Gonna play two sets and invite some good, good friends to sit in with us. It’s always an excellent time at ESS. Please join us!

$20 or pay what you can

We are all angry about the current state of things, so let’s harness the historical organizing power of May Day to do something about it. We are joined by Escargatoire, The Luna Blues Machine, and Kyra Leigh to raise funds for two organizations doing important work: Transformative Justice Law Project of Illinois and Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights. Join us!

We love Facility Theatre, and this weekend only Beautown Cabaret hosts a very nice benefit to appreciate and enjoy our favorite venue in Humboldt Park. Featuring The Crooked Mouth, Dado, Hate/Lab, Sam Clapp and Chris Bower.

We are heading to Berwyn to play the cozy and welcoming Friendly Tap, opening for Mrs. Smith and The Present. Gonna be a good time!

Back at a favorite venue to kick in the new year. We will be joined by the incredible 80 Foots (Emmy Bean, Chris Schoen and T-Roy Martin), once known to us as “Troy’s Secret Third Band.” You will enjoy!

If you aren’t able to join in person, there will be a livestream as well. Constellation does an amazing job with those!

Catch us at one of our favorite venues, Facility Theater on a Sunday afternoon/early evening! Ruben Jai will be opening for us! Come and get your winter cozy on.

$20 or pay what you can

We are back at Experimental Sound Studio, our favorite place to play and record, with special guests, Victor Sanders and Ava Brennan.

We are delighted to get our groove on at this Rogers Park institution! Two full sets! Gonna be a good good time.

Crooked Mouth will anchor this full-scale evening fundraiser (we are Act III) with a set of music and a scene from the new Bryn Magnus play, Moon at the Bottom of the Ocean, directed by Jenny and performed by Vicki, Jeffrey Bivens and Julia Williams. That play starts its full run on Sept 1st! More details on that here.

The entire evening starts at 6:30pm and is described thusly by our friends at Chicago Dramatists: “It's a live, on-stage celebration of what Chicago Dramatists does better than anyone: nurture and develop Chicago playwrights. We'll be featuring our playwrights' work along with a lot of added fun, drama, laughs, music and song. It's an exciting evening of awards and recognition.” Come hear us play and support the folks that support new plays!

Tickets available here: https://checkout.eventcreate.com/chicagodramatistsanightin3acts/select-buy

The Crooked Mouth plays Links Hall, with special guest Vernon Tonges. A debate rages, shall we describe ourselves as "a little bit folksy, a little bit Brechtsy"? Or more like "an indescribable polyglot of singing and playing"? Or "a theater nerd band"? Whatever the tag, just know this: The Crooked Mouth is a bunch of literate scribes who can swing from a capella to rock, from new material to our deep deep bench, from songs about the alarm clock time to a writing residency to bats getting hit by cars. Oh and weird birds. Can't forget about that. And Vernon Tonges is the cat with the voice, a stomping guitar man with a big range.

Tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/curioustheatrebranch/973331

Join us for Crooked favorites and the old timey country stylings of Whistling Jay Walter! Tickets are $20 or pay what you can.

Crooked returns to our favorite recording spot, Experimental Sound Studio, for a live show featuring music and one of our favorite writer/performers, Robin Cline.

Tickets are $15 or pay what you can.
Please mask up for the show—we all thank you.

Spend a musical afternoon with us at Facility Theater’s space in Humbolt Park. Vicki and her son, Mac Modean will open with a set of unexpected covers.

Tickets $15 or pay what you can

Crooked shares the stage with performance poet Paul Finkelman! More fun at Pride Arts for you to enjoy.

Tickets $15 or pay what you can.
Masks on faces, please! Thank you for your cooperation.

Crooked Mouth hosts a celebration of all things Cat Jarboe!

Featuring performances by:

Cat herself
Emmy Bean
Jayita Bhattacharya
Matt Test
Mat Rieger
Barry Lohman
Lynn and Todd
Kelly Anchors
Chris Bower

Our excellent friends and fellow five-piece, Eve’s Undoing will join us for an evening of good music and good times at Pride Arts. Come on by!

No cover, just a pass of the hat. Mask up, please!

Marking the middle of Curious Theatre Branch’s three week residency at the Facility Theater space in Humboldt Park, the Crooked will take the stage and play some songs for you!

Tickets are $15 or pay what you can.

Masks required—we thank you in advance for your compliance.

The Crooked Mouth will perform live as a part of the re-opening weekend of Links Hall and as a benefit for Curious Theatre Branch.

Join us and our special guests:
Mike Amandes
Jeff Kowalkowski
Izzy Yellen
and
John Starrs

Tickets available at Links Hall or via Dime.io -- $20 or pay what you can
https://dime.io/events/crooked-mouth-w-special-guests/

You can also make a donation to Curious Theatre Branch at the Dime.io link — support our upcoming season!

There will be limited in-person seating, but you can also join via live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2b5CoGaun4

We really do love to play at Montrose Saloon and are delighted that they seem to enjoy us too. This time we are teaming up with Eve’s Undoing to bring you an evening of musical entertainments. No cover, but we will pass the tip bucket round if you are so inclined.

Come on over!

We had such an excellent time playing here with Eve’s Undoing that we are coming back, this time with Crown Vic Royal. We hope you will join us too. There’s cheap beer available and the sound is great. What more do you want on a September Sunday night?

We are back at the Wishbone, one of our favorite venues to play. The room is warm, in sound and in feel, and the food is delicious. Come on by and raise a glass and maybe a fried chicken leg.

No cover! Drink and be merry and maybe we will pass a hat around.

Where do you want to spend your St. Patrick’s Day? Avoiding the drunken revelers on the street, that’s for sure. Hide from the masses and join us for a special evening of music at the house of playwright Barrie Cole. We are on the bill with Ruben Whitaker’s band, From the Start. Charm and good company will abound, rest assured.

To get the address, drop us a line at crookedmouthband at gmail dot com.

Heather Riordan is in the house, raising up our two sets of music with her ample accordion skills. Help us ring out another successful Rhinofest with a musical celebration of art and artists.

October seems to be a particularly auspicious time for Crooked Mouth and ESS—playing shows here in the Halloween month is becoming something of a tradition. Join us for two nights of music, with new stuff and special guests!

ESS is a sonic Chicago institution and we love working and playing with them.

October seems to be a particularly auspicious time for Crooked Mouth and ESS—playing shows here in the Halloween month is becoming something of a tradition. Join us for two nights of music, with new stuff and special guests!

ESS is a sonic Chicago institution and we love working and playing with them.

The Crooked Mouth returns to Prop Thtr for another Sunday evening of music and banter. Something about the Prop space kicks Beau's improvisational storytelling into high gear and there is no end to the entertainments spilling from his lips.

As an added bonus, Maci Greenberg and Zoe Miller will open for us with a short set of covers. You don't want to miss this.

Tickets are $15 or pay what you can. Always and forever.

We are closing out the Rhinofest with a selection of songs, new and used. Our very excellent friends, Eve's Undoing, will be joining us, and there will be libations and probably cake. Lots of birthdays to mark!

Tickets, as ever, are $15 or pay what you can.