PIQNIQ season
Not to be deterred by the ongoing pandemic, Chicago s 101-WKQX is reviving its summer celebration of alternative rock for 2021 in drive-in form. The PIQNIQ concert, announced this week, features headliner lovelytheband, along with SHAED and Texan-now-Chicagoan Letdown (otherwise known as Blake Coddington) on stage at the Lakeshore Drive-In on Chicago s museum campus Friday, June 4. Socially distanced assigned parking spaces will give fans a chance to get out and dance while still following COVID-19 health and safety protocols. Presale tickets are available now at 101wkqx.com (with the top-secret password ILOVEBEAR); general admission and Preferred Viewing packages are available to the public at 10 a.m. Friday, April 16.
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