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DanceAfrica is a heritage and community celebration equable on the manifold dance forms of the African Diaspora held annually in New York City, Washington, DC, and Chicago. Included are indoor and outdoor performance including live music, a film series, master classes , education programs, and an outdoor bazaar.
AfriCOBRA was founded on the South Side of Chicago by a group of artists intent on defining a "black aesthetic." AfriCOBRA artists were associated with the Black Arts Movement in America, a movement that began in the mid-1960s and that celebrated culturally-specific expressions of the contemporary Black community in the realms of literature, theater, dance and the visual arts. [6]
The festival, a Chicago tradition since 1931, remains the nation's only free, outdoor classical music series. [ 66 ] [ 67 ] Although the Music Festival shares pavilion space with several other program series and annual performances, its concerts most Wednesday, Friday and Saturday evenings throughout the heart of the summer are the core of the ...
The South Side Community Art Center is a community art center in Chicago that opened in 1940 with support from the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project in Illinois. [1] Opened in Bronzeville in an 1893 mansion, it became the first black art museum in the United States [ 2 ] and has been an important center for the development ...
Chicago's music scene has been well known for its blues music for many years. "Chicago Blues" uses a variety of instruments in a way which heavily influenced early rock and roll music, including instruments like electrically amplified guitar, drums, piano, bass guitar and sometimes the saxophone or harmonica, which are generally used in Delta blues, which originated in Mississippi.
The Pitchfork Music Festival 2024 was held from July 19 to 21, 2024, at the Union Park, Chicago, United States. [1] The festival was headlined by singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette, psychedelic soul duo Black Pumas, and disk jockey Jamie xx. [2] It was followed by after shows in various venues around Chicago with a line-up, including Doss ...
The World Music Festival Chicago is an annual musical event held in Chicago, Illinois, since 1999. It is organized by the City of Chicago . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The festival takes place in September, usually runs 5–10 days, [ 3 ] and has featured musicians from over 75 countries since its inception.