Wed, Sept 10th - Doors 6:30PM - Show 7:30PM - $12adv/$15doors

Join us for the next installment of CHIRP's unique storytelling and live music series, The First Time, with the theme "First Watch". Six readers will share true stories of their "first watch," however they choose to interpret the theme. Each reader also chooses a song that relates to their piece, known only to them and our fab house band, The First Time Three. Once the reader finishes their piece, the band plays the related song, often with a unique arrangement.Hosted by Jenn Sodini

TWO-TIME GRAMMY© AWARD-losing drummer Gerald Dowd hails from the Boston area. Since moving to Chicago in the late 1900s, he has played/sung/recorded with Robbie Fulks, Justin Roberts, Frisbie, Nora O'Connor, Chris Mills, Kelly Hogan, Mavis Staples, and Rich Little. Father of two (that he knows of) and husband of one (that she knows of), he took so long completing his solo album, Home Now, that people forgot he'd ever mentioned it.