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Name: Colleen Miller Job: Concert director, Old Town School of Folk Music Years: 11 (5 1/2 at Old Town) Q. You work at a music school, but you don't play...

This week, the Arts Watch page is featuring the best concerts of the year as chosen by Tribune freelancers and staff writers; today's lists are by music writers Joshua Klein...

While he needs seasoning, Big Bill Morganfield, the son of Chicago blues legend Muddy Waters, proved a promising bluesman in his own right in his Chicago debut at FitzGerald's Friday....

The enormous success of Peter, Paul and Mary's self-titled 1962 debut record brought folk music-and with it a dose of liberal politics-out of the coffeehouses to mainstream audiences. Except for...

Scrawl at Lounge Ax: Circling around, shifting between and intertwining, Marcy Mays' and Sue Harshe's voices dodged in and out of the shadows of Scrawl's music Saturday night. If Scrawl's...

Neil Finn at Double Door: When you strip any song to its essence, what remains is melody, and during his mostly solo, mostly acoustic sold-out performance Friday night at Double...

Lyle Lovett at the Chicago Theatre: Focusing primarily on material from his new record, "Step Inside This House," Lyle Lovett brought some songs by fellow Texans to the gilded surroundings...

Imagine a cross between "Candid Camera" and a music industry schmooze-a-thon and you've got the idea behind the film "Fred Armisen's Guide to Music," which will have its premiere at...

Even if the band is fabulous, a crummy venue can damage -- or even ruin -- the concert go-ing experience. You might not remember the set list the next day,...

Hanson Snowed In (Mercury) (star) (star) 1/2 Teen sensations Isaac, Taylor and Zachary Hanson waste no time capitalizing on the momentum of their breakthrough hit "MMMBop," rushing out a record...