In celebration of June being Black Music Appreciation Month, the Chicago Blues Museum-Record Row Foundation is featuring a new photo music exhibit put that provides a glimpse into the beginnings of popular music as it relates to Chicago.
“Unsung Bronzeville – a Music History Exhibit”, on display at Harold Washington College through June 30, explores the Chicago R&B and soul music scene from the 1940s through the 1970s with its early beginnings in Bronzeville.
The exhibit features archival photographic images focused on homegrown Chicago musicians, entertainers, and performers, as well as places and companies where this popular music originated and evolved.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Exhibit hours are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturdays 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. School groups and exhibit tours can be scheduled by emailing hwcinfo@ccc.edu or calling 312/553-3150. Harold Washington College is located at 30 East Lake Street in downtown Chicago.
For free tickets to the exhibit, click here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unsung-bronzevillea-music-history-exhibit-by-the-chicago-blues-museum-tickets-62424624733
Chicago Blues Museum-Record Row founder and CEO Gregg Parker, who is also a noted guitarist, says, “Chicago’s blues, R&B and soul
music scene of the 1940s through 1970s had its early
beginnings in Bronzeville, the same neighborhood former
mayor Harold Washington, the college’s namesake, was born and
raised in.
“The exhibit showcases a selection of Chicago
Blues Museum archival photographic images of homegrown
Chicago musicians, entertainers, and performers, as well as
places and companies where this popular music originated and
evolved.”
Exhibit tours can also be scheduled by calling
Gregg Parker at 773/723-5031 or emailing chicagobluesmuseum@att.net.
The Chicago Blues Museum promotes the preservation and evolution of the blues and related music genres through education and performance programs to foster worldwide appreciation of this music as an indigenous American art form, to focus attention on the rich living tradition of the blues.
It is the only music museum in Chicago and Illinois dedicated to the history of the blues and African-American popular music as it relates to the city. Since its founding in 1991, the museum has been dedicated to the preservation of the legacy and the rich living tradition of the blues, its pioneers, places it emerged from and evolved in, and to the education of the public about the music.
This is so cool! I do wish there was a bit more information on the page. So awesome that they made it available to really all by the free admission.
Glad you enjoyed.