Free Outdoor Jazz Concert at Prairie Park Today, 8/27

Dear Chicago,



Today, August 27th, the 19th Ward Youth & Community Foundation will host our annual Jazz in the Park concert, featuring NuSource Jazz Band performing at Prairie Park (11625 S. Oakley Ave.) at 7:00pm. I hope you and your family can join us for a summer evening with friends and neighbors in the park. Families are encouraged to pack a picnic, bring chairs, a blanket, and bug spray. Please see the flyer below.

This concert is generously sponsored by Alderman Matt O'Shea, Senator Bill Cunningham, Representative Mary Gill, Fran Hurley, HMS Host, Beverly Bank, and the Chicago Park District.

Sincerely,

Matthew J. O'Shea

Alderman, 19th Ward

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Meet Captain Walter H. Dyett 

A Concert Performance 

Sunday, August 30th, 2 – 3pm 

Walker Branch

11071 S. Hoyne Avenue

Walter Henri Dyett, known as “Captain Dyett”, was a music educator, and instrumental figure in the development of jazz and black music in Chicago. As the band instructor of Bronzeville’s DuSable High School, Dyett built a powerhouse music program that produced iconic singers such as Nat King Cole, Dinah Washington, Ella Jenkins, and Johnny Hartman. Dyett's students took the Chicago jazz sound across the globe.

This program is a live jazz quartet performance by the Charles Heath Quartet, celebrating Chicago hosting the 2026 International Jazz Day with the sounds of Dyett’s internationally renowned tenor saxophone students. A brief 15-minute history of Capt. Walter Dyett, followed by a 45-minute jazz quartet performance.

The Garden Club of Morgan Park - Beverly Hills welcomes guest speaker Claudia Galen Sanchez, founder of the Pilsen-based Women for Green Spaces who will give a presentation on promoting and preserving green spaces and protecting pollinators in urban communities on Wednesday, September 2, 2026 at 10 am at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 9401 S. Oakley Avenue, Chicago 

Free for members | Guests $10. For more information contact [email protected].

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