Jul 12, 2023
From South Shore to Garfield Park, free jazz concerts are popping up across the South and West sides this summer.
The Hyde Park Jazz Festival, a nonprofit working to support the development of jazz in Chicago, has programmed more than a dozen free performances through its Artist Corps Fellowship and Back Alley Jazz music series, as well as a fall festival to cap off the season.
“Our vision is to stay really rooted in community, even as we get bigger and more well-known,” said Kate Dumbleton, artistic executive director of the Hyde Park Jazz Festival. “There’s a massive amount of creativity (in Chicago), and really all we’ve done is give it the infrastructure and channel funding towards it.”
