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HeyNonnyAH

HeyNonnyAH HeyNonnyAH is a top-notch live music venue and American restaurant located on S. Vail Avenue in Arlington Heights, offering excellent food and drinks alongside incredible performances from both local and touring musicians. With ticketed concerts taking place six nights a week, Hey Nonny has earned a reputation as the finest small music venue in the United States, providing an exceptional audio experience and fostering a genuine connection between the artists and the audience. Additionally, guests can enjoy Hey Nonny's delightful farm-to-table bistro, serving scrumptious meals, snacks, and exquisite craft cocktails. Don't miss out on their special Bluegrass Brunch on Saturdays and Jazz Brunch on Sundays for an unforgettable weekend treat.
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SHOWS THIS WEEK! 6.2 Ronnie Rice6.3 Raíces Latin Jazz 6.4 Thursday Night After Party: Music by Nikki O'Neill 6.5 Joseph ...
06/02/2026

SHOWS THIS WEEK!

6.2 Ronnie Rice
6.3 Raíces Latin Jazz
6.4 Thursday Night After Party: Music by Nikki O'Neill
6.5 Joseph Arthur
6.6 Mutlu

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Coffee Chat Q&A with Chef Tim!Q: What's your favorite food/type of food to eat or make? A:  My favorite foods to eat is ...
05/31/2026

Coffee Chat Q&A with Chef Tim!

Q: What's your favorite food/type of food to eat or make?
A: My favorite foods to eat is something that I did NOT make. I really enjoy making pastries, because it’s more challenging.

Q: Where does your inspiration for new dishes come from?
A: I draw a lot of inspiration from just walking around outside. I will regularly take walks around DTA just to clear my head, take in the surroundings and really embrace the season to create new dishes.

Q: How do you think food and music relate to each other?
A: They don’t. But I strongly feel that the journey is what matters more. It take 10’s of years to be good an learning an instrument, the same applies to cooking, honing your craft as a chef takes countless hours to get your accuracy, technique and palate to an acceptable level. When I hear chefs or cooks say they have been cooking for 5-7 years, that is a good start but nowhere near the end. It requires more discipline.

Q: Working in a kitchen seems stressful- how do you manage?
A: Yes, it is. I have kids now, so working is like my personal time! Hahahah. That being said, the kitchen is not that stressful in the scope of life.

Q: Who is Chef Tim when he isn't in a kitchen?
A: I’m just a regular guy. I like to hang with the family, friends, play poker, try to get a date night in with my wife (easier said than done).

NEW SHOWS ON SALE! 6.24 First Person Live 7.7 Studebaker John 7.22 Dan Peters Band 7.28 Rock & Roll Bingo Supporting Lea...
05/29/2026

NEW SHOWS ON SALE!

6.24 First Person Live
7.7 Studebaker John
7.22 Dan Peters Band
7.28 Rock & Roll Bingo Supporting League of Women Voters of the US
8.26 Anna Fermin's Trigger Gospel

Tickets on sale at heynonny.com now!

Coming right up this weekend! 5.29 Hey Day Happy Hour - Music by Jon Allegretto Artistry 5.29 Hiroya Tsukamoto 5.30 Hey ...
05/28/2026

Coming right up this weekend!

5.29 Hey Day Happy Hour - Music by Jon Allegretto Artistry
5.29 Hiroya Tsukamoto
5.30 Hey Day Saturday Happy Hour - Music by Jeanie B! Music
5.30 The Imperial Sound
5.30 Nightcap Music Series - Music by Tim Swann Music

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Spring is calling, and it sounds like local kitchen + live music. 🎵 Come see what's on at Hey Nonny this season!
05/26/2026

Spring is calling, and it sounds like local kitchen + live music.
🎵 Come see what's on at Hey Nonny this season!

SHOWS THIS WEEK!5.26 The Blueshift Big Band 5.27 Heather Maloney 5.28 Sturtz 5.29 Hiroya Tsukamoto 5.30 The Imperial Sou...
05/26/2026

SHOWS THIS WEEK!

5.26 The Blueshift Big Band
5.27 Heather Maloney
5.28 Sturtz
5.29 Hiroya Tsukamoto
5.30 The Imperial Sound

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NEW SHOWS ON SALE! 7.14 Keshin Xu’s Tribute to Antonio Jobim8.28 Jeff Harnar Presents: The 1959 Broadway Songbook9.3 She...
05/22/2026

NEW SHOWS ON SALE!

7.14 Keshin Xu’s Tribute to Antonio Jobim
8.28 Jeff Harnar Presents: The 1959 Broadway Songbook
9.3 Sheryl Youngblood
9.24 Cousin Curtiss

Tickets on sale at heynonny.com now!

The weekend is almost here! 5.22 Hey Day Happy Hour - Music by Kathryn Sherman5.22 Dan Ponce 5.23 Hey Day Saturday Happy...
05/22/2026

The weekend is almost here!

5.22 Hey Day Happy Hour - Music by Kathryn Sherman
5.22 Dan Ponce
5.23 Hey Day Saturday Happy Hour - Music by Ryan Burns Music
5.23 The Eric Case Band
5.23 Nightcap Music Series - Music by Demi

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SHOWS THIS WEEK! 5.19 J-Livi & The Party 5.20 4 Chairs Theatre 5.21 First Person Live 5.22 Dan Ponce 5.23 The Eric Case ...
05/18/2026

SHOWS THIS WEEK!

5.19 J-Livi & The Party
5.20 4 Chairs Theatre
5.21 First Person Live
5.22 Dan Ponce
5.23 The Eric Case Band

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Coffee with Chip -- Live MusicDifferent people have strong emotional connections to different things.  I guess I have an...
05/17/2026

Coffee with Chip -- Live Music

Different people have strong emotional connections to different things. I guess I have an unnaturally strong emotional connection to live music. Like many of you, I suspect.

For Patricia, who’s very smart about music, that strong emotional connection comes from clothes. She has the spooky ability to tell you what she was wearing at hundreds of events going back decades. Because she’s emotionally connected to those clothes (and always looks great as a result).

My emotional connection to live music started in my youth -- with experiences so strong that they shocked me. Like everybody, I was listening to the Beatles on records and the radio in 1963-65. I liked the recordings, but I wasn’t blown away until I heard a local (Kalamazoo) band play Ticket To Ride live at a shopping center in my neighborhood. Completely knocked me out (and made me buy a drum set)! In my late high school years, I’d heard Van Morrison’s Moondance. Nice song, but it didn’t move me until I heard some college kids play it live (with a flute!) at a 1972 coffee shop show. There, I was mesmerized.

I guess 1972 was a big year. That summer, I heard the Count Basie band play on the roof of a parking garage in Kalamazoo. Odd fact: Patricia was at that concert too, even though we wouldn’t meet for another 5 years. But the swinging power and relaxed precision of the Basie band just killed me. I can feel it today. I’ve never heard anything since then that came close -- even the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. Just to complete the 1972 stories, our high school music kids took a field trip to hear the Chicago Symphony Orchestra that year. Yowzah! I have no idea what tunes they played. I just remember being gob smacked by (again) the power and precision of the CSO.

Thus, my live music jones began!

Liz Longely ticket holders and prospective show attendees, turn your attention to this post! An email went out with inco...
05/16/2026

Liz Longely ticket holders and prospective show attendees, turn your attention to this post! An email went out with incorrect show times, we just wanted to make sure everyone knows that the first show starts at 6:30PM and the second starts at 9:00PM. So sorry for the confusion!!!

We'll see ya tonight!

NEW SHOWS ON SALE! 7.25 Goldpine Music 8.7 Push Puppets 8.22 Will Tilson10.3 Jenny Owen Youngs & Northcote Tickets are o...
05/15/2026

NEW SHOWS ON SALE!

7.25 Goldpine Music
8.7 Push Puppets
8.22 Will Tilson
10.3 Jenny Owen Youngs & Northcote

Tickets are on sale at heynonny.com now!

Another absolutely loaded weekend on tap! 5.15 Hey Day Happy Hour - Music by Ian Leith 5.15 Millie Ahearn - Trumpeter & ...
05/14/2026

Another absolutely loaded weekend on tap!

5.15 Hey Day Happy Hour - Music by Ian Leith
5.15 Millie Ahearn - Trumpeter & Composer Quintet w/Dan Montgomery Quintet
5.16 Wheeling High School Jazz Band W/Cole Runge
5.16 Hey Day Saturday Happy Hour - Music by Donna Frost
5.16 Liz Longley - 2 SHOWS!

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Hey, Nonny fans, we've just added WAGYU BEEF “PIGS IN A BLANKET” with puff pastry | poppy seed | pineapple honey mustard...
05/13/2026

Hey, Nonny fans, we've just added WAGYU BEEF “PIGS IN A BLANKET” with puff pastry | poppy seed | pineapple honey mustard to our menu - perfect little savory bites to cure (that's a sausage joke) your mid-week blues (AND a music pun?!?) - all jokes aside, come on by and try them out!

SHOWS THIS WEEK!5.12 Music Trivia Night5.14 The Peppermint Patties Present: Love You (Hate You) Mean It5.15 Millie Ahear...
05/12/2026

SHOWS THIS WEEK!

5.12 Music Trivia Night
5.14 The Peppermint Patties Present: Love You (Hate You) Mean It
5.15 Millie Ahearn - Trumpeter & Composer Quintet w/Dan Montgomery Quintet
5.16 Wheeling High School Jazz Band W/ Cole Runge
5.16 Liz Longley - 2 SHOWS!

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COFFEE WITH KATIE! We hosted a birthday party yesterday & in our typical family fashion, sang the most off key rendition...
05/10/2026

COFFEE WITH KATIE!

We hosted a birthday party yesterday & in our typical family fashion, sang the most off key rendition of Happy Birthday that’s ever been sung. I don’t usually think much about it but last night, I lay in bed replaying the terrible “music” we record every birthday celebration & thought about how much music infiltrates our lives without thinking about it.

Sure, we all listen to music in the car, while doing yard work, etc., but I guess I’ve never really thought about how much we sing in our lives to add purpose or value. I was like, “Duh, this has been going on for the existence of mankind, Katie.” I’ve just gone through life singing, “Ring Around the Rosie”, “Happy Birthday”, “Jingle Bells”, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”, The National Anthem, & so on, in total oblivion.
I went into deep thought that I’m sure most people have already had: that so many of those songs came from a place of purpose I haven’t really put weight to.
I could research & write about all of the things I’ll be googling today because I will be fixated but I’ll refrain from boring you on social media- but it’s interesting to me how these everyday things we do have such meaning.

Now, I can’t say for sure that “Ring Around the Rosie” has a cryptic meaning about disease & death but if it does, think about how people in that time found a way to write a song about it & children still(I think) sing it. Or singing a lullaby to a child at night. We have all the technology in the world to have something to do that for us(thanks, internet & Google) but we still lull (or scar) children with lullabies written when none of that existed & used song to soothe a child to sleep. Celebrations weren’t full of gifts, videos, extravagance, they had songs & tradition; some we still sing today to bring us together & celebrate.

Song has less than uplifting history as well. Slaves used to sing songs in the cotton fields to pace time, communicate & endure in their miserable, awful, situation. Songs like, “Cotton Field”, written by Huddie Ledbetter, in the 1940’s, were written about this tradition & has been covered by CCR, The Beach Boys & Charley Pride.
Death marks tradition for song and music. It celebrates the life & death of a person & began long before the photo slideshow.

Here I go, driveling on. I’ll end there by saying I hope that your visits to Hey Nonny brings joy or meaning as music should & maybe you could make Hey Nonny visits a tradition for you & your family.

05/10/2026
Okay, I'll admit to A LITTLE photo trickery here, but the point is, we have a couple giant sandwiches making their way o...
05/08/2026

Okay, I'll admit to A LITTLE photo trickery here, but the point is, we have a couple giant sandwiches making their way onto the menu this evening:
Pictured we've got the VEAL PICCATA SANDWICH - that's veal terrine | smoked gouda | tomato | arugula | picatta mayo | ciabatta
Also brand new tonight - TURKEY CLUB SANDWICH - smoked turkey | provolone | green goddess | arugula | apple jam | sourdough brioche
Finally (give me a swipe left), snag yourself a plate of these little WAGYU BEEF “PIGS IN A BLANKET” - puff pastry | poppy seed | pineapple honey mustard
We open at 4 for Friday HeyDay Happy Hour, which features a free show by Lisa Thomen, food and drink specials, and the famous WITTMEYER PAIN KILLER with aged rum, orange, coconut, and pineapple - see you soon!

NEW SHOWS ON SALE!7.1 Jason Eady 7.11 Kevin Farris 8.1 The Huns: A late 60’s Rock and Roll Cellar Band9.5 Dixon's Violin...
05/08/2026

NEW SHOWS ON SALE!

7.1 Jason Eady
7.11 Kevin Farris
8.1 The Huns: A late 60’s Rock and Roll Cellar Band
9.5 Dixon's Violin - 2 SHOWS

Tickets on sale at heynonny.com now!

Brand new event at Hey Nonny! Introducing *Bring Your Own Vinyl Night*! Starting Friday, May 8th (and every subsequent F...
05/07/2026

Brand new event at Hey Nonny! Introducing *Bring Your Own Vinyl Night*! Starting Friday, May 8th (and every subsequent Friday after that) you can bring in your favorite vinyl record, and we'll throw it on the turntable and play some tracks.

Sign up starts at 8:30pm.
Tunes start cranking at 9:30pm.

It's a great way to introduce your favorites to others and maybe discover some new favorites yourself. We'll see you then!

This weekend is absolutely packed! 5.8 Hey Day Happy Hour - Music by Lisa Thomen Music 5.8 Chris Trapper &  Ari Hest w/S...
05/07/2026

This weekend is absolutely packed!

5.8 Hey Day Happy Hour - Music by Lisa Thomen Music
5.8 Chris Trapper & Ari Hest w/Special Guest Pete Muller Music
5.9 Wheeling High School Presents: Mozaik
5.9 Hey Day Saturday Happy Hour - Music by Pierce Crask
5.9 Zoofunkyou
5.9 Nightcap Music Series - Music by Mike Flood and Co.
5.10 Mother's Day Brunch

Head over to heynonny.com for tickets and reservations.

Something big is coming to Sounds of Summer this year...keep your eyes open for more details soon!
05/06/2026

Something big is coming to Sounds of Summer this year...keep your eyes open for more details soon!

SHOWS THIS WEEK!5.5 RICO! A Santana Tribute5.6 High Plains Ripper & Disaster Kid 5.7 Tim Easton 5.8 Chris Trapper & Ari ...
05/04/2026

SHOWS THIS WEEK!

5.5 RICO! A Santana Tribute
5.6 High Plains Ripper & Disaster Kid
5.7 Tim Easton
5.8 Chris Trapper & Ari Hest W/Special Guest Pete Muller Music
5.9 Wheeling High School Presents Mozaik
5.9 Zoofunkyou

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COFFEE WITH LOGAN!I came here to do two things: defend ‘80s Pink Floyd, and talk about the New Sounds Series at Hey Nonn...
05/03/2026

COFFEE WITH LOGAN!

I came here to do two things: defend ‘80s Pink Floyd, and talk about the New Sounds Series at Hey Nonny, and I don’t have enough characters to defend ‘80s Pink Floyd.

This Wednesday, May 6th will be the first installment of the New Sounds Series. For all of our suburban concertgoers that don’t have time or money to always see bands play in Chicago, we’re bringing the Chicago bands to you. These are bands currently in the bar circuit expanding their reach to Downtown Arlington Heights, just in time for Alfresco. I’m thrilled to work with the Hey Nonny team for these shows, and the first two bands to be a part of it have both been sourced from two of our wonderful sound technicians.

Our first co-headliner is High Plains Ripper, groovy psychedelic rock and roll originating from Nashville, and part-time band for HN Engineer Derek. Strengthening the circle of the Hey Nonny band roster, High Plains Ripper will be one of the most far-out rock experiences in our calendar this year.

Supporting HPR will be Disaster Kid, aka Seamus Kreitzer, who was brought to me by HN Engineer Saqeef. Disaster Kid is self-proclaimed “nostalgia rock,” but not the type you’d normally see on our stage. Kreitzer is a true singer-songwriter that continues our venue’s tradition of powerful, original music in an intimate setting.

You can find tickets for this Wednesday’s show at heynonny.com, like always. Seating is limited, because this is a get-on-your-feet type of shows. We’re incorporating some new food and drink specials as well that you’ll have to attend to discover. The spirit of Hey Nonny for the next generation.

Address

10 S. Vail Avenue
Arlington Heights, IL
60005

To get to S. Vail Avenue in Arlington Heights, you have a few options for public transport and driving/parking:

Public Transport:
1. Metra Train: Take the Union Pacific Northwest Line to Arlington Heights Station. From there, walk south on S. Vail Avenue for about 5 minutes.

2. Pace Bus: Depending on your location, you can take various Pace bus routes that serve Arlington Heights. Get off at the Arlington Heights Metra Station and walk south on S. Vail Avenue.

Driving/Parking:
1. From Downtown Chicago: Take I-90 W towards Rockford and exit at Arlington Heights Road North. Continue on Arlington Heights Road until you reach E Sigwalt Street, then turn right onto S Vail Avenue.

2. From O'Hare International Airport: Take I-190 E from the airport and merge onto I-294 N towards Milwaukee. Exit onto Golf Road East and continue until you reach S Vail Avenue in Arlington Heights.

Parking options:
- There are several parking lots available in downtown Arlington Heights, including the Vail Garage located at 22 S Vail Ave.
- Street parking may also be available along S Vail Avenue and nearby streets, but be sure to check for any parking restrictions or time limits.

Please note that these directions are provided without mentioning any specific destination such as HeyNonnyAH, so make sure to use them as a general guide to reach your desired location on S. Vail Avenue in Arlington Heights.

Opening Hours

Tuesday 4pm - 10pm
Wednesday 4pm - 10pm
Thursday 4pm - 10pm
Friday 4pm - 11pm
Saturday 4pm - 11pm
Sunday 10am - 2pm

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HeyNonnyAH, located on S. Vail Avenue in Arlington Heights, is a hidden gem for live music enthusiasts and food lovers alike. This intimate listening room has quickly gained a reputation as Chicagoland's premier venue for great live music and a lively farm-to-table dining experience.

What sets HeyNonnyAH apart from other music venues is its commitment to providing an exceptional experience for both musicians and audience members. Musicians from all over the country have praised Hey Nonny as the best small music venue in the U.S., citing its outstanding sound quality, inviting atmosphere, and most importantly, the genuine connection it fosters between performers and their audience.

With ticketed concerts happening six nights a week, there is always something exciting happening at HeyNonnyAH. Whether you're a fan of jazz, bluegrass, or any other genre of music, you'll find top-notch performances that will leave you wanting more.

But HeyNonnyAH isn't just about the music; it also boasts a friendly neighborhood farm-to-table bistro that serves up delicious meals and snacks. The menu features tasty dishes made with locally sourced ingredients that are sure to satisfy even the most discerning palates. And let's not forget about the gorgeous craft cocktails that perfectly complement the dining experience.

For those looking to make their weekends extra special, HeyNonnyAH offers Bluegrass Brunch on Saturdays and Jazz Brunch on Sundays. These events bring together the best of both worlds – fantastic live music and delectable brunch options – creating an unforgettable way to start your day.

Whether you're a seasoned concert-goer or simply looking for a unique dining experience accompanied by great live music, HeyNonnyAH is the place to be. Its prime location in Arlington Heights makes it easily accessible for locals and visitors alike. So why wait? Head over to HeyNonnyAH and immerse yourself in an evening of incredible talent, mouthwatering cuisine, and an atmosphere that will leave you wanting to come back for more.

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