Chicago B and B Fest Schedule
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The inaugural Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival will transport the concertgoer through the genre-defying evolution of music today. The one-day event, held on Saturday, November 22 from noon to midnight, will serve as a tribute to two schools of music that continue to shape and inspire contemporary rock, jam band, funk, folk, roots, Americana, and indie cultures.
SHOW SCHEDULE
*2 Stages, a Balcony, 18 Acts, and Costumed Marching Band “Environmental Encroachment" parading throughout the venue at impromptu times.
MAIN STAGE 12:30-1:15 - Donnie Biggins
1:15-1:30 - Tangleweed
1:30-2:15 - Dollar Store
2:15-2:45 - Tangleweed/Chicago Sketch Comedy Troupe “Cell Camp"
2:45-3:30 - Billy Childers
3:30-4:00 - Tangleweed/Chicago Sketch Comedy Troupe “Cell Camp"
4:00-4:45 - Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials
4:45-5:15 - Tangleweed/Chicago Sketch Comedy Troupe “Cell Camp"
5:15-6:15 - Majors Junction
6:15-6:45 - Tangleweed/Chicago Sketch Comedy Troupe “Cell Camp"
6:45-7:45 - Ha Ha Tonka
7:45-8:15 - The Giving Tree Band
8:15-9:45 - David Grisman Quintet
9:45-10:15 - The Giving Tree Band
10:15-However Long They Want - The Avett Brothers
JamBase's 312 PAVILION STAGE
Noon-12:45 - Blue Room Hero
1:00-1:45 - Cobalt & the Hired Guns
2:00-2:45 - Lindsey O'Brien Band & Friends
3:00-3:45 - Mike Mangione
4:00-4:45 - Jessica Lee
5:00-5:45 - How Far to Austin
6:00-6:45 - Blue Mother Tupelo
7:00-8:00 - Blackdog
This show is All Ages, runs from 11 a.m. - midnight-ish, tickets are $31 until day-of, when it increases (if there are any left).
Unlimited Re-Entry: Can come and go freely to and from the theater until 5 p.m.
Smoking lounge access without leaving the theater. Security is about as strong as a one-armed swimmer (as in “weak").
Sketch Comedy throughout the day from Chicago Sketch Comedy Group “Cell Camp."
An open jam session and picking circle from the second the doors open. Musicians are all invited to bring their instruments and participate. There'll be an “instrument check" along with the coat check so that you don't have to lug your noisemaker around with you all day.
Over 50 booths of artists, vendors, and charitable causes. Artists will be creating their art on-site and selling it while the Saving Tiny Hearts Society will be raffling off swag from the artists.
The theater is located at 2135 N. Milwaukee (just north of Armitage). There is street parking available all around the theater, as well as very cheap reserved parking by clicking here.
Traveling to the theater is easy via the CTA, as it is within two blocks of the Blue Line train stations at California (& Milwaukee) and Western (& Milwaukee) which operate twenty four hours a day. The theater is also served by the following bus routes: #52 Kedzie/California, #56 Milwaukee, #73 Armitage, #49 Western (www.transitchicago.com).
The theater is also a quick walk or bus ride from the METRA train station at Clybourn & Ashland on the Union Pacific District Northwest line. Exit the station to the south to transfer to the #73 Armitage bus going west on Cortland Ave. to the theater.
The “Official After-Party" will be held at Chicago's #1 rock club The Elbo Room immediately following the show. Entry is free with your festival ticket. Check out more details at elboroomchicago.com.
A WARM FUZZY FEELING FOR MAKING THIS EVENT AMAZING AND HELPING PEOPLE AT THE SAME TIME!
And while the festival will serve to break a band or two, festivalgoers will get to save a heart. A portion of each $31 ticket will be donated to the Saving tiny Hearts Society, a non-profit organization that raises money for grossly under-funded, crucial, life-saving research of congenital heart defects (CHD), America's #1 birth defect. Nearly one of every 125 babies born in America each year is affected by a Congenital Heart Defect.
