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SUMMARY:Community Concert Series:  Matt Shevitz
DESCRIPTION:This month’s performance in our free Community Concert Series features saxophonist and clarinetist Matt Shevitz. \nMatt is an in-demand musician in the jazz\, blues and popular music scenes in Chicago. Throughout his music career he has performed alongside such internationally renowned jazz musicians as Dick Hyman\, Ignacio Berroa\, Howard Levy\, Frank Capp\, Randy Sandke\, Ken Peplowski\, Byron Stripling and Frank Wess along with blues/roots rock guitarist Eric Lindell and many others. Matt has performed at such festivals and clubs as the Chicago Jazz Festival\, the Chicago Blues Festival\, Lollapalooza\, the Jazz Showcase\, the House of Blues in Chicago\, the Waterfront Blues Festival (in Portland\, Oregon) and as a featured artist for Shedd Institute for the Arts (in Eugene\, Oregon) and the Modlin Center for the Performing Arts (in Richmond\, Virginia). In addition to performing\, Matt has contributed several articles to DownBeat Magazine ranging from transcription analysis of great jazz solos to jazz theory and effective practice habits. \nMatt is currently on faculty at the College of DuPage where he teaches a wide range of courses\, directs the jazz ensembles\, and co-chairs the Music Department. Prior to this appointment he served on the faculty at Harold Washington College\, one of the City Colleges of Chicago. He received a doctoral degree in Jazz Performance from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2009\, for which he did extensive research on the great jazz saxophonist Harold “Tina” Brooks. Matt’s other degrees consist of a Master of Music in Jazz Pedagogy from Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Science in Music from the University of Oregon.
URL:https://lgba.com/event/community-concert-series-matt-shevitz/
LOCATION:First Presbyterian Church\, 150 S. Ashland Avenue\, La Grange\, IL\, 60525\, United States
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SUMMARY:Easter Egg Hunt
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URL:https://lgba.com/event/easter-egg-hunt-4/
LOCATION:First Presbyterian Church\, 150 S. Ashland Avenue\, La Grange\, IL\, 60525\, United States
CATEGORIES:Holiday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260217T190000
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SUMMARY:Community Concert Series: Tyler Kivel\, pianist
DESCRIPTION:Our Community Concert Series brings gifted musicians to perform on the third Tuesday of each month at First Presbyterian Church of La Grange. Concerts are free and open to all. February 17 features Tyler Kivel on piano.
URL:https://lgba.com/event/community-concert-series-tyler-kivel-pianist/
LOCATION:First Presbyterian Church\, 150 S. Ashland Avenue\, La Grange\, IL\, 60525\, United States
CATEGORIES:Live Music,Non-Profit
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260216T183000
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SUMMARY:Trivia Night
DESCRIPTION:Time to sign up for trivia!\n\n\nCome on out for an entertaining evening of trivia and fundraising on Saturday\, February 28\, at 6:30 p.m. at the American Legion Hall in La Grange to bring purified water to Potrero Grande\, El Salvador! Our mission as a ‘Water Church’ is not only to work with our Operating Partners to install a water purification system but to support them as they learn to operate and maintain the system\, educate their community and run a small business.\n\n\nSign up at the link below or by contacting the Church Office; you can sign up as a team (of up to 8 people) or as an individual or couple and we’ll pair you with other team members. We invite you to help us continue this vital ministry!\n\n\n#fpclg #lagrangeil #livingwatersfortheworld\n\nhttps://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F054EACAA22AAFE3-61842401-trivia
URL:https://lgba.com/event/trivia-night-2/
LOCATION:American Legion Post 1941\, 900 S. La Grange Road\, La Grange\, IL\, 60525\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fundraiser,Non-Profit
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251224T200000
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SUMMARY:Christmas Eve Candlelight Service
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Christmas with us at First Presbyterian Church of La Grange’s Candlelight Service of Lessons and Carols!
URL:https://lgba.com/event/christmas-eve-candlelight-service/
LOCATION:First Presbyterian Church\, 150 S. Ashland Avenue\, La Grange\, IL\, 60525\, United States
CATEGORIES:Non-Profit
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251223T180000
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SUMMARY:A Cappella Christmas Hymn Sing
DESCRIPTION:Gather in the Narthex (by the Elm St. entrance) to fill your heart with Christmas cheer through song and warm your hands with hot cocoa\, cookies and other refreshments!
URL:https://lgba.com/event/a-cappella-christmas-hymn-sing/
LOCATION:First Presbyterian Church\, 150 S. Ashland Avenue\, La Grange\, IL\, 60525\, United States
CATEGORIES:Non-Profit
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SUMMARY:Family Christmas Service
DESCRIPTION:Join us in worship as our children and youth share the Christmas story! The service will be followed by a Christmas cookie reception.
URL:https://lgba.com/event/family-christmas-service/
LOCATION:First Presbyterian Church\, 150 S. Ashland Avenue\, La Grange\, IL\, 60525\, United States
CATEGORIES:Hometown Holidays,Non-Profit
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SUMMARY:Community Christmas Concert
DESCRIPTION:Mezzo-soprano Christine Ebeling Mando will be presenting a Christmas concert on Tuesday\, December 16\, at 7:00 p.m. as part of our free monthly Community Concert Series. Christine has performed with the Lyric Opera of Chicago\, Florentine Opera\, Opera Festival of Chicago\, MiOpera\, Painted Sky Opera\, Hawaii Performing Arts Festival and the Bay View Music Festival where she won the 2018 Adrian Boyer Aria Competition. \nThe 2025 season sees her role debut as Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly in her company debut with Opera on the James\, as well as competing as a semi-finalist in the 37th Annual Annapolis Opera Vocal Competition. In 2025 she was awarded a Special Projects Grant by the Evanston Arts Council to present Elgar’s Op. 37 Sea Pictures in recital. She makes her Sinfonia da Camera debut as the alto soloist in Mozart Requiem and Beethoven Op. 80 Choral Fantasy\, reprising the Mozart Requiem in Evanston\, Illinois\, with the First Church Festival Chorus and Orchestra. \nJoin us for this special Christmas performance!
URL:https://lgba.com/event/community-christmas-concert/
LOCATION:First Presbyterian Church\, 150 S. Ashland Avenue\, La Grange\, IL\, 60525\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Hometown Holidays,Live Music,Non-Profit
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SUMMARY:Live Music by Goran Ivanovic & Fareed Haque
DESCRIPTION:Inspired by the rhythms and melodies of flamenco\, jazz\, classical\, rock and the Balkan region\, this performance features the unrivaled guitar artistry of two of the finest players of their respective generations. Their music is carefully balanced between blazing virtuosity and sheer beauty. \nGoran Ivanovic and Fareed Haque recorded two CDs together\, Macedonian Blues and 7 Boats\, to great critical acclaim\, even getting the nod as top best acoustic guitar albums 2004 from acoustic guitar magazine. Both have both been so busy that they have not been able to play again together for years. \n“Although the music on this extraordinarily sensitive guitar-duo recording transcends genre\, there’s no resisting its mix of American jazz\, acoustic blues\, flamenco rhythm and Macedonian melody. Only two guitarists on the planet would come up with such a concoction\, but Ivanovic and Haque (whose roots run to Yugoslavia and South Asia\, respectively) play as if they’re speaking the same musical language. Some listeners might be tempted to consign any recording as genteel as this to background music\, but that would mean missing the puckish stop-start rhythms of “Kalajdzisko Oro\,” the mystical ambiance of “Gajdarsko Oro” and the free-form expressions of “Improv.”  \nThose who have heard the duo in concert probably will conclude that no recording could capture fully the sparks that fly between these two virtuosos. But this disc at least documents the distinctly cross-continental flavor of their restlessly innovative work.” \nHoward Reich\nLA Times
URL:https://lgba.com/event/live-music-by-goran-ivanovic-fareed-haque/
LOCATION:First Presbyterian Church\, 150 S. Ashland Avenue\, La Grange\, IL\, 60525\, United States
CATEGORIES:Live Music,Non-Profit
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SUMMARY:Community Concert Series: Matt Shevitz\, Saxophone
DESCRIPTION:This month’s free Community Concert in our Sanctuary features Matt Shevitz on saxophone. Since first arriving in Chicago almost twenty years ago\, Matt has been an in-demand musician in the jazz\, blues and popular music scenes. Throughout his music career he has performed alongside such internationally renowned jazz musicians as Dick Hyman\, Ignacio Berroa\, Howard Levy\, Frank Capp\, Randy Sandke\, Ken Peplowski\, Byron Stripling and Frank Wess along with blues/roots rock guitarist Eric Lindell and Ropeadope Records artists Spare Parts. With these artists and others\, Matt has performed at such festivals and clubs as the Jazz in the Park Festival (in Milwaukee\, Wisconsin)\, the Waterfront Blues Festival (in Portland\, Oregon)\, the Chicago Blues Festival\, Lollapalooza\, the Jazz Showcase\, the House of Blues in Chicago and as a featured artist for Oregon Festival of American Music (in Eugene\, Oregon) and the Modlin Center for the Performing Arts (in Richmond\, Virginia). \nIn addition to performing\, Matt has been a regular contributor to DownBeat Magazine since 2009. He has published articles analyzing transcriptions of great jazz solos as well as jazz theory and effective practice habits. His articles have garnered the attention of musicians worldwide. \nMatt is currently a professor and the Director of Jazz Ensembles at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn\, IL. He received a Doctor of Musical Arts in Jazz Performance degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009\, for which he did extensive research on the great jazz saxophonist Harold “Tina” Brooks. His other degrees consist of a Master of Music in Jazz Pedagogy from Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Science in Music from the University of Oregon.
URL:https://lgba.com/event/community-concert-series-matt-shevitz-saxophone/
LOCATION:First Presbyterian Church\, 150 S. Ashland Avenue\, La Grange\, IL\, 60525\, United States
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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