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Thursday, July 03, 2025Square Roots Returns With Headliners Calexico, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, Alejandro Escovedo
Block Club Chicago / by Alex V. Hernandez / June 10, 2025 LINCOLN SQUARE — Lincoln Square’s popular street festival returns next month, showcasing a mix of live music from Chicago artists alongside a selection of craft beer and family programing. Organized by the Lincoln Square Ravenswood Chamber of Commerce and the Old Town School of Folk Music, the popular three-day street festival kicks off 5 p.m., July 11 and runs through July 13, with live music, local restaurants, market vendors and a craft beer
Tuesday, January 14, 2025The Story of Lincoln Square
WTTW Chicago by "L" / by Meredith Francis / January 2025 Two green, metal archways emblazoned with “Lincoln Square” bookend a popular strip of Lincoln Avenue from Leland to Lawrence avenues right off the Western Brown Line stop. In this neighborhood, people can find everything from European-style pastries and books to authentic German beerhalls and brats. Though many Chicagoans think of it as a small neighborhood, Lincoln Square is the name of a large community area made up of smaller neighborhoods,
Thursday, December 05, 2024At the annual ‘Songs of Good Cheer,’ Christmas carols never go out of style
Chicago Tribune / by Doug George / December 2, 2024 It may not draw crowds like “The Nutcracker,” but as an annual Chicago holiday tradition it has no less devoted an audience. “Songs of Good Cheer,” on stage next week in a short series of concerts at the Old Town School of Folk Music, is a show with Christmas carols and other holiday music led by Mary Schmich and Eric Zorn, both former columnists for the Tribune. There’s a backing house band of professional folk, country and jazz musicians, and audience
Wednesday, November 13, 20242024 Chicago Holiday Events Guide
WTTW / by Erica Demarest and Eunice Alpasan / November 11, 2024 From light shows to theater, themed bars and dance spectacles, there’s something for everyone to enjoy this holiday season. We’ve rounded up some of the season’s highlights in Chicago and the suburbs. See More Here.
Wednesday, September 04, 2024What’s That Building? Old Town School of Folk Music
WBEZ Chicago / by Dennis Rodkin and Haley Bloomquist / September 3, 2024 In the 1990s, a Chicago public library building that had sat unused for a decade got a second life. Or maybe, because of the traditions at the Old Town School of Folk Music, which took over the Art Deco building, it’s more accurate to say it got a Second Half. The building is now a fine place to watch live music — or make some. In the main auditorium, 450-seat Maurer Hall, nobody’s more than 45 feet from the stage, and over that
Thursday, August 01, 2024Chicago is celebrating the 100th birthday of Ella Jenkins, musician and architect of a social moveme
WBEZChicago / by Mark Guarino / August 1, 2024 For most people, the image of a rock star involves leather, steel and a background of smoke, strobe lights and pyrotechnics. In the world of children’s music, however, the genre’s preeminent rock star is Ella Jenkins, a soft-spoken but wonderfully charming performer and educator who turns 100 next Tuesday. Across her 67-year career, Jenkins firmly established the genre of children’s music as a serious endeavor — not just for artists to pursue but also for the
