, Oak Park Music Fest./Oak Park
09/20 Rupa & the April Fishes, Borders/Chicago
09/20 Rupa & the April Fishes, Old Town Schl/Chicago 773/728-6000
09/20 Xavier Rudd Vic Thtr/Chicago
09/21-22 Etran Finatawa Chicago World Music Festival/Chicago
09/21 Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico, Old Town Schl/Chicago
773/728-6000
09/22 Elise Witt ??/Chicago
09/24 Leon Redbone FitzGerald's/Berwyn 708/788-2118
09/25 Paul Amandes FitzGerald's/Berwyn (w/Anne Hills)
708/788-2118
09/25 Ruthie Foster Bloomington Center for the Performing
Arts/Bloomington
09/26 Keller Williams Vic Thtr/Chicago (w/Moseley, Droll and Sipe)
09/26 Melanie Espenschied Chapel/Mascoutah 618/566-7425
09/26 Noah and the Whale, Empty Bottle/Chicago
09/27 Michael Miles Prairie Ctr/Schaumburg
09/27 Ron Sexsmith Schubas Tavern/Chicago
09/27 Sally Spring Princeton Cfhs/Princeton 815/875-4555
09/28 Melanie Espenschied Chapel/Mascoutah (2pm)
618/566-7425
09/28 Sones de Mexico Ensemble, ??/Carbondale
09/28 Vance Gilbert North Shore Ctr for Perf. Arts/Skokie
09/30 Lila Downs Harris Thtr/Chicago
10/03 Chicago a cappella, Merit School of Music/Chicago 773/755-1628
10/04 Phil Cooper, Margaret Nelson & Kate Early, House Concert/Lake
Villa 630/584-1262
10/04 Roger McGuinn Prairie Ctr for Arts/Schaumburg
10/04 Ruthie Foster Old Town Schl/Chicago (w/Catie Curtis)
773/728-6000
10/04 The Churchmen ??/Bethalto
10/05 Chicago a cappella, Music Inst. of Chicago/Evanston (4pm)
773/755-1628
10/05 Kathleen Edwards Rialto Square Thtr/Joliet (w/Indigo Girls)
10/05 Phil Cooper, Margaret Nelson & Kate Early, Grove Folk
Fest./Glenview 630/584-1262
10/05 Solas Abbey Pub/Chicago
10/07 Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Univ. of IL/Urbana (w/The Blind
Boys of Alabama)
10/07 The Blind Boys of Alabama, Univ. of IL/Urbana (w/the
Preservation Hall Jazz Band)
10/10-11 Donny McCaslin The Green Mill/Chicago
10/10-11 Taj Mahal Morse Thtr/Chicago
10/10 Boulder Acoustic Society, Hoogland Ctr for Arts/Springfield
10/10 Preservation Hall Jazz Band, College of DuPage/Glen Ellyn
(w/The Blind Boys of Alabama)
10/10 Richard Gilewitz Cousin Andy's/Carbondale
10/10 Sones de Mexico Ensemble, Bloomington Ctr for Perf.
Arts/Bloomington 309/434-2787
10/10 The Blind Boys of Alabama, College of DuPage/Glen Ellyn
(w/the Preservation Hall Jazz Band)
10/11 Ben Weaver The Hideout/Chicago (w/Justin Townes Earle)
10/11 Bucky Halker Northern IL Univ./Naperville 815/753-6164
10/11 Carrie Newcomer Folk Stage - WFMT/Chicago (w/Wilderness Plots)
10/11 Chicago a cappella, Pilgrim Congr. Church/Oak Park 773/755-1628
10/11 Justin Townes Earle, Chicago Country Music Fest./Chicago
10/11 Phil Cooper, Margaret Nelson & Kate Early, Peck Farm Twilight
Fair/Geneva 630/584-1262
10/15 The Aggrolites Subterranean/Chicago
10/16-17 George Winston Beverly Art Ctr/Chicago
10/16 Toubab Krewe House of Blues/Chicago
10/17 The Tommy Castro Band, Shaw's Oyster Fest./Chicago
10/17 Toubab Krewe House Cafe/DeKalb
10/18 Bryan Bowers ??/Rockford
10/18 David Wilcox Old Town Schl/Chicago 773/728-6000
10/18 Global Drum Project, Joan W. & Irving B. Harris Thtr/Chicago
10/18 Old Crow Medicine Show, Riviera Thtr/Chicago
10/19 George Winston Fermilab/Batavia 630/840-2059
10/19 Grasstowne "Soup's On" Rotary Event/Naperville
10/22 Wovenhand Bottom Lounge/Chicago
10/23 Sones de Mexico Ensemble, Naper Blvd Public Library/Naperville
630/637-2231
10/24 Mavis Staples Eastern IL Univ./Charleston
10/25 Bill Morrissey Princeton Cfhs/Princeton 815/875-4555
10/25 Los Lobos Bloomington Ctr for Perf. Arts/Bloomington
10/25 Pieta Brown Old Town Schl/Chicago (w/Gary Louris)
773/728-6000
10/25 Sones de Mexico Ensemble, Olympic Thtr/Cicero (w/Mexican
Folkloric Dance Co. of Chicago) 773/247-1522
10/31 Ronnie Baker Brooks, Chubby Rain House of Tunes/Poplar Grove
10/31 The Lovell Sisters Band, Amer. Legion Music/Evanston
847/573-0443
11/01 Booker T. & the MG's, Harris Thtr/Chicago
11/01 Mavis Staples Harris Thtr/Chicago (w/Booker T & MG's)
11/02 Michael Miles Harris Thtr/Chicago
11/06 Jonathan Byrd Trout Lily Cafe/Springfield
11/07 John Reischman & the Jaybirds, Greater Downstate Indoor B.G.
Fest./Springfield 217/243-3159
11/07 Nothin' Fancy Greater Downstate Indoor B.G.
Fest./Springfield 217/243-3159
11/07 Vance Gilbert Just Goods Listening Room/Rockford
11/08 Dennis Stroughmatt & Creole Stomp, Gorton Community Ctr/Gorton
847/234-6060
11/08 John Reischman & the Jaybirds, Old Town Schl/Chicago
773/728-6000
11/08 Richard Gilewitz Charlotte's Web/Rockford
11/08 Switchback Ascension Church/Oak Park
11/12 Bucky Halker Olympia Fields Women's Club/Homewood
773/275-4959
11/14 Mustard's Retreat Two Way St. Cfhs/Downers Grove 630/969-9720
11/14 Odetta Coronado Perf. Arts Ctr/Rockford
11/14 Toumani Diabate Old Town Schl/Chicago 773/728-6000
11/15 Bounding Main Skokie Thtr/?? 847/677-7761
11/15 Loudon Wainwright III, College of DuPage/Glen Ellyn (w/Leo
Kottke)
11/16 The Pine Leaf Boys, Old Town Schl/Chicago 773/728-6000
11/18 Curtis & Loretta Hayner Public Library/Alton 612/781-9537
11/21-22 Hot Club of Cowtown, College of DuPage/Glen Ellyn
11/22 Rose Cousins Princeton Cfhs/Princeton 815/875-4555
11/22 The Klezmatics Fermilab/Batavia 630/840-2059
11/28 Asylum Street Spankers, Old Town Schl/Chicago 773/728-6000
11/28 Phil Cooper, Margaret Nelson & Kate Early, Bean
Encounters/Mendota (w/Bittersweet Christmas Band) 630/584-1262
11/29 Lee Murdock Maple St. Chapel/Lombard x2
630/627-0171
12/02 April Verch Krannert Ctr/Urbana 217/333-6280
12/05 Eileen Ivers & Immigrant Soul, Dominican Univ./River Forest
12/07 Kristin Hersh Old Town Schl/Chicago 773/728-6000
12/07 Phil Cooper, Margaret Nelson & Kate Early, Public
Library/Algonquin (2pm) 630/584-1262
12/09 Eileen Ivers & Immigrant Soul, College of Lake Co./Grayslake
12/10 Backyard Tire Fire, Ottos/Dekalb
12/11 Adrian Legg Heartland Cafe/Chicago
12/12 Cherish the Ladies, Freedom Hall/Park Forest
12/12 Marcia Ball Old Town Schl/Chicago 773/728-6000
12/13 Cherish the Ladies, Ctr for Perf. Arts/Bloomington
12/13 John Jorgenson Quintet, Tri States Public Radio Studio/Macomb
12/14 Karan Casey Old Town Schl/Chicago 773/728-6000
12/14 Teada Old Town Schl/Chicago 773/728-6000
12/16-17 George Winston Metropolis Perf. Arts Ctr/Arlington Heights
12/19 Phil Cooper, Margaret Nelson & Kate Early, Geneva UU
Church/Geneva 630/584-1262
2009 /01/10 Liz Carroll World Music Co./Chicago 773/779-7059
2009 /01/25 Alasdair Fraser, Old Town Schl/Chicago 773/728-6000
2009 /02/21 Ruthie Foster College of DuPage/Glen Ellyn
2009 /02/22 Ruthie Foster Lumber Ctr for Perf. Arts/Grayslake
2009/01/10 John Gorka WFMT Studio/Chicago
2009/01/10 Susan Werner Blue Moon Cfhs/Bloomington
2009/01/16-17 John Hammond, Elgin Community College/Elgin
2009/01/16 Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart, Cousin Andy's Cfhs/Carbondale
618/457-2232
2009/01/16 Susan Werner Raue Ctr for Arts/Crystal Lake
2009/01/17 the subdudes Ctr for Perf. Arts/Bloomington
2009/01/19 Mavis Staples Northwestern Univ./Evanston
2009/01/30 Laurie Lewis John A. Logan College/Carterville
618/985-2828
2009/01/31 Jay Ungar & Molly Mason, Sangamon Aud./Springfield (w/10th
Illinois Volunteer Cavalry Band) 217/206-6160
2009/02/14 Christine Balfa & Balfa Toujours, Old Town Schl/Chicago
773/728-6000
2009/02/14 Dirk Powell Band, Old Town Schl/Chicago 773/728-6000
2009/02/14 Dixie Hummingbirds, Fermilab/Batavia
2009/02/19 Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Rialto Square Thtr/Joliet
2009/02/21 Gaelic Storm Egyptian Thtr/Dekalb
2009/02/21 Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Ctr for Arts/Bloomington
2009/02/27 Dervish Old Town Schl/Chicago 773/728-6000
2009/02/27 Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Coronado Perf. Arts Ctr/Rockford
2009/02/27 Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill, Old Town Schl/Chicago
773/728-6000
2009/03/06 Susan Werner Sangamon Aud./Springfield
2009/03/13 Carrie Newcomer, The Next Picture Show/Dixon 815/285-4924
2009/03/14 Bucky Halker Skokie Thtr/Skokie 773/275-4959
2009/03/14 Carrie Newcomer, Folk Stage - WFMT/Chicago
2009/03/14 Solas Fermilab/Batavia
2009/03/15 Switchback Opera House/Sandwich
2009/03/16 Liz Carroll & John Doyle, Metropolis Perf. Arts
Ctr/Arlington Heights (w/Trinity Irish Dancers) 847/577-2121
2009/03/21 Roger McGuinn Hemmens Cultural Ctr/Elgin
2009/03/27 Carolina Chocolate Drops, Ctr for Arts/Bloomington
2009/03/27 Curtis & Loretta, Thomas Ford Mem. Library/Western Springs
612/781-9537
2009/03/28 The Tommy Castro Band, Prairie Ctr for Arts/Schaumburg
(w/Legendary Rhythm & Blues Revue)
2009/04/03 Curtis & Loretta, Cousin Andy's Cfhs/Carbondale 612/781-9537
2009/04/04 James "Sparky" Rucker & Rhonda Rucker, Hogeye Folk
Arts/Chicago 847/475-6165
2009/04/18 Amy Speace WFMT Studio/Chicago
2009/04/19 Amy Speace Bill's Blues/Evanston
2009/04/25 Harry Manx ECC Blizzard Thtr/Elgin
2009/04/25 Richie Havens ECC Blizzard Thtr/Elgin
2009/05/02 Bucky Halker Unitar. Univ. Church/DeKalb 773/275-4959
2009/05/09 Doc Watson Coronado/Rockford 815/968-2722
2009/05/09 John Gorka Unitar. Church/Hinsdale
2009/10/30 Idgy Vaughn Cousin Andy's Cfhs/Carbondale
2009/11/06 Doug & Telisha Williams, Cousin Andy's Cfhs/Carbondale
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