CAFE BALLOU UPCOMING SHOWS

October is looking saucy!

Tue 9/29 -TOMORROW NIGHT! - Two With Water Reading Series & Open Mic - Featuring Nick Sarno - 6:30ish signup; 7:30ish lit
 - This month, Nick Sarno will be reading his piece from the upcoming first issue of Two With Water. Check it: http://www.twowithwater.com

Sun, 10/4 - Caffeine & Rhyme Schemes open mic, 7pm signup, 7:30 show, free
 - Various roofs get torn asunder!

Mon, 10/5 - Chicago Calling - After Hours reading
 - After Hours is one of Chicago’s best literary journals, and Cafe Ballou is happy to host a reading from a selection of authors associated with the journal. Read more about this more-than-a-week’s-worth of festivalling at http://www.chicagocalling.org

Thurs, 10/8 - Benefit for the Alliance for Lupus Research with John Darragh & others
- Once again, John Darragh is helping to line up an excellent set of performers who will be putting all funds towards the Alliance for Lupus Research. Last month’s show was great! http://www.myspace.com/johndarragh

Sun, 10/11 - Opera and classical night, donations encouraged for struggling opera singers
 - Audrey Grieme and Nicole Hill have trained all their lives to fill huge concert halls with their incredible opera vocals, but we get to see them close up. It’s really an amazing experience. This is what it looked like last month (video download, brief samples): http://bit.ly/oPtyF

Sun, 10/18 - Caffeine & Rhyme Schemes open mic. 7pm, free
- Poetry is good for you! Eat some broccoli! Come to the show!

Tues, 10/20 - Something! A show TBA. Or should we say “MYSTERY SHOW TBA.” It’ll be good.

Fri, 10/23 - Cafe Cabaret hosted by Janet & Roberta. 7pm, $10 suggested donation
- A whole pile of eclectic performers. Last month, we saw glowstick-twirling, witnessed a lovelorn clown transform herself into a vampy lovelorn clown, and were pushed to nail the hook of “Chantilly Lace,” which we never quite got right. Who knows what will go down this time ‘round?

Sat, 10/24 - Classical guitar night - Neil Dixon Smith and Alfono Chacon 7pm, donations encouraged
- Come listen to some of Chicago’s real pros play some of the best guitar music in the world. Hear some samples at http://neildixonsmith.com/ and http://maestrochacon.com/demos.html …

Fri 10/30 - UKULELE NIGHT! - 7pm - $donations are always nice
- This is what many in the industry would call “the motherload.” Of ukulele action. Plucky Rosenthal is in. Vanya Schroeder is in. Phil Forsyth is in. Are you? This show will have the most possible fun crammed into one night. Come in costume, get jacked up on coffee while listening to some fancy strummin’, then go forth into the city. Sound fun?

Again, we’d love to hear from you if you have any ideas for future shows, events, meetings, circuses, whatever. We wanna host it! Just drop us a line at cafeballou@gmail.com and we will holler. We’re also on Facebook, Twitter (twitter.com/cafeballou), and we’ve started posting on Tumblr (cafeballou.tumblr.com)

- xo,
Cafe Ballou’s crew