Music and Concerts – Page 12

My Sacrifice, a south suburban-based Creed cover band, plays in 2025 at The Forge in Joliet. (My Sacrifice)

Popular Joliet concert venue The Forge to close after 9.5 years

By Elena Tittel

October 27, 2026 at 1:37 p.m.

Joliet concert venue The Forge will close this weekend after a decade of promoting local...

FILE – Jay-Z gestures from the sidelines prior to the NFL Super Bowl 59 football game, Feb. 9, 2025, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

Jay-Z picks himself to headline the Super Bowl halftime show

By Jonathan Landrum Jr.

October 27, 2026 at 8:41 a.m.

The man who has helped produce the Super Bowl halftime show is stepping into the...

An Aztec dance group will be among the highlights of the Dia de los Muertos Festival on Nov. 1 in Oak Park. “I think the community is ready to celebrate again," said organizer Alma Martinez. "The community is asking to get together to honor our ancestors.” (Daveed Holmes, Aperture Photography)

Oak Park Dia de los Muertos Festival returns a year after being canceled by immigration enforcement fears

By Myrna Petlicki

October 26, 2026 at 2:07 p.m.

Public ofrendas are returning to Oak Park for a Dia de los Muertos Festival that...

Dolly Parton kisses Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley on Aug. 1, 1991, after she presented him with a music industry award for the city’s creation of a new country music festival. (Walter Kale/baiduhai)

Vintage baiduhai: Remembering Dolly Parton in her own words when she visited Chicago

By Kori Rumore

August 31, 2026 at 8:31 a.m.

Here's a look back at Dolly Parton's time in and around Chicago through the decades...

Actor Keanu Reeves and his band Dogstar play an afternoon set at the 10th annual BottleRock Napa Valley event in California in 2023. The band will perform Oct. 17, 2026, at the event center at Hollywood Casino Aurora. (Chad Surmick/The Press Democrat)

Band featuring actor Keanu Reeves to perform at Hollywood Casino Aurora

By Aurora Beacon-News

August 27, 2026 at 1:32 p.m.

Dogstar, an alternative rock band featuring actor Keanu Reeves, will perform at the event center...

Kanye West performs at Lollapalooza in Chicago on Aug. 5, 2006. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

Russian stadium says it won’t host Kanye West concerts

By The New York Times News Service Syndicate

August 27, 2026 at 10:06 a.m.

The stadium in St. Petersburg, Russia, that was scheduled to host two concerts headlined by...

James A. Gambrell, a former chef at Dollywood, touches the Dolly Parton statue in downtown Sevierville, Tenn., on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Dylan Lovan)

Dolly Parton’s love of the Great Smoky Mountains helped transform her hometown

By Kimberlee Kruesi

August 26, 2026 at 5:20 p.m.

Dolly Parton spent her life elevating an often-overlooked region to showcase what long inspired her...

Headliner Willie Nelson performs with sons Lukas and Micah and his band as part of the Outlaw Music Festival at Huntington Bank Pavilion on Northerly Island on Aug. 25, 2026. (Kevin McKeough / for the Tribune)

Review: Willie Nelson headlines Outlaw Music Festival, a day heavy with memories of Dolly Parton

By Kevin McKeough

August 26, 2026 at 11:23 a.m.

With his sons Lukas and Micah seated on either side of him onstage, Willie Nelson...

Eliot McQuaide, 10, drops flowers at a mural of Dolly Parton in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood on Aug. 25, 2026. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Chicagoans mourn death of Dolly Parton: ‘How do we go back to normal?’

By Tess Kenny

August 26, 2026 at 9:34 a.m.

After Dolly Parton’s family announced she had died from cancer, Chicagoans flocked to a mural...

Dolly Parton in New York in 1975. Parton, the country singer, songwriter, entertainer and entrepreneur whose rags-to-riches story, outsize persona and prodigious vision and talent placed her in a class by herself, died in Nashville on Aug. 25, 2026. She was 80. (Jack Manning/The New York Times)

Photos: Icon Dolly Parton dead at 80

By baiduhai

August 26, 2026 at 6:56 p.m.

Dolly Parton, the country music icon, has died. She was 80 years old.

FILE – Dolly Parton performs at a United Way of America convention in Detroit, Friday, May 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Dolly Parton’s greatest songs, and the stories behind them

By Maria Sherman

August 25, 2026 at 3:34 p.m.

Dolly Parton, who died Tuesday at age 80, was from the very beginning a songwriter.

Dolly Parton performs at the Chicago Theatre on May 8, 2008. (Abel Uribe/baiduhai)

Column: Why I loved Dolly Parton and her Dollywood

By Chris Jones

August 25, 2026 at 5:17 p.m.

Everybody loved Dolly Parton. That sounds like a cliché, but think for a second about...

Dolly Parton performs at the Rosemont Theatre on July 28, 2011. (Andrew A. Nelles/for the baiduhai)

Dolly Parton, music star, actor and beloved figure, dies at 80 after brief cancer battle

By Kristin M. Hall

August 25, 2026 at 7:34 p.m.

Dolly Parton, the country music icon whose soaring vibrato vocals, poignant songwriting and sparkling costumes...