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Chicago Music Festivals

Jazz Up Your Weekend: The Umbrella Music Festival

Chicago Reader | Peter Margasak | Posted 12.20.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Jazz, Mike Reed, Chicago Concerts, Ken Vandermark, Chicago Music, The Hungry Brain, Dave Rempis, Chicago Music Festivals, Mitch Cocanig, Umbrealla Music, The Hideout, Umbrella Music Festival, Josh Berman, Elastic, Chicago News

When I wrote about the Umbrella Music Festival last year, I compared it to the Empty Bottle's defunct Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music, which in ...

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Blues And Jazz Fests Losing A Day

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 11.27.2008 | Chicago

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Blues Fest and Jazz Fest, two of the city's most popular outdoor music festivals, will be reduced from four days to three and feature fewer stages bec...

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World Music Festival Continues: Day-By-Day Picks

Chicago Reader | Peter Margasak and Monica Kendrick | Posted 10.23.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Etran Finatawa, World Music Festival Chicago, Chicago Music Festivals, Chicago Live Music, Chicago News

The Department of Cultural Affairs has to work hard each year to drum up the money to put on Chicago's World Music Festival, since the city generally ...

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