Em Spel is a singer, songwriter and guitarist; she's also a flutist who plays in one of Chicago’s oremost contemporary classical ensembles. She plays new songs, in-studio.

Chicha Libre at Baby's All Right Sat., May 30. 7:30PM. $26.29 The band called Chicha Libre is based in Brooklyn, but their music is based on a sound that came out of Peru over half a ...

Miles Davis 100th Celebration at Smoke Jazz Club  May 27–31. $25-75. 6PM, 8PM; Fri-Sat also at 10PM.  Trumpeter Eddie Henderson and sax player Gary Bartz have played together for a lo...

Camera Obscura at White Eagle Hall May 28. 8PM. 18+. $37.80. The Scottish band Camera Obscura released their first album 25 years ago. Their brand of heartfelt, sometimes melancholy i...

Terrace Martin at the Blue Note May 25-31. $49.43 - $54.99. 8PM and 10:30PM.  Five-time Grammy nominee Terrace Martin is part of the new breed of musicians who work across the boundar...

Stella Standingbear at Urban Indigenous Collective May 22 | 7:00 pm | $20 Stella Standingbear is a Lakota Sioux singer and songwriter. Her music is a thoroughly modern collision of Na...

Simon Shaheen at Roulette May 21 | 8:00 pm | $45+ The Palestinian musician Simon Shaheen is a master of both the oud, the Arab lute, and the violin. For much of the 80s and 90s he was...

Luciana Souza at Smoke Jazz Club May 20-24 | 6:00 pm, 8:00 pm, 10:00 pm | $25+ It was always a good bet that the Brazilian-born jazz singer and composer Luciana Souza would grow up to...

Friendship at Elsewhere May 19 | 7:00 pm | $27.84+ The band called Friendship did indeed start as a bunch of friends getting together in Maine, near a town called Friendship. But thei...