The East Beverly Association

The World Music Company, 1808 W. 103 Street, is pleased to announce we will be hosting the East Beverly Association Fall Fling on Sunday, 9/27, from 2-4pm. This event is a neighborhood potluck of EPIC proportions! The main course and complimentary refreshments will be provided by the East Beverly Association. East Beverly neighbors are requested to please bring a favorite side-dish or dessert to pass. World Music Company’s Professor Becker will provide musical entertainment for the kids.

Please RSVP to abe [at] eastbeverly [dot] com. (Appreciated but not Required).

Originally posted 2009-09-09 12:18:48.

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.

SONS OF THE NEVER WRONG

Sons of the Never Wrong are a folk trio from Chicago made up of Bruce Roper, Deborah Lader, and Sue Demel. The band has been creating original “turbo-charged folk music” for 15 years to a cult-like national following. With their different take on three part harmony on top of witty, whimsical songs, Sons’ style springs from a tradition you’d swear you’ve heard, but this just ain’t your grandpop’s folk music.

The Son’s 5 CD releases have brought them stunning national and international reviews as well as extensive radio-play. It is their live performances though that win the audience’s hearts. The group can barely stand still on stage and insta-choreography results in a non-stop show of stories, dancing, and odd-ball humor. Yet it is when the three step up to the mic and belt out one of their many gorgeously- arranged songs, that you know you are in for something extra special.

A kind of Twin Peaks version of Peter, Paul and Mary, the songs are wacky, original & uplifting, combining exquisite vocal harmonies which spill and spiral all over the place, glorious melodies and…er… unique lyrical perspective

Tickets $25

To purchase tickets please call us at (773)779-7059

Directions

Originally posted 2009-07-17 18:18:31.

Please call John Devens at (773)779-7059 if you are interested in booking a Friday night gig. Rock band night is the third Friday of every month.

Gigs are open to all genres of music.

Originally posted 2009-07-19 23:32:33.

Originally posted 2009-07-17 17:44:48.

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.

Professor Becker is a musician, story teller and music teacher at World Music Company. He has been entertaining kids for over 30 years at libraries, schools, special events, and his first grade classroom. He tells “interactive” stories and sings songs, some traditional and some original.

Enjoy a Professor Becker concert RIGHT IN YOUR HOME. Each child will get a kaleidoscope, a glow-in-the-dark egg shaker and an American made Kazoo!!! Songs include The Cat Came Back, Dracula and Frankenstein, The Talking Guitar Muskrat Song, Superman is a Phony, Happiness is a Warm Library Book, The Bubblegum Song, The Potty Chair Song, On Top of Spaghetti, and many others.

Currently, the Professor is developing an interactive, musical presentation about Abraham Lincoln for our Outreach Series.

Originally posted 2009-07-19 14:54:57.

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.

Tickets Available Now!

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, 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.

Tickets Available Now!

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.