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Stephen Stills and Kenny Wayne Shepherd join the CBE Artist Board

Stephen Stills is one of rock music’s most enduring figures with a career now spanning six decades, multiple solo works, and four hugely influential groups – Manassas, Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN), and Read more…

By Lillian Selonick, 3 years ago April 2, 2018
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Chicago History Museum opens Chicago Blues Exhibit April 8

Photo by Amplified: Chicago Blues “AMPLIFIED: CHICAGO BLUES” April 8-Aug. 10, 2019 | Chicago History Museum In advance of next year’s opening of the Chicago Blues Experience, an entire museum dedicated to the blues, the Read more…

By Lillian Selonick, 3 years ago March 15, 2018
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Folk and Blues Musician Rhiannon Giddens Named MacArthur Foundation ‘Genius’ Grant Winner – The New York Times

The past year has been a whirlwind for Rhiannon Giddens, the Grammy-winning musician who became the first woman and first nonwhite person to win a major prize for excellence on the banjo and then celebrated Read more…

By Lillian Selonick, 3 years ago October 16, 2017
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Mavis Staples on Prince, Trump, Black Lives Matter, and Her Exercise Regimen | The New Yorker

By Elon Green The last eight months—roughly the amount of time since Donald J. Trump’s Inauguration—haven’t smothered Mavis Staples’s irrepressible optimism, but it’s been palpably tempered. She faced dark days even before the election in Read more…

By Chicago Blues Experience, 4 years ago October 11, 2017
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Chicago Blues Experience Coming to Loop – NBC Chicago

Chicago took a major step to preserving its blues history. The Chicago Blues Experience is moving to the city’s Loop. NBC 5’s LeeAnn Trotter tells us when it will open its doors. Source: Chicago Blues Read more…

By Chicago Blues Experience, 4 years ago September 5, 2017
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Crain’s Chicago Business: How a venture-capital veteran got the blues

Sona Wang, 58, began her venture-capital career at Allstate Venture Capital, then went on to found three independent VC firms. When the last one, Ceres, began winding down five years ago, she and a group of partners created Chicago Read more…

By Chicago Blues Experience, 4 years ago September 5, 2017
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Daily Southtown: “Bluesman John Primer returns to play Beverly Arts Center”

“The sound and style of Chicago blues was built by artists such as singer and guitarist John Primer, who migrated to Chicago in 1963 at the age of 18. Primer and the Real Deal Blues Band Read more…

By Chicago Blues Experience, 4 years ago July 12, 2017
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WGN Radio: “Highway to ‘Blues Heaven’: Preserving and promoting the past and future of Chicago’s musical legacy”

“…Co-founders Bill Selonick and John Boncimino, of the upcoming Chicago Blues Experience Museum, slated for a downtown location at 25 E. Washington, talk about their five-plus year long process of creating an immersive music museum Read more…

By Chicago Blues Experience, 4 years ago May 16, 2017
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APP: “Legendary guitarist Buddy Guy back in Red Bank”

“Guy, who will return Wednesday to the Asbury Park Press Stage at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, is routinely near the top of Rolling Stone magazine’s ‘100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time’ list Read more…

By Chicago Blues Experience, 4 years ago May 12, 2017
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uDiscoverMusic.com: “Mick Jagger & Buddy Guy Together On New Rolling Stones Cover”

“Mick Jagger makes a guest appearance on a new version of the Rolling Stones’ ‘Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker),’ from their 1973 album Goats Head Soup, by blues giant and longtime Stones ally Buddy Guy. The Read more…

By Chicago Blues Experience, 4 years ago May 8, 2017

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