Hyde Park Jazz Festival creates connection despite social distancing
By Mrinalini Pandey, contributing writer
Sep 28, 2020
Over the weekend, Hyde Park residents and visitors welcomed the 14th annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival with great fervor.
Unlike its conventional format, this year’s event took place as a mix of live-streamed concerts on Saturday evening, and pop-up and mobile staged performances throughout Sunday at various outdoor locations in the neighborhood.
The annual music festival, which unofficially marks the end of the summer concert season in Chicago, brought together impeccable performances by more than a dozen renowned jazz musicians, including Maggie Brown, Victor Garcia, and Julius Tucker, to name a few.