NOTE: Lee's Unleaded Blues in Chicago is temporarily closed.

Aug. 26: Pete Galanis Band at Beer Geeks, Highland, IN

Quintus McCormick at B.L.U.E.S., Chicago

Billy Flynn, Nigel Mack & the Blues Attack at House of Blues, Chgo

Aug. 27: Sugar Blue Unplugged at Rosa's, Chgo

Aug. 28: Tom Holland & The Shuffle Kings at Shaw's, Chicago

Aug. 29: Blue Road Band, Chase at Reggie's, Chicago

Nick Moss Band at Wire, Berwyn

Big James & The Chicago Playboys at B.L.U.E.S., Chicago

Lurrie Bell, J.B. Ritchie at Buddy Guy's Legends, Chgo

Dave Specter Band at Smoke Daddy, Chgo

Pete Galanis Band at Nick's Beer Garden, Chgo

Aug. 30: Nikki Hill at Reggie's, Chgo

Rockin' Johnny Band at The Village Tavern, Long Grove

Jimmy Burns Band at Rosa's, Chgo

Studebaker John & The Hawks at Harlem Ave. Lounge, Berwyn

Dawn O'Keefe Williams & The Lucky Dogs w/ Carl Davis at Mac's on Slade, Palatine

Aug. 29-30: The Cooke Book/ The Music of Sam Cooke w/ Darrian Ford at Lincoln Hall, Chgo

Tenry Johns Band w/ Claudette Miller at Blue Chicago, Chicago

Kinsey Report, Linsey Alexander at Kingston Mines, Chicago

Aug. 31: Blues BBQ (4 p.m.) & Delmark Night at B.L.U.E.S., Chicago

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Sept. 2: Joe Filisko Harmonica Party at Harlem Ave. Lounge, Berwyn

Sept. 4: Blues Benefit Concert & Live Auction for "Us Too" Cancer Support w/ Nu Blue Band & WGN's Steve Sanders at Buddy Guy's Legends, Chgo

Sept. 5: Fabulous Thunderbirds at Beverly Arts Center, Chicago

Giles Corey's Stoned Soul CD Party at Rosa's, Chgo

Sept. 6: Kinsey Report, Duke Tumatoe at Round Lake Hometown Fest, Round Lake, IL

PADS Benefit for the Homeless w/

Sept. 7: Mississippi Heat House of Blues, Chgo

Sept. 9: Sandi Thom at Rosa's, Chgo

Early Warnings:

Sept. 12: Elvin Bishop at SPACE, Evanston

Art & Music Event w/ Wade Fernandez, Mark Cleveland at Trickster Art Gallery, Schaumburg. FREE!

Sept. 13: Janiva Magness at FitzGerald's, Berwyn

Mississippi Heat CD Party at Buddy Guy's Legends, Chgo

Blues For Sean Costello Benefit w/ Tom Holland & The Shuffle Kings, Billy Boy Arnold, Jody Williams, Long Tall Deb & Colin John, Kate Moss, Dave Herrero, Felix Reyes, Richard Rosenblatt, Dick Shurman (emcee) Rosa's, Chgo

Sept. 14: Maria Muldaur at SPACE, Evanston

Sept. 17: Tad Robinson & Dave Specter at SPACE, Evanston

Sept. 20: Jesse Dee at FitzGerald's, Berwyn

Oct. 3: Nick Moss Band, Kevin Purcell & The Nightburners at Prairie Center for the Arts, Schaumburg

Oct. 24: Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater CD Party at Buddy Guy's Legends, Chgo

Nov. 1: Robert Randolph & The Family Band at Prairie Center for the Arts, Schaumburg