Battle Of The Beans (for Bitter Jester Music Festival)

Discover your next favorite BEAN at Whole Notes and discover your next favorite BAND at Bitter Jester!

This year, we teamed up with Bitter Jester to put together a 20th anniversary BATTLE OF THE BEANS coffee bag. I've been fortunate enough to be present at the festival this year as a vendor, meeting a lot of cool people and hearing some fantastic live music from all of the bands. The collab bag is available online @ wholenotescoffee.co and will continue to be sold at the festival dates today, tomorrow and 6/27. Whole Notes will be donating $2 from the sale of each bag to the festival. They are a nonprofit, and producing music isn't cheap (as I'm well aware). Learn more about Bitter Jester below! 

"Best Small Festival" winner (2025 Festy Awards) and recipient of the 2024 Highland Park Arts Award, The Bitter Jester Music Festival (BJMF) is celebrating TWENTY YEARS of showcasing great, undiscovered music in 2026. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity run by a team of volunteers, this seasonal Chicagoland festival is the nation’s oldest and largest professional multi-state music competition for emerging bands & solo artists. Attracting submissions from over half the country and Canada, BJMF supports and promotes exceptional emerging talent. 24 artists are selected to participate in a "battle of the bands" style competition with another 20 featured as non-competing acts. The festival provides family-friendly, summer-long concerts that are FREE and open to the public! With a new performer every 30 minutes, you’ll be sure to discover your next favorite band at Bitter Jester while you sip this delicious LIMITED EDITION coffee from Whole Notes Coffee Co. More at www.BitterJesterMusic.org