Events

 

Concerts :

 

Banjos & Bagels Band

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

 

Brashler’s Barn, Lockport

9/8   7:30pm Special Consensus

10/6 Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers

 

Bluegrass Express

9/2 Chet Kingrey Memorial Bluegrass Festival, Arthur

9/16 Winnebago Evangelical Fellowship, Winnebago

10/14 Bluegrass Sampler V - Rt. 20 Outhouse 

11/24 BMAI Thanksgiving Weekend Bluegrass Festival

 

Chicago Bluegrass American Legion, Evanston

9/23 8pm Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show with opening act The Chicago Boys

2/24 Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers

 

Daily & Vincent

10/14 7pm Christian Church OF Clarendon Hills, 5750 Holmes Ave. Clarendon Hills

www.bluegrassinchicago.com

 

Fox Valley Grass

9/16  7-10  Calamity Jane's, Sugar Grove

 

Georgia Rae Family Band

9/30 11am, Von Bergens Country Market

Rt 173, Hebron

 

Mackville

9/2 Noon to 10:00 pm - Chet Kingery Memorial Bluegrass Festival, The Great Pumpkin Patch, Arthur, IL
9/8 8:00 pm - New Salem State Park Traditional Music Festival, Petersburg, IL
9/9 8:00 pm - New Salem State Park Traditional Music Festival, Petersburg, IL
9/16 Noon to 1:00 - Evergreen Senior Living, Decatur, IL
9/17 Noon to 4:00 - Curtis Orchards, Champaign, IL
9/24 4:00 pm - Shiloh Baptist Church Gospel Jubilee, Bridgeport, IL
9/30 1:00 - 4:00 pm - The Great Pumpkin Patch, Arthur, IL

 

The Henhouse Prowlers

9/3 10pm Shoe Fest, Manteno

9/16 9pm Hangar 9, Carbondale

 

SilverStrings

9/3 12-3 On The Rocks, Joliet

9/8 9-11pm The Crowd Around Me, Shorewood

9/9 8-11pm Starved Rock Lodge, Utica 

9/29 5-6:30 Grundy County Corn Fest, South Stage, Morris

 

Special Consensus

9/8 7:30 pm Brashler’s Barn, Lockport

9/17 Harvest Fest, Woodstock

9/22-23 Threshermen’s Bluegrass Festival, Pontiac

 

 

String Beans & The Pickin Pear

9/8  Two Brothers Roundhouse Aurora

 

The General Logan Square

Bluegrass Brunch Every Sat, 11-3

 

Events:

 

9/17 Noon - NIBA Picnic, Illini State Park, Marseilles

 

9/30 6pm -  NIBA Scholarship Jam, Earlville Township Building, Earlville

 

"Strictly Bluegrass" & "When Country Wasn't Cool" broadcast Sunday & Monday; Both air from Noon - 2 pm. CT. Sunday, WCSF 88.7 FM

 

Festivals :

 

9/1 Shoe Fest, Manteno, Il www.shoe-fest.com

 

9/2  Chet Kingery Memorial Bluegrass Festival @ The Great Pumpkin Patch, Arthur, IL. Noon-10:00 pm  http://www.mackvillebluegrass.com/chet-kingery-memorial-bluegrass-festival.html or: 217-578-3868 

 

9/22-23 Threshermans Bluegrass Festival Ponitac, Il.

 

10/6-8 Grapevine Bluegrass Festival Effingham, Il. http://www.grapevinebluegrass.com/

 

10/13-14 36th Old Time and Bluegrass Gathering Eden Valley Refuge 2 mi South of Baldwin, IA.

 

3/1-3/3 2018 13^th Annual Shorty’s Strickly Bluegrass Festival, East Peoria (See Flyer)

 

 

 

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