Old Town School of Folk Music Photos

4544 North Lincoln

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photo: Kate Rockwood Musicians and music-lovers alike will feel their pulses climb as they mount the front steps to the Old Town School of Folk Music. Located in a 43,000-square-foot...
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Jul 22 7:00 pm Taj Weekes and Adowa
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Jul 29 8:30 pm The Megitza Quartet - Siumni
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Jul 31 8:00 pm Michael McDermott Old Town School of Folk Music
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Aug 2 7:00 pm Savoy Family Band Old Town School of Folk Music
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Aug 15 7:30 pm Tribute to Woodstock Old Town School of Folk Music
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Aug 21 7:00 pm Sons Of The Never Wrong
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Aug 22 8:00 pm Ruthie Foster Old Town School of Folk Music
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Aug 23 None Stephen Kellogg
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Aug 23 8:00 pm Dar Williams Old Town School of Folk Music
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Aug 28 7:00 pm Little Feat Old Town School of Folk Music
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Aug 28 10:00 pm Little Feat Old Town School of Folk Music
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Sep 25 None Steeleye Span
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Oct 3 None John Gorka
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Oct 4 None Carolina Chocolate Drops
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Oct 7 8:00 pm Atlas Soul
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Oct 9 None Leon Redbone
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Oct 17 None The Travelin McCourys / The Travelin McCourys
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Oct 17 None The Lee Boys
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Oct 18 None Harry Manx
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Oct 18 None Richie Havens
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photo: Kate Rockwood Musicians and music-lovers alike will feel their pulses climb as they mount the front steps to the Old Town School of Folk Music. Located in a 43,000-square-foot former library, this beehive of musical activity boasts a 400-seat concert hall, music store, classrooms, resource center and rotating art exhibits. It's as much a concert venue as it is a learning center, and it's easy to lose an afternoon ducking in and out of its many quarters.

For the aspiring musician, Old Town offers a staggering number of classes, from standard guitar lessons to chord chemistry, harmonica, bluegrass banjo and ukulele, as well as songwriting, theater, yoga and dance; hip hop and belly-dancing lessons prove this place is about more than folk music alone. For inspiration on what to play, be sure to visit the Different Strummer music shop near the front entrance, which is regularly hailed as the best music store in Chicago for stringed instruments. Packed with sheet music, mandolins, guitars and drums, it's almost impossible to walk through this orderly space without wanting to take an instrument home. For the commitment-phobic, you can also rent an instrument here, and if you later decide to buy the instrument, a portion of your rental fee will go towards the purchase price.

Looking to listen to rather than make music? Old Town's intimate auditorium hosts regular concerts by local musicians and crowd-drawing national acts, such as the Magnetic Fields and Joni Mitchell. To keep you going between concerts, head to the Resource Center, a loungey space where you can kick back and listen to archived concerts and radio shows while flipping through a book or magazine from the impressive on-site library.

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