The Singer and The Song features three full sets of music for dancing, drinking and listening, with the exciting bonus of a new song from each band, written from a word prompt given in advance.

The artists also pay tribute to Chicago’s music roots by covering a song by another local artist, present or past.

At its heart, this series is a showcase for the incredible songwriting talent of the Chicago music scene, with an emphasis on Country, but including the broadest definitions of Americana.

The monthly event is often hosted by the show’s curators; Brandon Good, Lawrence Peters, and Matt Gandurski, each a key player in Chicago’s music community.

Hannah Frey and her band play folk rock for lovers and sweeties. She feels like the luckiest girl in Chicago and hopes to leave you with a little bit of that luck.

Brandon Good is a Chicago artist with a penchant for Country music. Nodding to a wide range of notable genre influences, he brings in rock n’ roll, soul, singer-songwriter, and blues into his songwriting, all while remaining true to the dance hall and honky-tonk heritage he loves.

Brandon Good is no stranger to life on the road, having spent a decade playing with celebrated Chicago Celtic Punk outfit Flatfoot 56. During his time with the band they toured internationally and even charted on Billboard’s Heat Seekers chart. After moving to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Brandon wrote and recorded his first solo EP, breaking into the Country scene with the release of “The Anvil” and the subsequent, stripped down, two-track EP titled “The Spitzer Sessions”. With fervor and fire licks, Brandon then returned to the studio to begin recording his first full length record, “Restless”, which is set to release spring of 25’. After hosting several highly respected residencies and Booking himself and other touring bands countless shows in his home base of Chicago he’s revving up to start touring nationally and bring his songs and style to a town near you.

Mitch Mead is a Chicago-based Singer/Songwriter and a product of the Midwest. He grew up in a world of lakes, highways, and bowling alley bars. At one time his family lived on the grounds of a small-town amusement park in Northern Michigan. He studied playwriting and co-founded a theater company that took him to the big city, where he stole his cousin’s name and started writing songs in earnest.

Possessed from a young age by Oldies radio and dive bar jukebox ballads, Mitch Mead’s songs reveal a lifelong love of narrative story and clever turns of phrase. Owing debts to Greenwich Village Folk, Indie Rock, and the Alt-Country influence of artists like Old 97's and Wilco, his songs dabble in a brand of self-deprecating, tongue-in-cheek humor reminiscent of John Prine and Loudon Wainwright III.