Review: Rousing Chicago Reunion for Irish Trad Legend Altan
Chicago played a crucial role in the survival of traditional Irish music. Our city in the 19th and early 20th…
Chicago played a crucial role in the survival of traditional Irish music. Our city in the 19th and early 20th…
Beausoleil has been the premier Cajun music recording and touring band for 45 years, and I have seen them so…
Bob Dylan’s New York By June Skinner Sawyers The History Press,142 pages, $21.99 First of all, a story: In April…
Aoife O’Donovan is special. It’s easy to say that about many musicians, especially ones we hold dear, but there is…
Le Vent du Nord, which translates to North Wind, brought the rollicking traditional music of Quebec to the Windy City…
The Grant Park Orchestra does not often play back-up to a jazz combo. On the other hand, the Mambo Kings,…
As the sun rises at what annually is its most northerly point on the horizon, sound artists and Rogers Park…
Listen to a song by Gregory Alan Isakov and you’re likely to hear something about suitcases, gasoline, the sea, the…
When Brandi Carlile recently performed at the Chicago Theater, she said that it was not long ago that she was…
Duluth bluegrass sextet Trampled By Turtles will play back-to-back sold out nights at Thalia Hall this weekend, May 19th &…
It’s a rare mixtape/preview crossover! This is the spot where you get a preview of this spring’s Americana slate coming…
It seems that in each generation of bluegrass, there comes a new reigning trio of powerful women. Like Dolly, Linda,…
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