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Friday, December 12, 2025  ·  8:00 PM CST

Freedy Johnston & Walter Salas-Humara

4545 N Lincoln Ave · The Myron R. Szold Music & Dance Hall · 773.728.6000

  • $45 General Public ($35 + $10 fee)
  • $43 Old Town School Members ($33 + $10 fee)

Freedy Johnston

Freedy Johnston is a singer-songwriter originally from Kinsley, Kansas. A town 1,561 miles from both New York and San Francisco. He moved to New York in the 1980's and worked as an office temp for a few years before landing a deal with Bar None Records in Hoboken. His second record for them was his breakthrough album, 1992's Can You Fly. He then signed to Elektra Records and in 1994 worked with producer Butch Vig on his biggest record, This Perfect World, which featured the radio hit “Bad Reputation”, and earned him Rolling Stone's Songwriter of the Year award for 1994. His songs were featured in the movies Kingpin, Kicking and Screaming and Heavy. He currently lives in Joshua Tree, California.

http://www.freedyjohnston.com/

Walter Salas-Humara (of The Silos)

Walter's musical career started with The Silos, the still-kicking band Salas-Humara co-founded in New York's post-punk ‘80s scene. Playing alt-country before anyone called it that, they were named Best New Artist in the 1987 Rolling Stone Critics Poll. Throughout Salas-Humara's career his voice has remained textured like a walnut; meanwhile, his narratives focus not on interior, abstract weaves of doubts and anxieties but on storytelling. He renders small incidents in granular detail that take on the weight of attentive, convincing poetry and wry wordplay. Each tune is marked by such humanity, which offers much refuge in a convulsive time.

https://www.waltersalashumara.com/



4544 North Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, IL 60625  •  (773) 728-6000 •  customerservice@oldtownschool.org
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