AUGUST/SEPTEMBER CHICAGO CONCERT GUIDE
compiled by Julie Lounges
AUGUST
1 RADIOHEAD w/Beta Band
Arvey Field (Chicago, IL)
BLUE RODEO w/Teddy Morgan & The Pistolas
Fitzgeralds (Chicago, IL)
EDWIN McCAIN
House Of Blues (Chicago, IL)
2 SUGAR RAY w/ Unkle Kraker
THE Odeum (Chicago, IL)
LIL’Romeo
Skyline Stage (Chicago, IL)
2-3 RAY CHARLES
House Of Blues (Chicago, IL)
3 MATCHBOX TWENTY w/ Train & The Old ‘97s
Tweeter (Tinley Park, IL)
THE CHURCHILLS
Schubas (Chicago, IL)
BOTTLE ROCKETS
Schubas (Chicago, IL)
3-4 JAMES TAYLOR
Rosemont Theatre (Rosemont, IL)
4 BUJU BANTON
House Of Blues (Chicago, IL)
Burning airlines
Empty Bottle (Chicago, IL)
BLUE OYSTER CULT
Skyline Stage/ Navy Pier
(Chicago, IL)
FRANKIE BEVERLY & MAZE
Arie Crown (Chicago, IL)
BONNIE PRINCE BILLY w/Starch Martins
Schubas (Chicago, IL)
5 NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
Schubas (Chicago, IL)
5&7 SADE
Allstate Arena (Rosemont,
IL)
6 GRAVITY KILLS
Metro (Chicago, IL)
7 MARY BLACK w/Kathy Mattea
Ravinia (Highland Park, IL)
LIVING COLOUR
Metro (Chicago, IL)
7-8 ALLMAN BROTHERS
Chicago Theatre (Chicago, IL)
8 INNER CIRCLE & WAILING SOULS
House Of Blues (Chicago, IL)
LOS LOBOS
Ravinia (Highland Park, IL)
YES with The Chicago Symphony
Arie Crown (Chicago, IL)
JIM WHITE
Martyrs (Chicago, IL)
10 GISELLE
House Of Blues (Chicago, IL)
HANK WILLIAMS III
Metro (Chicago, IL)
REBA McENTIRE w/Martina McBride & More
United Center (Chicago, IL)
KASIM SULTAN (ex-Utopia)
The Abbey (Chicago, IL)
10-11 TONY BENNETT
United Center
(Chicago, IL)
11 TAJ MAHAL
House Of Blues (Chicago, IL)
R. KELLY
Tweeter (Tinley Park, IL)
RICK SPRINGFIELD
Skyline Stage / Navy Pier (Chicago,
IL)
ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT
Double Door (Chicago, IL)
12 RICK SPRINGFIELD
Star Plaza (Chicago, IL)
13 ARAB ON RADAR
Fireside Bowl (Chicago, IL)
30 ODD FOOT OF GRUNTS
House Of Blues (Chicago, IL)
14 GEORGE BENSON w/Nena Freelon
Ravinia (Highland Park,
IL)
VICTORIA WILLIAMS, w/Mark
Olsen
Schubas (Chicago, IL)
CROSBY, STILLS & NASH
Rosemont Theatre (Rosemont, IL)
BUCKCHERRY
Double Door (Chicago, IL)
VISION OF DISORDER
House OF Blues (Chicago, IL)
16 FRANK MARINO & MAHOGANY RUSH
House Of Blues (Chicago, IL)
FOUR TOPS & THE TEMPTATIONS
Ravinia (Highland Park,
IL)
17 JONATHA BROOKE
Park West (Chicago, IL)
BRUCE HORNSBY
Ravinia (Highland Park, IL)
CHEAP TRICK
Skyline Stage / Navy Pier (Chicago, IL)
GALACTIC
Riviera (Chicago, IL)
DAVID CASSIDY
Harrah’s (East Chicago, IL)
DUKE TUMATOE
Fitzgeralds (Berwyin, IL)
18 AGNOSTIC FRONT
Metro (Chicago, IL)
BILL WYMAN & THE RHYTHM KINGS
Park West (Chicago, IL)
TOWER OF POWER
House Of Blues (Chicago, IL)
PETER,PAUL & MARY
Ravinia (Highland Park, IL)
JOHN MELLENCAMP w/The Wallflowers
Tweeter Center (Tinley Park, IL)
GODSMACK w/The Deftones
Alpine Valley (East Troy, WI)
DAVID CASSIDY
Harrah’s (Joliet, IL)
PETER YORN
Schubas (Chicago, IL)
18-19 POI DOG PONDERING
Skyline Stage
(Chicago, IL)
21 B.B. KING w/Tommy Castro & John Hiatt & The Goners
Rosemont Theatre (Rosemont, IL)
SHAWN COLVIN w/Emmylou Harris & Spyboy
Ravinia (Highland Park, IL)
DAYS OF THE NEW
House Of Blues (Chicago, IL)
NADA SURF w/ Ozma
Metro (Chicago, IL)
22 RINGO STARR’S ALL-STAR BAND with... Ian Hunter, Shelia
E., Greg Lake
Howard Jones & Roger Hodson
Rosemont Theatre (Rosemont, IL)
22-23 MUDHONEY
Empty
Bottle (Chicago, IL)
23 LUKA BLOOM w/Bohola
Old Town School Of Music (Chicago,
IL)
BASTARD SONS OF JOHnNY CASH
Schubas (Chicago, IL)
TED NUGENT
Star Plaza Theatre (Merrillville, IN)
24 MICK TAYLOR
Cubby Bear (Chicago, IL)
RATDOG w/Rusted Root
Alpine Valley (East Troy, WI)
BELA FLECK & THE FLECKTONES w/Keb 'Mo
Chicago Theatre (Chicago, IL)
BARENAKED LADIES w/ The Proclaimers
Tweeter Center (Chicago, IL)
THE SHINS
Schubas (Chicago, IL)
NILE RODGERS & CHIC
Park West (Chicago, IL)
ZEBRA
House Of Blues (Chicago, IL)
25 ETTA JAMES
House Of Blues (Chicago, IL)
GREAT BIG SEA w/ Natalie MacMaster
& Michael McDermott
Ravinia (Highland Park, IL)
GRANT LEE PHILLIPS
Double Door (Chicago, IL)
DAVID ALLEN & THE UNIVERSITY OF ERRORS
Schubas (Chicago, IL)
25-26 ELEVENTH DREAM DAY
Abbey
(Chicago, IL)
26 DESTINY’S CHILD w/Nelly, Dream Eve 3G's & 3LW
Tweeter (Tinley Park, IL)
JOSH JOPLIN GROUP
House Of Blues (Chicago, IL)
ERYKAH BADU
Arie Crown (Chicago, IL)
VANILLA FUDGE
House Of Blues (Chicago, IL)
27 FRANK ORRALL & FRIENDS
Schubas (Chicago, IL)
28-29 MADONNA
United Center
(Chicago, IL)
28-30 MELISSA ETHRIDGE
Chicago
Theatre (Chicago, IL)
29-30 GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS
House
Of Blues (Chicago, IL)
30 BLACKMAKER
Double Door (Chicago, IL)
31 HueY LEWIS & THE NEWS
Star Plaza (Merrillville, IN)
UNWOUND
Empty Bottle (Chicago, IL)
MUDVAYNE
House Of Blues (Chicago, IL)
SEPTEMBER
1 MIchael Bolton
Star Plaza Theatre (Chicago, IL)
FUNKY METERS
House Of Blues (Chicago, IL)
5 NON-POINTw/ Reveille & Darwin’s Waiting Room
House Of Blues (Chicago, IL)
6-7 BUILT TO SPILL
Metro (Chicago, IL)
7 R.L. BURNSIDE
House Of Blues (Chicago, IL)
MIDWEST BEAT RETRO-ROCK BASH
with...HISTORY’S END, GUNS & HOSES and SPIN
CYCLE
Silver Bullet Lounge (South Haven,
IN)
8 NANCI GRIFFITH
Skyline Stage (Chicago, IL)
MIDWEST BEAT'S "END OF SUMMER BLOW-OUT"
with... Trauma, Tamallicka, Slagg Wagner, AVENUE,
Grape Soda, DAYS OF
NOAH,
& Autumn Dawn
The Edge (Hammond, IN)
BIG BAD VOODOO DADDY
House Of Blues (Chicago, IL)
12 W.A.S.P. with Mushroomhead
House Of Blues (Chicago, IL)
13&15 JIMMY BUFFETT & THE CORAL REEFER BAND
Tweeter Center (Tinley Park, IL)
15 TITO NIEVES
House Of Blues (Chicago, IL)
THE TOILET BOYS w/ Electric Frankenstein
Double Door (Chicago, IL)
18 JULIETTA VENEGAS
House Of Blues (Chicago, IL)
20 TED NUGENT
House Of Blues (Chicago, IL)
22 BACKSTREET BOYS w/ Shaggy
Tweeter Center (Tinley Park, IL)
23 DWIGHT YOAKUM w/ Gary Allan
Star Plaza (Merrillville, IN)
27 ROBIN TROWER
House Of Blues (Chicago, IL)