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Patricia Barber brings a lifetime of Chicago club music to Winter’s Jazz Club
A locally rooted quartet, two intimate sets, and a Chicago room where close listening is the point.
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MAMAMOO returns to Wintrust Arena as a seven-city U.S. tour reaches Chicago
The 2026 date revisits the site of the quartet’s 2023 Chicago stop, with Solar, Moon Byul, Whee In and Hwa Sa scheduled to perform together.
venue spotlight
Nitzer Ebb anchors Metro’s late-August run of punk, psych and post-punk history
Six dates on Clark Street connect industrial music, punk, psych rock and the Joy Division–New Order catalog.
themed roundup
A Chicago blues itinerary for August 12–19, from River North to Legends
Two established clubs and a run of local bookings offer a clear route through the city’s active blues calendar.
genre thread
AfriClassical Futures brings Julius Eastman’s ten-cello work to Epiphany’s Sanctuary
The Chicago series places Eastman’s 1981 score in a Sunday afternoon program shaped by performance, discussion and an RSVP-based door policy.