Front Porch Music Festival VII
Central Park Plaza - 63 Lafayette Street - $15 adults / $5 kidsA beautiful summer day with the many talented students, teachers, and friends of Front Porch Music!
Pierogi Fest®!
Pierogi Fest® (Main Stage) - 119th St and Sheridan Ave - FREEShook up the Main Stage with an hour of Nerd Rock!
Captain Ambivalent’s Every Kind Of Talent Show
The Nest - 803 Franklin St - Pay What You WillA hot summer night with Mike O, Joel Brussell, and the story of my glacial rise from obscurity to international obscurity.
Captain Ambivalent’s Every Kind Of Talent Show
The Nest - 803 Franklin St - Pay What You WillA great evening with a full house welcoming back Merle Miller (and Suzanne), Joel Brussell, Mike O, and new performer Bonni Schaaf!
Fear The Accordion
Three Brothers Theatre - 115 N. Genesee St. - $20, $15 student/senior/military
Greetings, loyal citizens of Waukegan Sector! In these dark times when our underground complex is increasingly infiltrated by secret mutants from the deadly wasteland outside our armor-plated walls, no weapon is more fearsome than the accordion. And no one wields an accordion more fearsomely than Captain Ambivalent.
In his Computer-mandated effort to explain how we got to this point, he looks to film classics like Metropolis, Star Wars, and Robocop, 1980s fear culture, and a role playing game called “Paranoia,” and discovers he may have had a little hand in The Complex himself.
Report to your re-education pods for sidesplitting musical madness!
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Captain Ambivalent’s Every Kind Of Talent Show
The Nest - 803 Franklin St - Pay What You WillJanet Beutner and Mike O returned for an intimate over-the-top evening.
Chicago and Pizza
Borelli’s Pizzeria - 2124 West Lawrence AvenueYears ago I stopped by an open mic at Borelli’s Pizza and made a big impression, so host Trisha Ricketts invited me back for an all-star bash.
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Captain Ambivalent’s Every Kind Of Talent Show
The Nest - 803 Franklin St - Pay what you willA wonderful evening with Joel Brussell, Kurt Acton, Janet Beutner, and Mike O. Miss Anthropic was there in her secret identity singing along to all the words.
Stars Over Valpo
Valparaiso University Center for the Performing Arts, Deusenberg Recital Hall - - $20Part of an evening of local talent benefit for community radio station WVLP.
Captain Ambivalent’s Every Kind Of Talent Show 2: Electric Boogaloo
The Nest - 803 Franklin St - Pay what you willNo snow! We had “a man who doesn’t understand why the hamburger is only helped and not the hot dog,” Tedward, Janet Beutner, and the amazing laid back hiphop jazz band Rhymer Educator.