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Fall 2022 Concert – Our New Day
November 18, 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
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Windy City Winds, “Chicago’s Community Band”, is excited to announce the opening of its eighth season with our Fall Concert, “Our New Day”. The free concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, November 18 at St. Pauls United Church of Christ in Lincoln Park and will be LiveStreamed at www.spucc.org/streaming.
St. Pauls member and Musician First Class Chris Bettler, US Navy Band Great Lakes will be the featured soloist performing the Tuba Concerto by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Other music to be performed includes Colas Breugnon Overture, Symphonic Dances from Fiddler on the Roof, Adoration by Florence Price, and Of Our New Day Begun by Omar Thomas, based on the hymn “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing”. Windy City Winds is conducted by St. Pauls members Mark Mosley and Sarah Good Mosley.
Directions and Parking for the Windy City Winds Concerts
We perform our formal concerts at St. Pauls United Church of Christ, 2335 N. Orchard, Chicago IL — on the corner of Orchard and Fullerton, across the street from the former site of Children’s Hospital in Lincoln Park, one block east of DePaul University.
From Lake Shore Drive, take Fullerton west past Clark Street to the first stop sign at Geneva. Turn left and take Geneva south one-half block to the next stop sign at Kemper Drive. Turn right and take Kemper Driver (a skinny one-way street) and park for free in the church parking lot on the right. Continue walking down Kemper and enter the sanctuary at the corner.
If the parking lot is full, continue down Kemper, turn right on Orchard and turn left at Fullerton. Take Fullerton west into the left turn lane at the stop light at Halsted and Lincoln. Turn a hard left onto Lincoln and go south to the Lincoln Commons parking lot. Turn right into the parking for additional.
Then walk across Lincoln and south to Orchard, turn left and walk a half block to the church sanctuary entrance.