RIVER NORTH — The ninth annual Latino Music Festival returns to Chicago Wednesday through Dec. 6, with performances scheduled throughout the three-month run at various venues across the city.
Noted Latino artists will present 21 concerts of music from Spain and Latin America at venues like Harold Washington Library's Cindy Pritzker Auditorium, the Cultural Center's Bradley Hall, Fullerton Hall in the Art Institute of Chicago, Mayne Stage and Instituto Cervantes.
The festival kicks off with a performance by Uruguayan musicians Elbio Barilari, Sabrina Lastman, Victoria Moreira and Ignacio Barcia at Instituto Cervantes Sept. 10.
Lizzie Schiffman says the festival is for both Latin music fanatics, and those experimenting new genres:
Other festival highlights include a program of sacred music from Mexican composer Mario Lavista and Spanish composer Tomas Luis de Victoria, and a CD-release show for the Kaia String Quartet, which currently features guitarist Fareed Haque, the festival's musician in residence, as one of its members.
"This year's program paves the way for our upcoming 10th Anniversary Celebration," composer Gustavo Leone, managing director and co-founder of the festival, said in a news release.
"It's eclectic, exciting and adventurous. It encompasses a wide variety of genres, formats and periods, and sometimes mixes and matches all three with very interesting results. I am confident that music lovers will be thrilled by what they hear and see during the next three months."
Ticket prices vary by show. The full schedule is available on the Latino Music Festival website.
The festival is officially sponsored by the Art Institute, the Chicago Public Library, the General Consulates of Uruguay and Mexico in Chicago, Mayne Stage, Harper College, Instituto Cervantes, the University of Chicago's music department, 98.7 WFMT-FM and local Ford dealers.
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