Chasin Dem Blues

“Blues is the roots, everything else is the fruits.” So proclaimed Willie Dixon, blues composer, famed recording-session maestro, bass man, and an early bridge between the blues and rock ‘n’ roll.

This thought is brought to life in this roof-raising show is a foot-stomping, multi-media musical celebration, which thrills audiences with storytellers’ accounts of how a small Midwest town changed the landscape of American music, and ushered in the sound of the early 20th century, a sound that still reverberates today.