Last Saturday, a guy who used to be in my College Minsitry in Colorado, Daniel Whitenack, came to visit. Daniel goes to Grad School at Purdue and is now studying Phyics and doing all kinds of other smart-people stuff. But Daniel called and told me that a band he really likes was playing in Chicago, so he drove up, and we went to see them on Saturday.
The band was a folk/modern Bluegrass band from Massachussets called Crooked Still. They were really terrific. If you're into Nickel Creek or other folk/bluegrassy-type music (or even if you've never been exposed to folk music) you need to check them out, especially their cover of "Orphan Girl." They were great. And the venue was awesome . . . a place on the north side of Chicago just south of Evanston called The Morse Theater. Apparently, it had just been renovated and reopened in the last month, but it was a great place to watch and listen to any show. Great acoustics, great service, looked good, and it was comfortable. I think just about any show would be a pretty enjoyable experience there. Here's a Tribune article on the new Morse Theater.
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