Friday, Nov. 21 - 8 pm

Musical storyteller Paul Thorn illustrates his versatility and authentic connection to the music of the Mississippi heartland playing a mixture of blues, country, gospel, rhythm and blues, and rock'n'roll.

www.paulthorn.com

$15 in Advance, $17 Day of Performance

Saturday, Nov. 22 - 8 pm

The Gypsy Trail Series presents:

Kalyan Pathak's Jazz Mata ensemble (featuring a Bharat Natyam Indian dancer from Natya Dance Theater) will perform Indian music and dance.

Steve Gibbon's Gypsy Rhythm Project will provide Gypsy folk music with Balkan dance.

The 90 minute program will also feature Las Guitarras de España performing traditional flamenco music and dance.

“…Kalyan Pathak…fleet finger virtuosity…” says Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune, in a rave review of the Chicago Percussion All Stars concert of 2004.

www.theguitarsofspain.com

$25

Sunday, Nov. 23 - 11 am

Amazonas Piano Trio

The artists are: Victoria Moreira, violin, Jocelyn Butler, cello and Maureen Zoltek, piano.  They will focus on Latino composers, playing works by Villa-Lobos,  Piazzolla, Barilari, and others.

World class chamber music broadcast live from the Morse Theatre every Sunday at 11:00 am with on-air host Dennis Moore.
www.wfmt.com

$10

Saturday, Nov. 29 - 8 pm

Chévere is Chicago's leading Latin/Jazz/Funk/Blues Band, mixing Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, Jazz, Blues, and just about everything else together into an exciting and unique collage of sound. Characterized by high voltage percussion and compelling original compositions, Chévere has performed in and around Chicago and the Midwest for 30 years.

www.cheveredechicago.com

$18 in Advance, $20 Day of Performance

Sunday, Nov. 30 - 11 am

The Chicago Ensemble

Long-time Chicago residents, bring classic Haydn and Beethoven trios to The Morse, including Beethoven’s charming Opus 1. Haydn’s “London” Trio with flute and another Haydn Piano Trio complete the program. The players are Gerald Rizzer, piano, Andrew Snow, cello, Olga Kaler, violin and Susan Levitin, flute.
www.thechicagoensemble.org

World class chamber music broadcast live from the Morse Theatre every Sunday at 11:00 am with on-air host Dennis Moore.
www.wfmt.com

$10

JAM Presents

Wednesday, Dec. 3 - 8 pm

Thursday, Dec. 4 - 8 pm

If the phrase “male a cappella group” conjures up an image of students in blue blazers, ties, and khakis singing traditional college songs on ivied campuses… think again.  If, on the other hand, it conjures up campy college ensembles singing joke versions of “Like A Virgin” in boxer shorts… think again.

Straight No Chaser are neither strait-laced nor straight-faced, but neither are they vaudeville-style kitsch.  As original member Randy Stine comments, “We take the music very seriously; we just don’t take ourselves too seriously.”  In the process, they are reinventing the idea of a cappella on the modern pop landscape.  Originally formed a dozen years ago while students together at Indiana University, the group has reassembled and reemerged as a phenomenon – with a huge fanbase, millions of viewers on YouTube… and a contract with Atlantic Records.  In an era when so much pop music is the product of digital processing and vocal pro-tooling, Straight No Chaser is the real deal – the captivating sound of ten unadulterated human voices coming together to make extraordinary music that is moving people in a fundamental sense… and with a sense of humor.

www.sncmusic.com

Dec. 3rd

Dec. 4th

$20

Friday, Dec. 5 - 8 pm

Touted as "one of the hottest drummers in the business," by the Star-Gazette and  regarded as one of the top drummers in the world, Cindy Blackman is a solid, dependable drummer who can easily move from straight-ahead jazz to rock to funk and back again. She's upheld the backbeat and created texture for a veritable "Who's Who" in jazz: Jackie McLean, Joe Henderson, Don Pullen, Hugh Masekela, Pharaoh Sanders, Sam Rivers, Cassandra Wilson, Angela Bofill, Bill Laswell, Buckethead.

www.cindyblackman.com

8 pm

$25 in Advance, $30 Day of Performance

Saturday, Dec. 6 - 8 pm

The Infamous Stringdusters are the new vanguard of acoustic music. Well crafted songs, vivid arrangements, instrumental virtuosity, stunning improvisation, unique individuality and complete harmony… Bluegrass, Rock, Country, Blues, Folk, and Jazz, the “IS” is American Acoustic Music.

www.thestringdusters.com

$20 in Advance, $25 Day of Performance

JAM & 93XRT Welcome Lowen & Navarro

Sunday, Dec. 7 - 7:30 pm, 21 & Over

For twenty years, Eric Lowen and Dan Navarro have written, recorded and toured for a growing national audience. Their nine CDs showcase self-penned songs of experience, colored by supple acoustic-based arrangements centered around their intertwined voices.

Songwriters of notable cachet, their works have been recorded by artists as diverse as Pat Benatar (the worldwide Top 5 smash "We Belong"), The Bangles, The Four Tops, Dave Edmunds, The Temptations and a host of others. Out of their success as songwriters came the impetus for forming Lowen & Navarro: They wanted to sing their songs themselves.

Through the years, Lowen & Navarro continue to document humanity's dignity and frailty, to examine life's losses and lessons. Their songs are all conveyed with an urgency and immediacy that is the benchmark of their commitment to their music and their audience.

www.lownav.com

$45

Sunday, Dec. 7 - 11 am

The New York Opera Society Presents: The Norwegian Singers

The New York Opera Society presents The Norwegian Singers in a Christmas-flavored program of traditional Norwegian songs and some classical favorites by Mozart, Dvorak, and others. The singers are from the Oslo-based opera company Kulturentusiastene.

World class chamber music broadcast live from the Morse Theatre every Sunday at 11:00 am with on-air host Dennis Moore.
www.wfmt.com

$10

Saturday, Dec. 13 - 9 pm

Afrobeat cannot stand still. As the genre’s tempting sounds continue a resurgence across the globe, Chicago Afrobeat Project (CAbP) remains true to its original vision of breathing the intensity of Chicago’s rich music scene into the infectious sounds of afrobeat. Rather than become caricatures of the genre, CAbP slips a reverent nod to the tradition while delivering an energized originality different from any other band on the afrobeat scene today. At each of its 100+ live performances a year, the group’s frenzied songs hit audiences with a big enough one-two punch to tirelessly knock them onto the dance floor time and time again.

Afrobeat’s range of influences — funk, rock,  jazz, afro-cuban, high life and juju music – settle into a hypnotic, dance-compelling pulse at the core of CAbP. The group layers a fiery originality around this core through high-energy rock and experimental jazz.

chicagoafrobeatproject.com

$12 in Advance, $15 Day of Performance

Sunday, Dec. 14 - 11 am

Winston Choi, Piano

Pianist Winston Choi, from Roosevelt University, in modern repertoire. The first in a number of collaborations curated by Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts.
www.roosevelt.edu
www.winstonchoi.com

World class chamber music broadcast live from the Morse Theatre every Sunday at 11:00 am with on-air host Dennis Moore.
www.wfmt.com

$10

Saturday, Dec. 27 - 9:30 pm

Though his keenness to reach a wide audience is transparent — through high-energy blowing and frequent deployment of simultaneous multi-horn action, not to mention a current predilection for smooth jazz directions — Wilkes has a sound pedigree performing with some uncompromising forces in creative music.

www.coreywilkes.com

$15