North Coast Music Festival

The North Coast Music Festival runs Friday through Sunday, Aug. 31-Sept. 2, in Union Park at Ashland and Lake. Single-day tickets are $65, three-day passes are $120; there are also tons of aftershows ticketed separately. Gates open at noon today. See the schedule for today's lineup. (You should also check out our preview in Transmission.)

Jazz Fest

The 34th annual Chicago Jazz Festival continues tonight with performances by Ken Vandermark and Joe McPhee at 5pm in Ganz Hall at Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave., and the Chicago Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble and the Roy Haynes Fountain of Youth Band at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park starting at 6:30pm. The festival runs through Sunday, Sept. 2. Free. Here's today's schedule:

Jazz on Jackson Stage:
noon - The Milton Suggs Philosophy
1:10pm - Jeremy Kahn Sextet
2:20pm - Ken Vandermark's Made to Break Quartet
3:30pm - Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts

Chicago Community Trust Young Jazz Lions Stage:
noon - Chi Arts Jazz Combo
12:50pm - Kenwood Academy Jazz Combo
1:40pm - Northwestern University Jazz Ensemble
2:40pm - Downers Grove South Jazz Ensemble
3:40pm - Lincoln Park Jazz Ensemble

Cricket Jazz and Heritage Stage:
12:30pm - Edwin Sanchez Project
2pm - Jeff Newell's New-Trad Octet
3:30pm - Tito Carrillo

Petrillo Music Shell:
5pm - Sarah Marie Young Quartet
6pm - Pierre Dørge and New Jungle Orchestra
7:10pm - Steve Coleman and Five Elements
8:30pm - Allen Toussaint's "The Bright Mississippi" featuring and Marc Ribot and Don Byron

Ravenswood Remix

Ravenswood Remix, "Chicago's Recycled Art Fair," runs today and Sunday on the east side of Ravenswood Avenue between Belle Plaine and Berteau. Shop for art and crafts, attend workshops, enjoy food and music from noon to 10pm each day. $5 suggested donation benefits Hamilton Elementary School art programs.

12:45pm - Cold Blue Kid
2pm - School of Rock
3:15pm - Old Black and Blue Eyes
4:30pm - Village
5:30pm - The Damn Choir
6:30pm - Secret Colours
7:45pm - Like Pioneers
9pm - Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

Crush in Old Town

The Crush in Old Town runs today and Sunday on Wells Street from North to Schiller from noon to 10pm. Enjoy live music, food and drink while perusing arts and craft by local vendors. There's also a kids' area with face-painting and other fun activities.

North Stage:
2:15pm - Ghosthouse
4:45pm - Tom Schraeder & His Ego
7:15pm - Gemini Club

South Stage:
1pm - Todd Hembrook & the Hemispheres
3:30pm - Shuteye
6pm - Elsinore

Chicago Fringe Festival

The third annual Chicago Fringe Festival brings 50 performance groups to Pilsen for shows Aug. 30 through Sept. 9. More than two dozen pieces of experimental theatre are staged today in five venues starting at 1pm; see schedule for more details. Tickets for individual performances are $10, or buy a five- or 10-pack or full festival pass.

George Wallace @ Laugh Factory

Comedian George Wallace finishes a four-night stand at the Laugh Factory, 3175 N. Broadway, with a show tonight at 7:30pm. Tickets are $25, plus two-drink minimum. Preview in A/C. 21+