The Rookery

10/21/2019

Noel Taylor and the gents watching for percussion cues intently. The Rookery rides again tomorrow, Tuesday 10/22, at Rockefeller Chapel, 4 PM. Free.

12/06/2018

Totally stoked to represent the Rookery in this big ball of beauty, song, and laughs.

With so many holiday activities in the Chicago area, how do people choose with only a few free weekends before Christmas Day? The producers of Sing We Joyous! have a solution — their performance appeals to all ages, from the smallest tot to the tallest teen to the fun-loving grandparent and everyo...

12/04/2018

Hmm, Matt and Bill...which one might become a zombie? You must attend and find out!

Spreading holiday happiness is the goal of “Sing We Joyous!,” the annual celebration at First United Church of Oak Park.

09/21/2018

09/12/2018

Some hauntingly rare music is on its way in concerts September 22 and 23, when we join King Solomon's Singers and Artemisia Trio to explore settings for The Three Marys (the Myrrhbearers in Eastern tradition). Tickets are available at threemarys.brownpapertickets.com. Join us!

08/15/2018

Save the date for The Rookery's eighth annual summer project, a collaboration with Artemisia Trio and King Solomon's Singers on Saturday September 22 (St. Josaphat Lincoln Park, 7:30 PM) and Sunday September 23 (First United Oak Park, 3 PM) - devotional and mysterious music for The Three Marys across the centuries.

08/02/2017

Friends - Rooks Joe Labozetta, Matthew Dean, and Michael Hawes will appear in this great vocal project in Chicago on August 12 at 7:30 PM, details in link. Later in the month, find The Rookery at First United Oak Park on Saturday August 26th at 7 PM - poster forthcoming!

Sacred and popular vocal music from five centuries

04/11/2017

Rooks Chaz Lee, Michael Hawes, Keith Murphy, and Matthew Dean were featured in this well-reviewed Schutz Matthew Passion this weekend. We are looking forward to our sixth summer outing in August - more details soon. Happy Spring, Easter, and Passover to all.

10/14/2016

A Joseph Hubbard sighting on social media! The Cubs in the NLCS! Strong signs everywhere in the world.

Hydrogen Jukebox draws on poems of Allen Ginsberg

08/12/2016

A fun summer for the Rooks has included a command performance at a Wheaton wedding and a morning service with beautiful Poulenc at Rockefeller Chapel. Tomorrow in a ca****ladom, Matt performs with His Majestie's Clerkes (details below). Save the date for The Rookery's 5th anniversary outing as guests of King Solomon's Singers on Saturday August 27 at St. Josaphat in Lincoln Park!

Preview: His Majestie’s Clerkes debut concert, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 13, at St. John Cantius Church. By Nancy Malitz Resounding at sunset in the shadow of Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, a new all-male …