Music Events in Evanston
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Warren Zevon Birthday Bash
Another year, and night of Warren Zevon!!! Androgynous Mustache returns to pay tribute to one of the great and under-appreciated American songwriters. A.M. will be touching on the entire Zevon catalog...

The Western Elstons
The Western Elstons have been playing the first and third Wednesday of the month at the historic Simon's Tavern in the Andersonville neighborhood of Chicago for over ten years now. We are one of Chica...

SOLD OUT - S.G. Goodman Presents: Visiting Hours, An Evening of Songs and Stories
S.G. Goodman returns from the Western Kentucky bottomland with her latest full-length album, Planting by the Signs, Available June 20, 2025 on her very own Slough Water Records via Thirty Tigers. Comp...

Alela Diane w. Shannon Lay
More than a decade into one of contemporary folk's most quietly extraordinary careers, Alela Diane returns with Who's Keeping Time? on May 22 via Fluff & Gravy / Loose Music. The Portland songwriter's...

Matt the Electrician and Tim Easton
Matt the Electrician is Matthew Sever, a quirky, sincere folk/pop singer songwriter based in Austin, TX. He has self-released 11 studio albums, 2 live albums and 7 vinyl 45's since 1998. Matt moved to...

Yonder Mountain String Band
Grammy-nominated Yonder Mountain String Band set the tone for a new way forward in acoustic music, carrying bluegrass into rooms and conversations it had never reached before. Nearly three decades lat...

Yonder Mountain String Band
Grammy-nominated Yonder Mountain String Band set the tone for a new way forward in acoustic music, carrying bluegrass into rooms and conversations it had never reached before. Nearly three decades lat...

Hot Flash Dance feat. DJ Mary Nisi. A Punctual Party for Rowdy Women
Join Toast & Jam/CHIRP Radio's Mary Nisi for Hot Flash Dance, the unapologetically early dance party for women and women-identifying folks (sorry, no dudes -- not sorry). Expect a killer mix of pop ba...

Tray Wellington Band and Jared Rabin Band
Banjo player Tray Wellington's approach to the quintessential American instrument is all about looking forward. An International Bluegrass Music Association Award winner, Wellington is critically accl...
Lydia Loveless
Lydia Loveless is an acclaimed singer and songwriter from Columbus, OH who has earned high praise from Pitchfork, NPR Music, Rolling Stone, Bandcamp Daily, Brooklyn Vegan, Paste, American Songwriter, ...

Buckwheat Zydeco Jr. and The Ils Sont Partis Band

American Patchwork Quartet
American Patchwork Quartet (APQ), led by multi-GRAMMYยฎ award-winning guitarist/vocalist Clay Ross, binds timeless American folk songs with jazz sophistication, country twang, West African hypnotics, a...