What's on in Avondale
Markets, openings, workshops and gatherings from the neighborhood's independent businesses and organizations.
October 2026
17 events
Join for our weekly celebration of Irish culture with a live traditional Irish music Session every Sunday 5pm-7pm!
Sliding Scale | 21+ Step into your goth rave fantasy. The infamous NOWHERE2RUN'S BLOODRAVE comes straight to you for its first ever HALLOWEEN TOUR.
Steeplechase is turning two years old!! Lineup: Steeplechase, In Shining Armour (Milwaukee), Dog Guitar Drag: Goo, Lazarus Vendors: Silverline Air, Stamp Heaven, uninspired4ever, Helena Brophy
Subversive: Virago, Frechette B2B Choirgirl at Podlasie Club
Percussionist Jon Mueller visits forming a trio with Wisoconsin pianist Matt Blair and Chicago bassist Ro Lundberg. Nathan Hanson and Steve Hirsh create spontaneously composed music that starts from an impulse informed by jazz.
Teddy and the Rough Riders are a country-rock band led by Ryan Jennings and Jack Quiggins. The group has long bridged the gap between Nashville’s rock and honky-tonk scenes. Their sound is the direct product of being born ‘n’ bred in Nashville, steeped in its country music history and mysticism, while coming up in its DIY rock community.
Ari Vega in Chicago
Free | 21+ Presented by Sleeping Village. This is an 21+ event
Irish Music Session at The Wolfhound
Join Cat Jam Chicago for a Tuesday evening acoustic jam at The Insect Asylum. Join the musical fun in our unique atmosphere!
21+ Join BUMP. for their goodbye and farewell party! They've brought in the headliner to end all headliners, Naomi Smalls for a disco farewell! Come...
ELASTRO AV FESTIVAL 2026!
Marian Runk’s music “honestly and humorously reflects the ambiguities of being a fallible human.” The Dallas-born, Chicago-based indie folk artist writes detail-oriented and deeply visual songs, sonically in the vein of Karen Dalton, Willie Nelson, Adrianne Lenker, and Gillian Welch.
$25 Adv + Fees | 21+ One of LA’s best kept musical secrets, Kiefer has been described as a musician who doesn’t play keys with...
At our first CLEAT Series show of the month, we’re happy to welcome Chicago ex-pat John Niekrasz to present new multichannel work on the system for percussion and electronics. We’ll also welcome back Baltimore artist / organizer Tom Boram aka Borax to Elastic for his first go on the 16 speakers. Ish
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