JIMMY BURNS performing Curtis Mayfield @ Ridgeville Park, Evanston, IL

    Community Pop-Up Concert: Jimmy Burns – Songs and Stories of Curtis Mayfield The @evanstonfolkfest comes to Ridgeville Park this Friday! Jimmy Burns plays at 6:30pm. #ridgevilleparks #evanston #evanstonspace #evanstonfolkfest #myridgeville Presented by Evanston Folk Festival and in partnership with the Shorefront Legacy Center, this free Community Pop-Up Concert will take place on Friday, August 30…

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    2024 Rockwell Blues &Jazz Str oll is back! This Sunday, Aug 11, 3pm-8pm, Burning Bush Brewery, and it’s FREE! Demetria Taylor, Tad Robinson, Mwata Bowden, Willie Buck, Dave Weld, Breezy Rodio, Jamiah Rogers, and The Delmark All-Stars!!

    Rockwell Blues & Jazz StrollSunday August 11th 3pm-8pm Help us to get the word out!FREE: The hottest musical event of the season! Great blues & jazz, amazing beer and tasty food! Like every year, Delmark Records produces an outdoor community oriented blues & jazz one day festival behind the Burning Bush Brewery, 4014 N. Rockwell St….

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      Sheryl Youngblood @ Mineral Point Blues Fest, Mineral Point, WI

      Sheryl Youngblood Friday, Aug. 168:45 pm Delmark recording artist Sheryl Youngblood is a singer, songwriter (and former drummer) with an assured and welcoming stage personality. She began performing gospel and worked with many top-tier Chicago gospel, blues, and soul bands before stepping out front triumphantly as a bandleader in 2013. She has recently returned from a successful…

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        Shirley Johnson w Nate Manos @ Blue Chicago, Chicago

        NATE MANOS W/ SHIRLEY JOHNSON Nicknamed the “Sweetheart of the Blues” by the staff at BLUE CHICAGO, Shirley has been gracing the stage here since the 1990s with her spectacular performances.Like so many African-American vocalists, Shirley Johnson started out singing in church and then went on to embrace secular music. The Chicago resident, whose influences range from…

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          DEMETRIA TAYLOR with Luke Pytel Band @ BLUE CHICAGO

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUJAS5XKCIou0026t=6s DEMETRIA TAYLOR BLUES BAND https://www.bluechicago.com/demetria-taylor DEMETRIA TAYLOR Demetria Taylor has been performing at BLUE CHICAGO since 2010.  She is the seventh child of eight from the family of the late blues legend Eddie Taylor Sr. and is helping keep the legacy of her father alive. Eddie is best known as the rhythm guitarist in the band…

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            MIKE WHEELER @ Kingston Mines, Chicago

            KINGSTON MINES 2548 N HALSTED 10:30PM Mike Wheeler Band :: Thats What Love Will Make You Do Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Look up on the stage. It’s SuperMike, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel strings with…

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              Studebaker John @ Kingston Mines, Chicago

              ABOUT STUDEBAKER JOHN Studebaker John Grimaldi was born in an Italian-American section of Chicago and  started playing harmonica at age 7.  Under the spell of music he heard  on Maxwell Street, Chicago’s famed blues melting pot, Grimaldi began  performing as Studebaker John and the Hawks in the ‘70s.  The band referenced the Studebaker Hawk, a…

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