$15 adv / $20 at the door (advance sales ONLINE ONLY until 3pm day of show, then available at the door). Doors at 5:00pm, showtime 6:00pm. ALL AGES! General Admission ticket includes a combination of limited seating and standing room. Seating is first come first serve. Tickets are nonrefundable. Jesse James DeConto The Pinkerton Raid’s songwriter Jesse James DeConto has been a dad since he was 24 years old. He spent the first two-and-a-half decades of this new millennium raising two kids with their mom and now their step-mom and his big, extended family. Themes of fatherhood have sprouted up throughout his six previous full-length albums, but never with the focus you’ll find on IF YOU LOVE SOMEBODY, TELL THEM. Having cut his teeth as a journalist in the first 20 years of his career, Jesse is a storyteller, and the stories you hear in the songs and between the songs have a lot to do fighting for his kids to have a future amidst climate change, democratic collapse and America’s dangerous concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a greedy few. Go see a live show with The Pinkerton Raid, and Jesse might share about his history in Lawrence, Mass., the birthplace of the Labor Movement; his dad’s stint with Jimmy Carter’s Job Corps program in the late ‘70s; facing COVID rent strikes as a small-time landlord; visiting his grandfather’s hometown in Sicily at the same time ICE was cracking down on immigrants back home; or consoling his GenZ daughter after Elon Musk cut her job at Fish & Wildlife. He’s a poet, steeped in the mysticism of STAR WARS and Celtic lore, the existentialism of Kerouac, the naturalism of THE LORD OF THE RINGS, Standing Rock and Laurel Canyon, the liberation politics of Woody Guthrie and John Lennon, but also in his family’s real life, with all its complications. There is a fair number of songs about trees. Brandon Reisdorf Brandon Reisdorf is a folk-rock songwriter with a poet’s eye and a bleeding heart. Writing from the brink of burnout, his songs weave dark humor, sharp protest, and quiet grief. Whether poking at the powers that be or just trying to not have a job with dignity, Brandon makes music for the disillusioned and the defiant. Based in northern Illinois, Brandon fronts the Brandon Reisdorf Quartet and is an in-demand studio musician and multi-instrumentalist performing regularly on violin/fiddle, mandolin, guitar, and banjo, with Chicago-area acts such as The Illegal Smiles, Aaron Kelly Band, Coyote Riot, Miles Over Mountains, and Pete Jive. Introduced to violin in 1999 and guitar a year later, Brandon went on to study Music Theory, Composition, and Philosophy before turning to folk songwriting. His influences draw from writers like John Prine, Kris Kristofferson, Blaze Foley, Townes Van Zandt, and Phil Ochs, mixing with current events and political theory. His debut record, Political Songs for Political People, was released on July 4, 2020. He’s currently preparing a new collection of original songs for release. Ben Mulwana Ben Mulwana is a Ugandan-born and raised artist residing in Wisconsin. With songs about love, loss and everything in between, Ben’s band project “Ben Mulwana and the Village” is made of a groovy, rock and soulful sound from a group of amazing musicians.