A Slew Of Aacm 50Th Anniversary Celebrations This Weekend

• Kristi Sutton Elais
• Nicole Mitchell

The Chicago-born AACM (Association for the Advancement for Creative Musicians) is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. A lot of festivities are in the pipeline: a series of concerts at the Museum of Contemporary Art, where an exhibition called The Freedom Principle, opening on July 11, will carry a strong AACM focus; a key component of this year’s Chicago Jazz Festival; a monthly concert series at Constellation; the ongoing exhibition at the DuSable Museum of African American History (“Free at First: the Audacious Journey of the Association for the Advancement for Creative Musicians,” which runs through September 6); and other events to come.