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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 2

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Chicago World Music Festival runs through Oct. 1

(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- The World Music Festival Chicago is fanning out across the city until Oct. 1. "The World Music Festival is a 10-day celebration of music from around the world. A lot of the groups you're seeing that are headlining the festival each night -- most of those groups have traveled here,” says programmer Carlos Tortolero with the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. The festival was launched […]

todaySeptember 23, 2023 2

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The Reader’s guide to World Music Festival Chicago 2023

In July, I attended a community meeting at the Broadway Armory in Edgewater about the city’s plan to turn the Park District facility into a temporary shelter for asylum seekers. A group of protesters, angry that much of the armory’s programming would be relocated or otherwise disrupted, carried bright yellow signs reading “Don’t Displace Us.” No matter your grievance, you shouldn’t style yourself as “displaced” by migrants with nowhere to […]

todaySeptember 19, 2023 4

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Celebrated the relationship between Chicago and House Music

CHICAGO — For the entire Labor Day weekend, festival-goers young and old danced from dusk to dawn around Chicago courtesy of ARC Music Festival. From Thursday night to the late hours of Tuesday morning, ARC Music Festival hosted a weekend celebration of house music and the city itself. “You can find house music seven days a week here and you can’t say that about many places,” Chicago house music legend […]

todaySeptember 8, 2023 5

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The Rhythms and Revelations of Pitchfork Music Festival 2023 – Chicago Maroon

Thousands of music lovers around the Midwest went to sleep on the night of July 20 dreaming of the next three days. Come the following Friday morning, their dream-generated energy aggregated into a force field of excitement around Chicago’s Union Park, where Pitchfork Music Festival-–goers converged. They streamed in off the Green Line train with their DePaul University drawstring bags and black-and-white sambas. A lanky figure inked graffiti onto the […]

todaySeptember 3, 2023 4

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Jared Leto performs dare-devilish entrance to Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago

Day two of Lollapalooza saw Jared Leto turn up the heat as he made a dare-devilish entrance for his band’s set.The Hollywood icon turned into a stuntman as he teased the crowd.Tied in bungees he extraordinarily made his way to the top of the stage and jumped off the massive rigging to join his bandmates below. In the tricky move, the crowd gasped.“I almost killed myself for you,” he jokingly […]

todayAugust 5, 2023 2

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Billie Eilish looks retro chic in vintage Michael Jordan jersey for headline gig at Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago

Lollapalooza kicked off its annual music festival in Chicago's Grant Park with Billie Eilish getting in the spirit of the Windy City.The Ocean Eyes singer, 21, wore a vintage Michael Jordan #23 Chicago Bills jersey as she performed her night one closing set at the four-day festival. The Bad Guy hitmaker's hair was dyed black and worn in high pigtails. The Los Angeles native paired the jersey with a long-sleeved t-shirt under […]

todayAugust 4, 2023 2

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Lollapalooza 2023 Chicago: How to stream music festival featuring Billie Eilish, Lana Del Rey, Kendrick Lamar

Annual music festival Lollapalooza is back with yet another edition and this year's lineup includes popular music artists like Billie Eilish, Lana Del Rey, Diplo, Kendrick Lamar, Carly Rae Jepsen, and Sabrina Carpenter. Here's everything you need to know about the Chicago-based festival including where to stream online and the schedule of the four-day-long event. Lollapalooza 2023: What is it and where is it held? Lollapalooza is an annual American four-day music festival held in Grant […]

todayAugust 4, 2023

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