The Mac has been featuring some incredible talent for several months now with entertainment like the Moscow Ballet and Los Lobos (to name a few).  Just in time to get you into festival mode, I kicked off my spring fever (despite the crazy weather) tuning my ear to the soothing groove of gypsy jazz, with […]

The spirit of the gypsies was colorful and vibrant.  As was this weekends ballet performance of Day of the Gypsy at the Harris Theater in Chicago.  A live band supported the dancers in the foreground emitting the vibrancy of a culture from fables and fantasy.  I recently had the opportunity to speak with Day of the Gypsy‘s creator, Gordon Peirce Schmidt, […]