Sidecar Supper Club & Beer Garden

12 N River St, Batavia

Website ↗(630) 406-9200

Sidecar is a casual supper club and beer garden in downtown Batavia serving hand-ground burgers, smoked meats, and scratch-made comfort food alongside craft beverages. Live music runs Friday and Saturday, with bluegrass every Sunday, plus songwriter nights on Tuesday. The venue occupies a historic 1880s building and expands into a seasonal outdoor beer garden.

Hours:

Tue–Thu 11:30am–10pm
Fri–Sat 12pm–12am
Sun 12pm–9pm
Mon closed

Upcoming shows8 listings

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Fri, Nov 13

9:00pmDave Ramont with Ken KrygerAlways a great time when Dave Ramont joins us for an evening, Kenny Kryger on cello. Come on down! David Alan Ramont was born one muggy August day with a song stuck in his head. The doctors couldn’t get it out. 20 years later he was playing clubs around the Chicago area, where he also taught at a music school, played in foul theatre pits and dug way more than his share of ditches. He’s since had songs featured on various compilations and has produced records for other singer/songwriters. He sings in public- sometimes for rye whiskey or sandwiches - and picks through his box of songs hidden under the basement stairs. And still digs the occasional ditch when necessary.Folk

Sat, Nov 14

9:00pmJonas FriddleSidecar friends, you're in for a treat, please mark your calendars! Jonas Friddle is a singer, songwriter and Old-Time banjo player whose songs have received The John Lennon Songwriting Award, First Place in the Great American Song Contest and a nomination for Album of the Year in the Independent Music Awards. His tunes bear the marks of a musician who has done his time in pub sessions and square dance halls, and his writing is full of imagery, honesty and humor. Friddle was raised in the mountains of North Carolina and learned to play guitar on a yard sale Harmony six string. He was already writing songs by the time he got to Kentucky at age eighteen. There, the bluegrass pickin’ and old-time dances turned him on to the power and joy of traditional folk music. He added a mandolin, fiddle and banjo to his arsenal and got a job slapping bass with the college bluegrass band. After serving his time in higher education, he spent a year traveling around the world playing music in pubs and living rooms. In 2007 Jonas landed in Chicago, started the Barehand Jugband, the Sleepy Lou Old-Time duo and began teaching at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Since then he has released multiple studio albums under his own name and with the folk supergroup “The Majority.” During that time his music has won multiple awards and been featured online at American Songwriter, Huffington Post and Paste. Recent years have brought Friddle’s focus back to songwriting and with the release of his latest album “The Last Place to Go” he puts out his best songs yet. A collection of sung stories backed by the sound of drums, fiddle, dobro, electric guitar, bass, organ and trumpet. “[Friddle] deftly explores just about every nook and cranny of modern folk, from revivalist antique appropriation to protest songs to modern love songs. The immaculate arrangements would sell it, if his lithe voice hadn’t already given it away. Amazing stuff.”�- Independent Clauses

Fri, Nov 20

9:00pmRy GuysRy Guys is a charming acoustic duo out of the western Chicago Suburbs that blends classic Rock, Reggae, Dub and more music with gut busting banter. With a combination of Covers songs and Original music, In short, they're a good time. Come for dinner and stay for a show!No cover

Sat, Nov 21

9:00pmChad WatsonCome for dinner, stay for a show! We love Chad Watson, and you will too, come on down! Fully made from scratch kitchen featuring hand-ground, hand-packed burgers. Serving Prime Rib every Friday and Saturday!No cover

Fri, Nov 27

9:00pmSpud & the SparrowsSinging all your favorites in perfect harmony, Elliot Krull and the power vocal duo Katie Nauss and Natalie Hartnett of Lady Groove and the Get Downs are joining us in downtown Btown for a Black Friday eve party. Come for dinner, stay for a show! Fully made from scratch kitchen featuring hand-ground, hand-packed burgers. Serving Prime Rib every Friday and Saturday!No cover

Sat, Nov 28

9:00pmMarques MorelWelcome back Marques Morel, American songwriter/story-teller, midwestern-twanger/folksinger, guitar-thumper/harmonica wailer, street-performer/wandering troubadour, steadfast woodcutter/migrant worker, a father, a son, and a friend to all. (click for more info)Folk · Country

Genres:Folk / Americana Country

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