Varsity Dropout with Martin Bandz and Alma Yeon

This is an imtimate seated dinner show featuring Varsity Dropout, Martin Bandz and Alma Yeon Full dinner service is available during the show. Seating will begin 30 minutes before the start of the show. Seating is assigned to ensure efficiency of service. Ticket price DOES NOT include food and drink. Varsity Dropout is a Chicago-based indie folk project using music as a therapeutic lens to explore memory and connection. Rooted in raw, unvarnished songwriting, the sound bridges the warm, expansive folk of Mumford & Sons and Bon Iver with the emotional weight and dynamic punch of Manchester Orchestra and The 1975. Every track is an invitation to process the heavy stuff together. Alma Yeon: Alma Yeon creates kaleidoscopic songs on keyboard and electric ukulele. Her lyrical music explores growth, grief, and finding joy in unexpected places. An up-and-coming singer-songwriter in Chicago, Alma Yeon's moving performances have been called "playful and provocative" with the power to gather and heal. Alma Yeon searches deep and creates love songs, a forgiving mirror, and a call to action. Martin Bandz: Martin Bandzoumouna (aka Martin Bandz) is a Chicago-based singer-songwriter and producer whose multi-genre sound draws from a upbringing in jazz and symphonic bands, classical funk and R&B, African icons like Koffi Olomide and Youssou N'Dour, and 2000s alt-rock. After debuting in 2022 with the dance-pop duo *67—landing at #2 on Spotify’s Local Pulse Chicago chart, he has amassed nearly 1.5 million streams across 25 tracks, two EPs, and a full-length album. A staple of Chicago’s live scene, Martin has played iconic venues like Schubas Tavern and Beat Kitchen, and performed on ABC7’s Windy City Live in early 2025.