Each weekly performance is sure to be a deeply felt display of her deft musicianship and her profound connections with her ...

Ready for some mandolin? How about music played on the balafon, a kind of West African marimba? Those are just two of the instruments taking center stage this month in concerts around Chicago as ...

Transitions works because it embraces the breadth of dance music rather than focusing on, say, the kind of blockbuster EDM that dominated midsize dance fests in the 2010s.

Camaraderie and a shared love of the sometimes misunderstood instrument are what bond members of the Chicago Accordion Club. And they wouldn’t have it any other way. “Members of the Chicago Accordion ...

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Explore the Windy City through tracks by Ramsey Lewis, Ahmad Jamal, Lester Bowie and the contemporary artists at the forefront of today’s sound. Credit...Dante Zaballa Supported by By Giovanni ...

For nearly a century and a half, voices have rung out in Chicago each December, proclaiming: “Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah!” The German-British composer George Frideric ...

A Complete Unknown — nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture and a Best Actor nod for Timothée Chalamet — documents Bob Dylan’s origin story in New York. But many of the characters in the ...