Music and Concerts – Page 75

FILE – Duane Davis, right, and his attorney Michael Sanft sit in a courtroom, after a jury found Davis guilty of first-degree murder in his trial related to the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur, at Clark County District Court Regional Justice Center on Aug. 31, 2026, in Las Vegas. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP, Pool)

Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis gets 40 years to life in prison for orchestrating the murder of Tupac Shakur

By Jessica Hill

October 13, 2026 at 3:42 p.m.

An aging ex-gang leader was sentenced Tuesday to 40 years to life in prison for...

Olivia Rodrigo performs at the United Center on Oct. 11, 2026. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Review: Olivia Rodrigo, in a sea of flowers, kicking her way towards what’s next

By Christopher Borrelli

October 12, 2026 at 10:38 a.m.

In Chicago at the United Center on her "Unraveled Tour," Olivia Rodrigo leans into the...

Baritone Thomas Hampson in a performance of William Walton’s "Belshazzar's Feast" with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, led by Klaus Mäkelä. (Todd Rosenberg)

Review: Mäkelä and CSO bring back a delicious ‘Feast’

By Hannah Edgar

October 9, 2026 at 1:15 p.m.

Fifty years have passed since the Chicago Symphony last played “Belshazzar’s Feast” by English composer...

Amanda Schuler, a recent graduate of mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School, has been playing violin in the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras since she was 9 and will perform with the group June 12 in Millennium Park as well as on a main stage during Lollapalooza. (Amanda Schuler)

Tinley Park violinist who has played London, Paris and Broadway graduates to Grant Park Music Festival

By Janice Neumann

June 10, 2025 at 3:16 p.m.

Amanda Schuler will perform with the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra at the Grant Park Music...

Nathan Graham and his band perform April 4 at Thornton Distilling Company’s Cooper’s Hall in Thornton as part of the Trail Mix concert series. The concert inspired the transformation of the Trail Mix Acoustic Concert Series to what is now the Trail Mix Roots Music Series, which kicks off with an outdoor show June 13 in Homewood. (Trail Mix Productions)

Homewood’s Trail Mix rebrands as Roots Music Series starting with ‘gritty banjo’ act

By Jessi Virtusio

June 10, 2025 at 2:18 p.m.

Trail Mix Roots Music Series begins its outdoor season June 13 with The Lowest Pair,...

FILE – Rock star Sylvester “Sly” Stone of Sly and the Family Stone, April 1972. (AP Photo, File)

Sly Stone, leader of funk revolutionaries Sly and the Family Stone, dies at 82

By Hillel Italie

June 9, 2025 at 6:24 p.m.

Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed...

Ken Kazin, who just retired as the the band director at Evergreen Park Community High School, stands with his wife, Amy Kazin, who also is a music teacher at the school, in front of cast photos from student productions. (Janice Neumann/Daily Southtown)

Evergreen Park Community High School band director Ken Kazin retires after nearly 40 year career

By Janice Neumann

June 8, 2025 at 5:19 a.m.

Ken Kazin, the longtime band director at Evergreen Park Community High School, helped build the...

Jacqueline Echols McCarley as Rosa Parks in "She Who Dared" by Chicago Opera Theatre in the Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building. (Michael Brosilow)

Review: ‘She Who Dared’ lovingly fact-checks civil rights history

By Hannah Edgar

June 7, 2025 at 11:58 a.m.

Chicago Opera Theater’s world-premiere about the 1950s Montgomery bus boycotts tells the real story, usually...

Kendrick Lamar performs during the "Grand National Tour" at Soldier Field in Chicago on June 6, 2025.

Review: Despite uneven pace, a masterful Kendrick Lamar exceeds the hype

By Bob Gendron

June 7, 2025 at 11:30 a.m.

In Chicago on their record-breaking "Grand National Tour," Kendrick Lamar and SZA would have been...

In a recent MusicNOW series concert, violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain, left, performs with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Center on Nov. 24, 2024, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

CSO hires a new chorus director; cancels next season’s MusicNOW series

By Hannah Edgar

June 6, 2025 at 11:46 a.m.

Donald Palumbo is only the third director of the Chicago Symphony Chorus. But the "pause"...

Kendrick Lamar performs during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl 59 football game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Meet the former Chicago ‘theater kid’ who stages Kendrick Lamar

By Christopher Borrelli

June 6, 2025 at 1:48 p.m.

When the "Grand National Tour" rolls into Soldier Field, a lot of the spectacle will...

Nancy Wilson, of Heart, performs during the "Love Alive Tour" at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre on Thursday, July 11, 2019, in Chicago. (Photo by Rob Grabowski/Invision/AP, file)

Rock band Heart offering reward for instruments stolen from New Jersey venue

By Associated Press

June 4, 2025 at 4:29 p.m.

Two irreplaceable instruments owned by members of the rock band Heart were stolen from a...

Evan Westfall, Joseph Kavalec, Matt Vinson, Taylor Meier and Nicholas Falk of Caamp. (Cooper Baumgartner)

Caamp frontman Taylor Meier says he’s ‘C-list folk singer famous,’ but he sold out the Salt Shed

By Janine Schaults

June 4, 2025 at 9:31 a.m.

Caamp's long-awaited fifth album, “Copper Changes Color,” don’t strive to be confessional, just open.