Thu, Dec 1 - 9:30pm - No Cover

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After 25 years, The Big C Jamboree, will be ending in May 2017.  A night of drinking, dancing, socializing, networking and non-stop music since 1992. For die hard rockabilly devotees and civilian music fans. Over the last decade, this highly organized vibrant jam session, held the first Thursday of every month at Martyrs', has become rockabilly central for many of the musicians & fans of Chicago's American roots scene. Although the monthly jam is devoted to rockabilly, the Big C Jamboree has also offered the span of '40's-'50's Amereicn roots music from Hillbilly Boogie to Western Swing, Jump Blues and 1st generation Rock-n-Roll. The night is run swiftly and simply: a host band performs a short set, followed by a myriad of roots musicians who do 3 songs each. The party like atmosphere includes socializing, drinking & dancing galore while the rotating line-up onstage usually features the raucous sounds of pompadoured rockabilly musicians wailing away on upright basses and hallow-bodied electric guitars; and there's NEVER a cover! It's one of the most dedicated evenings of music in the city.

The Possum Hollow Boys are Chicago's premier Rockabilly, Western Swing, Honky Tonk outfit, made up of Casey McDonough on lead guitar and vocals, Dennis Leise on rhythm/fingerstyle guitar and vocals, Marc Edelstein on upright bass and vocals and Jim Barclay on Drums and vocals.Their entertaining and unpredictable shows have been enjoyed all around the windy city in addition to trips to the East Coast in a Mid-Atlantic tour in early 2010 and the Pacific Northwest where they brought down the house at "Shake the Shack: The Rockabilly Ball"-the oldest Rockabilly Festival in the United States.They are always looking for opportunities to play and are seeking out the possibility of a tour of Europe in 2011.