Bob Stroger, Billy Flynn, Sheryl Youngblood, Roosevelt Purifoy, Kenny Smith @ Logan Center For The Arts, Chicago, IL

    May 7, 2025 Close Event “First Wednesday Blues & Beyond Jam with Kenny “Beedy Eyes” Smith” First Wednesday Blues & Beyond Jam with Kenny “Beedy Eyes” Smith Kenny Beedy Eyes Smith on drums Time 7:30pm CST Campus Hyde Park Campus Location Logan Center, Café Logan Event type Arts, Concerts, Performances Audience Academic-Faculty, Alumni, Graduate Student, Post-Docs, Public, Staff , Undergraduate Student Cost Free Tagged Logan…

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      Bob Stroger, Billy Flynn, Sheryl Youngblood, Roosevelt Purifoy, Kenny Smith @ Logan Center For The Arts, Chicago, IL

      March 5, 2025 Close Event “First Wednesday Blues & Beyond Jam with Kenny “Beedy Eyes” Smith” First Wednesday Blues & Beyond Jam with Kenny “Beedy Eyes” Smith Kenny Beedy Eyes Smith on drums Time 7:30pm CST Campus Hyde Park Campus Location Logan Center, Café Logan Event type Arts, Concerts, Performances Audience Academic-Faculty, Alumni, Graduate Student, Post-Docs, Public, Staff , Undergraduate Student Cost Free Tagged Logan Center, Music, Blues, UChicagoArts, MusicLogan…

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      DELMARK RECORDS HOLIDAY BLUES BASH was a huge success – Happy New Year!

      Please check out the photos from this very special night showcasing the amazing talent and diversity of Chicago’s Delmark Records blues artists – young and old, female and male, traditional Chicago blues and more contemporary funky blues rock and R&B! Here’s a quote from our friend, blues photographer Jennifer Noble, “Delmark Records had a Holiday…

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      Let’s help to elect BOB STROGER to the BLUES HALL OF FAME!!!

      Legendary Chicago Blues bassist/vocalist/bandleader BOB STROGER is one of the most beloved bluesmen of all time, and just turned 94 years young! Amazingly, the inspirational, always smiling, and immaculately dressed talented bassist is still performing regularly! But it’s a cryin’ shame that this legendary Blues man is still not in the BLUES HALL OF FAME….

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        BOB STROGER & Friends @ Willie Dixon’s Blues Heaven Foundation, Chicago

        ​2024Record Row Concert Series​ ​This year marks Willie Dixon’s Blues Heaven Foundation’s  22nd Year of providing FREE  Blues Live from Willie Dixon’s Blues GardenBeginning June 6, 2024! these unprecedented times of the past two years greatly affected funding for our Artist Emergency Relief Fund, Music Mentors Program, Studio Restoration Project, and many more endeavors of the Blues Heaven Foundation….

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        DELMARK BLUES ARTISTS (leader and sideman) on the cover of BLUES BLAST MAGAZINE thru the years! Click on the image to take you to the interviews!

        Look at the all of the blues artists that have recorded for Delmark Records as a leader or sideman featured on the cover of Blues Blast Magazine. Thank you publisher Bob Kieser, writers Mark Thompson, Marty Gunther, John Mitchell, Steve Jones, and more, and all of the photographers, Peter Hurley, Bob Kieser, Marilyn Stringer, Laura Carbone, Janet Mami Takayama, Joseph Rosen, Roman Sobus, Jim Hartzell, Bob Hakins, and more!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Delmark Blues…

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