♪ Live Music ♪
CU Live This Week
Champaign–Urbana, IL  •  Oct 22–28
 
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22   ☀️ 74°/46° · dew 43° dry
12:00 pm♪ SoundBites lunchtime live music series featuring Ashley Stevenson · 310 N Neil St, Champaign
Take a mid‑day break and enjoy SoundBites, our lunchtime live music series on the Downtown Plaza Stage!
5:00 pm♪ Americana Happy Hour || Poppa Foster FREE · Rose Bowl Tavern
Chris "Poppa" Foster is a Tulsa-based singer, songwriter, and pianist who masterfully blends the sounds of New Orleans jazz, Memphis soul…
7:00 pm♪ Open Mic Night w/ Scottie Black · Cowboy Monkey
8:00 pm♪ J'Lyn Hope FREE · Rose Bowl Tavern
9:00 pm♪ The Vibe with DJ I.C. DRE' · Cowboy Monkey
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23   ⛅ 70°/45° · dew 38° dry
3:00 pm♪ Improvisers Exchange Workshop: Kojiro Umezaki and HUB New Music · Orchestra Rehearsal Room (ORR)
Kojiro Umezaki will offer an introduction to the shakuhachi, a Japanese end-blown, bamboo flute…
5:00 pm♪ Hot Club of Urbana · Rose Bowl Tavern
Friday Jazz Happy Hour featuring Hot Club of Urbana live at the Rose Bowl Tavern!
7:00 pm♪ Blue Sky Revival: Allman Brothers Tribute · Cowboy Monkey
This is for the ramblin' man (or woman) in all of us.
7:00 pm♪ Celebrate Bulgarian- An Evening of Music and Dance · Spurlock Museum of World Cultures
Live Performance by the Bulgarica Dance Ensemble of Chicago with artistic director Petur Iliev.
7:30 pm♪ The Collideoscopes, The Written Slip, Lackadays, and Current Conduct · The Cosmo
8:30 pm♪ OVVEN + Lys Allen + Marble Teeth · Rose Bowl Tavern
Need valid physical ID for entry
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24   ☁️ 72°/51° · dew 42° dry
10:30 am♪ Monster Mash Halloween Dance Workshop · Springer Cultural Center
Come learn some original choreography to the famous “Monster Mash” song!
11:00 am♪ Flannel Fest · West Side Park
Grab your flannel and get ready for CU’s ultimate fall festival!
1:00 pm♪ Thriller Halloween Dance Workshop · Springer Cultural Center
Come learn some famous Michael Jackson choreography to “Thriller”!This jazzy/hip hop piece will be something fun to share with friends and family in…
3:00 pm♪ The Painkillers FREE · Rose Bowl Tavern
Never a cover, always a good time with great music and drinks.
7:00 pm♪ The Midwest Franchising Tour: Sock Jock · The Cosmo
Sock Jock with Special Guests Pool Chair, The Critters, Leeloh, Scarlet's Darling, and Hollow
7:30 pm♪ Kojiro Umezaki & Hub New Music: a distance, intertwined · Foellinger Great Hall
Called “contemporary chamber trailblazers” (Boston Globe), Hub New Music is a “prime mover of piping hot 21st century repertoire” (Washington Post).
8:00 pm♪ Matt North Record Release w/ Don Henry · Rose Bowl Tavern
with special guest: Grammy Winner , DON HENRY
8:00 pm♪ Smells like Nirvana · The City Center
9:00 pm♪ Let it Rot wsg Haunter · Cowboy Monkey
Something rotten is headed to Champaign for spooky season.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25   ☁️ 74°/54° · dew 42° dry
3:00 pm♪ The Recliners · Rose Bowl Tavern
An evening of country music classics with ✨The Recliners✨
7:00 pm♪ Blues Deacons FREE · Rose Bowl Tavern
MONDAY, OCTOBER 26
5:30 pm♪ Brad Wheeler Fusioney Band · Rose Bowl Tavern
An eclectic set of original songs.
8:00 pm♪ The Urbana Hootenanny · Rose Bowl Tavern
It's not an "open mic" per se, more of a musician hang-out on stage.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27
3:00 pm♪ Tavern Tuesday Happy Hour & Whiskey Specials · Rose Bowl Tavern
Tavern Tuesday's at The Rose Bowl Tavern 🍻 It is happy hour for folks that drink.
7:00 pm♪ TromBari FREE · Rose Bowl Tavern
TromBari ✨ featuring Jim Pugh, Glen Wilson & Friends
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28
5:00 pm♪ Vine Street Syncopators · Rose Bowl Tavern
Old-timey, dixieland, new orleans style, early jazz - swing music at The Rose Bowl Tavern.
7:30 pm♪ Trivia Night · Rose Bowl Tavern
Every Wednesday, Trivia night at The Rose Bowl Tavern in downtown Urbana.
7:30 pm♪ University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra · Foellinger Great Hall
Conductor: Kevin Noe Graduate Conductor: Victor Yip Program Missy Mazzoli: Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a…
10:00 pm♪ Jazz Jam FREE · Rose Bowl Tavern
Bring your instrument and come play with the house band.
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