Hyde Park Jazz Festival hosts free shows all summer long
Jul 12, 2023
From South Shore to Garfield Park, free jazz concerts are popping up across the South and West sides this summer.
The Hyde Park Jazz Festival, a nonprofit working to support the development of jazz in Chicago, has programmed more than a dozen free performances through its Artist Corps Fellowship and Back Alley Jazz music series, as well as a fall festival to cap off the season.
“Our vision is to stay really rooted in community, even as we get bigger and more well-known,” said Kate Dumbleton, artistic executive director of the Hyde Park Jazz Festival. “There’s a massive amount of creativity (in Chicago), and really all we’ve done is give it the infrastructure and channel funding towards it.”