[ February 14, 2010; 2:00 pm; ] Blues Valentine’s Day Shows in Chicagoland
(Sunday, February 14th)
(last updated 2/14/2010)
Sunday, February 14th (Valentine’s Day)
Pat Hall Memorial Show, starting at 5 p.m., with a variety or music performers - Heartland Cafe in Rogers Park
Aaron Moore performs at 50th Folk Fest at Univ. of Chicago
Matthew Skoller’s at Legends (*WCBS Member $5 Discount*)
Eric Noden & [...]
[ February 16, 2010; 12:00 pm; ] February 16th is Fat Tuesday’s Mardi Gras Celebration.
(last updated 2/15/10)
- Harmonica Hinds starts it off with his regular free lunchtime set at Buddy Guy’s Legends from noon to 2 p.m. (southern/cajun menu), then Vino Louden plays the evening set at 9:30 - $10 (Only $5 for WCBS Members when they show their WCBS [...]
[ February 26, 2010; 7:00 pm; ] UIC (University of Illinois at Chicago) holds a great live blues event every February as part of Black History Month. The $25 ticket includes dinner and they have a cash bar. This year’s headliner is Shemekia Copeland.
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7:00 pm, UIC Forum
*$25 General Public/UIC Faculty/
Staff/Alumni; *$10 UIC Students
(1 per student I-card, only available
at door). *Soul [...]
[ January 31, 2010; 7:00 pm; ] (excerpt of The Blues Foundation website announcement…)
David “Honeyboy” Edwards
The Recording Academy announced its Special Merit Awards today, and this year’s recipients include: Leonard Cohen, Bobby Darin, David “Honeyboy” Edwards, Michael Jackson, Loretta Lynn, Andre Previn, and Clark Terry as Lifetime Achievement Award honorees. The special invitation-only ceremony will be held during GRAMMY Week on Saturday, [...]
[ July 4, 2010; 8:30 am; ] Columbia College Chicago & Blues Kids of America
Present Blues Camp
Artistic Director, Fernando Jones • July 4 – 9, 2010
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Columbia College Chicago, Artistic Director Fernando Jones, and Blues Kids of America proudly present their inaugural six-day Blues Camp. This fun-filled experience will give national and international students (grades 6 – 12) an [...]
from University of Illinois press…
Barrelhouse Words:
A Blues Dialect Dictionary
An exhaustive, engrossing lexicon of blues idioms
“A valuable, unique work. No other book explains as many new, often subtle aspects of the blues language that Stephen Calt has lived with for over forty years.”
—Kip Lornell, author of The NPR Curious Listener’s Guide To American Folk Music
“Others [...]
