Selena Fragassi
Contributing A&E Writer at Chicago Sun-Times
Music Journalist, Book Author and Editor at Freelance
Never could play music well so now I write about it.
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2 days ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Selena Fragassi
Jerry Portnoy can still remember moment Muddy Waters hired him to play harmonica. It was April, 1974, just days after an impromptu performance together at Chicago’s On Broadway club during a memorial for fellow bluesman Johnny Young. “You play that s*** right, boy!” Waters exclaimed after the Tuesday night gig. By Friday, Portnoy got a call letting him know to be ready for the next gig in Indianapolis.
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chicago.suntimes.com | Selena Fragassi
Post Malone is a man of his words. When he said he’d bring a “big-a**” production for his first-ever stadium tour, he delivered. Thursday night’s showdown at Wrigley Field brought enough fireworks and pyrotechnics to detonate the North Side, along with a packed 25-song set list from across the span of his six studio albums, a voluminous seven-piece band, and a dystopic road-less-traveled backdrop flanked by neon cowboys and cowgirls on the side of the stage.
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chicago.suntimes.com | Selena Fragassi
Paul Simon may have broken the record for standing ovations Wednesday night at Symphony Center. The first was simply for stepping out on a Chicago stage for the first time in seven years. Since launching a farewell tour in 2018 and subsequently settling into retirement, the 83-year-old folk-pop legend has been battling a severe case of hearing loss, making it nearly impossible to continue his craft.
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3 weeks ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Selena Fragassi
You can love your country and still want a revolution. You can love where you come from even when people tell you that you don’t belong. These are the central tenets of Beyoncé’s groundbreaking Cowboy Carter Tour. It’s more than just a country music throwdown. It’s also putting our country under the microscope, examining what it means to be American, and exercising one of the most democratic processes we have: protesting it all.
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3 weeks ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Selena Fragassi
You can love your country and still want a revolution. You can love where you come from even when people tell you that you don’t belong. These are the central tenets of Beyoncé’s groundbreaking Cowboy Carter Tour. It’s more than just a country music throwdown. It’s also putting our country under the microscope, examining what it means to be American, and exercising one of the most democratic processes we have: protesting it all.
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I loved contributing a good handful of picks to WBEZ's 100 Days of Summer Concerts guide. From today through September 3, there's some incredible shows to see every. single. day. We are so lucky to be in such a music mecca. https://t.co/Sun03CKccp
I'm still thawing out from last night https://t.co/TMNVCNhMTq
This summer marks 20 years of concerts at Wrigley Field. I chatted with the Cubs organization, Ald Lawson and members of Fall Out Boy, the Heartbreakers and Naked Raygun to commemorate the occasion. https://t.co/C7GT2KuDlS