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The Arie Crown Theater is an entertainment venue named after Lithuanian immigrant Arie Crown, who was the father of Henry Crown, the American industrialist and philanthropist, and situated on Lake Shore Drive, Chicago. It opened in 1960, with seating for 5,000 people, one of the largest seating capacities in Chicago.
Linsey Alexander (born July 23, 1942) is an American blues songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist. He has been a fixture in clubs on Chicago's North Side for nearly two decades and has played with numerous blues musicians, including Buddy Guy, A.C. Reed, Magic Slim, and B.B. King.
From 1947, he led his own band in Chicago clubs, [2] as well as continuing to record with Thompson and on other sessions in Chicago, including The Four Blazes' no. 1 R&B hit "Mary Jo" in 1952. [3] In 1955 he joined Lionel Hampton 's band for two years, touring in Europe, before returning to lead his own group in Chicago. [ 2 ]
Chicago is one of 13 metropolitan areas that have major league baseball, football, basketball, and hockey teams. In four of these metropolitan areas the teams from all four sports play their games within the limits of one city — Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Denver.
Chicago's music scene has been well known for its blues music for many years. "Chicago Blues" uses a variety of instruments in a way which heavily influenced early rock and roll music, including instruments like electrically amplified guitar, drums, piano, bass guitar and sometimes the saxophone or harmonica, which are generally used in Delta blues, which originated in Mississippi.
The station continued to play Adult R&B music, but during the late evenings and weekends. In August 2011, WSRB dropped the name "Real Radio" and switched back to calling itself "Soul 106-3", but the programming was initially unchanged. [23] In 2014, the station dropped the D.L. Hughley syndicated afternoon show after only a year. (Hughley ...
The Chitlin' Circuit was a collection of performance venues found throughout the eastern, southern, and upper Midwest areas of the United States. They provided commercial and cultural acceptance for African-American musicians, comedians, and other entertainers following the era of venues run by the "white-owned-and-operated Theatre Owners Booking Association (TOBA)...formed in 1921."
She has been an artist-in-residence at the Chicago blues clubs Kingston Mines, [7] Blue Chicago on Clark, [6] B.L.U.E., Blue Chicago, and Bill's Blues. [8] She formed her own record label, Blue Kitty Music, in 2011. [4] Blues reviewer Eric Schelkopf wrote that Mandeville is a "true renaissance woman and fervent promoter of the blues."