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Juicebox

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!

 

Juicebox Expands To Austin Town Hall Park!

Juicebox

In April Juicebox expands to neighborhood locations in cooperation with the Chicago Park District, starting with Austin Town Hall Park. The first performance begins Saturday, April 13 and every other Saturday through the end of the year. Schedule is listed below.

 

Adolphe'S AX

Adolphe'S AX (photo credit: Michael Jackson)

Saturday, June 22, 2013

Garfield Park Conservatory

300 N. Central Park Ave. 

 Chicago, IL 60624

11am

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

11am

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. 

 

Magic Carpet 

Saturday, July 20, 2013

Austin Town Hall Park

5610 W. Lake St.

Chicago, IL 60644

11am

Magic Carpet is comprised of Aha Doo, aka Tewodros Aklilu (keyboards), Derf Noskcaj aka Fred Jackson (alto sax), Ryan “Ra’yon” Mayer (percussion), Makaya McCraven aka “Lord Bang” (drum set), Parish “Pfunk” Hick (bass guitar), and Tim “Cream” Jones (guitar). The diversity of the musicians creates the unique sound that is Magic Carpet. Each instrumentalist is focused on cultivating excellence in his particular area of study and experience. This is the contribution that he brings to the “Carpet”, while maintaining an openness to learn and share new ideas, which enable the evolution of this World Music that is the “Magic”. Magic Carpet is committed to advancing the realm of Music Anthropology.

 

Upcoming Schedule:

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

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

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

    • Whirlpool on Friday, September 13, 10am @  Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater;        Saturday, September 14, 11am @ 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

    The Rempis/Daisy Duo

    Friday, May 10th, 10 am           

    Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater

     

    Saturday, April 13th, 11 am 

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

    Dave Rempis and Tim Daisy are two musicians whose work has helped to define a generation of Chicago improvisers. Having performed together since they both hit the Chicago scene in the fall of 1997, these two have played literally hundreds of concerts together with groups including Triage, The Vandermark Five, the Dave Rempis Quartet, The Rempis Percussion Quartet, The Chicago Improvisers, and countless other ad hoc groupings.