Black Futures: In the ’90s, dance music was in a ‘constant state of mutation’ (NPR.org)

By |2024-02-20T21:30:36-06:00February 20th, 2024|African American, black History Month, Chicago, Chicago House Music Festival, DJ, electronic music, House, House Music, House Music History|

If we had to pick one word to describe electronic dance music in the '90s, it'd be variety. "In the U.S. and the U.K., in particular, electronic dance music was in this constant state of mutation," says World Cafe correspondent John Morrison. "There were new subgenres and micro-genres popping off. Just in that 10-year span, we saw the emergence [...]

The Chosen Few have cracked the code for the perfect Chicago music festival (Chicago Reader)

By |2023-07-01T18:02:27-05:00July 1st, 2023|Chicago, Chicago House Music Festival, Dance Music, DJ, House, House Music, Promotional|

  Chicagoans rarely suffer from a shortage of music festivals, but few such events make me feel like I’m participating in the city’s cultural fabric like the Chosen Few Picnic. The long-running house-music celebration began informally in 1990, and its roots extend even further back. Wayne Williams founded the Chosen Few DJ collective in 1977 [...]

Robert Owens, Queen! added to Chicago House Music Festival & Conference (5 Mag)

By |2023-06-07T19:14:07-05:00June 7th, 2023|5 Magazine, Announcements, Chicago, Chicago House Music Festival, Dance Music, DJ, Gay, House, House Music, LGBTQIA+, Music News|

The City of Chicago has announced the full line-up for the 2023 Chicago House Music Festival and Conference taking place on June 23 and June 24, 2023. The city previously announced that this year’s festival will be taking place on the Humboldt Park Boathouse lawn on June 24, 2023 from 11am to 9pm. The initial line-up [...]

Chicago’s Mayor Came to the Chosen Few Picnic (5Mag)

By |2019-07-10T03:31:35-05:00July 10th, 2019|5 Magazine, Chicago, Chicago House Music Festival, Czarina Mirani, House Music, Music News, My House Radio|

Lori Lightfoot By  5 Magazine  - July 9, 2019 Recognizing how influential the event has become, Chicago’s newly-elected Mayor Lori Lightfoot appeared on-stage at the Chosen Few Picnic and Music Festival last weekend. Lightfoot – the first black woman elected as mayor of Chicago, which with her election became the largest in United States [...]

The Chicago House Music Festival Will Return in 2019

By |2018-11-07T18:04:03-06:00November 7th, 2018|5 Magazine, Announcements, Chicago, Chicago House Music Festival, Czarina Mirani, House Music, My House Radio|

  Back in Millennium Park for the 4th year running. November 6th,2018 The amazing people at the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events have announced their 2019 calendar, and there are a lot of reasons to get excited about: house music and electronic music are once again well-represented. To [...]

House, Latin House & Vogue Classes at the Chicago House Music Festival (5 Magazine)

By |2018-07-26T16:21:57-05:00May 6th, 2018|5 Magazine, Announcements, Chicago, Chicago House Music Festival, Czarina Mirani, Entertaiment, House Music, news|

Free master classes on Friday May 25 as part of the City of Chicago's huge Chicago House Music Festival, by instructors Czarina Mirani, Carlos Morris, Lyrik Cruz and Carlos Lanvin. The City of Chicago is pulling all stops this year for the official inauguration of the Chicago House Music Festival. On Memorial Day weekend, the festival [...]

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