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Friday, February 3
Justin Lane
Alma
$5.00 Singer Songwriters
Show at 9 pm
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Saturday, February 4
The Steve Schneck Group
$5.00, Jazz
Show at 8 pm
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Wednesday, February 8
In One Ear
Hosted By Pete Wolf
Open Mic for Poetry and Music
Sign up at 9:30
Show at 10 pm
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Hosted
by Pete Wolf, it is open to all
those who wish to share
their art in the presence of their
enthusiastic peers.
The show was started in March of
1988 at the No Exit Cafe by Owner
Sue Kozin and according to our records,
was handed over to Michael O'Toole,
it is the second longest running
Open-Mic venue in Chicago history,
having just celebrated its eighteenth
anniversary. In March of 1998, Michael
retired, and bequested the show
to Chicago poet Pete Wolf. Pete
moved the show to the Heartland
Cafe and through his hard work and
love for poetry, has more than doubled
the average audience attendance.
Pete has had many co-hosts as well
as guest hosts. Current guest hosts
include Karma 360 aka Billy Tuggle,
Candyce and Rachel. Come and participate
in our live poetry experience.
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Thursday, February 9
Lin Boyle
$5.00 Suggested Donation
Show at 8 pm
Folk
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Linda Boyle is a Chicago singer, song writer. For forty years she has been sharing songs and their stories to folks of all ages. She has been a strolling singer-guitarist in restaurants, performed at neighborhood clubs, presented programs at schools, universities, cultural institutions and performed at festivals.
Linda's musical style encompasses Blues, progressive-folk, traditional, country, Nueva Cancion, jazz, and women's music, including songs in Spanish, Portuguese, Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, Hebrew, Yiddish and Kiswahili. She is also a Special Education, Spanish and U.S. History teacher and is involved in Reading instruction.
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Dominic Zeier is a 19 year old singer/songwriter, audio engineer, and music teacher. He started writing seriously with a few of his friends when he had turned 16, and has been in bands from techno, to death metal, and found his passion in the acoustic guitar, and is influenced by the blues and the jazz from the 50's and earlier. He takes the early influences from them, as well as the use of classical guitar, and quick rhythm structure to create a new, fresh quality of music, but to also remember the creativity that influenced his style of music.
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Kenny Rox, christened Kenneth Roxborough hails from a musical family. His father Solomon, a renown master tenorsax, is recognised as a "jack of all trades" as he is able to professionally play any musical instrument set before him. While his brother, Chelem, is not only a well sought after bass player, but he is able to hold his own on any other musical instruments.
Kenny Rox's solo career actually started back in 1967, when he released "Glory Of Love", but things didn't happen the way he wanted, with the sinlgle not doing too well, so he took a break for a while.
In 1975, he came back on the music scene as lead vocal for the group "The Emotional". He stuck with them for about five years and together they released three singles in England "River Stream", "That's How I Feel", and "Frustration". He had as much better luck this time, as the three sogns did great on the English charts.
Later he joined the Wadadah group, of which he is still a member. But now he wants to make a come-back as a solo artiste and he is willing to accept any help that will enhance the prospects of him becoming a top Reggae singer and song writer, and is at the verge of launching his single "No Opportunity".
He is also at the present time a back-up vocalist for Stephen Marley
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Sunday, February 12
School Of Rock
Rock 101 Live
No Cover, Student Recital
Show at 5 pm
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Wednesday, February 15
In One Ear
Hosted By Pete Wolf
Open Mic for Poetry and Music
Sign up at 9:30
Show at 10 pm
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Hosted
by Pete Wolf, it is open to all
those who wish to share
their art in the presence of their
enthusiastic peers.
The show was started in March of
1988 at the No Exit Cafe by Owner
Sue Kozin and according to our records,
was handed over to Michael O'Toole,
it is the second longest running
Open-Mic venue in Chicago history,
having just celebrated its eighteenth
anniversary. In March of 1998, Michael
retired, and bequested the show
to Chicago poet Pete Wolf. Pete
moved the show to the Heartland
Cafe and through his hard work and
love for poetry, has more than doubled
the average audience attendance.
Pete has had many co-hosts as well
as guest hosts. Current guest hosts
include Karma 360 aka Billy Tuggle,
Candyce and Rachel. Come and participate
in our live poetry experience.
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Thursday, February 16
Craig Champlin and Friends
$5.00 Suggested Donation
Show at 8 pm
Folk and Americana
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Sunday, February 19
Life After Hate
Book Reading And conversation
No Cover, Show at 7 pm
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Arno Michaels
author of My Life After Hate. A former racist skinhead examines aspects of his past: Where did the hate begin? How did a teenaged alcoholic become a central figure in the white power movement of the late 80s and early 90s? What happened to bring about his drastic change of mind and heart? With a collection of reflective essays, disturbing flashbacks, and an interview, My Life After Hate scrubs scabs off the festering wound of racism, then soothes with the essential wisdom of forgiveness and compassion.
http://lifeafterhate.org/my-life-after-hate/
bio: In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Arno Michaels was a founding member of what went on to become the largest racist skinhead organization on Earth, a reverend of a self-declared Racial Holy War, and lead singer of the hate-metal band Centurion, which sold 20,000 CDs by the mid-nineties and is still popular with racists today. Single parenthood, love for his daughter, and the forgiveness shown by people he once hated all helped to turn Arno's life around, bringing him to embrace diversity and speak out against hate and violence. Today Arno is Executive Director of Life After Hate, and author of My Life After Hate. He is also a founder of the character development outreach movement Kindness Not Weakness, which teaches the strength, courage, and honor necessary to wage peace. Arno enjoys spending time with his daughter, art, music, and all forms of fearless creative expression, along with climbing things, being underwater, and the wonderful natural beauty of our planet Earth.
Life After Hate is a character development organization dedicated to the truth of basic human goodness—the innate human need for compassion and the ability to give it. We explore this truth through open and honest dialog that includes all human beings. Character development addresses a host of symptoms caused by lack of character, such as bullying, racism, sexism, homophobia, religious intolerance, and substance abuse. Using the online magazine found at lifeafterhate.org as a foundation, Life After Hate engages a cycle of compassion, collaboration, and outreach across disparate populations. Coverage of these activities in the magazine creates further opportunities to broaden and empower this cycle of compassion, which is the most effective response to the cycle of violence that grips human society. In Summer of 2011, Life After Hate joined the Against Violent Extremism network, a global alliance of former perpetrators of violent extremism along with survivors thereof working together to promote peace.
Sammy Rangel
author of FourBears: The Myth of Forgiveness. This isn't a simple memoir; it is a graphically illustrated guide from tortured child, to remorseless gangbanger, to healing and change. This book is about helping others find their way out of their history and into the here and now. Proof that what once held you down can now hold you up. FourBears offers groundbreaking insight into the mind of a horrifically abused child, and the perpetrator of hate and violence he grew to become. http://lifeafterhate.org/fourbears/
bio: Sammy lived out the majority of his preadolescent years as a victim of ongoing childhood physical and sexual abuse. At the age of 11, Sammy set out on his own and lived out the rest of his juvenile life as homeless, throwaway child who very quickly encountered drugs, crime, sex, and violence on the street, just like at home. Eventually, Sammy made a lifestyle of the street life including gangs, crime, drugs, and institutions. Today, in addition to working as an AODA and mental health counselor for the City of Racine, Sammy has been the Program Coordinator for the SAFE Streets Outreach Program for ten years. Sammy works with Racine County youth and families who face extreme crisis or danger. Often times these youth are involved in gang, drug, and crime activities that place them in risk for incarceration, addiction or worse. In 2004 Sammy graduated with Presidential honors from Gateway Technical College-Racine as the District and College Ambassador representing 450,000 students in Wisconsin. Sammy graduated from Carthage College with a Bachelors of Social Work Degree with a minor in Psychology, Cum Laude, in 2008. On September 13, 2009 Sammy graduated with a Master of Social Work Degree, Summa Cum Laude, with a mental health focus, from Loyola University-Chicago. Sammy has accomplished all the aforementioned within ten years of being released from the Department of Corrections November 11, 1999, after serving more than 15 ½ years through his juvenile and adult years.
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Wednesday, February 22
In One Ear
Hosted By Pete Wolf
Open Mic for Poetry and Music
Sign up at 9:30
Show at 10 pm
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Hosted
by Pete Wolf, it is open to all
those who wish to share
their art in the presence of their
enthusiastic peers.
The show was started in March of
1988 at the No Exit Cafe by Owner
Sue Kozin and according to our records,
was handed over to Michael O'Toole,
it is the second longest running
Open-Mic venue in Chicago history,
having just celebrated its eighteenth
anniversary. In March of 1998, Michael
retired, and bequested the show
to Chicago poet Pete Wolf. Pete
moved the show to the Heartland
Cafe and through his hard work and
love for poetry, has more than doubled
the average audience attendance.
Pete has had many co-hosts as well
as guest hosts. Current guest hosts
include Karma 360 aka Billy Tuggle,
Candyce and Rachel. Come and participate
in our live poetry experience.
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Thursday, March 1
Opera On Tap
$10.00 Suggested Donation
Opera Hi Lights
Show at 8 pm
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Our mission as a not- for-profit 501(c)3 company, is to promote opera as a viable, living and progressive art form deserving a place on the American cultural landscape.
In 2005 we created Opera on Tap as a performance outlet for our friends and ourselves. We wanted an opera "gig" in the vein of the New York rock or jazz gig. Freddy’s Bar and Backroom provided us with the opportunity. It was an affordable way to have fun together and work on our music at the same time... Guess what else happened…
We discovered a new audience starved for intense, acoustic, musical experiences! More often than not, opera is perceived in this country to be elitist, pretentious, stuffy and boring. Going to the opera means dressing up, shelling out a lot of money, putting on an air of sophistication and most importantly, not making any noise whatsoever, unless it’s the appropriate time to applaud the diva. There is indeed a tradition of behavior at the “Opera”: Act classier than you really are. In America, opera is placed on a high pedestal, so high unfortunately that the average Joe is throwing his hands up and spending his money elsewhere.
Tickets aren’t selling so well at Opera houses around the country. Why? We believe that many Americans have never felt comfortable entering an opera house. Since opera is not a part of our national historic, cultural foundation it doesn’t pervade the American psyche, say, the way rock & roll does. The majority of the operatic repertoire isn’t written in our language after all. But for those of us out there who have been exposed to its beauty and have developed a passion for it, it is a transcendent art form where music drives drama and character. Many people who come to Opera on Tap are people who have never set foot in an opera house. The response? Overwhelming. We pack the house every time and have a growing list of regulars.
Opera on Tap is a form of cultural and two-fold educational outreach.
Often big opera companies focus on outreach to children. Opera on Tap believes adults too can be enriched through gaining an appreciation for opera. A middle class twenty-something may attend Opera on Tap and find him or herself much more likely to purchase an opera ticket at a bigger more well known opera house.
Our other very important mission is to promote young professional singers and instrumentalists in their artistic development. At Opera on Tap performers are allowed to let their hair down, wear jeans, drink beer and try out new repertoire FOR AN AUDIENCE! There is no pressure for perfection. Opera on Tap gives the artists an opportunity to communicate the joy and exuberance they feel in the music by getting away from the stuffy atmosphere of the concert hall or educational institution. Providing the artist and the audience with "room to breathe" draws in new listeners who respond to the honesty
and energy of the performances.
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Debbie Sue Goodman performs a one-woman comedy show based on her best selling book, "Still Single" which includes many humorous and heartwarming stories about Debbie's life. Her book, "Still Dating" includes many more humorous stories. Debbie is a comedian and an actress/lyricist/vocalist/impressionist, and has appeared in many comedy clubs, theaters, charity events and cable TV shows. Debbie has also made numerous guest appearances on Chicago TV & radio stations, author appearances and book signings
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Saturday, March 3
Sy Safransky
Editor and founder of The Sun
No Cover, Conversation and Readings
Show at 8 pm
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Join Sy Safransky, founder and editor of The Sun magazine, along with contributors Poe Ballantine, Krista Bremer, and Cheryl Strayed for a free reading on March 3rd at the Heartland Café. Doors open at 7:00 pm; reading begins at 8:00 pm.In print for nearly 40 years, The Sun is independent and free of advertising. Writing from The Sun has won the Pushcart Prize, been featured on National Public Radio, and appeared in Best American Essays and Best American Short Stories.
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LINDA SOLOTAIRE (Vocals / Leader) received her BA from Columbia College Chicago, focused on performing (voice and acting) and plastic arts. With a background in theory, classical, and 20th-century music, Ms. Solotaire has enjoyed roles in musical theater productions, studio work, as well as collaborations on original works with artists including, playwright/composer Tom Webber, jazz funk band Original Balance, song writer/poet Everette Howe, and others. She currently performs with the The Linda Solotaire Trio, Linda & the Cosmopolitans, and an eclectic duo with Guitarist/Bassist Stu Greenspan.
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Wednesday, March 7
In One Ear
Hosted By Pete Wolf
Open Mic for Poetry and Music
Sign up at 9:30
Show at 10 pm
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Hosted
by Pete Wolf, it is open to all
those who wish to share
their art in the presence of their
enthusiastic peers.
The show was started in March of
1988 at the No Exit Cafe by Owner
Sue Kozin and according to our records,
was handed over to Michael O'Toole,
it is the second longest running
Open-Mic venue in Chicago history,
having just celebrated its eighteenth
anniversary. In March of 1998, Michael
retired, and bequested the show
to Chicago poet Pete Wolf. Pete
moved the show to the Heartland
Cafe and through his hard work and
love for poetry, has more than doubled
the average audience attendance.
Pete has had many co-hosts as well
as guest hosts. Current guest hosts
include Karma 360 aka Billy Tuggle,
Candyce and Rachel. Come and participate
in our live poetry experience.
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Thursday, March 8
String Cheese
$5.00 Suggested Donation
Celtic / Folk
Show at 8 pm
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String Cheese is the electrifying combination of fiddler, Diana Ladio, and cellist, Alison Lynn. With their feel-good melodies, and foot-stomping, rock-influenced rhythms, these girls have put a fresh, enticing spin on Celtic and Americana music. Though rooted in tradition, the two and offer listeners the unique opportunity to experience two of the world’s best-known instruments and oldest genres through a young, progressive lens. The girls put on a fun, family-friendly show that leaves audiences smiling almost as much as the two performers. String Cheese' captivating sounds and ability to connect to all audiences has made it one of Michigan’'s most promising instrumental acts
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