Olivia and the Lovers + Friends

Olivia and the Lovers + Friends

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Time

October 2, 2026 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Location

Epiphany Center For The Arts: The Sanctuary

201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607

AGE REQUIREMENT

Must be 21+ with a Valid ID

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Event Details

Olivia and the Lovers + Friends

Date: Friday, October 2nd, 2026

Doors: 5:00PM to Venue | 7:00PM to Sanctuary

Showtime: 7:30PM

Tickets:
Early Bird - $15 (+$4.57 fees, including tax)
Advanced - $20 (+$4.72 fees, including tax)

‘Service charges apply to ALL ticket purchases (online and box office)’ - Credit card only at door

About:

Olivia and the Lovers are a queer cowboy band based in Chicago.

Taking inspiration both from classic American folk music and cowboy standards, Olivia Love writes music as a vehicle for vulnerability and reflections on queer love, loss, and healing.

Product of Chicago, the beating heart of the Midwest, Woodrow Hart & the Haymaker blend urban grit with country soul to form what Uncle John Prine would call "a band that plays for keeps." A true songwriter, Hart writes lyrics which evoke the timeless storytelling of famous Windy City wordsmiths like Prine, Carl Sandburg, and Shel Silverstein while twangy guitars and soaring trumpet share space with harmonies that echo The Band at their most raucous. Woodrow Hart & the Haymaker steep their sound in folk, country, and blues traditions without paying much mind to the rules of any of them, bending conventions like prairie grass in the wind, yawping and, at times, sweetly crooning a beer-soaked toast to wood-paneled basements and front-porch jam sessions under a clear night sky.
 
Hailed by the Chicago Reader as “Weirdly hypnotic and catchy" and "Absolutely bewitching," 80 Foots — the world’s only End Times vocal trio — formed in 2013 after collaborating on Theater Oobleck’s Baudelaire In A Box project, and have steadily grown a repertoire of songs that harvests from old-time, early American, and international music forms to meditate on death, sadness, and falling down stairs. Their 11-song debut release is an acerbic benediction to our present era of woe, meandering through a fitful journey of irritation, confusion, unaccountable equanimity, surprise, more irritation, remorse, and, finally, resigned elegy. All with pretty harmonies. 80 Foots is made up of singer-songwriters Emmy Bean, T-Roy Martin, and Chris Schoen.

Golden Hour at Epiphany:

Stop by Epiphany for our live music series concerts, and be sure to hit Golden Hour before-hand for drinks and lite-bites! Doors open at 5pm Thursday - Saturday for Golden Hour with 1/2 priced bottles of wine, BOGO cocktails, and other specials!

Come early to EXPLORE and DISCOVER your own EPIPHANY… our art galleries are open and there is free entertainment before the show!

Please note that outside food or beverages are not permitted in the venue.

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201 S Ashland Ave
Chicago, Illinois
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(312) 421-4600
Epiphany Center for the Arts
Out of an abundance of caution due to the potentially severe weather we will be closed on Friday, March 3rd and will reopen Saturday

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