special guests Max & The Fellow Travelers, Adelaide

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm

Kneafsey (pronounced "neef-see") is the solo project of Jimmy Drenovsky. Jimmy has been writing music for most of his life, with his output up until now coming exclusively from the band he co-founded in 2016, Motel Breakfast. While his work in Motel Breakfast focuses on full band compositions, Kneafsey songs draw more influence from the understated, lyric-forward singer-songwriter world, inspired by artists such as John Moreland, Adrianne Lenker, Sufjan Stevens, and Laura Marling.The debut Kneafsey album, carefully constructed over 3 years by Jimmy and producer Will Hansen (of Milwaukee's "Old Pup"), compiles a back catalogue of songs about love, loss, and friendship.

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Potomac Bombs play bluegrass and prairie music.

Jessica Mindrum is a singer-songwriter based in Chicago, IL. Her EP Restart, Begin is out now with new music coming in 2025. 

with special guests
Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm

Musical missionary, tireless troubadour, and producer Jack Klatt isn’t one to be easily categorized or relegated to a narrow niche. He comes across as a young man with a wizened and worldly perspective, an artist who possesses a timeless sensibility of both place and purpose. Yet, his artistic integrity extends to more than simply his songs. It embodies both execution and intent... the way he’s mastered his deft finger-picking technique and used that sturdy approach to bring his material an authenticity reminiscent of the most revered musicians and storytellers.

A product of the nation’s heartland, Klatt was born and bred in the twin cities. He dropped out of college before spending the next six years pursuing his wanderlust and hitchhiking across the country with nothing but a backpack and a Martin guitar. He eventually made his way overseas, where he slept under the stars, traded songs for spending money, and enjoyed a life typical of one who’s a drifter and bohemian. All the while, he made it his mission to proffer the songs of the American masters, from Woody Guthrie and Eddie Cochrane to Hank Williams and Marty Robbins. In the process, he found himself captivated by the full gamut of archetypical American music — a singular style that encompasses folk, blues, rock, rockabilly, R&B, and arcane country — and began to refashion it to suit his own style.

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm

Grammy nominee Shannon McNally’s live music career began on the jam band circuit of the 1990s with bands like Derek Trucks and Railroad Earth. Since then, her catalog has grown to span the whole of the Americana music spectrum, both writing original songs as well as interpreting the songs of others. She brings a soul-stirring musicality to her craft. Her honest and, at times, elegant voice immediately grabs one by the heartstrings. Not to mention as it turns out, she is also an exceptional electric guitar player.

McNally has fourteen albums to her name and a string of single self-releases on her personal label, Queen Maeve Records. Her latest album, “Live At Dee’s,” is a career retrospective song list captured over four nights in September of 2022 with a revolving band of Nashville musicians. Showcasing McNally’s wonderful storytelling and sense of wry humor, the 18-song disc captures her at her most relaxed in her natural habitat of neighborhood Honky Tonk.

For those who have followed McNally’s twenty-plus-year career, the thing that sticks with listeners the most about her is the timeless effortlessness she brings to all she does. With an impressive catalog and extensive list of collaborators with whom she has written, recorded, and toured; McNally continues to turn out great music across wide-flung ends of the spectrum, defying genre-fication. At home on any stage, from Lincoln Center to the juke joints of Mississippi—she always brings the house down.

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm

Brent Penny is a Chicago based experimental singer-songwriter and musician crafting his personal take on pop. Penny’s sound is informed by various shoegaze, ambient, folk, and experimental components. With deadpan lyrical delivery Penny combines that which is deeply visceral with the surreal.

Nona Invie is a singer/composer based in Minneapolis that has worked with a range of musical projects, including Folk Americana band Dark Dark Dark, electronic trio RONiiA and the choral ensemble Anonymous Choir. Their solo work layers acoustic piano with synth instruments, creating an ethereal landscape to get lost in.

Anna Johnson is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist who composes textural, electronic explorations of voice, synthesizer, and guitar. With backgrounds in classical, traditional, and religious musics, her sound encompasses choral ambience, drone and experimental pop. She relies on improvisation and looping, with a meandering, fluid sense of embodied time.

feat. Alta Vista [duo]

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm

Storm Jameson is the folk music duo of Jim Tashjian and Matt Gold. Their new release, Roll On Buddy (Flood Music), features gorgeously stripped-down arrangements of traditional and deep-cut songs spanning over one hundred years of music from Ireland, Canada, and the US. Cut in a single day session – then minimally embellished with pedal steel, bass, and fiddle – the emotional intimacy of these takes is fully on display across the record's eight selections.

In contrast to the original songs and varied production techniques behind 2018’s The Year of Orbison, this new release centers time-worn melodies and renders them in a sparse yet instantly recognizable way. Roll On Buddy is a quietly bold step for Storm Jameson, who imbue these songs with honesty and vulnerability.

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm

Magic Tuber Stringband are Courtney Werner and Evan Morgan. The duo are at the forefront of artists inhabiting the rich, living musical traditions of the Appalachian region, not as preservationists, but as fluent speakers shaping the forms with their inventive new ideas. The music, contemporary in nature, shares a through line with its history in both technique and in inspiration. Magic Tuber Stringband’s music, like traditional music of the region, exists in constant communion with the natural world. The duo’s music thrums with a primal, vital energy that speaks to an intimate relationship with both folk practice and the natural environment. Morgan is an organizer within the local music community, and Werner is a dedicated naturalist involved in local land stewardship. Needlefall answers the question “what does a modern string band sound like?” with powerful new arrangements of traditional songs and transcendent originals. The album is teeming with life, translating abundant ecosystems into arcing melodies and shimmering, mystic drones.

Event starts at 1pm

Listen to the debut album by Lucky Cloud, 'Foreground' before it's released on March 28th via Ruination Records. Listen to selects from DJ Limited Hangout before and after. Food from Avrom Farm's new Fajita Pop-Up will be available and made fresh for the event. FREE!

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm

Lee Bains is a Rolling Stone-acclaimed songwriter and New Yorker-published poet whose work is steeped in the American South. Born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, and living in Atlanta for over a decade, Bains’s songs are hopeful, but far from naive.

On 2022’s Old-Time Folks (Don Giovanni), his fourth album with The Glory Fires, he delivers songs that mix sounds of the South — rock and roll, gospel, punk, soul, country, hip-hop — to deliver stories of resistance and love.

Challenging revisionist histories that would prefer to forget the worst parts of our collective past as much as the present neoliberal logic that reduces people to numbers, they celebrate the messiness of humanity and the power of solidarity and love.

feat. Meg & The Wheelers

Doors at 9pm, dancing at 9:30pm

Last Call Honky Tonk is Judson & Moore's late night two step party. Every month catch a rotating local band play and the bar serves a cheap beer & shot combo for the late night affair. Dance right up until you hear your bartenders yell last call!

Doors at 8:00pm, show at 8:30pm

Catch Jeff and Frankie in their farewell Chicago show. 

A mainstay of the Chicago comedy scene, Jeff Braun has been featured on Vulture and the United Airlines In-Flight Magazine. His brand of off-the-wall comedy that is also subversive will subvert any expectations you have as to what off-the-wall comedy could look like.

A comedic phenomenon, Frankie the Kid Comedian is immensely respected in certain niche comedy circles. His adult take on kid comedy will be sure to leave you with a boo-boo from laughing so much. He does not do autographs.

Watch this delightful duo join forces for a hysterical night of laughs as we come together to wish them the best on their next chapter.

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm

Brian Bahe is a stand up, actor, and writer based in Los Angeles. He is a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation, the Hopi Nation, and the Navajo Nation and grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. He is currently a Story Editor on GHOSTS for CBS. Previously, he staffed on the FOX series THE GREAT NORTH. He was named a “Comedian You Should and Will Know in 2023” by Vulture and he was a New Face at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in 2022. Brian taped a standup set for Comedy Central’s STAND-UP FEATURING and he has headlined Caroline’s on Broadway. His writing has appeared in McSweeney’s and CNN. He hosts the monthly standup show “Star Fuckers: Astrology But Make It Comedy” at the Hollywood Improv Lab. Brian has toured his stand-up solo show titled “Reading From My Phone” in both New York and Los Angeles.

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm

with Hunter Peebles, Local Memory

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Brandon Good is a Chicago artist with a penchant for Country music nodding to a wide range of notable genre influences while remaining true to the dance hall and honky-tonk heritage he loves. After breaking into the Country scene with the release of “The Anvil” and “The Spitzer Sessions”. He’s set to release his first full length record, “Restless”, which is set to release Fall of 24’.

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm

In 2023, Chris Pierce was handpicked to be the special guest opener for the NEIL YOUNG Coastal Tour. He gained additional worldwide prominence with “We Can Always Come Back to This”. His hit song aired on 3 episodes of the #1 NBC primetime series ‘THIS IS US,' then went on to #1 on the Billboard Blues Chart. Pierce has also done worldwide headlining tours and has performed with: Neil Young, B.B. King, Seal, Al Green, Allison Russell, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, White Buffalo, Rodrigo y Gabriella, Jill Scott, Keb’Mo, Blind Boys of Alabama, Aaron Neville & others.

His highly anticipated album titled ‘LET ALL WHO WILL’ was released on September 1, 2023, with critical acclaim from NPR, NoDepression, American Songwriter, Hi Times and more. In addition to his solo career, Chris Pierce performs/records with Americana/Folk/Soul sensation WAR & PIERCE with Sunny War, the music of CSNY band OUR HOUSE, the Americana/Roots band LEON CREEK and does occasional appearances with the BLACK OPRY REVUE.

​At a young age, Pierce developed a rare hearing disorder called Otosclerosis that led to the loss of hearing in one ear and partial deafness in the other, a setback that would deter many young musicians forever. The reality, however, fueled Chris’ passion and determination all the more, forcing him to re-learn almost everything he had known prior to his condition. To Chris, music was, and still is, an unconditional companion.

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm

Chloe Kimes is a Michigan born singer, songwriter and bandleader currently based in Nashville, TN. In 2022 Kimes independently released her self titled debut album — voted "Listener's Choice Album of the Year" by WYCE Radio as well as landing her a spot on NPR Music's Top Ten Nashville Artists on the Rise. In 2024 she released her latest single "Coors Light" following its immense viral popularity. Kimes’ spirited alt-country outfit offers a striking live show with a timeless sound, her tireless voice leading the way, her sentiments forging their own new space in the country americana scene.

Doors at 8:00pm, show at 8:30pm

The Goofball Exclusive Economic Zone (G.E.E.Z.) is an alt comedy expedition, featuring the best and goofballiest performers in Chicago and beyond. A whirlpool of stand-up, sketch, music, and video, you might get seasick with laughter but in a good way that doesn’t actually make you sick.

Past performers have been featured on Comedy Central, Conan, and The Onion. Visit www.geez.show for a closer look at future lineups.

Hosted by Captain Jeff Braun (Lincoln Lodge, United Airlines In-Flight Magazine), join us for a hysterical evening!

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm

The four singersongwriters play short, intimate, stripped down sets for free.

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm

In search of love? This special Valentine's Day installment of 'Please Date My Friend' is an evening of powerpoint presentations by friends of hot singles in your area. It bascially guarantees that you will be in love by the time daylight savings comes around (sort of). Single people's friends will be 'pitching' them to the audience in hopes that they will find their one true love. Hosted by Kira Felsenfeld and featuring some of Chicago's most cutie sweetie pies, love will surely be in the air. All gender identities and sexualities welcome- there will be somebody for everybody. <3

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm

For as long as Caleb Lee Hutchinson has been making music, he has rooted his creative process in the brutal honesty and rich storytelling tradition of country music’s roots. Hutchinson’s voice and wit inspired important collaborations on his 2019 self-titled debut EP, produced by Grammy winner Kristian Bush, and 2021 follow-up, “Slot Machine Syndrome,” produced by Grammy-nominated Americana stalwart, Brent Cobb. In 2022, Caleb self produced the darkly themed EP, “Songs I’ll Never Sing Again,” and wrote and starred in the accompanying short film. With his new project, “Southern Galactic,”—produced by multi-genre artist and creator Titanic Sinclair—Hutchinson explores new territory while maintaining his reverence for the honesty and storytelling that seeded his love for country music as a Georgia boy listening to Mississippi John Hurt and Waylon Jennings cassettes with his dad.

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm

The music of Philadelphia-based Hour cuts a broad pathway, and remains hard to classify or compare. Perhaps most at home beside work from Bill Frisell, Eiko Ishibashi, ECM Records, or the Louisville experimental chamber group Rachel’s. Subminiature, their new live album, comes fresh off the heels of 2024’s ‘Ease the Work’ and provides a capstone for the band’s oeuvre to date. Across this collection of recordings harvested over two years of extensive touring, bandleader Michael Cormier-O’Leary demonstrates a deep understanding of the character of his shifting ensemble and its players.

feat. The Hoyle Brothers

Doors at 9pm, dancing at 9:30pm

Last Call Honky Tonk is Judson & Moore's late night two step party. Every month catch a rotating local band play and the bar serves a cheap beer & shot combo for the late night affair. Dance right up until you hear your bartenders yell last call!

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm

Ava Brennan is a Chicago-born and based guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Working in the alternative folk/rock realm, her songs combine colorful chords and playfully woven picking patterns with poetic lyrics sung in a vulnerable, daring spirit. Her first single ‘Home’ and EP ‘Coil’ are expected for release in 2025. Influences include Nick Drake, Elliot Smith, Joanna Newsom, Linda Perhacs, and Adrianne Lenker.

Park Hills Circle is the atmospheric indie project of Maris Maeve O'Tierney, a singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist (guitar, piano) currently based in Chicago. Debut album - All Of A Sudden (forthcoming summer 2025) - features colorful stacked vocal harmonies, warm synths, ethereal fingerstyle guitar, and soaring saxophone.

Hannah Frey plays folk rock for lovers & sweeties. Set to release her album Lucky Girl this March, she feels like the luckiest girl in Chicago and hopes it rubs off on you with each listen.

Night Starts at 8:00pm, mini sets at 9:00pm and 10:00pm

Need a good cry and a drink after Valentines Day? Don’t worry, Tearjoint, a night of vinyl B-sides of downright glum country picks from Local Universe is back Sunday 2/16, 8pm at Sportsman’s Club. Guest DJ Lawrence Peters spins and soothe your sorrows with Judson & Moore’s brown-liquor specials all night. Don’t miss the live mini-sets of country covers from crooner Andrew Sa and Ione. No cover, 21+

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm

Bobby Bare, Jr. may have begun his career when he was eight years old by the side of his dad, but as a grownup he's carved out a respectable niche with music that falls somewhere between hard rock, roots rock, indie rock, and alt-country. Bobby Bare, Jr. was born on June 28, 1966 in Nashville, Tennessee; his father was the successful country singer Bobby Bare. The Bare family lived just outside Nashville in Hendersonville, Tennessee, where their neighbors were George Jones and Tammy Wynette. In 1974, Bare brought his son into the studio to record "Daddy, What If," a Shel Silverstein tune that imagined a conversation between a father and son. The tune became a hit and went on to win a Grammy, and Bare Jr. became a regular presence at his father's concerts, singing the tune with his dad; when he was too old to perform the song, he worked as part of Bare's stage crew and at the merchandise table.

In 2002, Bare started recording under his own name, his effort was a personal and stylistically diverse independent album with a rotating cast of musicians; the band and the album were called Bobby Bare Jr.'s Young Criminals Starvation League, and the album was Bare's first for pioneering alt-country imprint Bloodshot Records.

Kevn Kinney is most widely known as founder and frontman of Atlanta-based rock band Drivin- N-Cryin. A highly-acclaimed singer, songwriter, musician, performer, visual artist and poet, he has recently been inducted into both the Wisconsin Music Hall of Fame and Georgia Music Hall of Fame for his impactful legacy of art.

Kinney has released multiple critically acclaimed solo and band recordings during his career having also collaborated with Warren Haynes, REM, The Who and John Popper, among others. Peter Buck of REM has produced and performed on several of Kevn’s albums and continues to be involved in his career.

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm

Olivia and the Lovers are a queer cowboy band based in Chicago. Taking inspiration both from classic American folk music and cowboy standards, Olivia Love writes music as a vehicle for vulnerability and reflections on queer love, loss, and healing. They were named the Best Emerging Band and Best Country Band in the 2023 Chicago Reader Poll.

St. Louis honkytonk rock ‘n’ roll act The Fighting Side is making waves throughout the Midwest, and the status quo of country music has been given notice. Frontman Brad Jackson makes it all clear. “Each one of us has been doing this for a long time, but in different musical realms. Some of us cut teeth on punk rock, some of us on bluegrass or surf rock, and I’m a traditional country guy with a long punk rock history it all matters.” The styles each member contributes is distinct, but the resulting sound is something altogether innovative, yet familiar in the way that defines songs you can’t get out of your head. Screaming telecaster lead guitar from David Newman and the walking bass lines of Ben Gastman, combined with Jackson’s deep baritone growl, say it’s something between country music and southern rock, while the punk/blues backbone from behind the kit of Timmy Kendrick and the guitar of Seth Barnhart transform the output into something that’s really not country music at all.

Lessons at 7:00pm, show at 8:00pm

The Queer Social Club & Local Universe present the two-step night that's taken the city by storm with Iris Marlowe!

Pull out that vintage cowboy hat, shine up that bespoke bolo, and come pardner-up to dance with someone new and hang with fellow country-queers. There's a grand prize for the best dressed, and even a little something for the runner up! Channel Dolly Iris Marloweand Orville and come dressed to impress.

If you need a bit of liquid courage, Judson & Moore's house distilled spirits and handmade cocktails will be available from the bar. If you don't know the steps, sign up for lessons before the night gets going from Billingsley & Earp. Think you have two left feet? The live band and the encouraging crowd will get you swaying in no time!

ABOUT THE QUEER SOCIAL CLUB The Queer Social Club is a collective focused on queer community-building and space-making. They organize events centered on cultivating queer joy, fostering connections, and intentionally building queer community

ABOUT THE LESSONS The Texas two-step is a fun partner dance that is easy to learn, even if you have two left boots. By the end of the group class with instructors Wild Earp & Michelle Billingsley, you'll be armed with the basics of leading/following, two-step footwork, and an easy turn or two; everything you need to feel comfortable two-steppin'. After the lesson, the dance floor will open with the house band!

Doors at 7:00pm, show at 8:00pm

As one critic noted, “Sean Rowe can just crush granite with that voice. It's so powerful.” He is an acclaimed and well-respected forager and songwriter whose music has been used extensively in television and film. Rowe is currently working on wrapping production for his soon-to-be-announced 6th album.

hosted by Tristan Huygen feat. Elizabeth Moen, Chris Coleslaw, Case Oats, and Josephine

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The Grain is Judson & Moore & Local Universe’s monthly live songwriting journal. Join a rotating host as they guide artists into an intimate look at their songwriting. Artists are invited bring songs of theirs around promtps based on the theme for each evening. They'll be interviewed before performing about their song and choices for a live essay-style look behind the songs and the writers themselves.

Doors at 9:00pm, show at 9:30pm

A very special comedy show featuring original songs, presentations, bits, and one (1) backflip performed by an aging man who had to stand up and crack his knees while writing this.

Demi Adejuyigbe is a writer, comedian, filmmaker, and– inexplicably– musician, best known for his podcasts Punch Up The Jam and Gilmore Guys, his popular September 21st video series, and as a writer/producer on NBC’s The Good Place, Peacock’s The Amber Ruffin Show, Netflix’s NEON, and Apple TV’s Strange Planet.