Concert

The Bureau County Fair has announced Josh Turner, Special Guest Sara Evans will headline the Annual Country Concert at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 24 at the Bureau County Fairgrounds at 811 W Peru St. in Princeton.

Come out to the Rialto Square Theatre at 8 p.m. in Joliet to hear American country music singer Scott McCreery perform

The Forest Preserve District of Will County will host Bonne Année: A New Year Celebration! on Saturday inside the Isle a la Cache Museum, 501 E. Romeo Road, Romeoville. Celebrate 2023 in the style of a 1759 French-Canadian fur trader.

Mark Dvorak will be part of the musical lineup of performers in a benefit in Downers Grove for the West Suburban Community Pantry.

Jennifer Cutting’s OCEAN Celtic Quartet, whose album title cut “The Turning Year” reached No. 1 song on the Folk Radio charts last December, will perform at 7 p.m. Dec. 17, at the Hinsdale Unitarian Church.

The Joliet Drama Guild will present “Little Women” at 7 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Billie Limacher Bicentennial Park and Theatre, 201 W. Jefferson St. in Joliet. The play interweaves the lives of Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, March and Laurie, the boy next door.

Tim Placher of Joliet is bringing more than 20 area musicians, performers and touring friends to the MAR Theatre in Wilmington for a “A Merry MAR-y Christmas Show!”.

Register by Thursday for the Forest Preserve District of Will County “Holiday Nature Crafts” on Saturday for ages 6 and up.

The Joliet American Legion Band will give patrons a free ticket to its concert in exchange for a generous donation of nonperishable food items and/or paper products. Monetary donations also accepted. All donations will go to Daybreak Center in Joliet.

Christmas at the Motherhouse: “Christmas Around the World” will feature The Claritas Master Chorale and USF Schola Cantorum. The concert will be held Saturday at 7:15 pm at the University of St. Francis’ St. Joseph Chapel.

The champion barbershop ensemble will perform "Together Again at Christmas" at 4 p.m. Dec. 11 in Naperville.

Nearly 100 men and women from across northern Illinois will bring their barbershop-style vocal prowess to the stage for a Christmas concert repeated in St. Charles and Wheaton.

For the Records: A Vinyl Swap will be held 2 to 5:30 p.m. Saturday at The Strange & Unusual Gallery, 34 Clinton St. in Joliet. Buy/sell/trade vinyl from all decades and genres with other local vinyl enthusiasts and check out merchandise from local vendors and artists.

Champion guitarist and harp-guitarist Muriel Anderson will return for her hometown concert in Downers Grove on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. She will be joined by the Grammy-winning Jim "Kimo" West, longtime guitarist for "Weird Al" Yankovic.

The Rialto Square Theatre in Joliet will present “A Very Rialto Christmas… There’s No Place Like Home" on Nov. 21 to kick off its holiday season. Many of the shows singers, performers and actors hail from the Joliet area.