Latin jazz groups to perform at festival, along with old favorites
Angelika Fejklowicz expects even more dancing and grooving this year at the annual Wine and Jazz Festival set for Aug. 4 at Deer Park Town Center. “For the first time...
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Josh Turner brings his style of traditional country music to Genesee
Country singer, actor and author Josh Turner grew up in a small town in South Carolina where he said music education was not often available in school. Though he participated...
Libertyville fest attracts new, returning artists, features music all day
Each year, Heather Williamson stops by one of the vendors at the annual Festival of the Arts in Libertyville to purchase art work, often an intaglio etching by Scott Westgard...
Bernstein protege Marin Alsop to conduct ‘Mass’ at Ravinia
Leonard Bernstein once said only men could be orchestra conductors, but Marin Alsop "changed Bernstein's mind," according to Welz Kauffman, president and CEO of Ravinia Festival. On July 28, Alsop...
Love Bingo? Hula hoops? Disney? Come to Lindenfest
Lindenfest is a four-day affair filled with a pageant, themed parade, hula hoop contest, live country and rock music, a carnival, mayor’s auction, bags tournaments — all old-fashioned fun for...
Award-winning Melodeers to perform in Lincolnshire
Melodeers member Sarah Nagel loves singing in the group so much that she spends at least an hour in the car one way to get to weekly rehearsals in northern...
Endangered plovers born in Michigan nest at Waukegan beach parking lot
After seeing three piping plover eggs salvaged from a nest on a parking lot along Waukegan Beach in June, Emma England became even more convinced that the Lake County Audubon...
New theatre takes on ‘Spring Awakening’ for first performance
Theatre director and actress Lauren Rawitz is taking two big chances. She’s opening a new production house, 4 Chairs Theatre in Highwood, and the first production, which opens July 26,...
Center Stage performers relish their roles in ‘Shrek the Musical’
When Debra Goldman heard the words to the song “This is Our Story” from “Shrek the Musical,” she knew what her directors’ message would be. “We are witches, we are...
Highwood’s Bloody Mary Fest returns, with more family activities
A year after Tom Garrity opened Toadstool Pub in Highwood, Celebrate Highwood created the Bloody Mary Fest, which included a people’s choice competition. So Garrity, his wife and bartenders, concocted...