Chicago murals: John Prine painting adorns Old Town School of Folk Music
<p>For John Prine fans, the massive new mural painted on the Old Town School of Folk Music in <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/lincoln-square" >Lincoln Square</a> can prompt pedestrians to stop and blink back tears.</p><p>The Maywood native and folk music legend <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/4/7/21199609/john-prine-dead-folksinger-songwriter-hello-in-there" >died in 2020 from COVID complications</a>. This month, his friend and fellow musician Jon Langford, who designed the mural, teamed up with Chicago artist Darius Dennis, owner of Big Wall Sign & Mural, to paint a tribute to Prine on the school’s second story brick wall during its annual Square Roots Festival.
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<p>For John Prine fans, the massive new mural painted on the Old Town School of Folk Music in <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/lincoln-square" >Lincoln Square</a> can prompt pedestrians to stop and blink back tears.</p><p>The Maywood native and folk music legend <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/4/7/21199609/john-prine-dead-folksinger-songwriter-hello-in-there" >died in 2020 from COVID complications</a>. This month, his friend and fellow musician Jon Langford, who designed the mural, teamed up with Chicago artist Darius Dennis, owner of Big Wall Sign & Mural, to paint a tribute to Prine on the school’s second story brick wall during its annual Square Roots Festival. Prine once took lessons there in the 1960s and remained a mainstay as his career took off.</p><p>“It’s our thing,” Dennis says of big mural projects. His company has painted giant, lifelike murals for major advertisers like Porsche and Oscar Mayer and <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics/2024/11/15/chicago-murals-darius-dennis-cta-red-line-civil-rights-danny-lyon-toddle-house-uptown" >Civil Rights-era photo reproduction murals in Uptown and Wicker Park</a>.
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- <p>For John Prine fans, the massive new mural painted on the Old Town School of Folk Music in <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/lincoln-square" >Lincoln Square</a> can prompt pedestrians to stop and blink back tears.</p><p>The Maywood native and folk music legend <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/4/7/21199609/john-prine-dead-folksinger-songwriter-hello-in-there" >died in 2020 from COVID complications</a>. This month, his friend and fellow musician Jon Langford, who designed the mural, teamed up with Chicago artist Darius Dennis, owner of Big Wall Sign & Mural, to paint a tribute to Prine on the school’s second story brick wall during its annual Square Roots Festival.
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