Pencil This In: Daniel Lanois At Downtown Sound; Swing Time At The Music Box Theatre

By Chuck Sudo in Arts & Entertainment on Jun 17, 2013 5:20PM

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Music

The Millennium Park Downtown Sound Series continues this evening with the show I'm personally looking forward to the most. Daniel Lanois, along with Brian Eno, is as integral to the U2 sound as Bono's voice, The Edge's guitar and the solid rhythm section of Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. His production skills have helped the late career resurgences of Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris and Willie Nelson. Expect a lot of roots rock-grounded ethereal and ambient soundscapes coming from Jay Pritzker Pavilion tonight. Opening for Lanois is Brokeback, one of Doug McCombs's non-Tortoise projects. The show starts at 6:30 p.m.

Film

A couple weeks back we wrote of a Tuesday matinee series at the Music Box Theatre for service industry employees and their friends where local beer importers Vanberg & DeWulf will be pouring select beers from their portfolio prior to the movie. The series kicks off 2 p.m. June 18 with George Stevens’s 1936 film Swing Time. The beers being poured before the screening are Posca Rustica, a rare spiced gruit from Brasserie Dupont hailed by NPR’s Scott Simon as one of the best summer beers, and popular Belgian beer Hop Ruiter.

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