Altgeld Chimes will be celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival with a small set of East Asian songs this Thursday, Oct. 1. This is the third concert in our BIPOC series, "Amplify Their Voices."

The collection of songs will be played twice, once in the morning (divided across two passing periods - 11:50am and 12:50pm), and once in the evening (one concert at 6pm - livestream). Feel free to come listen, but as always, we encourage social distancing!

While they are only featuring East Asian songs for this concert, they recognize that certain groups from Southeast Asian cultures also celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. Altgeld Chimes welcomes suggestions for songs to build their Southeast Asian repertoire and for future BIPOC concerts.

Altgeld Chimes will be celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival with a small set of East Asian songs this Thursday, Oct. 1. This is the third concert in our BIPOC series, "Amplify Their Voices."

The collection of songs will be played twice, once in the morning (divided across two passing periods - 11:50am and 12:50pm), and once in the evening (one concert at 6pm - livestream). Feel free to come listen, but as always, we encourage social distancing!

While they are only featuring East Asian songs for this concert, they recognize that certain groups from Southeast Asian cultures also celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. Altgeld Chimes welcomes suggestions for songs to build their Southeast Asian repertoire and for future BIPOC concerts.

Altgeld Chimes will be celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival with a small set of East Asian songs this Thursday, Oct. 1. This is the third concert in our BIPOC series, "Amplify Their Voices."

The collection of songs will be played twice, once in the morning (divided across two passing periods - 11:50am and 12:50pm), and once in the evening (one concert at 6pm - livestream). Feel free to come listen, but as always, we encourage social distancing!

While they are only featuring East Asian songs for this concert, they recognize that certain groups from Southeast Asian cultures also celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. Altgeld Chimes welcomes suggestions for songs to build their Southeast Asian repertoire and for future BIPOC concerts.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Virtual World Music Festival Chicago

Sunday, September 6, 1–3pm

Ragamala: A Centennial Tribute to Ravi Shankar
Programmed with People of Rhythm. Recorded in Chicago, New Delhi, Oakland and Kolkata.
The festival’s annual celebration of Indian classical music, Ragamala will continue to showcase Hindustani music from North India and Carnatic music from South India with a very special online centennial tribute to legendary maestro and ambassador of Indian classical music, sitarist Ravi Shankar.

Saraswathi Ranganathan (veena), Dhananjay Kunte (tabla), Heather Boehm (violin)
Gaurav Mazumdar (sitar)
Aditya Prakash (vocals), Shiva Ramamurthi (violin), Rohan Krishnamurthy (mridangam)
Tejendra Narayan Majumdar (sarod), Arup Chatterjee (tabla)

Sunday, September 13, 1–3pm

Afro-Diáspora y Folklore
Programmed with and recorded at Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center
Chicago-based music groups highlight and celebrate the Afro-Latin folkloric musical traditions of some of the Latin American communities who call this city home.

Bombazo con Buya + special guest Eli Samuel Rodríguez (Bomba from Puerto Rico)
Los Pleneros de Don Segundo (Plena from Puerto Rico)
Ecos del Pacifico Afrocolombia (Bullarengue and Marimba from Colombia)
Tambor Chicago (Afro Cuban spiritual music and Rumba from Cuba)

Sunday, September 20, 1–3pm

Anam Mór
Programmed with and recorded at Martyrs’
The Chicago-based traditional Irish supergroup is led by master percussionist Jackie Moran and features Laurence Nugent on flutes and whistles, Brendan Bulger on fiddle, and Jesse Langen on guitar.

Sunday, September 27, 1–3pm

Chicago Immigrant Orchestra
Recorded at Epiphany Center for the Arts
The Chicago Immigrant Orchestra returns with a new vision under the direction of Fareed Haque and Wanees Zarour as a 12-piece ensemble of musicians from Chicago’s diverse immigrant community and representing music traditions from all over the world. Artists including Alex Chen (Chinese pipa), Fareed Haque (guitar, keys, percussion), Hitesh Master (North Indian vocals), Juan Pastor (Latin percussion), Paul Cotton (African percussion), Richard Christian (tabla/dhol), Sam Tahiri (Persian vocals), Saraswathi Ranganathan (South Indian veena), Tamir Hargana (throat singer / horsehair fiddle), Tzu-Tzen Wu (Chinese ruan) Ugochi (Nigerian vocals), and Wanees Zarour (oud, buzuq, percussion).

World Music Festival Chicago is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and is sponsored by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA).

World Music Festival Chicago is presented as part of Global Music Month 2020 – a month-long, online celebration of music from around the world. Running from August 29 through October 1, 2020, Global Music Month features concerts, presentations and panels from 19 different U.S. and Canadian festivals and presenters under one banner. More information at globalmusicmonth.org

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Virtual World Music Festival Chicago

Sunday, September 6, 1–3pm

Ragamala: A Centennial Tribute to Ravi Shankar
Programmed with People of Rhythm. Recorded in Chicago, New Delhi, Oakland and Kolkata.
The festival’s annual celebration of Indian classical music, Ragamala will continue to showcase Hindustani music from North India and Carnatic music from South India with a very special online centennial tribute to legendary maestro and ambassador of Indian classical music, sitarist Ravi Shankar.

Saraswathi Ranganathan (veena), Dhananjay Kunte (tabla), Heather Boehm (violin)
Gaurav Mazumdar (sitar)
Aditya Prakash (vocals), Shiva Ramamurthi (violin), Rohan Krishnamurthy (mridangam)
Tejendra Narayan Majumdar (sarod), Arup Chatterjee (tabla)

Sunday, September 13, 1–3pm

Afro-Diáspora y Folklore
Programmed with and recorded at Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center
Chicago-based music groups highlight and celebrate the Afro-Latin folkloric musical traditions of some of the Latin American communities who call this city home.

Bombazo con Buya + special guest Eli Samuel Rodríguez (Bomba from Puerto Rico)
Los Pleneros de Don Segundo (Plena from Puerto Rico)
Ecos del Pacifico Afrocolombia (Bullarengue and Marimba from Colombia)
Tambor Chicago (Afro Cuban spiritual music and Rumba from Cuba)

Sunday, September 20, 1–3pm

Anam Mór
Programmed with and recorded at Martyrs’
The Chicago-based traditional Irish supergroup is led by master percussionist Jackie Moran and features Laurence Nugent on flutes and whistles, Brendan Bulger on fiddle, and Jesse Langen on guitar.

Sunday, September 27, 1–3pm

Chicago Immigrant Orchestra
Recorded at Epiphany Center for the Arts
The Chicago Immigrant Orchestra returns with a new vision under the direction of Fareed Haque and Wanees Zarour as a 12-piece ensemble of musicians from Chicago’s diverse immigrant community and representing music traditions from all over the world. Artists including Alex Chen (Chinese pipa), Fareed Haque (guitar, keys, percussion), Hitesh Master (North Indian vocals), Juan Pastor (Latin percussion), Paul Cotton (African percussion), Richard Christian (tabla/dhol), Sam Tahiri (Persian vocals), Saraswathi Ranganathan (South Indian veena), Tamir Hargana (throat singer / horsehair fiddle), Tzu-Tzen Wu (Chinese ruan) Ugochi (Nigerian vocals), and Wanees Zarour (oud, buzuq, percussion).

World Music Festival Chicago is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and is sponsored by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA).

World Music Festival Chicago is presented as part of Global Music Month 2020 – a month-long, online celebration of music from around the world. Running from August 29 through October 1, 2020, Global Music Month features concerts, presentations and panels from 19 different U.S. and Canadian festivals and presenters under one banner. More information at globalmusicmonth.org

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Virtual World Music Festival Chicago

Sunday, September 6, 1–3pm

Ragamala: A Centennial Tribute to Ravi Shankar
Programmed with People of Rhythm. Recorded in Chicago, New Delhi, Oakland and Kolkata.
The festival’s annual celebration of Indian classical music, Ragamala will continue to showcase Hindustani music from North India and Carnatic music from South India with a very special online centennial tribute to legendary maestro and ambassador of Indian classical music, sitarist Ravi Shankar.

Saraswathi Ranganathan (veena), Dhananjay Kunte (tabla), Heather Boehm (violin)
Gaurav Mazumdar (sitar)
Aditya Prakash (vocals), Shiva Ramamurthi (violin), Rohan Krishnamurthy (mridangam)
Tejendra Narayan Majumdar (sarod), Arup Chatterjee (tabla)

Sunday, September 13, 1–3pm

Afro-Diáspora y Folklore
Programmed with and recorded at Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center
Chicago-based music groups highlight and celebrate the Afro-Latin folkloric musical traditions of some of the Latin American communities who call this city home.

Bombazo con Buya + special guest Eli Samuel Rodríguez (Bomba from Puerto Rico)
Los Pleneros de Don Segundo (Plena from Puerto Rico)
Ecos del Pacifico Afrocolombia (Bullarengue and Marimba from Colombia)
Tambor Chicago (Afro Cuban spiritual music and Rumba from Cuba)

Sunday, September 20, 1–3pm

Anam Mór
Programmed with and recorded at Martyrs’
The Chicago-based traditional Irish supergroup is led by master percussionist Jackie Moran and features Laurence Nugent on flutes and whistles, Brendan Bulger on fiddle, and Jesse Langen on guitar.

Sunday, September 27, 1–3pm

Chicago Immigrant Orchestra
Recorded at Epiphany Center for the Arts
The Chicago Immigrant Orchestra returns with a new vision under the direction of Fareed Haque and Wanees Zarour as a 12-piece ensemble of musicians from Chicago’s diverse immigrant community and representing music traditions from all over the world. Artists including Alex Chen (Chinese pipa), Fareed Haque (guitar, keys, percussion), Hitesh Master (North Indian vocals), Juan Pastor (Latin percussion), Paul Cotton (African percussion), Richard Christian (tabla/dhol), Sam Tahiri (Persian vocals), Saraswathi Ranganathan (South Indian veena), Tamir Hargana (throat singer / horsehair fiddle), Tzu-Tzen Wu (Chinese ruan) Ugochi (Nigerian vocals), and Wanees Zarour (oud, buzuq, percussion).

World Music Festival Chicago is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and is sponsored by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA).

World Music Festival Chicago is presented as part of Global Music Month 2020 – a month-long, online celebration of music from around the world. Running from August 29 through October 1, 2020, Global Music Month features concerts, presentations and panels from 19 different U.S. and Canadian festivals and presenters under one banner. More information at globalmusicmonth.org

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Virtual World Music Festival Chicago

Sunday, September 6, 1–3pm

Ragamala: A Centennial Tribute to Ravi Shankar
Programmed with People of Rhythm. Recorded in Chicago, New Delhi, Oakland and Kolkata.
The festival’s annual celebration of Indian classical music, Ragamala will continue to showcase Hindustani music from North India and Carnatic music from South India with a very special online centennial tribute to legendary maestro and ambassador of Indian classical music, sitarist Ravi Shankar.

Saraswathi Ranganathan (veena), Dhananjay Kunte (tabla), Heather Boehm (violin)
Gaurav Mazumdar (sitar)
Aditya Prakash (vocals), Shiva Ramamurthi (violin), Rohan Krishnamurthy (mridangam)
Tejendra Narayan Majumdar (sarod), Arup Chatterjee (tabla)

Sunday, September 13, 1–3pm

Afro-Diáspora y Folklore
Programmed with and recorded at Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center
Chicago-based music groups highlight and celebrate the Afro-Latin folkloric musical traditions of some of the Latin American communities who call this city home.

Bombazo con Buya + special guest Eli Samuel Rodríguez (Bomba from Puerto Rico)
Los Pleneros de Don Segundo (Plena from Puerto Rico)
Ecos del Pacifico Afrocolombia (Bullarengue and Marimba from Colombia)
Tambor Chicago (Afro Cuban spiritual music and Rumba from Cuba)

Sunday, September 20, 1–3pm

Anam Mór
Programmed with and recorded at Martyrs’
The Chicago-based traditional Irish supergroup is led by master percussionist Jackie Moran and features Laurence Nugent on flutes and whistles, Brendan Bulger on fiddle, and Jesse Langen on guitar.

Sunday, September 27, 1–3pm

Chicago Immigrant Orchestra
Recorded at Epiphany Center for the Arts
The Chicago Immigrant Orchestra returns with a new vision under the direction of Fareed Haque and Wanees Zarour as a 12-piece ensemble of musicians from Chicago’s diverse immigrant community and representing music traditions from all over the world. Artists including Alex Chen (Chinese pipa), Fareed Haque (guitar, keys, percussion), Hitesh Master (North Indian vocals), Juan Pastor (Latin percussion), Paul Cotton (African percussion), Richard Christian (tabla/dhol), Sam Tahiri (Persian vocals), Saraswathi Ranganathan (South Indian veena), Tamir Hargana (throat singer / horsehair fiddle), Tzu-Tzen Wu (Chinese ruan) Ugochi (Nigerian vocals), and Wanees Zarour (oud, buzuq, percussion).

World Music Festival Chicago is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and is sponsored by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA).

World Music Festival Chicago is presented as part of Global Music Month 2020 – a month-long, online celebration of music from around the world. Running from August 29 through October 1, 2020, Global Music Month features concerts, presentations and panels from 19 different U.S. and Canadian festivals and presenters under one banner. More information at globalmusicmonth.org

Stories in Spanish and English!

Join us to celebrate the diversity of Latin American cultural heritage through wonderful traditional music and bilingual storytelling in Latin American Languages!

¡Los esperamos para celebrar la diversidad de la herencia cultural de América Latina y el Caribe través de su música tradicional y lectura bilingüe en distintos idiomas de América Latina!

Co-sponsored by The Urbana Free Library and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Illinois.

AGE GROUP: | Toddlers | Pre-Schoolers | Families | Elementary Students | Babies |

EVENT TYPE: | Children |

TAGS: | Story Time |