Entries associated with the tag "Old Town School Of Folk Music":

At 3 PM on Saturday, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Janis Ian will be at the Borders in Oak Brook to sign and discuss Society's Child: My Autobiography and the new compilation CD The Best of Janis Ian: The Autobiography Collection. The event is free.

Ian became a star on the strength of her 1975 single "At Seventeen" but later withdrew from the music business to study ballet and acting. She returned with a new album in '93 and continues to record and tour; she plays the Old Town School on Friday night at 8 PM. Tickets are $25, $23 for Old Town School members, $21 for seniors and kids.

I'm tempted to set up a tent outside the Old Town School this weekend: Friday at 7, it's Huun-Huur-Tu, the granddaddies of semi-pop crossover Tuvan throat-singing (indirectly, you have the late Richard Feynman to thank for this music's appearance in the West). I saw them live at the OTS (when it was still on Armitage) years ago and was just dazzled by the eerie beauty of their voices amid an instrumental ensemble that echoed the sound of grass on the steppe and the hoofbeats of horses, with song structures not at all unfamiliar to a fan of, say, really old-school Appalachian music or eastern European Roma music.

Then on Saturday, it's the amazing Tinariwen (Peter Margasak has a Critic's Choice preview of the show in our next issue), and on Sunday, Robbie Fulks's Secret Country hosts John McEuen and the great alt-country pioneer Jason Ringenberg (who'll also play a children's concert at 3 PM in his Farmer Jason persona). You can take a trip around the world just by stepping off the Brown Line.