CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA

Tent Talks

JOIN US FOR SPIRITED CONVERSATIONS WITH MUSICIANS, LUMINARIES, AUTHORS + MORE…

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6

  • This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children’s Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement - A Conversation with Author Gayle Wald and WBEZ's Susie An

  • Life in the Chicago Folk Scene of the 1970’s and Beyond: Bonnie Koloc in conversation with the Midnight Special host Marilyn Rea Beyer

  • Sam Beam in Converstion with WBEZ's Mary Dixon

  • Black Folk in Folk - Reminding and Redefining a panel with Amythyst Kiah, Sunny War, Buffalo Nichols | Moderated by WBEZ's Erin Allen

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7

  • How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music with Ann Powers

  • Anais Mitchell discusses the writing of her smash Broadway musical Hadestown with Chicago Public Media's Mike Davis

  • Rosanne Cash in conversation with Ann Powers

  • Author, historian , and Publicist for the Grateful Dead Dennis McNally talks with WBEZ's Steven Arroyo on his book The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties

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