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Chicago announces lineup for 2024 House Music Festival

CHICAGO — The city announced Thursday the 2024 lineup of House Music Festival, celebrating 40 years since the music genre was born in Chicago. The Chicago House Music Festival will be held on June 2 in Millennium Park from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and will feature headliners such as Tony Touch, ANANÉ, Ash Lauryn, Karizma, Wayne Williams and Alan King of the Chosen Few DJs. “House Music is a global phenomenon born and raised in Chicago 40 years ago, with […]

todayApril 4, 2024 1

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Headlining acts announced for 2024 Summerfest in downtown Milwaukee – NBC Chicago

One of the Midwest's biggest music festivals is back in a big way this year, preparing to host over 1,000 performances on 12 stages by a wide variety of artists. Summerfest, a music festival with performers from all genres, will run for three consecutive weekends in downtown Milwaukee. The festival will take place from noon to midnight on June 20-22, June 27-29 and July 4-6. Here’s a list of which […]

todayFebruary 24, 2024 1

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Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign Announce ‘Vultures’ Event In Chicago

Chicago, IL - Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign are hosting a listening party for Vultures in Chicago this week.With the ¥$ duo set to release their first collaborative album on Friday (February 9), they’ve announced that an event will take place the night before at the United Center in Ye’s hometown on Thursday (February 8).Both Ye and Ty posted a promotional flyer on Instagram on Monday (February 5), confirming the […]

todayFebruary 6, 2024

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Live Music in Chicago – Stephen O’Malley and François J. Bonnet/Support from Michael Vallera; Bohemian National Cemetery – Avant Music News

What’s better than a cold December night spent in the circular confines of the Ceremony Hall of a 110 year old Bohemian Crematorium? What’s better than listening to the invocations, and experiencing the evocations of two world class sound artisans? When one is layered on top of the other the answer can only be… nothing! The domed, circular space, complete with images and symbols of unknown fraternal and/or patriotic origins […]

todayDecember 11, 2023 4

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Yankovskaya departs Chicago Opera Theater. What’s next for the company?

“The Nose” wasn’t planned as Lidiya Yankovskaya’s swan song from Chicago Opera Theater, the company she’s led as music director since 2017.But Dmitri Shostakovich’s absurdist political satire, composed when the composer was in his early 20s, is as fitting a farewell as they come for the conductor. Yankovskaya — named the Tribune’s 2020 Chicagoan of the Year in Classical Music — has raised the profile of COT immensely, her interpretations […]

todayDecember 5, 2023 5

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Algonquin man accused of threat to Chicago music festival violated probation, prosecutors say – Shaw Local

Probation could be revoked for an Algonquin man who was accused of threatening to shoot at a Chicago music festival last year and who later pleaded guilty to an unrelated battery charge.In March, Daniel O. Susma, 30, entered into a negotiated plea to aggravated battery to a person 60 years or older. Susma, who had been found unfit to stand trial after his arrest, but was later ruled fit, was […]

todayNovember 10, 2023 7

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New musical ‘A Wonderful World’ hits Chicago stage prior to Broadway

Eloise Marfie Valadez 219-933-3365 Chicago proved to be a wonderful testing ground for a new theatrical project."A Wonderful World, A new Musical About The Life and Loves of Louis Armstrong," enjoying a pre-Broadway run to Oct. 29 in Chicago, has been enlivening the stage of The Cadillac Palace Theatre.The show, which stars James Monroe Iglehart, tells the story of jazz great Louie Armstrong, known as Satchmo, and features a good deal […]

todayOctober 30, 2023 4

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Chicago Opera Theater Music Director Steps Down

The Board of Directors of Chicago Opera Theater has announced that Lidiya Yankovskaya will step down from her position as Morse and Genius Music Director at the end of the company’s 2023-24 50th Anniversary season. Yankovskaya will continue to lead Chicago Opera Theater’s Vanguard Initiative, the immersive training and residency program for first-time opera composers which she created for the company in 2018. In a statement, the conductor said, “It […]

todayOctober 24, 2023 3

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BLM Chapter in Chicago Uses Illustration of Paraglider that Terrorized Music Festival in ‘Support Palestine’ Image

The Black Lives Matter chapter in Chicago is drawing widespread criticism for their use of an illustration of a paraglider that terrorized an Israeli music festival in a “support Palestine” image.The image seemingly depicts a Hamas terrorist dropping into the Supernova Music Festival in south Israel over the weekend, where at least 260 people were massacred.“That is all that is it!” the BLM Chicago chapter wrote on X Tuesday, accompanied […]

todayOctober 11, 2023

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