The October 22–25 Chicago concert window offers plenty of late bills, yet Epiphany Center for the Arts makes its strongest case earlier in the evening. From Thursday, October 22, through Saturday, October 24, the West Loop campus moves between two intimate settings: free Golden Hour DJ programs in the Café Bar, followed by TREYHOUSE’s Saturday release show in Chase House. That small run captures the venue’s useful booking identity. The building began as the Church of the Epiphany, built in 1885, and its present incarnation is a 42,000-square-foot arts campus with several distinct performance rooms, galleries, hospitality spaces, and outdoor areas. The calendar treats that footprint as a sequence of places to spend time, with music functioning as the thread between them.[1][2]

This is a room-by-room venue spotlight, yet it is also a reminder that Epiphany Center for the Arts has room for different scales of attention. Its own description places the historic Epiphany Hall and Sanctuary alongside the underground Catacombs, while its smaller Café Bar and Chase House bookings create a different rhythm: arrive while the day is still open, hear a set, look around, and decide whether the evening continues. In a city where doors and set times can turn a show into a logistical relay, that format has practical appeal. The October run centers artists whose work is built for listening, movement, and a more conversational pace than the standard club-night sprint.[1][2]

Golden Hour uses the Café Bar as an entry point

Thursday’s Golden Hour featuring TrakQwn begins at 5 p.m. in the Café Bar. The venue lists the program as free and scheduled through 8 p.m.; its broader Golden Hour series runs Thursday through Saturday in that room. TrakQwn’s posted biography describes an open-format approach informed by Chicago queer nightlife, early MTV, funk, indietronic, new wave, disco, dance-pop, and global dance music. Those details make the booking feel less like background music and more like a deliberately wide doorway into Epiphany’s evening. For listeners who enjoy DJs with a broad frame of reference, it is the most relaxed way into the building’s October 22–24 run.[3]

On Friday, October 23, Golden Hour returns at 5 p.m. with ZAZA. Epiphany identifies ZAZA as a Detroit-born, Chicago-based multi-genre DJ whose sets draw on R&B, GhettoTech, AfroClub, house, gospel, reggae, jazz, and hip-hop, with room for familiar songs and deeper selections. The change in artist matters: the two Café Bar dates read as separate programs with distinct musical vocabularies, united by their early start, free admission, and compact three-hour shape. That is a thoughtful use of a café space, where an audience can arrive with curiosity instead of a fixed allegiance to one scene.[4]

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Saturday shifts the focus to Chase House

Saturday, October 24, brings the week’s ticketed centerpiece: TREYHOUSE’s “$95 To Get To Heaven” album release, featuring SuhSpence, at 7 p.m. in Chase House. The listing frames the project as Trey’s debut album and describes the release event as a hybrid of the record with additional live elements. It also places TREYHOUSE’s sound near melodic and electro synth work shaped by local house and techno influences. That is a fitting destination after the Café Bar’s two DJ-led afternoons: the weekend moves from selectors mapping a room’s atmosphere to an artist presenting a new work with a specific local electronic context.[5]

For practical planning, Golden Hour featuring TrakQwn is Thursday, October 22, at 5 p.m.; Golden Hour featuring ZAZA is Friday, October 23, at 5 p.m.; and TREYHOUSE with SuhSpence is Saturday, October 24, at 7 p.m. All three take place at Epiphany Center for the Arts, 201 South Ashland Avenue, with the first two in the Café Bar and Saturday’s release show in Chase House. The Golden Hour listings specify a 21-plus policy with valid identification, while the TREYHOUSE listing gives a 6:30 p.m. Chase House door time and pay-what-you-can tickets. Recheck Epiphany Center for the Arts’ official event pages before heading out, since admission terms, room access, and schedules can change.[3][4][5]

These concerts happened on 22–24 October 2026

The next dates at these venues: Epiphany Center for the Arts

Sources

  1. About Us — Epiphany Center for the Arts
  2. You Found The Church of The Epiphany — Epiphany Center for the Arts
  3. Golden Hour Featuring TrakQwn — Epiphany Center for the Arts
  4. Golden Hour Featuring ZAZA — Epiphany Center for the Arts
  5. “$95 To Get To Heaven” Album Release by TREYHOUSE feat SuhSpence — Epiphany Center for the Arts
  6. Zaza — DJ ZAZA