The Venue, 21 S. Broadway, Aurora, will celebrate its seventh birthday with two outdoor shows at the end of June. The concerts will be held rain or shine at adjacent Mundy Park Friday, June 26 and Sunday, June 28. Chicago Farmer and The Fieldnotes will start the celebration on Friday
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, award-winning poet, singer, songwriter, and visual artist Jenny Bienemann will bring a night of original folk and Americana to The Venue in Aurora. Saturday, Feb. 7, Bienemann’s newest tiny book, “The Come Back,” will be the inspiration for a concert featuring a powerhouse lineup
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, award-winning poet, singer, songwriter, and visual artist Jenny Bienemann will bring a night of original folk and Americana to The Venue in Aurora. Saturday, Feb. 7, Bienemann’s newest tiny book, “The Come Back,” will be the inspiration for a concert featuring a powerhouse lineup
Scott Tipping will spend his birthday on stage in the New Year, which will be a big shift from how he spent January 2 a couple of years ago. Tipping, a musician from Wheaton, turned 50 from a hospital room after a severe car accident two days after Christmas 2023,
The Venue, 21 S. Broadway, Aurora, recently announced its November lineup, which will start with a free First Fridays open house concert sponsored by Fox Valley Credit Union. Unless otherwise noted, doors open for all shows at 7 p.m. Shows start at 8 p.m.. •Sunday, Nov. 3, Tiwa Bleu and
The Venue, 21 S. Broadway, Aurora, will present a free movie night screening of “Night of the Living Dead” Sunday, Oct. 27. “Night of the Living Dead” is an American independent horror and cult film directed by George A. Romero and starring Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea and Karl Hardman. It
The Venue, a live music performance room in downtown Aurora, recently announced three new music series, Jazz Sessions at The Venue, She Said with Anne Harris, and Dead Night. “It’s been a goal to expand programming, and we’re excited to add new series to our lineup,” said Scott Tipping, booking
The Venue, 21 S. Broadway in downtown Aurora, a live music performance room in downtown Aurora run by Fox Valley Music Foundation, will be hosting a new series starting this fall that focuses on women in music. She Said with Anne Harris will debut on The Venue stage at 8
The Venue, a live music performance room in downtown Aurora, recently announced its September lineup, which includes an album release party for band Saint Astro. •Friday, Sept. 6, The Venue will host a free concert from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. for First Fridays. The Warren Douglas Band will perform
The Venue, at 21 S. Broadway in downtown Aurora, a live music performance room in downtown Aurora, recently announced its August lineup, which kicks off with a free First Fridays show and ends with a new Beatles night series. •Friday, Aug. 2, The Venue will be host to a free
The Venue, a live music performance room in downtown Aurora, recently announced that it will be host to two outdoor music festivals this month. The Venue, which is run by nonprofit Fox Valley Music Foundation, will present The Acoustic Summit Friday, July 12 and Summer Jam Friday, July 26 at
The Venue, a live music performance room in downtown Aurora, will be host to Rock a la Carte, a Queen tribute band, July 6. The Venue, which is run by nonprofit Fox Valley Music Foundation, will be host to the classic rock tribute show at Mundy Park, which is adjacent
The Venue in Aurora will be host to a St. Patrick’s Day celebration and benefit featuring The Irish Mystics Saturday, March 16. Dave Glynn, a veteran Irish singer songwriter and guitarist, leads The Irish Mystics. The former leader of the Empty Can Band goes by his full name, David Sean
The Venue in Aurora will be host to students from several schools on the weekend of March 8 and 9 for a Student Master Class Jazz Workshop and Festival with Pete Ellman Big Band and Friends. The weekend workshop will culminate in an evening performance March 9 at The Venue,
It was Leslie Knope who created the concept of a girl’s day of fun with the February 13 Galentine’s Day from the popular Parks and Recreation TV series on NBC-TV. The power that one fictional character can have is incredible. The fictional world often gives more power to women than
On the first Thursday of the month, I recently learned that you can have your cup filled with the sweet sounds of local singer songwriters at The Venue in downtown Aurora. It’s a free show that starts at 8 p.m.. I attended the Songwriter Series earlier in October featuring Aaron
This column is a shout-out to volunteers. I was recently part of the organizational team for Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry’s annual Harvest Dinner. The five-course dinner in mid-August showcases food harvested from Marie’s Garden across the street from the Pantry on Highland Avenue. Incredible dishes are then created by local
In Aurora, The Venue surprised concert-goers recently with a live rooftop performance of The Beatles “Get Back” album. The live music space took months to plan the surprise, which occurred Friday, June 2 during their anniversary celebration. The Venue is celebrating four years at 21 S. Broadway in Aurora. They
The Venue is pleased to announce Part II of its Rock Talk Free Lecture Series: The Rise and Fall of Stax Records: Memphis Soul and the music industry at the epicenter of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The event will be at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022
By Melissa Mercado A great deal is going on at The Venue in Aurora First, I wanted to thank all of you for coming out and supporting live music over the Summer. We had a great time in Mundy Park and it was a pleasure to be able to enjoy
