The Chicago Blues Festival is the largest free blues festival in the world and remains the largest of Chicago's Music Festivals. During three days on five stages, more than 500,000 blues fans prove that Chicago is the "Blues Capital of the World." Past performers include Bonnie Raitt, Ray Charles, B.B. King, the late Bo Diddley, Buddy Guy and the late Koko Taylor. This year's festival...
Find out more »Exhibition/Residency Reception for the Weaving Mill's "Containers" + Elastro Electro/Acoustic Series featuring MT Coast, Martin Freeman, Patrick Cain $10, FREE before 8:30 PM 7 PM Exhibition/Residency Reception for the Weaving Mill’s “Containers” 9 PM Elastro Electro/Acoustic Series: MT Coast, Martin Freeman, Patrick Cain Elastic Arts is pleased to announce Containers, an exhibition and residency by The Weaving Mill, showing June 1st – August 25th....
Find out more »PETER BROTZMANN is a German artist, free jazz saxophonist, and clarinetist. Regarded among the most important European free jazz musicians, BROTZMANN played the Empty Bottle 14 times starting in 1997. His first album, For Adolphe Sax, was released in 1967 and immediately followed by the politically charged Machine Gun in 1968. Machine Gun, an octet recording often listed among the most notable free jazz albums, was originally produced under BROTZMANN'S BRO record label and later marketed by Free Music Production (FMP). Since then,...
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