And you can see them both!  Barn favorites Mr. Blotto turn in a free show at La Grange Park’s Memorial Park tonight, August 3rd.  Show should begin at around 7:30 and go until 9:00.  Fun for the entire family and likely a little something to get you through The Days Between. Still hungry for more [...]

Who says a jazz band can’t play rock music?  Certainly not Paul Abella, who brings his Trio (which of course has four members), to Brookfield’s Salt Creek Wine Bar tonight (Friday, July 8th). It looks like a jazz band…  It sounds like a jazz band…  Abella’s polyrhythmic Latin-infused percussion, the fat hollowbody sound of Mitch [...]

You want options?  We’ve got options, even in the ‘burbs.  While the Melvin / Terrapin Flyer combo represents a perfect hybrid of local and national flavors for next weekend.  The Barn is spotlighting two shows this Saturday, 6/11, that will provide some variety as to how you whet your live music appetite. If you’re looking [...]

We’ve played it pretty close home with our Spotlight Shows until now, generally identifying an artist or venue that we’ve had some affiliation with to showcase.  Starting now we’re going to try something new; we’ll be featuring a few upcoming suburban shows that we feel great about giving an extra push even though we have [...]

When a show this huge comes to the neighborhood, we are happy to include it as a Barn spotlight show. This Must Be The Band rings in 2011 at Brixie’s with the timeless, multi-faceted sonic amalgam that is Talking Heads music.  This is not your typical cover band — sure they cover the songs and [...]

The five shows we produced in The Barn 1.0 era were a bit like a laboratory experiment.  Our commitment to our audience was to bring the experience of seeing music in the city to the burgeoning community of music fans in our neck of the woods.  We plastered posters up all over town, sold tickets [...]