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So you think you know carols?
Change of SubjectTake my classic quizzes: So you think you know carols? Part I So you think you know carols? Part II Then, if you are so moved, try your hand at writing your own questions and submitting them in this year's...... -
Ed Holstein at his finest
Change of SubjectFrom this summer's concert at FitzGerald's in honor of Earl Pionke's -- the Earl of Old Town: Video description: One of the evening's major hits was Eddie Holstein, modestly self-proclaimed 1970s Folk Legend. Eddie teaches at Chicago's Old Town School....... -
Winter agenda: Events for the season
STAGE The Christmas Schooner Have yourself a City of Big Shoulders Christmas at the Mercury Theater, the current home of the beloved Chicago musical, “The Christmas Schooner.” Created by John Reeger and Julie Shannon, “Schooner”...
Tags: Fashion Trends, Travel, Frank Lloyd Wright, The Moody Blues (music group), Lincoln Park Zoo
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Recovering and rebooting after 2012
Goodbye to Seamus, the Irish setter that 29 years ago rode 650 miles in a crate strapped to the roof of Mitt Romney's family station wagon, and to Rafalca, Romneys' Olympic-caliber dancing horse. Goodbye to President Barack Obama's "you didn't build...Tags: Hanukkah, Chicago Tribune, Entertainment, CNN (tv network), Democratic Party
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'Good Cheer' in October? No, good planning
When my colleague Eric Zorn and I hosted our first Songs of Good Cheer, a holiday singalong, at the Old Town School of Folk Music, we thought we'd do one and be done. But it was so much fun we did it a second year. And then a third. Now we're on year 14,...
Tags: Music Industry, Holiday Music (genre), Chicago Restaurants, Hanukkah, Chicago Tribune
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$50,000 bounty to quiet robocallers
Game on, "Rachel from Cardholder Services," wherever you are. The Federal Trade Commission has announced it will award $50,000 to the person who comes up with the best technological solution to the problem of increasingly crafty robocallers who pepper...
Tags: Robinson Cano, New York Yankees, Omar Infante, The New York Times, Gospel (genre)
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A buoyant, stylistically wide-ranging weekend in Chicago jazz
Any doubts that the fall season has gotten fully underway should be swept aside by this weekend's nearly brisk lineup of jazz offerings: "Women of Chicago Jazz Piano": Jazz listeners tend to think of Chicago as a tenor saxophone town, and for good...
Tags: Gene Ammons, Howard Reich, Northwestern University, Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsalis
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World Music Festival returns -- free but smaller
The good news: All events at the 14th annual World Music Festival will be free. The bad: The event is smaller than last year's, with 49 shows, compared to last year's 63. "Obviously, in a transition year, you're not working under ideal circumstances,"...
Tags: Mayne Stage, Macau, Culture, Navy Pier, Entertainment
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New club in South Loop is labor of love for musician
He has spent most of his adult life in the demanding and financially precarious world of music. Despite that, John Devens remains a sane man, and so it came as a mild shock to learn that he has decided to become the artistic director of a new music club...
Tags: The Grapes of Wrath (movie), Music Industry, Folk (genre), Entertainment, Music
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How to awaken a sleeping jazz festival
Two months ago, the Chicago Gospel Music Festival made a bold move, presenting performances for the first time on the South Side of Chicago, in Ellis Park. Throngs turned out. Next month, the World Music Festival will take a bold step, for the first time...
Tags: Jazz Institute of Chicago, Allergies, Hyde Park, Grant Park, Culture
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Cornet player Josh Berman explores past, future with a host of bold collaborators
Fascinating music constantly bubbles up from the caldron that is Chicago jazz, the latest example coming from the horn and pen of Josh Berman. The very fact that he plays cornet, an instrument largely relegated to the history books, and collaborates with...
Tags: Invention and Innovation, Music Industry, Green Mill (club), Hyde Park, Chicago Jazz Fest
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City Winery Chicago announces 2012 concert lineup
City Winery Chicago, a 300-capacity concert hall in the West Loop, will open Aug. 1 and announced a full slate of performers Tuesday for the 2012 season, including singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash, gospel great Mavis Staples and jazz vocalist Kurt Elling....
Tags: Music Industry, Shemekia Copeland, Mavis Staples, Maxwell Street, West Loop
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