Music
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Rap megastar Kendrick Lamar will headline the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show
Sep 08, 2024 4:39 pm - Kendrick Lamar will pop out on the NFL’s biggest stage next year: The Grammy winner will headline the Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show in New Orleans.
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Journey through the cosmos with Elmhurst Symphony’s ‘The Planets & Star Wars’Sep 08, 2024 9:00 am - The Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra will perform “The Planets & Star Wars,” its first concert of the 2024-25 season, on Saturday, Oct. 5.
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Norris Gallery Concert Series presents ‘Strings, Songs and Steelpan Music’Sep 06, 2024 11:55 pm - Concerts honoring composers Giacomo Puccini and Gabriel Faure will highlight the fall season of “Music in the Gallery” events in the art gallery of the Norris Cultural Arts Center in St. Charles.
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Lombard’s Maple Street Concerts welcomes Sage Christie and Heather Styka Sept. 15Sep 06, 2024 9:43 pm - Maple Street Concerts’ 40th year begins with a co-bill of two singer-songwriters: Sage Christie and Heather Styka. Both are two-time finalists in Kerrville's Grassy Hill New Folk Competition for Emerging Songwriters (Christie in 2022 and ’23; Styka in 2015 and ’17).
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Sergio Mendes, Grammy-winning Brazilian music legend, dies at 83
Sep 06, 2024 2:07 pm - Sergio Mendes, the celebrated Brazilian musician whose 1966 hit “Mas Que Nada” made him a global superstar and helped launched a long, Grammy-winning career, has died after months battling the effects of long COVID. He was 83.
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Great Elgin Pipe Organ Tour launches Sept. 7 at First United MethodistSep 05, 2024 11:16 am - Jeff Neufeld, music director and organist at Elgin’s First Congregational Church, will be launching a concert tour of Elgin’s church pipe organs, many of which have bee...
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Vocalists invited to join Downers Grove Choral Society for 66th concert seasonSep 05, 2024 12:16 am - The Downers Grove Choral Society, under the direction of artistic director John Patrick Rakes, announces its 66th season. They are inviting new and returning vocalists to join them.
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Queen guitarist Brian May says he had a ‘minor stroke’ but can still play
Sep 04, 2024 10:51 am - Brian May, the lead guitarist of British rock band Queen, revealed Wednesday that he had a “minor stroke” last week, which caused him to temporarily lose control over his arm.
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Best Bets: New Elmhurst exhibitions celebrate movie houses, public artSep 04, 2024 8:49 am - New exhibitions honoring historic movie houses and public art open at two Elmhurst museums; the Fiestas Patrias Festival returns to Aurora’s RiverEdge Park; and blues rocker Kenny Wayne Shepherd plays the suburbs this week.
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Elgin Symphony, Mariachi Herencia de México to open ECC Arts Center fall seasonSep 03, 2024 10:51 pm - To open the ECC Arts Center fall season, Elgin Symphony Orchestra will share a stage for the first time with Mariachi Herencia de México, the two-time Latin Grammy-nominated band.