This Summer will be a great time to spend more time in downtown Aurora. Aurora Downtown, a nonprofit group of business and property owners downtown, will be host to a dozen event dates to add to your calendar June through September. One big perk is they are all free. First
Unity of Fox Valley church in Batavia will present award-winning singer-songwriter, Daniel Nahmod in concert, at 6 p.m. Sunday, April 23 and earlier in the day. Tickets are $25 and are available at the door, or by calling 630-879-1115 for more information. Daniel Nahmod will be a guest speaker and
The Elgin Symphony Orchestra (ESO) has announced two April concerts that feature music familiar across genres and for all ages. Friday, April 21, at 6:30 p.m., the ESO will present Friday Favorites: Music You Know – Spring Edition, at Second Baptist Church of Elgin, 1280 Summit St. The concert will
The 27th Annual Blues on the Fox Festival will be back in the Summer with a fresh line-up of blues legends and rising talent playing live on the banks of the Fox River, Friday and Saturday, June 16 and 17 at Thomas J. Weisner RiverEdge Park in downtown Aurora. Friday
Kim Schultz, foreground, performs in Sisters of Story quartet’s show “Keeping Faith: Sisters of Story.” Background is Lucia Thomas, accompany, on vocals, violin, banjo, and oud.
Hannah Pawlak and Caleb Reynolds, both of Geneva, rehearse for Aurora Central Catholic’s upcoming production of “Chicago,” the high school version.
Aurora retiree Victor Martinez handcrafts guitars from cigar boxes. While he has given away 30 to 40 guitars, he is starting to offer them for sale. He performed vocals in English and Spanish and instrumentals on guitar, harmonica and Native American-style flutes, at the February 7 luncheon meeting of Aurora
Conductor Lee Mills wants to challenge the way observers think of orchestral music. Mills will conduct the Elgin Symphony Orchestra March 4 and 5 in performances of Charles Ives’ “The Unanswered Question,” Juan David Osorio’s “El Paraiso según María,” Arturo Márquez’s “Danzón No. 2,” and Dvořák’s “Cello Concerto.” The pieces,
Musicians at the Rock and Roll Museum on Route 66 in Joliet Friday, Jan. 20 who helped to dedicate Gigantar, the largest hand-made guitar….
By Mavis Bates The Aurora GreenFest is back! Save the date for Saturday, May 13. After a three-year hiatus due to COVID, we are excited to present the 11th Annual Aurora GreenFest, and it’s going to be better than ever! The GreenFest will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sue Gilla of Montgomery, right, directs the Oswego Senior Singers at Wedgewood Manor in Montgomery December 16.
King Nathan Demeter and queen Becca Evans lead a toast at West Aurora High School’s 35th annual Madrigal dinners Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 17-18.
A series of four storytelling workshops will be held by Wesley United Methodist Church in Aurora. Thew Elliott, traditional worship director and workshops leader, said admission and parking are free at the Church, 14 N. May Street in Aurora. The schedule is from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan.
Ready to play a sheep Emilia Jackson, 3, joins family members who were going to re-enact an indoor live Nativity scene during Christmas eve worship at Wesley United Methodist Church in Aurora.
Cast members gather for a song at West Aurora High School’s 35th annual Madrigal dinners Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 17-18.
Continuing its Gathering Community series, Wesley United Methodist Church, 14 N. May St. in Aurora, will hold a pizza dinner and showing of a movie from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 21. The public is invited. Admission and parking are free. Launched in September, the Community Gathering series
Cantigny Park presents something familiar, but new for the holidays, an adaptation of A Christmas Carol, performed as a 1940s radio play in front of a live audience. Tickets ($2) are on sale at Cantigny.org for two performances: Saturday, Dec. 17, at 7 p.m.; and Sunday, Dec. 18, at 11
Bob Bridgman of Aurora, from left, Samuel Morales, 7, Montgomery, center, and Terry Lynch of Orland Park perform “The Legend of St. Nicholas” Sunday, Nov. 27, at New England Congregational Church in Aurora.
Brian Daniels and Andrea Watson, a brother-sister duo from Ohio, provide music for “Friends Forever,” a retreat for 50 Midwest high school youth in Aurora, Ill.
West Aurora High School’s 35th annual madrigal dinner concerts (2020 photo) will be held Saturday, Dec. 17 and Sunday, Dec. 18 at the School, 1201 W. New York Street in Aurora.
