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***NOTE – unless otherwise noted, all lineups are listed with the headliner first followed by the opening performers

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(schedule is subject to change)

Ragamala: A Celebration of Indian Classical Music

Chicago Cultural Center, Preston Bradley Hall

78 E. Washington St., 3rd Floor South

6pm-8am

All Ages

6–7:15pm

Josh Feinberg, Kunal Gunjal and Amit Kavthekar

7:45–9pm

Akshara Music Ensemble

9:30–10:45pm

Jay Gandhi and Nitin Mitta

11:15pm–12:30am

Prasanna, Bala Skandan and Samyuktha Sreeram

1–2:30am

Nandkishor Muley and Ambi Subramaniam with Mahesh Krishnamurthy and Raj Deshmukh

3–4:30am

Roopa Mahadevan, Rajna Swaminathan and Arun Ramamurthy

4:45–6am

Samarth Nagarkar with Amit Kavthekar and Ramchandra Joshi

6:15–8am

Saraswathi Ranganathan with GS Rajan and Ganapathi Ranganathan

¡SÚBELO! — A Celebration of Pan Latin Music and Culture

Pirulo y la Tribu (Puerto Rico)

Los Wembler’s de Iquitos (Peru)

Centavrvs (Mexico)

Millennium Park, Jay Pritzker Pavilion, 201 E. Randolph St.

3–7pm

All Ages

Lucibela (Cape Verde) | Girma Bèyènè and Akalé Wubé (Ethiopia| France | USA)

The Promontory, 5311 S. Lake Park Ave. W.

6pm doors open, 7pm show

21+

Girma Bèyènè and Akalé Wubé (Ethiopia| France | USA)

Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble with special guest Tiokwe Sehume of South Africa (Chicago, USA)

Constellation, 3111 N. Western Ave.

7pm

21+

The Englewood/Soweto Exchange (Chicago | South Africa)

Jeremy Dutcher (First Nation/Canada)

Old Town School of Folk Music

The Gary and Laura Maurer Hall, 4544 N. Lincoln Ave.

7pm

All Ages

Jeremy Dutcher (First Nation/Canada)

American Indian Center, 3401 W. Ainslie St.

7pm

All Ages

Lankum (Ireland)

Yandong Grand Singers of China (China)

Beverly Arts Center, 1309, 2407 W. 111th St.

7pm

All Ages

MABANG! (China)

Yandong Grand Singers of China (China)

Ping Tom Memorial Park, 300 W. 19th St.

5pm

All Ages

Lankum (Ireland)

Irish American Heritage Center, 4626 N. Knox Ave.

7pm

All Ages

MABANG! (China)

DePaul University

Holtschneider Performance Center

Mary Patricia Gannon Concert Hall, 2330 N. Halsted St.

7pm

Ikebe Shakedown (New York, USA)

Ana Ewerling (Moldova | USA)

Martyrs’, 3855 N. Lincoln Ave.

8pm

21+

AfrotroniX (Chad | Montreal, Canada)

KOKOKO! (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Chop Shop & 1st Ward Events, 2033 W. North Ave.

9pm

21+

Global Peace Picnic

In commemoration of the International Day of Peace

The Garifuna Collective (Belize | Central America)

KOKOKO! (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Hermán Olivera y su Orquesta (New Jersey, USA)

Humboldt Park Boathouse, 1301 N. Sacramento Ave.

2–6pm

All Ages