![]() ![]() Hosting 60,000 attendees of all ages from 45 states and 26 countries, Pitchfork Music Festival offers a wide array of activities beyond the music. Since 2006, this independently run festival has consistently proven to be one of the most welcoming, comfortable, reasonably priced, and rewarding weekends of music around. The festival highlights the best in new and emerging music. “Celebrating its 17th year in 2023, the internationally recognized Pitchfork Music Festival presents 40+ acts over the course of three days each summer in Chicago’s Union Park. Genre: Alternative Rock / Indie / Electronic / Hip Hop In addition to their signature event, the Chosen Few DJs regularly host events in Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and New York, perform at festivals around the globe, including the Amsterdam Dance Event, Winter Music Conference, and Suncébeat, and continue to produce award-winning music.” Since 1990, the group has organized the Chosen Few Picnic & Festival, which draws an estimated 50,000 House Music fans to Chicago’s Jackson Park each July. To the original group of five, the Chosen Few DJs added two new members – Terry Hunter and Mike Dunn, in 20, respectively. Later naming themselves the Chosen Few DJs, the collective first played their unique brand of soulful dance music to huge crowds throughout Chicago, then spread their sound across the world. “Founded by Wayne Williams in 1977, the Chosen Few Disco Corp., a group of popular DJs from Chicago’s South Side – Williams, Jesse Saunders, Tony Hatchett, Alan King and Andre Hatchett – were part of the first wave of DJs and producers in Chicago who created the sound that became known as House Music. ![]() Live in Lincoln Park is located at the corner of Stockton and LaSalle Drive, closest to the Sedgwick Brown Line Stop, or Clark/Divsion if you are taking the Red Line.” Lineup coming soon! StarEvents and Silver Wrapper continue the momentum from their partnership in Chicago’s iconic 21st Taste of Randolph Street Festival, attendees can expect Live in Lincoln Park to be packed with amazing music and vendors and great addition to their list of summer events that cannot be missed. In its second year, the street festival will feature a star-studded lineup the entire weekend. “On the weekend of July 6th, 7th and 8th, the second annual Live in Lincoln Park will bring together some of the best names in indie rock, jam band and funk music, alongside vendors from the local community. ![]() The event will be led by the team behind Auris Presents, the reigning tastemakers of Chicago’s dance music and immersive festival community, and team behind Chicago live music and entertainment venues RADIUS, Concord Music Hall, PRYSM and more. These reality altering experiential elements set Heatwave apart as the most exciting addition to Chicago’s dance music calendar. Heatwave will welcome a full range of to be announced visual artists and creatives set to adorn Douglass Park with areas for attendees to get lost in. The debut festival will feature some of dance music’s most celebrated stars like Group Therapy and Anjuna powerhouse Above & Beyond, Swedish hitmakers Galantis, hip-hop influenced producer RL Grime, global superstar TIËSTO, and Canadian bass music kings Zeds Dead. “Heatwave will take over Chicago with a fully immersive, pop-art inspired event, bridging the gap between experiential art and globally leading dance music performances. ![]() Join the ARC Music Festival – 2023 Event for tickets, line-up, and more info! Read my review on 7 Reasons Why Arc Music Festival in Chicago Will Blow Your Mind We’ll meet you on the dance floor.”Īfter a wildly successful inaugual festival debut in 2021, Arc Music Festival in Chicago is returning for its third edition in 2023 for another packed weekend of house, techno, and good vibes. It is with brighter days ahead that ARC charts a path forward for dance music’s diverse creeds, offering a much needed flagship for Chicago and a new marquee date on the international festival calendar. ARC is the galvanizing force by which electronic music’s vast scenes and tribes may converge for an immersive and distinctly Chicago experience, representing the home of house music - which has ironically yet to be represented on the global festival circuit, until now. Such stands as the ethos of ARC Music Festival.įrom the basement clubs of Europe, to the beaches of Ibiza, to iconic festival stages around the world, each setting has had its own lasting impact on the sounds born from the warehouses of the midwest. House music remains the city’s gift to the music world, a sound that has shifted shape and style as it travels, relinquishing boundaries and connecting fans. “There are few cities that can lay claim to a feeling, an idea, and a community as their identity like Chicago. When: September 1-3, 2022 (Labor Day Weekend) Arc is my personal favorite of the Chicago music festivals! ![]()
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