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The Venue in Aurora has announced plans to resume outdoor concerts starting in June.

Blues Beat: More blues music on the horizon Domenic Forcella FacebookTwitterEmail St. George joins Slim for a Sunday show at Maple View Farm.Domenic Forcella / Contributed photo As the warmer weather approaches, more blues activities are on the horizon. Early gigs are being posted and more are expected. That means Blues Beat will soon have plenty of information on gigs concerts and jam sessions at our Connecticut venues. You can help by alerting us to upcoming dates and other activities — it’s greatly appreciated. Some of that live music includes Morgan Giosa/Brandt Taylor Blues Band, Sat...

Growing up on a sharecropper’s farm in Mississippi, Chicago blues musician John Primer lived in a wooden shack without running water and shared a bed with his cousins. Those hardships turned into material for blues music — which he said should be felt deeply and emanated from the soul. “When you have hard times, you got nothing but the blues,” Primer said. “When I’m playing it, it gives me the feeling that takes away all my pain.” Primer started playing guitar at four years old and used his skills to play with prolific figures in the Chicago blues circuit, including Muddy Waters...

The blues patriarch also had three sons who played together as the Kinsey Report. Sign up for our newsletters Subscribe Since 2004 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who've been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in the first place. The Secret History of Chicago Music has often had to contend with the question of geography. I've counted artists as "from Chicago" even when they've been based as far away as Champaign, Illinois, provided they have strong ties to our city. Oddly, I've rarely d...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Spa City venue Universal Preservation Hall is presenting a live-stream virtual concert featuring Misty Blues. The concert is scheduled for 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 12, two days before the debut of the band’s new album “None More Blue.” This release marks the Massachusetts-based group’s 10th album in the past two decades, since the group was founded by lead singer Gina Coleman. - Advertisement - All original compositions on “None More Blue” were written during the pandemic and shed light on the creative connections band members were abl...