Lily Finnegan/Katinka Klein/Macie Stewart trio | Macie Stewart ft. Special Guest V.V. Lightbody

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm

Macie Stewart is a musician and multi-disciplinary artist based in Chicago, IL. Heralded for their versatility, Stewart works with piano, violin, guitar, voice, and synthesizers, effortlessly traversing styles and scenes. Stewart is a distinguished, go-to collaborator who Pitchfork credits with “making some of the best tracks of the past five years transcendent.”

As a composer, Stewart’s work continues to dissolve the boundaries between disciplines. Aside from her debut record, “Mouth Full of Glass” released in 2021 on Orindal Records and rereleased in 2022 on Full Time Hobby Records- Macie also composed a piece for Hubbard Street Dance’s film, “Half of Us,” alongside Sima Cunningham in 2021. That same year, they worked with Sima Cunningham and Alex Grelle to produce a performance piece paying homage to Kate Bush. In 2022, Stewart/Cunningham composed the score for a 50-piece orchestra premiering the Pacific Northwest Ballet’s “Before I Was.” And in 2023, choreographer Robyn Mineko Williams enlisted Stewart to create a sound installation for her dreamlike performance piece, Hisako House. Most recently, Stewart was invited to compose a site-specific piece for the ESS Florisonic Installation at Lincoln Park Conservatory. As part of the longest running sound installation in North America, their twenty-minute composition titled “The World Doubles in Size” played in the conservatory’s fern room from September through November of 2024.

Night Starts at 8:00pm, mini sets at 9:00pm and 10:00pm

Local Universe presents another Country DJ night at Sportsman’s - this time with a live set from twang-psych heros GLYDERS. Birthday boy DJ Gutterball (Sully) will spin only bummer country songs all night while Apologue and Judson & Moore specials are available to help you drink your sorrows away.

Doors at 8:30pm, show at 9:00pm

Kimes was born and raised on the lakeshores of northern Michigan. As a rural midwest native her music is built on folk festivals, family harmony, and the barefoot back roads always taken. Chloe has built a strong Michigan following touring every small Mitten town since she was fourteen years old, but relocated to Nashville, TN in 2016 to continue her work as a professional singer, songwriter, bandleader, and recording artist.

The Nashville based singer-songwriter is actively defining the next generation of folk-singing troubadours with an old-soul sensibility for storytelling in a spirited alt-country outfit. She released her debut album in 2022, a strikingly live self-titled with rafter reaching vocals and songwriting that garnered her comparisons to the likes of Lucinda Williams (Jonathan Frahm, For Folk’s Sake) and landed her a spot on NPR Music's Top 10 Nashville Artist's on the rise in 2022. Since then, the record has also been awarded Listener’s Choice Album of the Year by her home state’s WYCE Radio Jammie Awards. Following in the footsteps of many Michigan artists looked up to throughout her career, (Billy Strings, Lindsay Lou, The Accidentals, to name a few) Kimes continues to forge the Michigan-native-Nashville-based pipeline with an electric band not to be missed.

Doors at 6:30 pm, show at 7:00pm

The feeling that Anastasia Coope’s music transmits seems to emanate from a precipice beyond the material world, like a void or memory pressing up against the veil. It’s exacting and enveloping but unmoored in space and time: ghostly, spectral, far-out folk. Darning Woman, her debut album, feels like a dispatch from another past. Akin to lullabies or nursery rhymes, its minimal folk instrumentation contorts into something staccato and strange, led by Coope’s expressive, stratified vocals.

In spite of the suggestion of antiquity that runs through Darning Woman, 21-year-old Brooklyn-based Coope is very much a contemporary artist. Born to an English father and American mother (whose original Martin acoustic she uses to compose), she was raised in the New York village of Cold Spring. The lonely landscapes and small towns of the Hudson Valley populate her songwriting, setting wintry backdrops against the acrobatics of her voice. Her experience making this record was a largely insular one, too; she began recording music while staying at a relative’s empty home in Beacon, NY, experimenting with recording software in an empty living room, singing directly into the open space. Until that point, Coope had only thought of herself as a visual artist, not a musician– but it felt right immediately. Throughout the next year, she worked to invent the lush, sweeping universe conveyed here.

Her voice is the core of this work – emotive, oscillating between shadowy effervescence and something more guttural, building atop itself. Coope spent months teaching herself to sing in a new way, through hocketing and layering her voice, constructing choirs of herself. These songs often start from a chorus or phrase that gets stuck in Coope’s head and bloom into chaotic, fractured earworms. There’s a slew of past cultural touchstones that inform her approach to music making – the avant-garde art rock of the ‘80s; Trish Keenan or Su Tissue or Brigitte Fontaine; medieval choruses; church choirs; contemporary folk; romantic close harmonies groups of the ‘50s; Meara O’Reilly’s Hockets for Two Voices. But rather than the sonics of those works, Coope was instead moved by the ephemera surrounding them, their songs’ abilities to conjure whole worlds.

Doors at 9:00 pm, show at 9:30pm

A trans-led, topical comedy news show for Gen Z hosted by Ella Yurman, tackling politics from a queer, leftist perspective.

Doors at 6:30pm, show at 7:00pm [early]

Doors at 9:00pm, show at 9:30pm [late]

Diya Basrai is a Chicago-based comic and writer. He is known for his sharp but thoughtful comedy, and his debut comedy special on YouTube was viewed over 100,000 times within its first month of release. Diya is also a headline contributor for The Onion, and he draws upon his day job as a scientist to produce Uncontrolled Variables, a popular monthly show that melds science and comedy. Come see Diya Basrai record a brand new comedy special live at _, a new hour of comedy exploring what life is like on a soon-to-be-doomed planet.

Doors at 6:30 pm, show at 7:00pm

Vinny Thomas: is developing an hour...

Vinny Thomas has been invited to perform at the Ronald Reagan Center for Western Heritage. Join him for an evening of bravely speaking truth to power, or something else if that’s easier.

Doors at 9:00 pm, show at 9:30pm

An hour of comedy with Maggie Winters and maybe some friends if they are available. Maggie Winters is a Chicago-fried comedian turned internet personality best known under the moniker @saggiesplinters. With training through both iO Chicago and Annoyance, Maggie quickly transitioned her talents from the stage to online where she immediately amassed thousands of followers through her unique online characters. In the live space, Maggie is credited with opening for the likes of Colin Jost, Hannah Einbinder, Matt Rogers, and was named a JFL new face in 2023. In the TV space, Maggie can most recently be seen recurring on Season 3 of THE RIGHTEOUS GEMSTONES (HBO) opposite Adam Devine and Tony Cavalero

feat. Los Gallos

Doors at 8:30pm, show at 9:00pm

Last Call Honky Tonk is Judson & Moore's late night two step party. Every month catch a rotating local band play and the bar serves a cheap beer & shot combo for the late night affair. Dance right up until you hear your bartenders yell last call!

Doors at 6:30pm, show at 7:00pm

Matt Lopes is a nationally touring stand-up comedian and content creator. He headlines clubs all over the Northeast and is the house comedian at the Stress Factory Comedy Club in his hometown of Bridgeport, CT. He’s worked stages such as New York Comedy Club, Stress Factory NJ, Funny Bone Comedy Club, and currently opens for Corey B throughout the U.S.. When he’s not performing or co-hosting The Boy Friends podcast, he’s posting hilarious clips, that have reached over 135 million views in the last year, to his growing following of over 1.6 million, across his social media platforms.

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm

Kenya Élan: WHERE WERE YOU?

Join comedian Kenya Elan on her quest for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. You don’t want to miss this night of stand-up, storytelling and disgusting need for connection (crowdwork lol).

Chris Corsano/Steve Marquette/Macie Stewart trio | Secret Special Duo Set 

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm

Macie Stewart is a musician and multi-disciplinary artist based in Chicago, IL. Heralded for their versatility, Stewart works with piano, violin, guitar, voice, and synthesizers, effortlessly traversing styles and scenes. Stewart is a distinguished, go-to collaborator who Pitchfork credits with “making some of the best tracks of the past five years transcendent.”

As a composer, Stewart’s work continues to dissolve the boundaries between disciplines. Aside from her debut record, “Mouth Full of Glass” released in 2021 on Orindal Records and rereleased in 2022 on Full Time Hobby Records- Macie also composed a piece for Hubbard Street Dance’s film, “Half of Us,” alongside Sima Cunningham in 2021. That same year, they worked with Sima Cunningham and Alex Grelle to produce a performance piece paying homage to Kate Bush. In 2022, Stewart/Cunningham composed the score for a 50-piece orchestra premiering the Pacific Northwest Ballet’s “Before I Was.” And in 2023, choreographer Robyn Mineko Williams enlisted Stewart to create a sound installation for her dreamlike performance piece, Hisako House. Most recently, Stewart was invited to compose a site-specific piece for the ESS Florisonic Installation at Lincoln Park Conservatory. As part of the longest running sound installation in North America, their twenty-minute composition titled “The World Doubles in Size” played in the conservatory’s fern room from September through November of 2024.

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm

Death Becomes Der: A Solo Show by Derry Queen Derry Queen brings a solo show spawned from 5 years working in the trenches of the Chicago nightlife. A combination of comedy, drag, and death. Mostly death. One night only!

Doors at 8:30pm, show at 9:00pm

On her new album, Sunset Drive, Denitia shares her story of going after something new — a life back in Nashville, where she attended college, immersed in both the city’s roots music scene and the community of the artist collective Black Opry — while experiencing the menagerie of emotions that come with leaving behind what you knew and starting over. Across the album, she draws from the country and alternative rock music she listened to growing up outside of Houston; the songs of artists such as the Eagles, Vince Gill, Waylon Jennings, Joni Mitchell, Dolly Parton, and Neil Young, ever present in her life; and the decade she spent entrenched in Brooklyn’s indie music scene.

Denitia’s music has been featured in the films Nanny and The Invitation, as well as in the series Better Things (FX), Broad City (Comedy Central), Dear White People (Netflix), Shrinking (Apple TV+), and The Terminal List (Amazon). She has toured extensively with the Black Opry Revue; been invited to perform at the National Museum of African American Music and the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville; and shared stages with Jason Isbell, Amythyst Kiah, Joy Oladokun, and Allison Russell, among other artists. In 2023, Denitia earned one of five spots in a residency hosted by the Black Opry and WXPN, was named to Rissi Palmer’s Color Me Country class, and was one of three artists selected for CMT and mtheory’s Equal Access cohort. And the momentum continued in 2024: Denitia was one of CMT’s 2024 Next Women of Country; was named an artist to watch by the Nashville Scene; made her Grand Ole Opry debut and opened shows for Mickey Guyton in 2024. Denitia was a featured vocalist in Dolly Parton’s Threads: My Songs in Symphony, and she will be on tour throughout 2025.

Ben Lamar Gay/Macie Stewart duo | Macie Stewart 

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm

Macie Stewart is a musician and multi-disciplinary artist based in Chicago, IL. Heralded for their versatility, Stewart works with piano, violin, guitar, voice, and synthesizers, effortlessly traversing styles and scenes. Stewart is a distinguished, go-to collaborator who Pitchfork credits with “making some of the best tracks of the past five years transcendent.”

As a composer, Stewart’s work continues to dissolve the boundaries between disciplines. Aside from her debut record, “Mouth Full of Glass” released in 2021 on Orindal Records and rereleased in 2022 on Full Time Hobby Records- Macie also composed a piece for Hubbard Street Dance’s film, “Half of Us,” alongside Sima Cunningham in 2021. That same year, they worked with Sima Cunningham and Alex Grelle to produce a performance piece paying homage to Kate Bush. In 2022, Stewart/Cunningham composed the score for a 50-piece orchestra premiering the Pacific Northwest Ballet’s “Before I Was.” And in 2023, choreographer Robyn Mineko Williams enlisted Stewart to create a sound installation for her dreamlike performance piece, Hisako House. Most recently, Stewart was invited to compose a site-specific piece for the ESS Florisonic Installation at Lincoln Park Conservatory. As part of the longest running sound installation in North America, their twenty-minute composition titled “The World Doubles in Size” played in the conservatory’s fern room from September through November of 2024.

opening set by Ava Brennan

Doors at 8:30pm, show at 9:00pm

Adelaide is a folk/rock/who knows artist based in Chicago. “Holding” is their fourth released project, a collection of 14 songs from the past two years. The album laces together flashes of childhood memory, the coldness that creeps in during midwestern winters, and the fuzzy kindness of growing trust in others. “Holding” is honest and heavy, drifting between the light and dark feelings of watching time pass.

They play live with a band composed of their lovely friends Vincent Byas (Rain Garden), Connor Bohn (Binz Low), Tyler Thenstedt (Racing Mount Pleasant), and Peter Cimballo (Alga).

Doors at 6:30pm, show at 7:00pm

Tyler Horvath is a standup comedian based in New York City. His laid-back observational style has been making people laugh around the country for more than a decade, and his standup clips have attracted more than 100,000 followers and over 30 million views on social media.

Tyler was recently selected as a featured performer at the Flyover Comedy Festival. He has performed at comedy clubs across America and is a regular at the Laugh Factory and Zanies in Chicago, as well as New York Comedy Club in New York City.

Go see him. His comedy will solve all of your problems.

Zander Raymond/Macie Stewart duo | Macie Stewart

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm

Macie Stewart is a musician and multi-disciplinary artist based in Chicago, IL. Heralded for their versatility, Stewart works with piano, violin, guitar, voice, and synthesizers, effortlessly traversing styles and scenes. Stewart is a distinguished, go-to collaborator who Pitchfork credits with “making some of the best tracks of the past five years transcendent.”

As a composer, Stewart’s work continues to dissolve the boundaries between disciplines. Aside from her debut record, “Mouth Full of Glass” released in 2021 on Orindal Records and rereleased in 2022 on Full Time Hobby Records- Macie also composed a piece for Hubbard Street Dance’s film, “Half of Us,” alongside Sima Cunningham in 2021. That same year, they worked with Sima Cunningham and Alex Grelle to produce a performance piece paying homage to Kate Bush. In 2022, Stewart/Cunningham composed the score for a 50-piece orchestra premiering the Pacific Northwest Ballet’s “Before I Was.” And in 2023, choreographer Robyn Mineko Williams enlisted Stewart to create a sound installation for her dreamlike performance piece, Hisako House. Most recently, Stewart was invited to compose a site-specific piece for the ESS Florisonic Installation at Lincoln Park Conservatory. As part of the longest running sound installation in North America, their twenty-minute composition titled “The World Doubles in Size” played in the conservatory’s fern room from September through November of 2024.

Doors at 7:00pm, show at 8:00pm

Dilly and her not so ordinary friends confront and solve social emotional issues in her big whimsical world.

Join us for a showing of Dilly's World (with a live show element of course)! A whacky, wondrous world of puppets, color, design, hilarity and emotion. Dilly, a fun-willed and charming lead will do her best to ask her friends for help (puppet and animation alike) as she tries to find her spark. She lost it and how will she ever finish this painting for the gallery so Dillytown doesn't get demolished? We will welcome you in with live music from an extremely talented band of Horns, guitars and bass, singing live with puppets. It's a night you won't want to miss. We are showing the world our pilot and doing a live show, to give you an idea of what to expect from the season! This event is for kids, adults, and creatives. We will be doing a raffle to raise money for the season and will be doing a Q and A after the performance. We will also have merchandise, surprises, laughs and words to share, so come and be entertained and bring the whole family! Shown in the auditorium of Color Club!

Doors at 3:00pm, show at 4:00pm

Dilly and her not so ordinary friends confront and solve social emotional issues in her big whimsical world.

Join us for a showing of Dilly's World (with a live show element of course)! A whacky, wondrous world of puppets, color, design, hilarity and emotion. Dilly, a fun-willed and charming lead will do her best to ask her friends for help (puppet and animation alike) as she tries to find her spark. She lost it and how will she ever finish this painting for the gallery so Dillytown doesn't get demolished? We will welcome you in with live music from an extremely talented band of Horns, guitars and bass, singing live with puppets. It's a night you won't want to miss. We are showing the world our pilot and doing a live show, to give you an idea of what to expect from the season! This event is for kids, adults, and creatives. We will be doing a raffle to raise money for the season and will be doing a Q and A after the performance. We will also have merchandise, surprises, laughs and words to share, so come and be entertained and bring the whole family! Shown in the auditorium of Color Club!

Doors at 7:00pm, show at 8:00pm

Dilly and her not so ordinary friends confront and solve social emotional issues in her big whimsical world.

Join us for a showing of Dilly's World (with a live show element of course)! A whacky, wondrous world of puppets, color, design, hilarity and emotion. Dilly, a fun-willed and charming lead will do her best to ask her friends for help (puppet and animation alike) as she tries to find her spark. She lost it and how will she ever finish this painting for the gallery so Dillytown doesn't get demolished? We will welcome you in with live music from an extremely talented band of Horns, guitars and bass, singing live with puppets. It's a night you won't want to miss. We are showing the world our pilot and doing a live show, to give you an idea of what to expect from the season! This event is for kids, adults, and creatives. We will be doing a raffle to raise money for the season and will be doing a Q and A after the performance. We will also have merchandise, surprises, laughs and words to share, so come and be entertained and bring the whole family! Shown in the auditorium of Color Club!

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm

Four excellent singer songwriters in Color Club’s Tavern.

Doors at 6:30pm, show at 7:00pm

Noted winter lover and songwriter Owen Ashworth, who performs under Advance Base, hosts his annual Christmas show inside of Color Club's annual "Xmas Barf" installation.

with DJ Alex Leeds

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:30pm

Elizabeth Moen hopes to bowl a "Turkey" before the holidays with her Chicago double header. The first night, Thurs. 11/20 at Color Club Tavern, and the final frame at Timber Lanes with a ticket option that includes a round of bowling!

Doors at 8:30pm, show at 9:00pm

Born in Louisiana and naturalized by the Natural State of Arkansas, Dylan Earl seeks to understand himself by understanding others. His new album, Level-Headed Even Smile (2025), offers poignant nostalgia, wry wit, and an endearing desire to colour outside the lines.

with Angela James

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:30pm

Elizabeth Moen hopes to bowl a "Turkey" before the holidays with her Chicago double header. The first night, Thurs. 11/20 at Color Club Tavern, and the final frame at Timber Lanes with a ticket option that includes a round of bowling!

Doors at 8:30pm, show at 9:00pm

Lillian King’s debut album In Your Long Shadow is out October 24th. It is about letting the wind in, Lake Michigan in the winter, and the silence of a long summer evening. And really it’s about the grief of losing her dad, Neil King Jr.

When her dad died in September 2024, grief permeated every facet of Lillian’s life. The loss is felt in everything, but especially when doing the things her dad loved the most –– the simple everyday good things that make life worth living: cooking, walking the longer way to work, swimming in cold water. In the throes of grief it feels impossible to find anything that doesn’t just make you sadder, but when Lillian did find those things, she grabbed onto them. Soon it was clear that the best coping mechanisms weren't gin and tonics, but talking to her mom and sister as much as possible, and producing an album.

The album arrangement came together in a couple of weeks as Lillian brought bandmates and friends Robert Salazar and Nick DePrey new and old songs to build on. Robert played the drums, while Nick played keys (with a smattering of bass and guitar). The process was collaborative and intimate, and only got better when Jack Henry (producer of albums by Friko and Free Range) joined to record and mix it.

From Spencer Krug, founder of Pronounced Kroog: I first met Lillian in June of 2024, when she joined me on tour to open for a short run of solo shows. We became fast friends, and my appreciation for her songs grew as I listened to her perform them each night with nothing but an acoustic guitar and her singular voice. By the end of the tour, I told Lillian if she ever made a full-length album, Pronounced Kroog would be interested in putting out. A year later, here we are.

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm

Since their 2004 self-titled debut, Pink Mountaintops have supplied an outlet for the more arcane fascinations of Black Mountain frontman Stephen McBean. On Peacock Pools—Pink Mountaintops’ first new music in eight years—the British Columbia-born singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist shares 12 songs sparked from his magpie-like curiosity for a wild expanse of cultural artifacts: the sci-fi body horror of David Cronenberg, Disney Read-Along Records from the 1970s, early Pink Floyd and mid-career Gary Numan, John Carpenter movies, Ornette Coleman live videos, a 1991 essay on the cult of bodybuilding by postmodern feminist Camille Paglia. Featuring counterculture icons like Steven McDonald of Redd Kross and Dale Crover of Melvins, Peacock Pools alchemizes those obsessions into a body of work with its own enchanting power, the sonic equivalent of falling down a thousand rabbit holes at once and landing somewhere gloriously strange…

Doors at 6:30pm, show at 7:00pm

Ever feel like your life’s a funhouse mirror? Like your “name-brand” SSRI is working wonders until you realize it’s generic? Or you proudly have been carrying a rare Chanel bag and then it turns out it’s…fake? Has a Gen Z tried to help you? Life is weird. Fresh! Hot! New! is here to analyze some of those moments.

ABOUT GRETA: Greta is a comedian, actress, and writer known for her breakout role as ‘Ambassador Gibbons’ on both seasons of HBO’s hit series LOS ESPOOKYS. Greta stars in season 5 of HBO Max’s SEARCH PARTY. Greta stars opposite Tilda Swinton in the feature film, PROBLEMISTA for A24 – directed by Julio Torres. Greta has memorable roles in the Hulu series SHRILL, S3 of AWKWAFINA IS NORA FROM QUEENS, and the independent feature TOGETHER TOGETHER. She can next be seen as a recurring character in the Julio Torres HBO Series, FANTASMAS. She was named one of Comedy Central’s “Up Next” performers and was the host of the hit Headgum podcast, SENIOR SUPERLATIVES WITH GRETA TITELMAN. You can see Greta performing at clubs and theaters around Los Angeles, New York and London. Her hour-long show, EXQUISITE LIES, ran at Edinburgh Fringe Fest Summer 2023 which received 4 and 5 star reviews from The Skinny, The Comic’s Comic, The Wee Review, and Why Now.

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm

Halloween stand-up comedy show with Olivia Carter (Just for Laughs, Fallon) New York comic who got their start in Chicago performing with her two friends Rachel Coster (Boy Room) and Kylie Vincent (Comedy Central).