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Home » Michael Orlove

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Posted inMusic

What to see at the 2018 World Music Festival

by Leor Galil, Monica Kendrick, Noah Berlatsky, Bill Meyer, Jamie Ludwig, Kevin Warwick, Dave Cantor and Philip Montoro September 4, 2018August 18, 2021

The World Music Festival’s 21 free concerts feature a crowd of international talents—among them hallucinatory Argentine singer-songwriter Juana Molina, generation-spanning Cuban big band Orquesta Akokán, and omnivorous Congolese groove machine Jupiter & Okwess.

Ngoni master Bassekou Kouyaté plays the World Music Festival Friday and Saturday.
Posted inMusic

The World Music Festival bounces back

by Peter Margasak and Monica Kendrick September 9, 2013August 19, 2021

The World Music Festival’s free lineup includes Sidi Touré, Bassekou Kouyaté, and lots more.

Slavic Soul Party!, America's greatest Balkan-style brass band
Posted inMusic

The World Music Festival: Down but not out

by Peter Margasak September 18, 2012August 19, 2021

Bureaucratic fumbling has diminished the World Music Festival, but its lineup still includes some highly recommendable acts

Posted inBlogs

Welcome to post-Orlove Chicago

by Peter Margasak July 25, 2012August 19, 2021

Congolese street band Staff Benda Bilili, who had to cancel a long-in-the-works Pritzker date last year due to visa problems, skip Chicago on their first U.S. tour

Posted inBlogs

RIP: Music Without Borders

by Peter Margasak March 29, 2012August 19, 2021

The great world-music series Music Without Borders is missing from the city’s announcement of Millennium Park’s summer programming.

Posted inBlogs

You won’t believe what happened last week on the Bleader!

by Tal Rosenberg March 26, 2012August 19, 2021

A breakdown of all the hijinks and shenanigans on the Bleader last week

Posted inBlogs

Michael Orlove, director of many city music programs, hired away from Chicago by the NEA

by Peter Margasak March 21, 2012August 19, 2021

Longtime city music programmer Michael Orlove has been hired by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Posted inBlogs

City arts staff gone missing—again

by Deanna Isaacs December 29, 2011August 19, 2021

Arts staff cut from Chicago Office of Tourism and Culture

Posted inBlogs

Michael Orlove goes international

by Peter Margasak March 11, 2009August 19, 2021

Michael Orlove from Cultural Affairs takes his curatorial skills global.

Posted inBlogs

World-music presenters converge on Chicago

by Peter Margasak February 24, 2009August 19, 2021

World-music presenters from the midwest gather at the Morse Theater on Tuesday night to plot the year’s offerings.

Posted inBlogs

Michael Orlove, the missing man

by Peter Margasak May 3, 2007August 19, 2021

The most glaring omission from New City’s annual Music 45 issue.

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