1st Set Aaron Shapiro

Showtimes:   6:00pm-7:15pm & 8:15pm-9:30pm

Aaron Shapiro is a guitarist and composer who has been a fixture in Chicago's eclectic music scene since 2010. As a writer and arranger he has composed for a 15-piece big band, a Hammond Organ trio and an album of guitar & vocal duets with singer Mary Lawson. Over the past decade Aaron has performed as a leader and sideman at many of Chicago’s renowned music venues including Jay Pritzker Pavilion, The Green Mill, Andy's Jazz Club and The Jazz Showcase. He was a member of the 2011 Grammy Jazz Ensemble, featured on the CBS News series "Someone You Should Know" and has performed as a soloist in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Aaron's live performances feature his original songbook, and draw upon stylistic influences ranging from the traditional to the abstract.

Aaron grew up in a musical family. Both of his grandparents were singers at The Old Town School of Folk Music and his uncle was a rock drummer. Early in his young career he was chosen from a national pool of musicians to perform with The Grammy Jazz Ensemble, where he shared the stage with Esperanza Spaulding and recorded at Capitol Records in Hollywood. Aaron was also featured on CBS reporter Harry Porterfield’s weekly news series “Someone You Should Know”.

Since 2015 he has performed at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival and recorded with The Eternals, a band described by Pitchfork as “a seamless blending of dub, funk and punk”. In 2017 he performed before a speech made by President Barack Obama at the Stony Island Arts Bank.

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