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ChicagoGigs.com is a unique music community serving the greater Chicago area with comprehensive coverage of both local and national touring acts. It is a one-stop destination for Chicago related music events of all levels and genres. A searchable concert database, music-related contests, news, reviews, photo galleries, streaming and downloadable audio, and active musician classifieds are the main features. Internet promotion, website hosting and design services are offered for Chicago-based bands and venues.

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The ChicagoGigs.com concert database includes information on hundreds of Chicago area music events of all genres and levels. Information is collected from over 1100 local bands and dozens of Chicago's best live music venues, as well as Chicago - based labels like Delmark, Victory, Waterdog and Southport. ChicagoGigs.com is also available as a channel on the AvantGo mobile internet service, allowing users of Palm Pilots, other handheld devices and Internet-enabled phones to access the ChicagoGigs.com concert database and new reviews.

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Chicago-based bands and artists can benefit from a variety of services, including concert listings, reviews, free musician classifieds and ChicagoGigs.com's promotional services. Website hosting and design services are also available.
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ChicagoGigs.com's staff of professional music journalists review releases from Chicago-based independent bands and indie labels, as well as national touring acts. They also do live show reviews at Chicago's best venues. Artists that ChicagoGigs.com has reviewed include Melissa Etheridge (Island), Kenny Wayne Shepherd (Warner Bros.), Indigenous (Pachyderm), Lucky Boys Confusion (Elektra), Nash Kato (Loosegroove/Will), Josie (Qwest), Paul Wertico (Premonition), Patricia Barber (Blue Note), Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire (Rykodisc), Boy Sets Fire (Victory), Slink Moss (Waterdog), Ethnic Heritage Ensemble (Delmark), OS101 (Victory) and Joanie Pallatto (Southport).
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The ChicagoGigs.com photo galleries provide great pictures from live performances by both local bands and national touring acts. The Photo Gallery is updated regularly and archived photos include Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears, Destiny's Child, Eric Clapton, Jane's Addiction and Weezer.

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A ChicagoGigs.com sponsored event at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
 

A ChicagoGigs.com sponsored event at Fitzgerald's - Member Artist Tristen.

A ChicagoGigs.com sponsored event at the Hard Rock Cafe

ChicagoGigs.com founders Kathy Morrissey and
Kevin Morrissey with singer/songwriter Jill Dawson
at the First Tuesday Internet Street Fair.

TONIC's Jeff Russo, Dan Lavery and Emerson Hart
w/ an autographed Fender guitar for a ChicagoGigs.com
contest. Photo taken at the Double Door in Chicago.

ChicagoGigs.com contest winner Oscar Teran with his
Fender Guitar autographed by the Kenny Wayne
Shepherd Band. Photo taken at House of Blues Chicago.

As seen in Pollstar's The Concert Hotwire
Magazine June 2000

Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen with an autographed
Rick Nielsen model Hamer guitar for a
ChicagoGigs.com charity promotion.

Rick Nielsen guitar winner Bill McCormick

Grammy-winning songwriter Jim Peterik, w/
ChicagoGigs.com's Kevin Morrissey and several CHaT
members. Photo taken at Subterranean in Chicago.

Songwriter/Producer Ashley Ingram (Des'ree, Josie) meets ChicagoGigs.com Member Artist Tristen at the Abbey Pub, Chicago. (L-R Kurt, Tristen, ChicagoGigs' Joseph Filipak and Kevin Morrissey, Charlie and Ashley)