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Starts before Friday John Moreland and Patterson Hood: 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, March 26-27, at SPACE, 1245 Chicago Ave., ...

Why did I organise the B.B. King’s Blues Summit 100 project? Because it was like: ‘I can’t believe nobody’s doing anything ...

A new documentary film will be released about blues musician Bobby Rush. Titled King of the Chitlin’ Circuit, the movie ...

The blues world was changed forever on a sunny day around 1960 when a little boy walked into a five-and-dime in Los Angeles. “I was 8, maybe 9 when I saw it, all shiny in a display case,” says Billy ...

Black history is fundamentally a part of Chicago history. In recent years, the City of Chicago and its cultural institutions have made gradual efforts to spotlight how Black history has shaped our ...

Rooted in the Mississippi Delta, the blues sprang from spiritual music and field hollers, spinning a cultural thread that followed the Great Black Migration from South to North. Sheer joy of ...

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In celebration of Black History Month, Chicago filmmakers will be showing their short films at Music Box Theater and Facets in programs presented by local film programmer Tyler Michael Balentine.

On this day (January 29) in 1992, blues legend Willie Dixon died of heart failure in Burbank, California, at the age of 76. His impact on the music world is immeasurable. Dixon was one of the fathers ...