“Start now. Have fun. Take lessons. From me.”

A working musician, David teaches music because he loves to do it… and it lets him practice. A Beverly resident, David has been teaching for four years, two of them at World Music Company.

Dave Waterman is one of the most fun loving guitar and piano teachers at WMC. Dave’s weird and wonderful character is easily one of his best teaching tools. Ask anyone around WMC and they’ll tell you he has a knack of connecting with and reaching his younger students need for a fun and dynamic lesson each and every week. Dave also understands that some of his students need special encouragement to practice, “One student of mine gets a 5 minute karate lesson if he practices the week before.”

Originally posted 2009-07-17 17:17:57.

Rita Fields- Director of Finance

Lea Giblin- Student Coordinator, Store Manager, Graphic Designer

Originally posted 2009-07-22 00:45:32.

Drums and Percussion

“Get ready to practice. None of this is going to come easy, but if you work hard, you’ll love the results.”

Music is a mission for Logan, who has been teaching for 7 years. Why? “easy- to spread the passion,” he says. “The more people we have the world who have a true appreciation for music, the better off we are.”

A South Side resident, Logan joined the World Music Company faculty nearly three years ago. He has eclectic musical tastes- he likes funk, soul, jazz, hip hop, Latin , African, Indian, classical, and well, you get the idea.

Logan teaches private drum lessons as well as a Little Folkies class for aspiring young drummers.

One thing he looks forward to is the opportunity to challenge students with pieces that force them to raise the level of play. ” I have a student who entered a multi-city competetion inwhich she was to play the snare drum,” he says. “I gave her a piece which was clearly unusual for this type of competition. Instead of focusing only on technique, this main focus of the piece was musicality. She came back with a first-place medal.”

Originally posted 2009-07-22 13:22:01.

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.

The presenter and pricipal actor, Becker, has taught in Chicago Public Schools for over thirty years, has been a musical performer for about the same time, and has been a Lincoln scholar for his entire life. The performance begins promptly at 2pm with a fanfare of “Hail to the Chief”, and tickets are only $3. This program is designed to be entertaining for children, adults, scholars, and the curious. Call 773.779.7059 for tickets and information.

Originally posted 2009-09-22 13:59:56.

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.