4th Annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival

Saturday, September 25, 2010: 1pm–2am
The 4th annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival brings together thousands of jazz fans of all ages to enjoy 13 hours of FREE, non-stop jazz performed indoors and out, at many of Hyde Park’s finest visual arts, music, theater, and architectural venues on Chicago’s Culture Coast. The Festival opens at the James W. Wagner Main Stage on the Midway Plaisance and finishes with the Midnight Jam session, both on 59th Street.

Produced by HyPa (Hyde Park Alliance for Arts and Culture) and the Hyde Park Jazz Society.

Latest Festival News

Looking for Jazz – Go to Hyde Park

July 11, 2010

It is true – Jazz is flourishing across its ancestral Chicago home. Check out how the Chicago Tribune’s jazz critic, Howard Reich describes the thriving jazz scene in Hyde Park in his June 29 column.  And then join us for FREE Friday jazz at the Hyde Park Shopping Center courtyard or Park 52′s Wednesday night Jazz and the fantastic Room 43 Sunday Jazz concerts.
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World Music Festival

June 29, 2010

The Hyde Park Jazz Festival announces a new partnership this year with the World Music Festival: Chicago, a multi-venue, one-week festival showcasing both traditional and contemporary music from diverse cultures across the world.