Hoover & Harley and The Boys are a Chicago-based hillbilly band playing originals, the classics and soon-to-be classics with a big hat tip to Hank, Waylon, Willie, Merle, Buck, Carl, and Cash.

The show is free! Starts at 8:30pm, dont miss it

Our favorite HEFFER BBQ will be available here the last Sunday of every month from 11am-3pm at Skylark. THERE WILL BE WINGS AND BURGERS…!!!! Come early or go hungry…

Join us for some funk/jazz fusion courtesy of Boiadeiro, a five piece band with sax, bass, guitar, keys and drums. Don’t miss it!

Show is free. Music starts at 8:30pm

First Sunday of every month we will have the sounds of waves washing over us at the Skylark. Check out Surfin’ Bird !!

Superfrye stands alone with a 1939 Kay guitar and a Twin Reverb and sings songs of rebellion

Show is free! Starts at 8:30pm

Our favorite HEFFER BBQ will be available here the last Sunday of every month from 11am-3pm at Skylark. THERE WILL BE WINGS AND BURGERS…!!!! Come early or go hungry…

Come by on Sunday, Dec 21st, for a very special live show from Lulu Sandoval. Lulu and her band will be playing a selection of boleros and rancheras. Music starts at 8:30pm and runs until 10. It’ll be a beautiful night…bring someone cute…

Sunday December 14th, we’re hosting a release party for Cool Rot Magazine Vol.7

Featuring performances by...

Mountain Laurel, Mister Ross, Emily Rach Beisel & Jeff Goulet, Timelife, and 21H2

The show is free! Starts at 8pm

First Sunday of every month we will have the sounds of waves washing over us at the Skylark. Check out Surfin’ Bird !!

Celebrate the beginning of the holiday season with us on Saturday, December 6th. There will be art and merch available from local artists for sale. Buy shirts, candles, handmade greeting cards, risograph art, ceramics, and more!

The market opens at 12pm and will go until 6pm. See you then!

The latest jazz excursion from the legendary Kevin (of Kevin and Hell, Alchemist Connections, and Surfin’ Bird), Blue Glue will be playing improvised jazz à la David Lynch. Will be a vibe. Show is free! No cover. Music starts at 8:30pm.

Our favorite HEFFER BBQ will be available here the last Sunday of every month from 11am-3pm at Skylark. THERE WILL BE WINGS AND BURGERS…!!!! Come early or go hungry…

Skylark presents a free evening of experimental and electronic improvisation, featuring two duo performances from computer synthesis artist Hedra Rowan / guitarist Alex Maerbach and sound artist Nicole Alonso / improvising electronics artists and bassist Tyler Wagner. 

It’s time for yet another incredible evening celebrating history at Skylark. Join historians Paul Durica and Tim Samuelson, with special guest Madeline Crispell - curator at the Chicago Maritime Museum - to talk about shipping and shipwrecks on the Great Lakes. Drink the Edmund Fitzgerald beer by Great Lakes brewing on the 50th anniversary of its sinking (well, it’s 1 day off, but not if you stay until midnight). If you’ve missed our previous historical events, do yourself a favor and stop missing them. This is a one-of-a-kind experience

First Sunday of every month we will have the sounds of waves washing over us at the Skylark. Check out Surfin’ Bird !!

Oct. 26th, we have the incredible Do the Needful, playing “punk Bollywood.” No cover! Not to be missed! Bring someone special.

Our favorite HEFFER BBQ will be available here the last Sunday of every month from 11am-3pm at Skylark. THERE WILL BE WINGS AND BURGERS…!!!! Come early or go hungry…

Jim Sifuentes is a singer, songwriter, and storyteller. His band, Sifuentes, will be performing songs from their new album at Skyark on October 19th at 8:30pm. The album is a blend of Pop, Rock, R&B, and Latin Soul, that span a lifetime. “This genre-blending project weaves together pop-rock, R&B, club rhythms, and nods to Sifuentes’ Mexican heritage” (Myescha Joell, Smash). Show is Free, no cover!

The Metalliques are psychedelic lounge band from Dimension Zero who materialize throughout Chicagoland to thrill audiences with their sultry and cinematic performances. Show is free! Not to be missed

First Sunday of every month we will have the sounds of waves washing over us at the Skylark. Check out Surfin’ Bird !!

100 years ago, the analog photo booth was invented. Join us Thursday, Oct. 2nd at 7pm for a snapshot of 100 years of photo booth history, including a peek inside the Lark’s machine and candid stories of what went down behind the curtain. Featuring historians Paul Durica and Tim Samuelson, photo booth aficionado Bre Conley, and the creative mind of Jerry Boyle. Don’t miss it!

The Yancey 4 use the music of J Dilla, Flying Lotus, Madlib, and like-minded producers as a springboard into the unknown. Come see the instrumentals that made modern music played as they never have before--and never will again

Our favorite HEFFER BBQ will be available here the last Sunday of every month from 11am-3pm at Skylark. THERE WILL BE WINGS AND BURGERS…!!!! Come early or go hungry…

Come by on Sunday, Sept 21st, for a very special live show from Lulu Sandoval. Lulu and her band will be playing a selection of boleros and rancheras. Music starts at 8:30pm and runs until 10. It’ll be a beautiful night…bring someone cute…

Firozi Cafe will be live at Skylark on Sunday September 14th! They are a Chicago based band that combines Bollywood, jazz, and rock, and really loves mash ups.

First Sunday of every month we will have the sounds of waves washing over us at the Skylark. Check out Surfin’ Bird !!

Join us on Sunday, August 31st for a performance from Sara Beth Thomas. Sara is very talented jazz musician and singer-songwriter. Show is free, no cover!

Our favorite HEFFER BBQ will be available here the last Sunday of every month from 11am-3pm at Skylark. THERE WILL BE WINGS AND BURGERS…!!!! Come early or go hungry…

Search and Research channel postpunk fusions through spontaneous compositions. Flux Bikes turns the bike he road in on into percussion, incorporating world rhythms, electro-acoustic techniques, and improvisation.

See them live at Skylark August 24th, 8:30pm

RELEVANT HAIRSTYLES is a music performance concept in the folk tradition. Though not concerned with "passing" per se, there's a level on which it's simply a modern vocal group in the lineage of, say, Sons of the Pioneers or The Ink Spots - yet the project is also an attempt to strip away such signifiers and get at an earlier sensibility, one in which audience and performer alike are brought into contact with forces suggesting there may in fact be life before death. Join us August 17th, 8:30pm