Music
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Elgin Symphony Orchestra wraps up 2008-09 seasonJun 09, 2009 11:00 pm - ESO ends with Grieg The Elgin Symphony Orchestra plays its last concert of the 2008-2009 season this weekend when Terrence Wilson joins the ESO for Grieg's "Piano Concer...
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Singer-songwriter Kenny Rankin dead of lung cancer
Jun 08, 2009 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- Kenny Rankin, a brilliant pop vocalist and highly regarded musician-songwriter whose stylings ranged from jazz to pop to the world music influences he pi...
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Black Eyed Peas bring summer fun with 'E.N.D.'
Jun 08, 2009 11:00 pm - The Black Eyed Peas want you to dance, and "Boom Boom Pow" is just the beginning. The smash single sets the tone for the dance-party vibe on the quartet's first new albu...
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Country artists take the show on the road to build base abroad
Jun 08, 2009 11:00 pm - NASHVILLE, Tennessee -- Dierks Bentley and his band recently jetted to Australia to open six shows for Brooks & Dunn, playing to more than 10,000 people a night in the c...
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Wayne Newton talks about music, mustaches and coming to St. CharlesJun 08, 2009 11:00 pm - He lost the mustache a while back, but not his enthusiasm for entertaining. At 64, Wayne Newton has done just about everything there is to do in show business - from pe...
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Cheap fun: Pop/rock in Palatine, famous cars of film and TVJun 08, 2009 11:00 pm - $10 and under These 'Candles' can rock The pop/rock group Sixteen Candles headlines at Durty Nellie's. 10 p.m. Friday, June 12, Durty Nellie's, 180 N. Smith St., Palatin...
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Musical "Camelot" opens season for RaviniaJun 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Ravinia Festival opened its season Friday night in Highland Park with the musical "Camelot." Tony winner George Hearn and two-time Grammy winner Sylvia McNair led the en...
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Roundup of fairs, festivals this weekendJun 03, 2009 11:00 pm - Des Plaines Park District's Chase to the Taste Fun Run/Walk, |Downtown Des Plaines, along Ellinwood Avenue: 8 to 9 a.m. Saturday, June 6. (847) 922-0556. Visit desplaine...
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Ravinia opens for the summer season this weekendJun 03, 2009 11:00 pm - A picnic on the lawn, an admission price freeze and a typically wide-ranging menu of music by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and leading artists. It can mean only one th...
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Local auditionsJun 03, 2009 11:00 pm - • The Lyric Opera of Chicago holds auditions for 18 solo dancers for its 2010 production of "The Damnation of Faust" from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 20, at 20 N. Wack...