Local music roundup: March 28-April 3 – Evanston RoundTable

The finish of spring break is approaching. Easter is on the horizon and so is April Fools’ Day. There are some Easter eggs within the coming week’s stay music itemizing, however no April Fools’ pranks. A singular occasion is going on at Lake Street Church on Thursday, March 28 – see the itemizing under. The Bienen School at Northwestern is again in enterprise beginning Friday, March 29. You can cowl an insane vary of genres this week – from rock to opera to punk reggae to bluegrass, to jazz to Bach to blues and funk! Spring is right here – let one million flowers bloom!

Thursday, March 28

• Bill Grady, Maundy Thursday Blues, 6:30 p.m. at Lake Street Church, 607 Lake St. For these unfamiliar with the Christian calendar, Maundy Thursday is the day of Easter week that commemorates the Last Supper. It appears proper to have a blues musician concerned in a commemoration of this story. This is a non-conventional Maundy church service, however Grady is a Berklee School of Music grad with a tremendous voice and fabulous slide guitar expertise. Free admission.
• BYO Vinyl Night, Bitter Blossom, 6:30 p.m. at 1707 Maple Ave. OK, this isn’t stay music, however it’s superior. Bitter Blossom is one in all Evanston’s latest bars, positioned subsequent to the AMC Theatres. The venue hosts do-it-your self DJ nights on Thursdays, vinyl solely. Oh, and we hear the drinks are excellent. Free admission.
• Cheap Talking Wine, 7 p.m. at Double Clutch Brewing, 2121 Ashland Ave. This acoustic trio will carry out basic rock covers with a singular spin. Playing primarily at bars, dives and honkytonks on the North Side of Chicago, these musicians know methods to hold bar patrons blissful! Free admission.
• Jontavious Willis, Eight p.m. at SPACE, 1635 Chicago Ave. Grammy-nominated acoustic blues artist Willis will carry out songs mixing his Georgia heritage and the kinds of Delta, Piedmont, Texas, and gospel blues. The nice blues icon, 81-year previous Taj Mahal, mentioned “That’s my Wonderboy, the Wunderkind. Jontavious is a great new voice of the 21st century in the acoustic blues.” $15/20.
• Ben Paterson Organ Trio, 7 p.m. at Le Piano, 6970 N Glenwood Ave. Downbeat Magazine mentioned Paterson is “as soulful a pianist/organist as exists anywhere.” He performed for a number of years with the nice Chicago tenor sax participant Von Freeman. Paterson additionally has an exquisite singing voice. LePiano has a Hammond B3 organ efficiency each Thursday night. $15.
• Throwback Thursdays, Eight p.m. at Prairie Moon, 1635 Chicago Ave. This is one other recorded music occasion, however one can argue that DJs want love, too. There are DJs from throughout Chicagoland acting at Prairie Moon each Thursday evening! Free admission.

Friday, March 29

• Cowboy Mouth, Eight p.m. at SPACE, 1635 Chicago Ave. This New Orleans group brings a rock interpretation to the musical gumbo that its house metropolis churns out. The band fashioned within the early 1990s and had successful document, Jenny Says in 1997. Drummer/vocalist/frontman Fred LeBlanc and lead guitarist/vocalist John Thomas Griffith are the founding members of the band which have caught round. Cowboy Mouth excursions like mad, and so they placed on an excellent present. $30.
• Christopher Guzman, piano, 7:30 p.m. at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, Galvin Recital Hall, 70 Arts Circle Dr. Guzman has carried out all through Europe, North and South Americas and Asia. He’s received prime prizes in worldwide piano competitions and has performed with main orchestras (Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Berliner Philharmoniker and others). Guzman’s program will embody items by Ravel, Schubert, Sean Shepherd and Erwin Schulhoff. $Eight basic, $5 for college kids.
• Chad Willetts Quartet, 7 p.m. at Le Piano, 6970 N. Glenwood Ave., Chicago. Willetts is a drummer, pianist and proprietor/operator of this wonderful East Rogers Park jazz membership/restaurant. His jazz quartet contains a visitor artist each Friday evening. $15.
• The Randall Pike Band, 8:30 p.m. at Cary’s Lounge, 2251 W. Devon Ave., Chicago. This Indie rock trio options an upright bass (or ukulele), a ’67 Strat and a classic drum package. These rockers are additionally classic. Never concern, there could also be snow on their roof however there’s nonetheless hearth of their furnace. The band has provide you with some attention-grabbing unique songs. Definitely price a pay attention! Free admission.
• Delia – the Flex Tour, 8:30 p.m. on the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie. Delia Matache (who is thought by her first identify solely, like Beyonce’ and Madonna) is the highest Romanian pop star. She has a sultry voice and has been a really huge deal in Romania for fairly some time. Fun truth about Romania: the nation has an occasion round Christmas yearly referred to as the Dancing Bears Festival that includes people dressing in bear costumes and dancing by way of cities, villages and cities to a deafening drum beat. The function is to beat back evil spirits. But I digress. Tickets begin at $85.

Saturday, March 30

• Mark W., four p.m. at Cary’s Lounge, 2251 W. Devon Ave. Chicago. Mark W. (aka Mark Wenglewski) is a singer/songwriter. He has a batch of unique songs, but in addition is blissful to cowl other people’ songs. Mark can also be an English instructor in Chicago (aka an underpaid hero). Free admission.
• Bumpin Uglies w/ Bikini Trill, Eight p.m. at SPACE, 1635 Chicago Ave. Bumpin Uglies is the final word bootstrap band. They began enjoying their punk reggae/ska music at yard events and open mics in 2008. Through devoted DIY efforts, relentless touring and 7 self-launched information, the band has constructed a nationwide following. Bumpin Uglies will carry out songs from their latest album, Underdog: The Acoustic Sessions, however will in all probability get away some horn-pushed reggae/ska anthems, too Expect to bounce – it is a standing-room-solely present. Opening act Bikini Trill is a surf-pop band from Los Angeles that has performed at SXSW. $20. 
• Chad Willetts Quartet, 7 p.m. at Le Piano, 6970 N. Glenwood Ave., Chicago. Willetts is a drummer, pianist and proprietor/operator of this wonderful East Rogers Park jazz membership/restaurant. His Saturday evening quartet options Dez Desormeaux on tenor sax. Desormeaux has that full-throated Chicago tenor sax tone! $15 
• Mr. G and the Mystery Band, Eight p.m. at Double Clutch Brewing, 2121 Ashland Ave. Mr. G and the Mystery Band was fashioned 20 years in the past on the late, nice Bill’s Blues in Evanston. The group disbanded through the Great Recession in 2009 however was re-launched in late 2019, after which the pandemic hit. Now that the world is open for enterprise once more, the Mystery Band is again, enjoying harmonica-pushed blues and funk. Free admission.
• Joe (José) Rendon and Friends, 10 p.m. at Sabor A Café Steakhouse, 2439 W. Peterson Ave. Chicago. Master conguero and Latin percussionist Rendon steps as much as lead a Latin jazz ensemble for a late-evening set of scorching, danceable tunes. Rendon is the conguero (conga drum participant) for James Sanders and Conjunto and has performed with the entire prime teams in Chicago’s Latin jazz group. Free admission, however patrons are required to buy not less than one merchandise from the menu (drinks or meals) through the present.

Sunday, March 31

• Special Easter Music, 10:30 a.m. at Lake Street Church, 607 Lake St. The church’s Easter service will embody new and previous celebrative music together with Salmo 150 from Ariel Ramirez’ Mass for Peace and Justice. Guest musicians from VanderCook College of Music will add to the congregational, choir and organ music with flutes, trumpet, guitar and percussion. An Easter egg hunt instantly following worship is open to youngsters in fifth grade and youthful.
• Back to Bach – Part I, 3 p.m. Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, Galvin Recital Hall, 70 Arts Circle Dr. Students of Associate Piano Professor Sylvia Wang will carry out the primary 12 of the Preludes and Fugues from Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2. There will likely be two pianos on stage, organized again-to-again to permit the music to be carried out seamlessly by a number of pianists. $6/$four college students.
• Steve Forbert, 7 p.m. at SPACE, 1635 Chicago Ave. Forbert had successful document, Romeo’s Tune, in 1979. He is a prolific songwriter and his tunes have been coated by a number of different artists, together with Roseanne Cash, Keith Urban and Web Wilder. American Songwriter mentioned “Like Warren Zevon, Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Bruce Springsteen, Steve Forbert has left his unmistakable imprint on the landscape of American music.” He will likely be performing tunes from his 2022 album, Moving Through America. $20/$24.
• Amr Fahmy Trio, 7 p.m. at Le Piano, 6970 N. Glenwood Ave., Chicago. Fahmy is the pianist for the Chicago Soul Jazz Collective, a tough-grooving group of prime-notch musicians that always carry out with the marvelous vocalist Dee Alexander. He brings his trio to Le Piano each Sunday. $15.
• Back to Bach – Part II, 7:30 p.m. Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, Galvin Recital Hall, 70 Arts Circle Dr. Current and former college students from the studio of Sylvia Wang current Preludes and Fugues 13 by way of 24 from Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, on two nestled “back to back” pianos. The Bach extravaganza concludes along with his Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor and Fantasia and Fugue in A Minor.

Monday, April 1

• Shakespeare’s Sonnets Reborn, 7:30 p.m. at SPACE, 1635 Chicago Ave. The Chicagoland band Mortal Fools has taken on the daring process of turning Shakespeare’s sonnets into rock tunes within the vein of The Replacements, Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach. They’ll be performing these works of educational sacrilege at SPACE on Monday evening. $12/$20.
• Lisa An, Violin Student Recital, 8:30 p.m. at Northwestern University Bienen School of Music, McClintock Choral & Recital Room, 70 Arts Circle Dr. An will likely be accompanied by Liang-yu Wang on piano. The program will embody sonatas by Beethoven and Saint-Saëns. Free admission.

Tuesday, April 2

• The Tim O’Brien Band, 7:30 p.m. at SPACE, 1635 Chicago Ave. Grammy-winning bluegrass legend O’Brien will likely be performing numerous tunes from his intensive catalog and from his upcoming album Cup of Sugar at SPACE on Tuesday evening. O’Brien is multi-instrumentalist, a songwriter and a normal bearer of traditional bluegrass music. His songs have been coated by many main artists together with Nickelback, Garth Brooks, and the Chicks (previously often called the Dixie Chicks). $25/$40.
• Irish Music Session, 7 p.m. at Sketchbook Brewing Evanston, 821 Chicago Ave. Traditional Irish music session with a shifting solid of gamers. Sketchbook proprietor Shawn Decker normally brings his fiddle and joins within the session. Folks who can play Irish music can take part! Free admission.
• Cabaret Night that includes Nitz and Friends North, 7 p.m. at Le Piano, 6970 N. Glenwood Ave., Chicago. Daryl Nitz has been performing and producing cabaret exhibits in Chicago for years whereas educating for 30 years in Chicago space public faculties. He retired final yr from his educating profession and is devoting his full efforts to his artwork. This is a recurring present each Tuesday evening. $15.

Wednesday, April 3