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HIP HOP YOGA WARRIORS & MIMOSAS is back and happening on Saturday June 23 at City Winery Chicago!

Come enjoy a 60-minute energizing flow led by yoga instructor Jaimee Ratliff, all set to your favorite HIP HOP tunes. Mimosas will be served after class and wellness goodies will be raffled to attendees.

TICKETS ARE $25 *non-refundable*

Please bring your own yoga mat. (mats are not provided)

SCHEDULE:
1:00PM- Check-in
1:30 PM-2:30 PM-Hip hop yoga
2:30 PM-3:15 PM Mimosas, mingling and wellness gift raffle

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:

Jaimee Ratliff is a certified yoga teacher, writer, world traveler and passionate advocate for living a life she loves. Her classes offer a fun, challenging vinyasa power flow for students of all levels, shapes, colors and sizes. Jaimee wholeheartedly believes that yoga is for everyone. Off the mat, she can be found exploring the world, and working earnestly to cultivate the same peace, contentment, and balance she experiences on the mat, out in everyday life.

?If you're going through heartbreak, and you can write a song, it's a wonderful win-win - because it takes your mind off the heartbreak, and you get to vent.? ? Nikki Sixx

GREG LASWELL?S EVERYONE THINKS I DODGED A BULLET CONSIDERED. Okay, so what? Here?s another album about heartbreak or heartache.

But isn?t the worry that when each of us stares down heartbreak/ache (we all do) ? we just want so desperately to know that as many as possible are just as miserable as we are? Misery doesn?t just need company ? it needs a very specific sort of kinship. And it needs someone who can profoundly articulate it ? not just rhyme a few words about some inconsiderate asshole.

It?s not important to reveal the specific catalyst for Greg Laswell?s latest record, Everyone Thinks I Dodged a Bullet ? but rather to focus anew on what makes him one of the most uncompromising songwriters of these modern times. You may recognize a bit of Leonard Cohen in his tormented baritone. You might think of Tom Waits when you sense how deep down in the gut these songs come from.

But if there is a quality that still and ever marks out Laswell?s writing, it is an ability to use words like unrepentant paper cuts. Should you be at the receiving end, perhaps you might not at first feel the sting; but it will burn like hell later.

Imagine the coldness of being the subject of such biting vitriol as, ?I'm gonna be lazy when I write about you.? Imagine that you mean so much nothing to someone you once meant the world to.

And how would you process the sting of, ?What are you going to do when gravity gets to you?? Meanness, after all, is sometimes utterly justified ? and in Greg Laswell?s world, no punches are pulled for the sake of possible hurt feelings.

But if you feel the same as does he, the words feel like little (or maybe enormous) triumphs. His pen is mighty ? especially when it?s aimed at the heart. And the songs urge you to join in pushing the point in deeper.

The music lends powerful atmospheric gravitas to the words. It soars with tortured majesty (?Lifetime Ago?), it haunts so ever beautifully (?Out of Line?), and it aches with a piercing sadness (?Play That One Again?).

Popmatters called his work, ?Haunting, genuine and surprisingly uplifting.? Filter described his songs as ?Punches to the gut.? And Blurt said of his music that it?s both ?majestic and meditative.?

On the title track Laswell matter-of-factly confesses, ?Everyone thinks I dodged a bullet / But I think I shot the gun.? Loaded words, for an album loaded with open wounds.

HIP HOP YOGA WARRIORS & MIMOSAS is back and happening on Saturday June 23 at City Winery Chicago!

Come enjoy a 60-minute energizing flow led by yoga instructor Jaimee Ratliff, all set to your favorite HIP HOP tunes. Mimosas will be served after class and wellness goodies will be raffled to attendees.

TICKETS ARE $25 *non-refundable*

Please bring your own yoga mat. (mats are not provided)

SCHEDULE:
10:30 AM- Check-in
11:00 AM-12:00PM Hip hop yoga
12:00 PM-12:45pm Mimosas, mingling and wellness gift raffle

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:

Jaimee Ratliff is a certified yoga teacher, writer, world traveler and passionate advocate for living a life she loves. Her classes offer a fun, challenging vinyasa power flow for students of all levels, shapes, colors and sizes. Jaimee wholeheartedly believes that yoga is for everyone. Off the mat, she can be found exploring the world, and working earnestly to cultivate the same peace, contentment, and balance she experiences on the mat, out in everyday life.

Performing the hits and gems from her extensive catalog.

Sloan Music
$20 // 7:00 PM // 17+
Bottom Lounge | 1375 W. Lake St. | Chicago

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Tickets:
http://bit.ly/Sloan_0623

Time:
Doors 7:00 PM / Show 8:00 PM

Price:
$20.00

Age Limit:
17 & Over

About Sloan Music:
Sloan 12 is indeed the 12th album from Canadian power-pop perennials Sloan, which means it?s as good as Led Zeppelin IV, Black Sabbath?s 4, and Chicago 4 all put together. But seriously: not only are Sloan the rare band to make it to their 12th record, and not only are Sloan the rare band to make it to their 12th record with all four original members, and not only are Sloan the rare band to make it to their 12th album with four original members who are equally prolific songwriters, they?re arguably the only band to make it to their 12th album with four original members who are both equally prolific songwriters and all still working at the top of their respective games, sounding utterly ageless in the process. On 12, each of the four principals contribute three stellar songs that play to their core strengths: Patrick Pentland with the soaring rock anthems, Chris Murphy with the playful, participatory sing-alongs, Jay Ferguson with the jaunty prog-pop gems, and Andrew Scott with the whimsical innerspace explorations. Says Murphy, ?I guess with the album title, we are showing off the fact that we have 12 records.


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J.D. Wilkes - American musician, visual artist, author, filmmaker, southern surrealist, and founder of the Legendary Shack Shakers, a Southern Gothic rock and blues band - returns to Chicago with his new album "Fire Dream"! It?s the Legendary Shack Shakers UNPLUGGED!

Ladies Gun Club joins The Haymarket Americana Concert Series! Nikki Morgan opens. Thursday, June 14, 2018 - Free show starts at 7:30 pm!

Haymarket Pub & Brewery proudly presents our on-going Americana Concert Series. Hear the best up-and-coming and established artists from Americana, alt-country, rock, and roots every Thursday night on the stage in our Drinking and Writing Theater in Chicago?s West Loop. See why USA Today named our series #1 on their top 10 things to do in Chicago (Dec 2017)!

Ladies Gun Club

Ladies Gun Club is the psychedelic, hillbilly music creation of Sarah Roberts and Sally Jaye.

Website: https://www.ladiesgunclub.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ladiesgunclubmusic/

Nikki Morgan

Nikki Morgan is a singer-songwriter based in Chicago but with the heart of a true Carolina girl. Singing songs about life, love, spirituality, and truth.

Website: https://soundcloud.com/nikkimorganmusic
Facebook: http://Facebook.com/nikkimorganmusic

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