Free Daytime Concerts/DJ Sets On Mondays At Noon In Millennium Park

As I acknowledged in an earlier post, Millennium Park has some awesome and diverse independent music coming in on Monday evenings throughout the late spring and summer. Needless to say, the hipster factor was already ratcheted up with the impending lineup. Now it seems someone with some pull (and great taste in music) downtown wanted to surpass their previous benchmark in cool for Monday (and some Saturday) lunchtimes as well.

Calling it Edible Audible Picnic, the first workday of the week at Millennium Park will feature an incredibly diverse assortment of DJ's and bands to entertain as you scarf down your salads and sandwiches. Ranging from hipster darlings The Juan Maclean and High Places, hip-hop artists The Cool Kids, Tropicalia wunderkind El Guincho and Chicago house legend Green Velvet. Just to draw a wide range of consistent talent is well deserving of praise. To daringly roll all of these big names that are usually seen in dark clubs to a downtown Chicago lunchtime crowd is, at very least, gutsy. Millennium Park was always supposed to be an artistic triumph. Having the vision to bring in musicians that push artistic and cultural boundaries only emphasizes the greatness. Kudos, CPD.

All start times are on Monday at noon unless listed otherwise:

June 7 - Solvent
June 14 - The Cool Kids
June 21 - Dosh
June 28 - I Am Robot And Proud
July 3 (Saturday) - Green Velvet aka Cajmere
July 5 - Nice Nice
July 12 - El Guincho
July 19 - High Places
July 24 (Saturday) - Chicago Hip Hop--All Headz on Deck
July 26 - A Grape Dope
August 2 - VHS or BETA DJ Set
August 9 - Javelin
August 16 - The Juan Maclean DJ Set
August 23 - All City Affairs
August 30 - Future Rock
September 4 (Saturday) - Orchard Lounge

The Juan Maclean - Happy House


El Guincho - Antillas