Last year AACM chairman Ernest Dawkins, Funkadesi founder Rahul Sharma, and the Old Town School of Folk Music won a $50,000 grant from the Joyce Foundation to create an epic composition that journeys through 100 years in the musical history of Englewood. The piece was disseminated online to community groups that rehearsed it separately, and on Saturday, September 15, they’ll come together at the Lindblom Academy auditorium (6130 S. Walcott) for the premiere of Quantum Englewood, presented by the Old Town School’s Music Moves Chicago program and Dawkins’s Live the Spirit Residency. It does indeed sound epic, with more than 100 instrumentalists and 250 singers, including Funkadesi (of course), Ben LaMar Gay, Maggie Brown, the Live the Spirit Jazz Ensemble, the Soul Children Gospel Choir, the Bucket Boys, and Fernando Jones’s Blues Kids. The concert is free, but lots of proud parents will be angling for the good spots!
Hollow Ground by Cut Worms
