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The second Chicagoland Music Festival, held in 1931, featured John Philip Sousa. [1] [137] May 12: Soldier Field held its first amateur boxing event. This event was a Golden Gloves tournament sponsored by the Chicago Tribune. The tournament had outgrown its former home at the Chicago Stadium, and was moved to Soldier Field that year.
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 Pitchfork Music Festival is an annual music festival in Union Park in Chicago, Illinois, organized by the online magazine Pitchfork. Starting in 2011, the festival announced a branch staged in Paris at Grande halle de la Villette. [ 1] The festival, which is normally held over three days (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) in July, focuses ...
Chicago weekend events: Music and food fests galore. Fox local. FOX 32 News. July 19, 2024 at 7:24 PM. CHICAGO - This weekend is expected to be dry and warm, a welcome change after the week's ...
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.
July 12, 2024 at 7:39 PM. CHICAGO - It’s going to be a hot weekend, but if you’re willing to brave the heat, there are several events for music lovers and foodies alike that you won’t want ...
The Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival is an event held in the Hollywood Bowl that celebrates jazz and features both established and up-and-coming jazz musicians. Founded in 1959 by Hugh Hefner as the Playboy Jazz Festival , it was held in Chicago but did not recur until 1979, when the venue was moved to the Hollywood Bowl.
Music of Chicago. Chicago, Illinois is a major center for music [ 1] in the midwestern United States where distinctive forms of blues (greatly responsible for the future creation of rock and roll ), and house music, a genre of electronic dance music, were developed. The "Great Migration" of poor black workers from the South into the industrial ...