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| Hot Blues Nights... Live At 2120! Dixon Landing Music has teamed up with legendary bluesman Willie Dixon's Blues Heaven Foundation to sponsor "Hot Blues Nights... Live At 2120! This 3-day event, being held June 5th - 7th at the historic former Chess Records Studios, will be an after hours party when the Chicago Blues Festival retires each evening. The purpose of the event is to bring awareness to the foundation and to generate additional support for both existing and future programs. The line-up currently includes: Cash McCall (former Chess Records Recording Artist, guitarist/singer), Alex Dixon (pianist, producer, and Willie Dixon's grandson), Steve Bell (harpist and the late harp master Carey Bell's son), Honeyboy Edwards (Grammy Award Winner), Billy Branch and Sons of Blues, David Jacobs-Strain, Nellie "Tiger" Travis, Lurrie Bell, Mud Morganfield (Muddy Waters Jr.), and other special guests! Additionally, the museum will be open from June 5th - 8th for tours. Tickets are available at www.hotbluesnights.com. "I am the blues..." words often proclaimed by Chicago Bluesman Willie Dixon. The world is incontestably a richer place because of Willie Dixon's musical contributions alone. Many of the greatest rock bands of the '60s, '70s and '80s including The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Yardbirds, Grateful Dead, Eric Clapton, and the list goes on... have been touched by his music. Believing that his work was not yet finished, Dixon had devoted much of his time to the organization he founded, Blues Heaven Foundation. His vision was to allow the echoes of great American Blues to continue to develop, to encourage a new generation of blues greats and to provide for the ongoing welfare of senior Blues musicians. Blues Heaven Foundation's mission is to help artists and musicians obtain what is rightfully theirs, and to educate both adults and children on the history of the Blues and the business of music. To achieve this mission, the foundation has successfully executed several programs, including The Muddy Water's Scholarship, Music Clinics, Music in the Garden/Record Row Festival, Emergency Assistance, and is looking to establish additional programs in the near future. The museum itself attracts visitors from all over the world! In order to help maintain the existence of Blues Heaven Foundation, and to realize the dream of its founder, Willie Dixon, support is imperative! write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Jazz News :: home page |