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Sweet Home Chicago and Beyond: Music of the Windy City

 

With more than 250 live music venues and dozens of annual music festivals along the lakefront and throughout the city, Chicago is a music-lover’s paradise. Whether you enjoy seeing emerging artists at a late-night club or a gospel choir over Sunday brunch, Chicago’s diverse music scene offers something for fans of every genre.

 

 

Most Recent News

 

May 9, 2012: 34th Annual Chicago Jazz Festival Headline Acts Announced

 

May 8, 2012: 27th Chicago Gospel Music Festival Full Schedule Announced

 

May 7, 2012: “Made In Chicago: World Class Jazz” The Acclaimed Series Returns to Chicago’s Millennium Park July 19-August 30, 2012

 

April 24, 2012: Chicago Jazz Festival Announces Artist In Residence

 

April 19, 2012: Taste of Chicago Announces Headline Entertainment at Petrillo Music Shell

 

April 18, 2012: Millennium Park Summer 2012

Concerts Showcase Classical, Jazz, Indie-Rock And More

 

April 10, 2012: Jump-Start Your Weekend with a Morning Workout, Saturdays in Chicago’s Millennium Park, June 9-Sept. 1

 

March 28, 2012: A Spectacular Summer of Free Concerts Comes to Chicago's Millennium Park

 

March 28, 2012: Chicago Gospel Music Festival Announces Headline Acts And New Festival Site

 

March 9, 2012: DCASE Announces All Acts for 29th Annual Chicago Blues Festival

 

February 16, 2012: Paul Oakley Stovall and Brad Simmons Take the Stage at “Cabaret With A View” in Millennium Park

 

January 30, 2012: Legendary Artist Mavis Staples To Headline 2012 Chicago Blues Fest

 

November 8, 2011: Barbara Robertson Sings “Stages of My Life” Monday, December 19, 2011

 

October 17, 2011: Chicago Cultural Center Presents Free Concerts of Jazz and Blues, Classical, Opera, World, Folk, Rock and More This November and December

 

September 9, 2011: Maxim’s, Intimate Art Nouveau Venue, Presents Award-Winning Entertainment and Hosts Unforgettable Events

August 29, 2011: 13th Annual World Music Festival: Chicago Returns to Millennium Park

 

August 22, 2011:Millennium Park’s Soul Train Afternoon Dance Party to Kick Off Chicago’s 40th Anniversary Soul Train Concert

 

August 18, 2011:Spiritual Source: Randy Weston, The Chicago Jazz Ensemble and the Arrangements of Melba Liston

 

August 17, 2011: 13th Annual World Music Festival: Chicago 2011 September 15-22

 

August 15, 2011: Chicago’s 40th Anniversary Soul Train Concert to Honor Don Cornelius in Millennium Park

 

August 9, 2011: Kindred Spirits of the Horn: Corey Wilkes Celebrates Miles Davis and Roy Eldridge

 

August 1, 2011: The Cello Rock Sounds of "Rasputina" at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park

 

July 26, 2011: Latin Inspiration: Howard Levy with Chévere de Chicago, Trio Globo and Chris Siebold

 

July 25, 2011: Experimental Pop Chanteuse "My Brightest Diamond" Comes to Millennium Park for One Night Only

 

July 20, 2011: The 12th Annual Summer Opera Presents "Maria de Buenos Aires"

 

July 18, 2011: Millennium Park's Dusk Variations Series Kicks off with The Turtle Island Quartet

 

July 12, 2011: Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz continues with African Journeys Featuring Ryan Cohan and Geof Bradfield

 

July 12, 2011: Otis Clay: The Gospel of Jazz and Soul in a Musical Salute to Mahalia Jackson and Sam Cooke

 

July 11, 2011: Chicago Band “Funkadesi” to Replace Susheela Raman in Thursday's Music Without Borders Concert in Millennium Park

 

July 6, 2011: Made in Chicago Kicks off with a Tribute to Von Freeman

June 13, 2011:
A New Sound of Samba Comes to Millennium Park as Brazil's Diogo Nogueira Takes the Stage

 

Jun 9, 2011: Congolese Guitarist Diblo Dibala to Replace the Band “Ram” in a Music Without Borders Concert in Millennium Park

 

June 9, 2011: 15th Annual Chicago SummerDance

 

June 1, 2011: 33rd Annual Chicago Jazz Festival Remains Free Admission

 

May 24, 2011: Replacement Band July 7 in Millennium Park: Rupa and the April Fishes

 

May 17, 2011: The Best in Cabaret and Unique Entertainment Comes to Maxim's

 

April 28, 2011: World Music Festival Chicago 2011 returns September 16 – 22

 

April 27, 2011: Shashank, Chicago Cultural Center Presents welcomes revered Indian Classical flute player

 

April 26, 2011: Four More Bands added to the Line-up for Downtown Sound: New Music Mondays in Millennium Park

 

April 15, 2011: 33rd Annual Chicago Jazz Festival Welcomes Back Chicago Favorite Orbert Davis as Artist-in-Residence for 2011 Festival

 

April 13, 2011: Avant_MUTEK comes to he Chicago Cultural Center, Music Under the Dome welcomes innovative electronic music and digital art series

April 13, 2011: The Parkington Sisters at the Chicago Cultural Center, Music Under the Dome welcomes melodic all–sister folk, classical group

 

April 4, 2011: Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz – Acclaimed Series Returns to Millennium Park July 28 – Sept 1, 2011

 

April 4, 2011: Dusk Variations – Classical and Pop Music Collide on Monday Nights in Millennium Park with Four Free Concerts August 1, 8, 15, 22, 2011

 

April 4, 2011: Music Without Borders – Seven International Concerts From Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South American Travel to Millennium Park June 9 – July 21

 

 


 

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