Spring 2009 Chicago Blues Tour 7 clubs - 8 bands Saturday, May 16th
SUBSCRIBE TO BLUES TOUR EMAIL UPDATES:
Blues University® and the City of Chicago once again host the Chicago Blues Tour-- on Saturday, May 16th. The tour, a "pub crawl" event connecting 7 of Chicago's famous venues featuring live blues, departs from Wabash Tap at 1233 S. Wabash St. Tickets include all transportation and admission charges for a nightlong blues adventure. Buses begin shuttling between clubs from 8:30 p.m to 1:30 a.m. Tickets (including discounted tickets while supply lasts) are available through the Chicago Blues Tour website, myspace.chicagobluestour.com. Advance tickets are strongly recommended, as the tour often sells out. The website also includes details on participating clubs and performers, as well as discount options.
Blues University® sponsors classes and events that expand the understanding and audience for blues music. The Chicago Blues Tour began in 1990 as the West Side Blues Tour and has expanded in scope to include live blues venues throughout Chicago. The City of Chicago has helped promote blues tours through the Mayor's Office of Special Events since 1998. Blues U.® maintains an online archive of blues information and in 2008 also launched BluesWire (www.blueswire.net), a blues news headline service.
Winter 2009 Chicago Blues Tour Performers
SUBSCRIBE TO BLUES TOUR EMAIL UPDATES:
Spring 2009 Chicago Blues Tour
7 clubs - 8 bands
Saturday, May 16th Spring 2009 Chicago Blues Tour Performers @WABASH TAP -Deak Harp Band "Harmonica Showdown" with special guests: -Harpmonster -Omar Coleman -Giles Robson (from the UK band The Dirty Aces!) @ROSA'S LOUNGE
(2 bands, continuous music) "Guitar Duel" with -Li'l Ed & the Blues Imperials -Pete Galanis (from Howard & the White Boys) @ROOSTER'S PALACE -Taildragger & His Chicago Blues All-Stars @LEE'S UNLEADED BLUES -Johnny Drummer & the Starliters @LINDA'S PLACE -Fantastic L-Roy & the Bulletproof Band @CHECKERBOARD LOUNGE -Vance Kelly & the Backstreet Blues Band @CATCHER'S INN -Robert Pasenko & the 35th St. Blues Band "Southside Showcase / Chicago Blues Festival Preview Jam Session" with special guests: -"Killer" Ray Allison -Linsey Alexander -Smilin' Bobby -Mz. Peaches -Tre -Floyd Wilson -Ramblin' Rose -Reggie Tutt
-Chuck Crane -Chicago Babe -Lady Kat -Li'l Daddy
DEAK HARP VIDEO
Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Koko Taylor, Willie Dixon, Sonny Boy Williamson, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Little Walter, Big Walter, Robert Johnson, Led Zeppelin, The White Stripes, The Black Keys, John Mayall, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Bobby Blue Bland, Little Milton, Bobby Rush, Etta James, Sugar Blue, Lonnie Brooks, Li'l Ed & the Blues Imperials, Melvin Taylor & the Slack Band, Chainsaw Dupont, James Brown, ZZ Top
Tickets include all admissions and shuttle bus transportation between the clubs from 8:30 pm to 2am. Advance tickets strongly recommended: http://www.chicagobluestour.com or call 866-468-3401
CHICAGO BLUES & THE HISTORY OF THE BLUES TOUR Chicago is the home of the blues, one of three icons of artistry (along with cutting-edge architecture and deep-dish pizza) that every visitor to Chicago should experience and enjoy. While many of the historic locations of the heyday of blues in the 50s and 60s are gone, with a knowledgeable guide you can still walk on hallowed ground and get the true "blues experience". The true cradles of modern blues are the Chicago blues lounges in the heart of the South and West sides, featuring a neighborhood clientele, an engaged and interactive audience, and a wealth of vocal talent eager to strut their stuff. Blues music grew roots and developed in the American South, but it came of age in Chicago. From 1954 to 1957, no less than 30 1 hits came out of the vibrant Chicago blues scene, which included the pre-eminent Chess Records, as well as smaller labels like VeeJay and Chief. After a lull in the 1960s and 70s, during which even stars like B.B. King fell on hard times, a new generation of fans began to revitalize the Chicago blues scene. Many of the movers and shakers worked at one time or another at the Jazz Record Mart, including the founders of Alligator and Earwig records, the original publisher of Living Blues magazine, and quite a few moonlighting blues musicians. By the late 70s, blues clubs had established a firm footing on the North side, with clubs like Kingston Mines, Wise Fools Pub, and B.L.U.E.S. attracting a largely white, college-educated audience, as well as blues tourists making pilgrimage. By the late 80s, blues clubs had even gone downtown, including clubs run by blues legends Buddy Guy and Koko Taylor. The neighborhood lounges on the South and West side, meanwhile, had languished as the talent moved north with the audiences. By 1990, with interest in blues music flourishing, a retro blues lounge on the near West Side, Rosa's, began offering multimedia classes on blues history developed by Blues U.®, and the first Chicago Blues Tour--, dubbed the West Side Blues Tour, was staged with Rosa's as the sole sponsor, and other West Side blues lounges offered as stops on the shuttle routes. The tours proved so popular that they became an annual, and later a semi-annual, event. Championed by the alternative weekly publication, the Chicago Reader, and brought to the attention of a new generation of blues fans by the tours, the lounges once again showed their vitality, spawning a new generation of entertainers cutting their teeth and earning their pay in the tough South and West side blues clubs. In 1998 the City of Chicago added the Chicago Blues Tour-- to its featured events for the WinterBreak (later Winter Delights) Festival, and it has become a popular tradition among blues fans as part of the Winter festival as well as a prelude to the annual Chicago Blues Festival. Chicago Blues Tour-- began offering private blues tours in 2000, and its satisfied clients have included everything from small parties to corporate clients.
WHAT CAN WE DO FOR YOU?
With occasional daytime historical tours added, including a scripted history of Chicago blues and tours of Chess Records (now the Blues Heaven Foundation), the Maxwell Street Market, Bronzeville, we offer a variety of fun ways to reconnect with friends, give clients or recruits a truly exciting and entertaining Chicago experience, or just have a fan's dream trip visiting the inspiring places enshrined in musical history. We can develop tours for groups from 8 persons and up, including both daytime historical sightseeing tours with educational and museum components as well as music-themed dinners and live blues entertainment.
Whatever your goals or budget, Chicago Blues Tour-- would like to provide your group with a package tour that is fun, educational, and truly a Chicago experience you'll always cherish. If you don't have a group large enough to warrant a tour, we will soon offer the "Blues U.® Guide to Chicago Blues", downloadable guide that will assist you in planning a blues itinerary for your stay in Chicago. Click "Private Blues Tours" to learn about private tour details.
PEACE & MANY BLESSINS' ON YOUR PATH YALL!! THANKS FOR KEEPING THE BLUES ALIVE!! MAY THERE BE FEW STONES IN YOUR PASSWAY MY FRIENDS!! HOPE TO SEE YOU ON THE ROAD..TILL THEN.. KEEP MAKING IT DO WHAT IT DO... ~ RR
"DEVIL OFFERED A GOLD DOBRO~I SAID NO,I BE A HOBO!!" ~ RiYeN RoOtS
please don't ignore this will make a big diffrence I need all my fan's and friends to help ! Go to the link bellow and play my Daughters music? she is a new artist she needs plays to help her get regular air time plays for the biggist radeo show in nashville all you have to do is go to the site hit play on each song and rate them four stars would be great This will also give her plays on over 350 radeo stashions thank you! from the singer song writer of change and many other hits your the greatist here is her link http://www.wsix.com/new2/artists/i/247182.html ADD HER TO YOUR FRIENDS WHILE YOUR AT IT www.myspace.com/deidreofficialpage
Chicago Bands and Entainers we are looking to fill some spots in upcoming event show. If you are looking to get in some clubs and festivals please email us.
WhAt'S GoOD FaMiLY? I'm JuSt KeEpIn' BuSy..WoRkInG HaRd aT ThEsE BLuEs... BaCk To ThE StUdIo In JuNe To ReCoRd TuNeS FoR My NeW CD..!! GeTtInG ReAdY To HiT ThE RoAd ThIs SuMmER. HoPe To SeE YoU At A ShOW DoWN ThE RoAD. TiLL ThEn..
If YoU ArE GoInG To TrY.. Go aLL ThE WaY.. Do It...ALL ThE WaY.. DoN'T LeT AnYoNe StEaL YoUr ShIne.. 2009 BeLoNgS To YoU.. MaKe It Do WhAt It Do!!
Delmark's new DVD and CD 'It Ain't Over" has arrived - the live document of Delmark's 55th Anniversary tribute concert at Buddy Guy's Legends from 2008! Featuring Lurrie Bell, Zora Young, Little Arthur Duncan's final recorded performance, Tail Dragger, Aaron Moore, Eddie Shaw, Jimmy Johnson, Shirley Johnson and more!
Also Delmark debut from Eddie C. Campbell ' Tear this World Up!" - King of West Side Funk Blues!
ColoredPeople.net A global community of artists and art promoters. We are people of all races, nationalities and faith whose talents bring color to our world.
Hey Hey, thanx for the kind wordz! As soon as someone comes along to help this ol' Bluesman...i'll be happy to share the music all over the planet!!!...Much Respect, aXe MaSterson (2009 NYC New century Award winner)
Thanks for becoming one of our friends! Hope you like our tunes and we hope to see you at one of our shows. We really appreciate your support. Thanks again! ROCK ON!! www.prowlers-music.com --PROWLERS auto-updated gig reminder--
Featuring:
Blues Art Journal
Illinois Blues Blast
LectricLiz
Delta Boogie Radio
Hairy Larry
Blues Boy Jag
Texas Jake
Blues Hall of Fame
Blues Radio
Past Issues to 2006
Arkansas Blues Legends
Hope you can make it out tonight at Cool RIver Draught House (formerly Fahrenheit) in Homer Glen we are having our thursday night Blues open jam. All blues musician and blues fans are welcome. There is no cover and with great food and drink specials. Tonight we have:
$10. 00 Domestic Buckets $4. 00 Bud Light and Miller Lite Pitchers $3. 00 Liter Long Islands $5. 00 Grand Slam Nachos (Dine In Only)
Last week we had standing room only so I would recomend getting here early. Hope to see you here.
Promo Joe
Cool River Draught House 12622 W. 159th Street Homer Glen IL 60491 708-301-8006
