The Seventh-Annual Umbrella Music Festival Comes to Chicago November 7-11.
Celebrating Chicago\'s jazz and improvised music scene in dialogue with international artists
Umbrella Music is pleased to announce the 2012 UMBRELLA MUSIC FESTIVAL, which will take place November 7-11. Lauded as "the most impressive and adventurous jazz event of the year" by the Chicago Reader, the Umbrella Music Festival offers Chicago audiences the most innovative jazz and improvised music as local artists perform side-by-side with exciting international artists.
The festival opens with two nights of FREE concerts known as EUROPEAN JAZZ MEETS CHICAGO, co-presented by Umbrella Music and nine different European consulates and cultural organizations. This groundbreaking collaborative format, in its sixth incarnation, will take place at the Chicago Cultural Center on Wednesday, November 7th, and Thursday, November 8th. Then, from Friday, November 9th, through Sunday, November 11th, the music moves to the three regular Umbrella Music venues - Elastic, the Hideout, and the Hungry Brain.
This year\'s lineup of acclaimed artists includes Joe Morris, Sven Ake Johansson, Danielle D\'Agaro, William Parker, Angelika Niescier, Harrison Bankhead, Mars Williams, Pandelis Karayorgis, Clementine Gasser, Cooper Moore, Rob Mazurek, Artur Majewski, Fred Van Hove, Darius Jones and many more!
More information is available at www.umbrellamusic.org, and the full schedule and line-ups will be announced soon.
UMBRELLA MUSIC is a group of Chicago musicians and presenters working to provide performance opportunities for creative and improvising musicians. UMBRELLA members produce weekly concert series on Wednesdays at the Hideout, Thursdays at Elastic, and Sundays at the Hungry Brain. More information on the group and on the events they coordinate is available at www.umbrellamusic.org.
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