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Jay Pritzker Pavilion competes with Ravinia Park as a Chicago area outdoor music venue. [63] [64] The pavilion hosts free music events such as Chicago Gospel Music Festival from spring to fall. In June, July and August, the Grammy-nominated Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus performs free classical concerts at the Grant Park Music Festival. [65]
The initial plan was that the larger annual music festivals such as the Blues and Jazz Festivals and Taste of Chicago would continue to be held in Petrillo Music Shell because they are too large to be hosted at the Pavilion. [42] However, smaller festivals such as the Chicago Gospel Music Festival have been hosted at the Pavilion since 2005.
Chicago held its first gospel music festival as a tribute to Dorsey in 1985; it has taken place each year since then. [54] [55] Though he never returned to his hometown, efforts to honor Dorsey in Villa Rica, Georgia, began a week after his death. Mount Prospect Baptist Church, where his father preached and Dorsey learned music at his mother's ...
It is also the former host of several smaller (less than 10,000) attendance annual events that have moved to the newer Jay Pritzker Pavilion such as the Grant Park Music Festival, Chicago Gospel Music Festival, and Chicago Latin Music Festival. It was formerly located at the South end of Grant Park and was relocated in 1978.
African Festival of the Arts; American Spanish Dance and Music Festival [10]; Celtic Fest Chicago; Chicago Humanities Festival; Fiesta Del Sol Pilsen; Lebanese Food Festival
A list of Christian music festivals around the world. A Christian music festival is a festival oriented towards genres of Christian music, such as gospel music , church music , liturgical music , or contemporary Christian music such as Christian pop and Christian rock .
When did the Pitchfork Music Festival start. The first festival, organized by founder Mike Reed, debuted in Chicago in 2006, drawing crowds of more than 35,000 people.
Chicago's music scene has been well known for its blues music for many years. "Chicago Blues" uses a variety of instruments in a way which heavily influenced early rock and roll music, including instruments like electrically amplified guitar, drums, piano, bass guitar and sometimes the saxophone or harmonica, which are generally used in Delta blues, which originated in Mississippi.