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**Astrachan**  
My name is Ben Astrachan and Astrachan (pronounced Astra-Can) is my solo recording project! I started two other Chicago based bands called Astro Heart and Berta Bigtoe. I also sometimes play with Smushie. Astrachan is a meditation of love, adventure, and friendship! Each song takes on the story of a moment that latched onto my heart with the tenderest of holds. The songs themselves are how I was able to make visible the sense-experience of each flicker in time that I traversed!

**The Humble Cheaters**  
Ryan Gebhardt, The Humble Cheaters guitarist/singer, remarked, “When we play music together, I feel like I’m at home with my buds.” Considering he’s been co-fronting this indie group for a third of his life, this statement is hardly surprising. When you see The Humble Cheaters perform live, you are watching a family do their favorite thing together. They’re stoked to share their music with you.

**Family Junket**  
Family Junket is the collective voice of Chicago-based musicians Alejandro Gallardo, Clarence Young, Rahila Coats, Scott Daniel, Hasani Cannon, and brothers Zach, Jonah, and Max Lazarus. They are social workers, teachers, dancers, writers, painters, photographers, performance artists, and engineers coming together to create healing spaces, community, and parties. Melding flutes, saxophones, trumpets, and violins, with unique vocal compositions, layered percussion, and wavy electronic production, the band creates music best listened to with the family.

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Astrachan, The Humble Cheaters, The Family Junket

Astrachan

The Humble Cheaters

Gigs

Chicago

Color Club Ballroom

CHLOÉ HILLIARD is a former journalist turned comedian, TV writer, and award-winning author. She made her late night debut on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Chloé has been featured on Don’t Tell Comedy, Wilmore, The Breakfast Club, The Drew Barrymore Show, This Week at the Comedy Cellar, Chris Gethard Presents, Last Comic Standing, The Nightly Show and more. She appeared alongside Gina Yashere, Lil Rel Howery, Roy Wood Jr. and others in Comedy Central’s documentary, Dark Humor. Chloé is a Co-EP/Co-Head Writer on HBO’s Emmy award-winning A Black Lady Sketch Show. She has produced and written for reality, game shows, and news programming including Wilmore, Peacock’s limited political late-night series.

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Chloé Hilliard

comedy

Comedy

Color Club Tavern

$15 ticket + fees ( ticket does not include bagels and the bagels and cream cheese - bring cash!)

Host Jonathan Sessa takes his Chicago-by-way-of-NY style bagels and comedy to new heights in this new afternoon showcase. Catch some of the best comedy in the city with Sessa's viral bagels available at the show.

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Schmear Campaign

Eunji Kim

$12 ticket + taxes & fees

Neckbolt’s new music video is trash. According to singer James Roo, the set pieces for the video for their latest single “Sort of” were made from “Old pieces of cardboard that have been moldering in my garage, piles of spray foam from abandoned projects, shitty old paint rag t-shirts, even the paint is paint I have had for years that was tucked under a desk.” This speaks to the band's unique ability to cobble together disparate musical elements to create something that is both novel and unnerving.

Their debut album, Midwestern Drawl, introduced the duo of James Roo and Benjamin Krause with a sound that combined caustic noise rock with vivid psychedelic pop. The group now returns as a quintet including longtime friends and collaborators Bill Indelicato (Exhalants), Brent Hodge, and Kilyn Massey. The latter two live in Oklahoma City, which has caused the group to write and record in bits and pieces from afar. The composite mixes include the scraps and placeholders generated in the writing process; DI’ed guitars, rhythms tapped out by a pencil.

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NECKBOLT

NECKBOLT - Sort Of

NECKBOLT - Sort of

$15 plus taxes & fees

The weird and disgusting sketch comedy group, CRUD, will debut their hour long variety show, CRUD COUNTRY, in Chicago at the world famous Color Club.

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CRUD COUNTRY 

$20 ticket + taxes & fees

Jon Daly has most recently had standout roles in CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, MADE FOR LOVE, MIRACLE WORKERS, BRIARPATCH, and MODERN FAMILY. He is also a recurring voice on the new Marvel show M.O.D.O.K. for Hulu. Previously, Daly was in Blumhouse’s anthology series INTO THE DARK for Hulu, and recurred on two seasons of I’M DYING UP HERE for Showtime. On the feature side Jon will next be seen in BenDavid Grabinski’s film HAPPILY opposite Joel McHale. He recently portrayed “Bill Murray” in David Wain’s Netflix film A FUTILE AND STUPID GESTURE, other feature credits include ZOOLANDER 2, THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY, The Coen Brothers’ HAIL CAESAR and ADDICTED TO FRESNO. Previously, Jon was a writer, performer, and co-ep on THE KROLL SHOW which wrapped its final season on Comedy Central in March 2015. Other credits include FOX’s BROOKLYN NINE NINE, FXX’s MAN SEEKING WOMAN, NBC’s PARKS AND RECREATION, and ABC’s HAPPY ENDINGS. Jon is currently filming the Amazon series FALLOUT.

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Jon Daly "Red White & Blue-Pilled Tour"

Jon Daly

$15 + taxes & fees

Every second Wednesday at Color Club this fall, Sam Cantor of Minor Moon, along with a rotating cast of collaborators, will present different aspects of the Minor Moon musical landscape, including beloved covers, new originals and old favorites from the MM discography.

For the first night, October 11th, Minor Moon will feature more than a dozen musical guests to interpret and perform the songs of Gillian Welch in two unique sets.

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Minor Moon Residency: Gillian Welch Night

Minor Moon - Hey, Dark Ones

Minor Moon

Sima Cunningham

Andrew Sa

V.V. Lightbody

Hemlock

Jessica Risker - Bad History Month - Yours, Mookie

Jessica Risker - Cut My Hair

Jessica Risker

Bad History Month

$15 ticket + taxes & fees

In this evening of essays, comedian and all around cool girl, Jacqueline Felker, toes the line of extreme self awareness and utter delusion as she explores the true meanings of life, love and death. Watch as Jack dives deep into her shallow thoughts in this existential ride of your life.

W﻿ritten & performed by Jacqueline Felker, directed by Erin Diamond

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In Memory of Me

$12adv/$15dos tix + taxes & fees

Psymon Spine’s latest album ‘Charismatic Megafauna’ explored complicated feelings and catharsis through a singular approach to left-of-center indie, electronic and dance sounds. The release earned praise from publications such as Paste, FLOOD, Brooklyn Vegan, Under The Radar, and NME, and saw playlist support from NPR Music (New Music Friday), Spotify (All New Indie, undercurrents, Fresh Finds), Apple Music (Midnight City, Today’s Indie Rock), and TIDAL (Rising: Indie/Rock), as well as notable airplay from KEXP, KCRW and the BBC.

The core members of the band—Noah Prebish, Peter Spears, and Brother Michael—grew up in the ‘00s and ‘10s with a deep appreciation for the art of “the remix,” and after the release of ‘Charismatic Megafauna’, the group found themselves craving longer and more dance-floor friendly versions of their songs to play at their recurring party Secret Friend. Introducing’Charismatic Mutations’: a remixed cornucopia of tasty new sounds, running the gambit from slow-burner headphone journeys, to mid-tempo sunset-and-white-suit head nodders, to 3am deranged apocalyptic club heaters—out April 1 on Northern Spy, featuring selections by Joe Goddard (of Hot Chip, HARD FEELINGS, and the 2 Bears), Love Injection (mixed by Nick Millhiser of LCD Soundsystem and Holy Ghost), Dar Disku, Each Other (Justin Strauss and Max Pask), Safer (of the Rapture and Poolside),Bucky Boudreau, and Psymon Spine’s own Brother Michael.

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Psymon Spine

Jumprope

$15 plus taxes & fees

Clara Olshansky (they/them) is a Brooklyn-based writer and comedian you may know from your queer friends’ For You pages. They also cohost Flamethrowers, the first all-LGBTQIA+ roast battle show, and My First Joke, a podcast about comedians’ beginnings.

Michael Abber (he/him) is a Brooklyn-based comedian who loves to talk about sex, dogs, and dying. Informed by his queer and Jewish identity, Abber’s standup comedy has rightfully earned him a reputation as “a dirty, filthy heathen” and “loud.” He serves as the "Titular Darling" for Neighborhood Darlings — a monthly comedy show/social experiment he hosts at Club Cumming. He loves Barbra Streisand exactly as much as you think he would.

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30/30; Clara Olshansky and Micheal Abber 

$12adv/$15dos ticket + taxes & fees

Living Hour is Sam Sarty, Gilad Carroll, Adam Soloway, and Brett Ticzon. *Someday Is Today*, the group’s third full-length effort, features contributions from three producers: Melina Duterte (Jay Som, Chastity Belt), Jonathan Schenke (Parquet Courts, Snail Mail), and Samur Khouja (Cate le Bon, Regina Spektor) . It was recorded over seven straight days during the depths of a Manitoba winter, with the band cocooned in sounds as the temperature hit -30 outside. The band’s sound grows to warm and earthy new perimeters on *Someday Is Today* with lush and generous instrumentation. The songs on the album feel bound by something bigger than themselves; an energy that flourished in spite of it all, a human connection that grips just strongly enough even when pushed to its frayed, unreachable extremes.

The Ophelias are a band inspired by nostalgia, nature, the Midwest, horror movies, and the moon. They formed in Cincinnati, Ohio in 2015 when Spencer Peppet (she/her) was a senior in high school. She recruited Mic Adams (he/him) on drums and Andrea Gutmann Fuentes (she/her) on violin, and Jo Shaffer (they/she) joined on bass a few years later. They released their first album Creature Native in 2015, recorded in a friend’s living room. They signed to Joyful Noise Recordings for their next albums: 2018’s Almost and 2021’s Crocus, which both received praise from The New York Times, Pitchfork, Stereogum, and other major outlets. In that time they collaborated with Julien Baker, played with bands like Indigo de Souza, Hand Habits, Mannequin Pussy, and comedian Cat Cohen, and played festivals like SXSW, Treefort, and Nelsonville. The Ophelias are a joyfully queer band with predominantly queer and trans members, and they take pride both in their identities and vocally supporting queer & trans rights.

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Living Hour & The Ophelias

I Sink I Sink

Living Hour

The Ophelias

OK Cool

Come see thanks for coming at color club, the songwriting project of Rachel Brown from Water From your Eyes. With support from Chicago youth duos Soft and Dumb, and TV Buddha

All ages

New Now Showcase 

Soft and Dumb

thanks for coming

$15 plus taxes & fees

As a queer, ex-Chasidic, Canadian/American woman who writes and performs comedy, there is no one else like Robby Hoffman.

After a childhood in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Robby began her career as a writer in Toronto, working on Baroness Von Sketch (IFC) and Catherine Reitman’s Workin’ Moms (Netflix). Robby also wrote for several seasons of the children’s show Odd Squad (airing on PBS in US), for which she won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Children’s Show. After relocating to Los Angeles, Robby began to write for Tru TV’s The Chris Gethard Show.

Robby also has a booming career as a standup comedian; last month, New York Magazine named Robby \[vulture.com\] one "One of the Comedians You Should (and Will) Know in 2020." She has also been spotlighted as one of Comedy "Central’s UpNext" generation of standup talent, as well as a “Comic to Watch,” at the New York Comedy Festival. Her one-woman show, I’m Nervous, premiered as a one-hour comedy special on Crave TV (Canada) in 2019.

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Robby Hoffman

$15 plus taxes & fees

Chicago fried comedian Maggie Winters and Chicago sauteed comedian Ian Abramson each perfrom 30 minutes of standup.

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30/30: Maggie Winters and Ian Abramson 

$10 ticket plus taxes & fees.

Half comedy show, half karaoke, ALL competition!

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