Events

Concerts :

Banjos & Bagels Band

Every Sun, 11-1, Kaufman’s Deli Skokie

Brashler’s Barn

9/9 Monroe Crossing

10/6 Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver

Foggy Memory Boys

9/1 Calamity Jane's 7 pm

Fox Crosssing Stringband
8/29 Chicago’s City Winery on the Riverwalk 5-7pm
9/8 Prairie Sky Music Festival, Allerton IL
12pm, (will attach additional fest info)
9/13 Tighthead Brewing Co, Mundeline IL 7-9pm
9/22 Buffalo Creek Brewing, Long Grove IL 7-10pm

Mackville

9/1 The Chet Kingery Memorial Bluegrass Festival

Old Town School of Folk Music

9/28 –Bruce Molsky’s Mountain Drifters 8pm

Georgia Rae Family Band

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SilverStrings

9/4 Provena Villa Nursing Home Joliet 2:30-3:30

9/7 Golf Outing Innwood Park, Joliet

9/15 Yorkville Library Ice Crean Social 2-3:30 pm

9/15 Big Bros and Big Sis' Fundraiser for ALS Innwood in Joliet 7-10 pm

9/16 On The Rocks in Joliet 12-3pm
9/ 21 Croatian Club in Crest Hill 7:30-10:0pm

9/22 Joneseez BBQ in Braidwood 7-11pm

9/28 Pearce's Pub in Oswego 7-10pm

Special Consensus

10/6 Old Tyme Heritage Bluegrass Festival, Normal

1/5 Front Street Music, Valparaiso, In

1/6 Maple Street Chapel, Lombard

The Templetons
9/9 East Troy Bluegrass Festival, East Troy, WI

Tiny Country

9/7 Broken Earth Winery, Long Grove 7-10pm
9/14 Preservation Bread and Wine, General 7-9pm
9/16 Ravenswood Art Walk, ChicagoL 12pm
9/21 Grandpa’s Place, Glenview 8-11pm
9/22 Bluegrass Brunch at Craft Urbana, Geneva 11:30-2:30pm
2/23 Lyme Awareness Walk 11am, Citizens Park, Barrington

9/29 Vintage 53, St. Charles IL 8-11pm

Truman’s Ridge

10/5 7pm Friday Night Concerts, Sandwich Opera House, Sandwich

11/9 7pm Friday Night Music Series, Just Goods, Rockford

The General Logan Square

Bluegrass Brunch Every Sat, 11-3

Events:

9/23 12pm NIBA Picnic, Illini State Park, Marseilles 12-?

9/29 NIBA Scholarship Jam, Paw Paw Library,

Paw Paw, Il. 6pm

10/6-7 Fiddle Fest (see flyer on home page). Effingham, Il

10/7 Official State of Illinois Old Time Fiddle Contest (at Fiddler Fest) http://www.illinoisoldtimefiddlers.org/

Events:

9/23 12pm NIBA Picnic, Illini State Park, Marseilles 12-?

9/29 NIBA Scholarship Jam, Paw Paw Library,

Paw Paw, Il. 6pm

Workshops:

9/1 Chet Kingery Memorial Bluegrass Festival Music Workshops

Festivals :

8/30-9/2 Northern Indiana Bluegrass Association (NIBGA) Festival , Noble County 4H Fairgrounds, Kenallville, I BluegrassUSA.net, (260) 918-4790, f18@nibga.com

9/1 The Chet Kingery Memorial Bluegrass Festival at The Great Pumpkin Patch in rural Arthur, Illinois. Featuring Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, Danny Paisley and Southern Grass, The Harmans, Cornfields and Crossroads and your host band, Mackville! (See Flyer)

9/2-9/3 Fox Valley Folk Festival & Storytelling Festival, Island Park, Geneva, Il. (See Flyer)

10/5-6 Old Tyme Heritage Bluegrass Festival, 216 Jersey Ave. Normal, Ill (See Flyer)

Also see http://www.bluegrassusa.net/events/flyers/