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Home » Square Roots

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Posted inCity Life

Taste, watch, and find your homeland

by Kerry Reid, Micco Caporale and Salem Collo-Julin July 8, 2022August 6, 2022

Looking for something to do this weekend and beyond? Here are some ideas for you. FRI 7/8 Ray Borchers’s “Coasting on None” opens tonight at T.F. Projects (1513 N. Western, Unit 104), the private showroom of local artist and odd man Tony Fitzpatrick. Borchers is known in the music community for Sharpie-rendered T-shirts of cult […]

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Posted inMusic

The Square Roots festival offers a diverse mix of music to replenish your soul

by Jamie Ludwig July 5, 2022July 6, 2022

If you’re as allergic to crowds as I am, Chicago’s many neighborhood music festivals can be a mixed bag. But one event I unequivocally associate with a certain kind of chill is the Square Roots festival in Lincoln Square. And that low-stress atmosphere seems likely to be by design. Launched in 1998, the weekend-long festival, […]

Posted inMusic

High Spirits make radiant trad metal for dark times

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil August 25, 2020August 18, 2021

High Spirits make radiant trad metal for dark times, Why? Records rapper Davis drops the densely detailed Ebony Maw, and more.

Posted inCity Life

Wherever you go, there you are

by Salem Collo-Julin August 21, 2020August 18, 2021

Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator

Posted inMusic

Summer 2016 Chicago music festivals for every sort of sound

by Luca Cimarusti May 18, 2016August 18, 2021

Fests devoted to rap, house, jazz, country, gospel, blues, metal, Latin music, and more

Posted inBlogs

Reader’s Agenda Sun 7/14: West Fest, Square Roots, DuSable Arts & Crafts Festival

by Tosten Burks July 14, 2013August 19, 2021

What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Sunday, July 14

Posted inBlogs

Best shows to see: Come, Bitchin Bajas, Matt Ulery’s Loom, Square Roots

by Tosten Burks July 11, 2013August 19, 2021

Between now and Sunday, your live-music options include Come, Bitchin Bajas, Matt Ulery’s Loom, Alice Smith, Square Roots, and West Fest.

Posted inBlogs

Roscoe Village Burger Fest and more food and drink events

by Alison Marcotte July 19, 2012August 19, 2021

A secret brunch, a burger fest, a pop-up gastro-bar, and more

Posted inBlogs

Shows to see: Liars, Agalloch, Sidi Toure, and more

by Philip Montoro July 19, 2012August 19, 2021

Malian guitar, pastoral black metal, international music with a side of regional craft beer, sophisticated twang-pop—and we’re just getting started

Posted inBlogs

Old Town School drops the Folk & Roots fest for Square Roots

by Peter Margasak May 15, 2012August 19, 2021

Lincoln Square street fair Square Roots won’t do much to make up for the loss of the Old Town School’s Folk & Roots fest

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