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World Music Festival Chicago

annual music festival held in Chicago, USA

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ5095846 ↗
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The World Music Festival Chicago is an annual musical event held in Chicago, Illinois, since 1999. It is organized by the City of Chicago. The festival takes place in September, usually runs 5–10 days, and has featured musicians from over 75 countries since its inception.

Featured performers

Performers at the festival have included:

Rahim AlHaj

Maria de Barros

Bomba Estereo

Fatoumata Diawara

Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto

Sergent Garcia

Hanggai

Slavic Soul Party!

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“World Music Festival Chicago” enters the record as annual music festival held in Chicago, USA. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what World, Music and Festival can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “World Music Festival Chicago” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.