The back-to-back shows were album-release parties for Bird’s “Sunday Morning Put-On,” a low-key tribute to midcentury jazz and the Great American Songbook. They also brought Bird’s storied relationship with Chicago full circle.
The music was comforting to many attendees, who have come to Chicago fleeing economic and political disaster in their countries of origin.
Despite several public announcements asking patrons to disperse, thousands of festival goers refused to leave Grant Park for a considerable amount of time.
Richard M. Sherman, one half of the prolific, award-winning pair of brothers who helped form millions of childhoods by penning the instantly memorable songs for “Mary Poppins,” “The Jungle Book” and “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” — as well as the most-played tune on Earth, “It’s a Small World (After All)” — has died. He was 95.
Nicki Minaj’s concert in Manchester, England, scheduled for Saturday night was postponed after police in the Netherlands discovered marijuana in her bags as she was preparing to leave the country.
A new fashion design summer camp is a hit at Moraine Valley, and sessions at Governors State will give kids a leg up on playing the blues.
According to presenter Live Nation, the Chicago date for Neil Young and Crazy Horse will be rescheduled.
The Raue Center for the Arts wants to work with East Dundee to create a performing arts center in downtown. “We really love the idea of bringing the arts to all,” CEO Richard Kuranda said at a village board meeting Monday night. “So, we are here today to officially ask you to consider building and creating an arts center that we would collaborate with you on and hopefully serve,” he said. A new Raue Center would be “an economic draw to this wonderful town,” Kuranda said. The center, based in Crystal Lake, is excited about East Dundee’s town square and […]
On May 21, 1955, Chuck Berry recorded his first single, “Maybellene,” for Chess Records in Chicago.
The one-act opera adaptation by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer tells the story of a man who was the heir to an art fortune worth millions.