Our (fairly) regular roundup of Music & Arts related news from Chicago-based web media, featuring thoughts and insight from some of the city’s most dedicated writers.
- Gloria Steinem And Roxane Gay Are Coming To Chicago To Talk Feminism
Authors, activists and feminist icons Gloria Steinem and Roxane Gay are planning a very special one night only event in Uptown on October 29th and everyone’s favorite feminist bookstore is hosting. [ more › ]
- Your comprehensive guide to the 37th annual Chicago Jazz Festival
Previews of every act in Millennium Park and beyond, including Fred Hersch in his overdue festival debut and AACM cofounder Muhal Richard Abrams leading a historic reunion of the Experimental Band
by Peter Margasak, John Corbett and Bill Meyer
Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians turned 50 in 2015, and celebrations of this influential collective have been popping off worldwide all year—here in town, exhibits honoring the AACM’s impact have opened at the DuSable Museum of African American History and the Museum of Contemporary Art. The 37th annual Chicago Jazz Festival marks this auspicious anniverary with performances by four AACM-related groups: Douglas Ewart & Inventions, the Jeff Parker Trio, Steve & Iqua Colson, and Muhal Richard Abrams’s Experimental Band.… - Closed Sessions throws cofounder Alex Fruchter one last party as a single man
Plus: Troubled Hubble reunite after a ten-year hiatus, and Varsity and Lord Snow release new music.
by Leor Galil and J.R. Nelson
Closed Sessions honcho Alex Fruchter, aka DJ RTC, is getting married! Those of you who never got a “save the date” card can come to the party at East Room on Thursday, September 3, that the Closed Sessions team is throwing in Fruchter’s honor (if you’re at least 21).…
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