Sunday Coffee Sipper: The Week in Music

A lot went down in the music world since I last sat down to write a Coffee Sipper piece a week ago. Instead of trying to choose one event to focus on for an entire piece, I decided to dig deeper into several of the goings-on that came to light since last Sunday.

Chance The Rapper begins Tour: Chicago’s own Chance The Rapper kicked off a tour of his own Friday night in Champaign, Illinois, just outside the campus of the University of Illinois. Setting out on his first solo headlining tour, dubbed the “Social Experiment Tour” Chance, music director Peter CottonTale and backing band Greg Landfair and Nico Segal rehearsed for a week with stage hands and sound to make sure there were no surprises the day of. Renting out the Metro and Reggie’s on different occasions throughout the week, the team had everything down before heading south where Chance’s two part show (one half solo, the other half with a band) went off without a hitch. Vic Mensa joined him onstage for an encore of “Cocoa Butter Kisses” and seemingly all of Save Money made the two hour trip to send Chano off to Pittsburgh appropriately. Stay tuned to RH for updates as the tour moves across the country.

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