Chicago Currents - Chicago Fringe Opera
Sun, Mar 19
|Chicago
CHICAGO CURRENTS is a full-length, staged art song concert that draws inspiration from the land and water that Chicago is built on, featuring an ensemble of five singers, piano and violin.
Time & Location
Mar 19, 2023, 7:00 PM
Chicago, 5451 N Broadway, Chicago, IL 60640, USA
About the Event
The show also explores the legacy of Jean Baptiste Point Dusable, the first permanent
non-Indigenous settler of the city of Chicago; a Black man who built his house and trading
settlement at the mouth of the Chicago river in 1790. The concert tracks the rise of industrialism
in Chicago’s waterways during the 1800s; the reshaping of the city’s waterfront following the
Great Chicago Fire; and ushers in the 1900's with songs of the Great Migration, as Black
Americans follow the Mississippi River up to Chicago in search of financial opportunity and