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As the year goes on, and we get closer to summer, expect to see more and more fantastic shows roll through the Old Town School of Folk Music. Spring performances by King Sunny Ade, Rahim Alhaj, and Les Primitifs du Futur will lead us right into summer.

We have launched a major distribution campaign in Chicago, distributing the mid season brochures for OTSFM. Be sure to pick one up to what other shows the famous instition has in store for us this year!

Please visit www.oldtownschool.org for more information.

Last month, we were looking forward to welcoming spring here in the city, and, as I write this, they are calling for 70 degree weather. This change in weather also ushers in some very exciting events at the Chicago History Museum this month. you’ll want to catch the Prohibition Seminar to learn how the law and amendment came to be. Plus, no lecture on prohibition would be complete without an additional lecture on Al Capone. Get Capone! is a lecture on the the hunt for the notorious gangster. Rounding out the Prohibition theme is the film Rumrunners, Moonshiners, and Bootleggers screening for Project Sundays.

Please visit www.chicagohs.org fore more information.

Chicago Opera Theater is off to a fantastic start this year with three amazing performances in the works. For their spring 2010 season, C.O.T. is proud to present Moses in Egypt, Jason, and Three Decembers.

We are working together with Chicago Opera Theater distributing their mailers to Chicago opera fans. If you attended this past Sunday’s opening performance of The Marriage of Figaro at the Lyric Opera House, you no doubt saw our team in action as they passed out mailers to those making their way to the performance. We will have street team members present at every performance of Figaro in March, so be sure to grab a mailer and learn more about opera less ordinary today!

Please visit www.chicagooperatheater.org for more information.

Even though we were told by the nation’s most famous weatherman that we can expect six more weeks of winter, things are already beginning to heat up as the month of March begins to give us whiffs of spring here in the Windy City.  Next month, the Chicago History Museum will be offering several special events including a celebration for Chicago’s  173rd birthday, a showing of the film Lioness, about five female support soldiers who saw actual combat in World War II, and OUT at CHM presents Queer Latinos: Art and Change.  Be sure to grab one of our handbills which gives more details on these events!

Please visit www.chicagohs.org for more information.

This spring is looking like the best yet for Old Town School of Folk Music’s concert line up! With names like Booker T, John Prine, and Bela Fleck (pictured left), OTSFM is setting itself up for a very busy season.

We’ll be starting our distribution for OTSFM this week, bringing spring concert brochures all over the city.  Tickets for the spring concerts went on sale to the general public this  past Friday, but if you are a member of OTSFM, you can purchase tickets now!

Old Town School of Folk Music’s spring concert series goes on sale December 4th. To learn more about becoming a member, please visit www.oldtownschool.org.

If you’ve been to, or around the Lyric Opera House in Chicago this past week, you may have noticed some interesting charcters in fancy wigs and hats. That’s us!  In order to promote the 35th anniversary of the Chicago Opera Theater, our street team got fitted for some unique head gear, and they’ll be in the vicinity of the Lyric handing out brochures for Chicago Opera Theater’s spring season.  If you happen to see us, stop by, and be sure to take one of the brochures. Remember: the opera season isn’t over

Chicago Opera Theater’s season starts April 18th opening with Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito with Jane Glover will be Conducting.

One of our newer clients, The Wilmette Theatre, is a unique institution in the Chicagoland area.  Offering films, live stage productions, and musical performances, WT has established itself as an important part of the theater community.  The month off March looks to be a busy one for the “Mette”,  which includes the students from the Actors Training Center’s production of You’re  A Good Man Charlie Brown, Chicago Kids Company’s Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and of course nightly movie showings including Slumdog Millionaire.

The Wilmette Theatre is located at 1122 Central Ave. in Wilmette.

The sight of spring is almost coming into few with the beginning of March. Even though we’ll still have snow on the ground and the temperature will no doubt be somewhere between freezing and death, the Chicago History Museum will have a month loaded with events to coax you out of the house. Events include Inside Chicago Fashion, the lecture Is Chicago Shaping the Nation?, and lastly Chicago’s Birthday Party.

The Chicago History Museum is located at 1601 N. Clark St.