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The Chicago Jazz Festival is an admission-free, four-day annual jazz festival in Chicago's Millennium Park.It is run by the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events and programmed with the assistance of Jazz Institute of Chicago during Labor Day weekend, integrating international and local artists playing many forms of jazz music.
The naming of Jay Pritzker Pavilion was a cause for protests. The new pavilion was built as a replacement for Grant Park's decades-old Petrillo Music Shell, which had a long history of hosting free music events and was named after James C. Petrillo, a labor union leader who started free concerts in Grant Park. When the original bandshell was ...
The Grant Park Music Festival (formerly the Grant Park Concerts) is a ten-week classical music concert series held annually in Chicago, Illinois, United States. [1] It features the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra and Grant Park Chorus along with guest performers and conductors, and is one of the only free outdoor classical-music concert series in ...
OK, yes, there’s a foot of fresh snow on the ground but we have bigger news: Summer is officially on in Chicago for 2022. Yes to Jazz Fest, yes to Blues Fest, yes to a full Chicago Air and Water ...
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Constellation is a performing arts nightclub in Chicago, Illinois, "with an emphasis on forward-thinking practices particularly in the areas of jazz, improvised, experimental, and contemporary classical music." Constellation was founded in 2013 by Mike Reed, a Chicago-based drummer and composer.
ChicagoFest was a Chicago music festival established in 1978 by Mayor Michael Bilandic.It was a two-week event held annually at Navy Pier that featured sixteen separate stages, each sponsored by a national retail brand and a media sponsor compatible to the stage's format, e.g. Rock WLUP, Chicago Tribune Jazz, Miller Brewing Company Blues and WXRT, that broadcast live from the festival.
The Free Jazz Festival was a two-week annual music festival debuting in 1985 with performances taking place in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.It ran between 1985 and 2001 featuring Chet Baker, Hubert Laws, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, BB King, Al Green, James Brown, Etta James, Nina Simone, Chick Corea, Sarah Vaughan, Pat Metheny, Toots Thielemans, Bobby McFerrin, Sonny Rollins, Ernie Watts ...