PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: OAD Summer in the City – Visit to Millennium Park Music Festival 7/31
Summer in Chicago continues and we're hoping the weather will cooperate with us!
Join us for the Millennium Park Summer Music Series
Monday, July 31st
Shemekia Copeland / Martha Redbone Roots Project
Award-winning blues, soul and Americana singer Shemekia Copeland possesses one of the most instantly recognizable and deeply soulful roots music voices of our time. She is beloved worldwide for the fearlessness, honesty and humor of her revelatory music, as well as for delivering each song she performs with unmatched passion. Copeland — winner of the 2021 Blues Music Award for B.B. King Entertainer Of The Year— connects with her audience on an intensely personal level, taking them with her on what The Wall Street Journal calls “a consequential ride” of “bold and timely blues.” NPR Music says Shemekia sings with “punchy defiance and potent conviction.” The Houston Chronicle describes her songs as “resilient pleas for a kinder tomorrow.”
Martha Redbone, a vocalist, songwriter, composer, educator, along with her longtime collaborator and husband Aaron Whitby and family band of funkateers, play Afro-Indigenous Americana music. The New Yorker called it “a brilliant collision of cultures”. Redbone plays a mix of folk, blues and gospel inspired by her childhood in coal country Harlan County, Kentucky, infused with the eclectic grit of pre-gentrified New York City. Redbone’s songs and storytelling gives voice to social justice issues and celebrate the human spirit.
*We'll leave UIC at 5:30 to make it to the lawn to set up for the 6:30 pm concert
RSVP by noon on Friday, July 28th so we can get enough snacks! RSVP at - https://go.uic.edu/oadsummereventrsvp