Pitchfork Festival

08Jun

Pitchfork Festival

Join fifty thousand of your closest friends at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago’s Union Park July 14, and stay at the nearby and affordable Best Western Plus Chicago Hotel at Hillside!

The Pitchfork Music Festival is world famous as a venue for the finest in alternative music. The Festival features new and established bands. There will be food and beverage vendors all over the place serving brewskies and iconic Chicago foods. And there will merchandise for sale and artworks to peruse.

Enjoy curated events, multidisciplinary experiences, late night jazz jam sessions, film screenings, artist talks, poetry readings, and a whole lot more.

Artists: Solange; American Football; Pinegrove; Kilo Kish; Derrick Carter; Colin Stetson; Danny Brown; Hiss Golden Messenger; Arc & Jessie Kanda; William Tyler; Madam Gandhi; Vince Staples; A Tribe Called Quest; Angel Olsen; Joey Purp; RIDE; Cherry Glazerr; Francis and The Lights; Frankie Cosmos; and many, many more.

The Pitchfork Music Festival has partnered with Everytown for Gun Violence and Mothers Against Senseless Killings. Fans are encouraged to Wear Orange, the national symbol of the movement.

Union Park is located at 1501 West Randolph Street. To purchase tickets, and for performance times and artists, go online to http://www.ticketfly.com/org/2985-pitchfork-music-festival/ and follow the prompts. Be sure to check the list for things you cannot bring.

Best Western Plus Chicago Hotel at Hillside, just minutes away from the Pitchfork Music Festival at Union Park, offers free shuttle service to and from O’Hare Airport in Chicago. The hotel offers affordable, comfortable rooms, a breakfast bar and restaurant and much more. The hotel is pet friendly and offers AAA rates.