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Larry Gray Jazz Trio, 09/19, 8pm

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:28:15 +0000

Larry Gray Comes to The World Music Company, 9/19 at 8:00 pm

On Saturday, September 19th, at 8:00 pm, Larry Gray takes the stage to kick off the World Music Company Concert Series.

Bassist Larry Gray demonstrates an impressive versatility and an uncommon musical curiosity. Originally a jazz guitarist, Larry switched to the double bass and quickly developed a reputation as a first-call sideman. Throughout the years he has worked with such jazz legends as George Coleman, Lee Konitz, Bobby Hutcherson, McCoy Tyner, Sonny Fortune, Ira Sullivan, Junior Mance, David “Fathead” Newman, Charles McPherson, Antonio Hart, Benny Golson, Jackie McLean, Sonny Stitt, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Al Cohn, Eddie Harris and Les McCann. In addition, he has collaborated with guitarists Kenny Burrell, Joe Pass, and Tal Farlow, as well as the drummers Ed Thigpen and Jack DeJohnette, and trumpeters Donald Byrd and Harry “Sweets” Edison, among others.

Sample a song below.

The show begins at 8pm, Saturday, September 19th, 2009. The World Music Company is located at 1808 W. 103rd Street. 60643. Call 773.779.7059 for tickets or more information. Get Directions.

Originally posted 2009-08-13 15:28:58.

Cara Dillon – 9/18

admin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:10:30 +0000

Cara Dillon Comes to World Music Company

What may well be the world’s most beautiful female voice.
-Mojo

A rare and extraordinary talent ….Cara Dillon sings with a passion that is evident in the depth of her content, lyrically illustrating the scars of the human heart. There are few on this island to equal her tremendous musical talent.
-RTÉ

Dillon’s crystalline, angelic voice is an instrument of rare beauty capable of melting the sternest of hearts.
-BBC

Opening the City of Chicago World Music Festival 2009, we are pleased to welcome, all the way from the UK, acclaimed vocalist Cara Dillon at the World Music Company, September 18th, 2009. View Cara Dillon videos, preview the music, and buy Cara Dillon tickets online.

Cara has an incredibly rare talent that you only come across a handful of times in your whole life. Her gentle charm and natural personality combine with a mesmerizing gift to relate a great story through song and has helped her to defy borders, cultures and even languages. She is an emotive and captivating performer at the very top of her field and one has the feeling she’ll be there for a very long time, capturing audiences with Irish and Celtic influenced “Best in Class” world music. This concert will be the debut of her newest cd, released 9/15 in the US.

Cara Dillon sings Craigie Hill

Cara Dillon sings Bold Jamie

Cara Dillon Sings Garden Valley with Sam Lakeman
Featuring an interview with Sam Lakeman and Cara Dillon

Chicago's World Music Festival

As part of this year’s Chicago World Music Festival, we are privileged and pleased to host this World Class musical event. World Music Festival Chicago, 2009!
The show begins at 8pm, Friday, September 18th, 2009. The World Music Company is located at 1808 W. 103rd Street. 60643. Call 773.779.7059 for tickets or more information. Get Directions.

Originally posted 2009-08-13 17:41:20.

The Teflons with Eddie Holstein, 11/7

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:16:55 +0000

The Special Consensus – 11/21

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:00:03 +0000

Bluegrass with an attitude! The Special Consensus takes the stage on Saturday, November 21st.

The Special Consensus Comes to the World Music Company 11/21

Special Consensus is a superb bluegrass outfit in a classic vein but with more than enough modern sensibilities to attract every ear in this now pleasantly fractionating genre. The vocals are spotless, the playing as shiny as a newly minted penny, and music like this is the reason people come to love bluegrass… Special Consensus approaches this hallowed American musical form with boundless energy and an aesthetic reverence that tickles the ribs, tugs at the heart, and puts a restless two-step in boots and bare feet.

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The show begins at 8pm, Saturday, November 21st, 2009. The World Music Company is located at 1808 W. 103rd Street. 60643. Call 773.779.7059 for tickets or more information. Get Directions.

Anne Harris – 12/5

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:44:04 +0000

Anne Harris, December 5th, World Music Company

Energetic, charismatic performer and engaging vocalist, Anne Harris complements her inventive fiddle playing with turns on mandolin and djembe drum. Harris brings these enticing glimpses into her creative well to the World Music Company Stage on Saturday, December 5th at 8pm.

“Anne Harris’ songs frequently sound born of a spiritual awakening. …songs reference mountains, rivers and deep-rooted trees, the singer viewing the natural world almost as an open-air cathedral,” said the Chicago Tribune in a recent feature. As a leader in Chicago’s conscious music scene, the vocalist / songwriter / fiddler has made quite a name for herself with a growing body of fans who are drawn to her passionate and captivating performances and evocative songs.

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The show begins at 8pm, Saturday, December 5th, 2009. The World Music Company is located at 1808 W. 103rd Street. 60643. Call 773.779.7059 for tickets or more information. Get Directions.

Spider Saloff – 12/19

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:06:21 +0000

Celebrate Christmas with Spider Saloff at World Music Company, 12/19

“One of the finest jazz singers working in this or any other city,” The Chicago Tribune stated emphatically. “A wicked way with a lyric!” exclaimed The New York Times. Heard world wide as the co-star and co-creator of the internationally syndicated Public Radio series Words and Music, Spider Saloff presents a special Christmas show at the World music Company, 12/19.

Spider Saloff has recorded and performed with such jazz luminaries as Les Paul, Tom Harrell, Nick Brignola, Ray Drummond, Harry Allen, Mark Murphy and Dick Hyman. She has worked frequently with Larry Novak, Tony Monte, Steve LaSpina, Ken Peplowski and Bill Charlap. She has played at leading venues include symphony orchestras and concert spaces such as, The Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, Wilmington Grand Opera, Wallingford Symphony, The Castro Theater is San Francisco, and Town Hall and Dick Hyman’s Jazz in July in New York.

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The show begins at 8pm, Saturday, December 19th, 2009. The World Music Company is located at 1808 W. 103rd Street. 60643. Call 773.779.7059 for tickets or more information. Get Directions.

Michael Smith – 1/16

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:08:05 +0000

Michael Smith at World Music Company

Michael Smith is absolutely, hands down one of the best songwriters around. His yearly concert at World Music has become a very sought-after ticket, and for a very good reason. Michael’s performances are riveting. His songs include poignant ballads and humorous romps. Michael’s songs are more than just fun and moving. They are expressions of life, love and laughter that will stay with you for a long time.”Michael Smith stands out as one of the few undisputed geniuses among singer-songwriters”.Sing Out! Magazine “One of the best songwriters in the English language …an enchanting and riveting performer.” Chicago Magazine.

Smith’s music, like most of the best music, is hard to peg. There are elements in it of jazz, folk, rock, even pop; there are fleeting echoes of everyone from Duke Ellington to The Beatles to John Prine.

Smith’s narrative energy in his song-stories could be compared to Bruce Springstein, the hauntedness of his voice to Gordon Lightfoot, the sophistication of his lyrics to Cole Porter or Joni Mitchell, and the depth of his feeling to Tom Waits. But that wouldn’t cover it. His is an entirely individual gift. Who else has ever written about childhood, Catholicism and the embeddedness of a teacher’s influence the way Smith does in Sister Clarissa?
-Jeff Mahoney, Hamilton Spectator

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The show begins at 8pm, Saturday, January 16th, 2010. The World Music Company is located at 1808 W. 103rd Street. 60643. Call 773.779.7059 for tickets or more information. Get Directions.

Anne Hills, 1/30

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:27:27 +0000

Anne Hills at World Music Company

Anne Hills has, in the words of the Chicago Tribune, “one of the most glorious voices in all of contemporary folk music,” and she’s been called the heir apparent to Judy Collins. Born in India as the daughter of missionaries, raised in Michigan, and now based in Pennsylvania, Anne has been a folk-music institution for more than three decades now with her soaring, crystal-clear soprano and her innovative original songs.

She came of age as part of Chicago’s folk scene, and she has never stopped experimenting and searching: among her many collaborations are those with jazz musicians and with theatrical presenters. Anne’s 2007 album “Ef You Don’t Watch Out” features her own settings of ten poems by the bard of Indiana, James Whitcomb Riley, and you can also pick up a copy of her recently reissued 1995 classic, “Angle of the Light.” We are thrilled to have her back performing in our Concert Series.

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The show begins at 8pm, Saturday, September 19th, 2010. The World Music Company is located at 1808 W. 103rd Street. 60643. Call 773.779.7059 for tickets or more information. Get Directions.

Dennis Stroughmatt et l’Esprit Creole – 3/27

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:12:39 +0000

Dennis Stoughmatt Cajun Trio

Dennis Stroughmatt’s journey into the roots of Cajun and French Creole music, stories and language began in the small isolated communities around Sainte Genevieve, Missouri. There he learned from diverse master fiddlers such as Roy Boyer and Charlie Pashia, a blend of old-style French roots music, with infusions of Celtic bowing and Metis rhythms.

Later, Dennis traveled to Quebec and to southwestern Louisiana, where he learned African Style Creole fiddling from folks such as Canray Fontento and Black Allemand, and Creole accordion from Morris Ardoin. Today, Dennis is a keeper of traditions in the old styles of both upper and lower Louisiana, a Creole fiddler, accordionist, speaker, historian, and foremost, musician.

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View a Dennis Stroughmatt Video!

The show begins at 8pm, Saturday, March 27th, 2010. The World Music Company is located at 1808 W. 103rd Street. 60643. Call 773.779.7059 for tickets or more information. Get Directions.

Greta Pope – 4/10

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:36:35 +0000

Greta Pope comes to the World Music Company

World Music Company is very proud to introduce Greta Pope to our audience. Greta’sw performance spans all of these musical moods…and more!Segueing smoothly from a lively Brazilian number into a beloved Broadway song…from a swing/jazz number into one with a Country flavor, this multi-talented entertainer demonstrates a striking versatility of voice and style.

Greta Pope is an International entertainer. She has delighted audiences throughout Europe, the Far East, South America and the Caribbean, as well as the United States and Canada. Ms. Pope has been touted as one of the great voices of our time, as she performs with ease all styles from Country to Opera, and from Rhythm and Blues to Broadway.

Tickets Available Now!

The show begins at 8pm, Saturday, April 10th, 2010. The World Music Company is located at 1808 W. 103rd Street. 60643. Call 773.779.7059 for tickets or more information. Get Directions.