Juicebox

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Juicebox offers Chicago’s best music, dance, and theater in a kid-friendly setting. A free series of cutting edge performances, Juicebox is geared at toddlers but is engaging for the whole family. Kids can sit on the floor, walk around, meet the artists, and sometimes even play with the instruments and puppets. BYO snacks are welcome too!

Jeff Parker & Rob Mazurek

Saturday, May 25, 2013

Austin Town Hall Park

5610 W. Lake St.

Chicago, IL 60644

11 am

Jeff Parker

I’m mainly a guitar player. I like to write music. I like to collaborate with other musicians. I live in Chicago. I think music opens doors. Some of the bands I play / have played with: Tortoise, Chicago Underground, Isotope 217, New Horizons Ensemble, A Cushicle, SpliceCat, Moment of Inertia, TriColor, Brian Blade Fellowship, Powerhouse Sound, Fred Anderson Quartet, Joshua Redman Elastic Band. I sometimes lead projects of my own – they usually are simply called “Jeff Parker” or “Jeff Parker _____(trio, quartet, organ quartet, etc.)” and may consist of myself performing alone or with small or large aggregates of various configurations…

Rob Mazurek 

Working within a multitude of stylistic contexts, electro-acoustic composer/cornetist Rob Mazurek has helped redefine the aesthetic boundaries of artistic expression for well over two decades. Born in 1965 in Jersey City, NJ, Mazurek rose to prominence in the fertile mid-1990s Chicago jazz scene, quickly venturing beyond the traditional tenets of the idiom to become one of the most compelling improvising composers of his generation. Currently leading multiple ensembles, including the visionary Exploding Star Orchestra, Pulsar Quartet, Pharaoh and the Underground (featuring Pharaoh Sanders), Sao Paulo and Chicago Underground and the Octet 'Skull Sessions', Mazurek continues to push the boundaries of what is possible with sound. www.myspace.com/davidboykinexpanse

Adolphe'S AX

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Austin Town Hall Park

5610 W. Lake St.

Chicago, IL 60644

11 am

Saturday, June 22, 2013

Garfield Park Conservatory

300 N. Central Park Ave. 

 Chicago, IL 60624

Sax-o-phun

A man named Adolphe Sax changed the world of music forever when he invented an instrument and gave it his name - the Saxophone.No one had ever heard anything like it before.  Now, one hundred and fifty years later, the saxophone is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Find out why with Adolphe’S AX, Cameron Pfiffner’s saxophone ensemble. The saxophone can cry, laugh, whine, roar, sing, grunt, whisper, moan and shout- it expresses feelings that are too big for words; feelings that everyone can understand, no matter what language they speak or where they come from.  Some of Chicago’s finest saxophonists, including Anthony Bruno, Juli Wood, Nate LePine, Caroline Davis and Mark Heibert, will show you just how incredibly versatile and powerful an instrument Adolphe Sax invented all those years ago, and why people still play it and love it today.

The David Boykin Expanse 

Saturday, July 6, 2013

Austin Town Hall Park

5610 W. Lake St.

Chicago, IL 60644

11 am

The David Boykin Expanse is an authentic Chicago South Side jazz ensemble for modern times.  They possess exceptional individual instrumental virtuosity and emote the deepest feelings.  The group’s size has varied but its current core consisting of flutist Nicole Mitchell, bassist Josh Abrams, pianist Jim Baker, and composer, saxophonist and leader David Boykin have been performing together for about 8 years.  Drummer Marcus Evans has joined them for the past two years.  

With this lineup Boykin has recently added the infusion own hip hop style rhyming into the music without sacrificing the core elements of each.  These core elements being the rhythmic complexity, (especially swing feel), of jazz; the harmonic complexity of jazz; and the use of multi-syllabic words, varied rhyme scheme, alliteration, metaphor, and other poetic devices common to some styles of hip hop lyricism. 

Upcoming Schedule

• Magic Carpet on Saturday, July 20, 11 am @ Austin Town Hall Park
  

• Tomeka Reid’s Chicago String Collective on Saturday, August 3, 11 am @ Austin Town Hall Park
  

• Dana Hall Project on Saturday, August 17, 11 am @ Austin Town Hall Park
  

• Marquis Hill Quintet on Saturday, August 31, 11 am @ Austin Town Hall Park

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Dates:

• Every Other Friday; Starting Feb. 1, 2013

• Austin Town Hall Park (5610 W. Lake St., Chicago, IL. 60644) starting on Saturday, April 13 and every other Saturday through the end of the year.

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Hours:
10 am

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Location:
 

Chicago Cultural Center, Preston Bradley Hall
78 E. Washington St.
Chicago, IL 60602

Austin Town Hall Park
5610 W. Lake St.
Chicago, IL 60644

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Admission:
FREE

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Accessibility:
The following services are available for persons with disabilities:

• Accessible entrance, 77 E. Randolph St.
• Accessible restroom facilities
• Wheelchair loans, see information desk for availability
• ASL interpreters are provided with 72 hours notice
• Assisted Listening Devices available for public event

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Public Transportation:
For travel information, visit www.transitchicago.com