COLVIN Concerts
TUESDAY EVENINGS • In these weekly concerts, a variety of Chicagoland talent performs in the Parlor of the historic, Chicago Landmark, Colvin House. As soon as weather permits, concerts will move outdoors to our charming, spacious Courtyard!
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Tickets
Please reserve a ticket through Eventbrite (using buttons below) to help us anticipate the size of our audience for this concert. Tickets are also available for sale at the door for a higher day-of-concert rate. We hope you will consider tipping our talented, local musicians to continue supporting the performing arts and community-based events.
We are now serving food & drinks! We have a rotating menu and a selection of beverages (sodas, beer, and wine) for sale onsite at Colvin House! Guests can order from a limited menu each week.
We look forward to seeing you at Colvin House!
If you or your organization are interested in sponsoring Colvin Concerts, please explore our sponsorship opportunities here.
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May 27 @ 6:30PM-8:30PM
Kimberly Gordon
Fourth-generation Chicagoan and critically lauded vocalist Kimberly Gordon is sought after by the elite jazz listener. Kimberly's grandfather was a dancer at the historic Chêz Pareé nightclub and her Nana was a camera girl there, a position acquired by childhood friend and mobster Sam Giancana. These stories and personal ties to Chicago nightclub history laid the foundation for Kimberly's love of early 20th-century music. With a deep understanding of the American Songbook, it has led her on a path that celebrates composers, lyricists, and jazz masters alike.
In New York City, Kimberly was the first woman to hold a Saturday night residency at the now-historic Smalls Jazz Club in Manhattan. Kimberly's years in N.Y.C. allowed her to perform with jazz greats such as Roy Hargrove, Betty Carter, Wynton Marsalis, Harry "Sweets" Edison, and John Hicks, just to name a handful.
Kimberly's sound reflects the old school style of delivering standards, deeply rooted in the ways of the masters, always true to the melody as written; this separates her from the rest.
You can find Kimberly at Winter’s Jazz Club in Chicago, weaving her way through the American songbook or in a studio doing Voiceover work for Zynga.
Check her out on Facebook.
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June 3 @ 6:30PM-8:30PM
Tamila Umarkhanova
Tamila Umarkhanova is a viola and violin player from Kazakhstan based in Chicago, IL.
Tamila Umarkhanova was born in 1992 in Kazakhstan and started her musical education in Moscow at the Moscow Music School named after Shostakovitch. Later, when she moved back to Kazakhstan with her family, Tamila entered the Tchaikowsky Almaty Music College and successfully graduated with honors from the Kazakh National Conservatory.
During her artistic career, Tamila has performed on such concert stages as the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, Mariinsky Theatre in Saint-Petersburg/Russia, Great Hall of Kazakh National Philarmony in Almaty/Kazakhstan, Great Hall of Kazakh National Conservatory, RNCM (UK), Basel (Switzerland), Dhaka (Bangladesh), Chicago (USA), Atlanta (USA)
Classically trained, she started her own musical path after moving to the US in 2018. She is a fully booked musician at weddings and events, where she plays a lot of cover music to popular songs and she put her own improvisations on it.
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June 5 @ 6:30PM-8:30PM
Los Perros Cubanos
Los Perros Cubanos features the music of Cuba’s Golden Age of the 1940s and 1950s. Since its inception in 2009, Los Perros Cubanos has become one of the Midwest’s hottest Latin acts. The band’s music combines the traditional Cuban music styles of Son Cubano, Salsa, Cha-Cha, and Charanga with modern instrumental prowess to produce a captivating sound that moves your feet. Los Perros Cubanos take the influences of such Latin music immortals as Buena Vista Social Club, Beny Moré, Arsenio Rodriguez, Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, and Compay Segundo, and blend jazz, blues, rock, and country into the mix to create a totally unique sound. You’ve never heard anything like Los Perros Cubanos! Prepare to dance the night away!
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June 10 @ 6:30PM-8:30PM
The Chicago Swing Project
Originally conceived of as an adaption of ragtime-style finger picking to swing dance music, the project has added other types of dance and popular music to our set list, including arrangements for big band, western swing, and pop.
Joe Shive - Guitar, Robert Lindauer - Guitar Synth, Lem Roby - Skeletone Tapper, Mac - Drums
Check them out: Facebook
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June 12 @ 6:30PM-8:30PM
Vivian García
A bilingual group performing a combination of folk, jazz, blues, Latin boleros, and rumba flamenca music.
Vivian Garcia is a Chicago-based singer-songwriter. Her musical journey has taken her from studying rumba flamenca rhythms in Granada, Spain, to performing with international folk musicians in Madrid, Spain, for 3 years, as well as singing with various bands in Chicago. Vivian has performed at The Taste of Chicago, Metro, Thalia Hall, House of Blues, and Double Door, as well as World Music Fest, Mole de Mayo, Pilsen Fest, Villapalooza, and many local venues.
She’s opened for Grammy winners La Santa Cecilia as well as Aterciopelados. Cold Bed is her first album, and her latest EP, In Between Times, released February 2016, had her song Ven Conmigo featured on the daytime Emmy nominated show East Los High on HULU. Vivian is a TEDx speaker/performer and has a song in the 2023 Sundance award-winning film The Persian Version, to be released by Sony Pictures this fall.
Check out Vivian on Facebook
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June 13 @ 6:30PM-8:30PM
Parting Glass
The "Parting Glass" Trio: a string band playing Assorted Roots, Irish, Blues, Bluegrass, and World Music
John Neafsey, vocals and guitar. John is a native Rogers Parker and a lover of traditional Irish music and classic Chicago Blues. His favorite gig is a monthly Parting Glass session at Cunneen’s bar on Devon Avenue.
Jennifer Dunne, fiddle. Jen is a professional violinist who has played with the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, the Ravinia Festival Orchestra (backing up Smokey Robinson, Earth, Wind and Fire, Sarah McLaughlin, and Marco Antonio Solis), and the Chicago Philharmonic, among others. Jen’s love and admiration of Irish, Americana, and Bluegrass music are realized through this group.
Jim Szmurlo, mandolin, fiddle, guitar, vocals. Jim, a native Chicagoan, always had a passion for folk, roots, and ethnic music. Over the years, he's played with various musical groups and friends, ranging from Appalachian, Balkan, Scandinavian, Americana, and whatever catches his ear. And his interest in playing instruments is as varied as his musical tastes.
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June 24 @ 6:30PM-8:30PM
The Raven Duo
Raven Duo is the joining together of two enigmatic musicians emerging in Chicago's growing jazz scene. Miranda Sprague, also known as Mira Raven, is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and artist who started a jazz collective back in 2017 after receiving the Luminarts Foundation Jazz Fellowship Award. The Coffee Jazz Collective is a free-form group that has had emerging artists and legends pass through. Some notable mentions are Robert Irving III, Larry Brown Jr., Justin Dillard, and several others.
Chicago’s Brandon Harper, a 2024 Ravinia Steans Music Institute fellow under jazz greats Rufus Reid, Billy Childs, and Steve Wilson, is among the nation's best young jazz pianists just a few years after embracing the instrument.
In 2024 he led the Brandon Harper and Friends trio at the Chicago Jazz Festival, played a four-day stand at Chicago's legendary Jazz Showcase with alto saxophonist Greg Ward’s combo, twice played with drummer Clif Wallace’s Big Band at Andy’s Jazz Club, and played at both Andy's and at Jazz Showcase with drummer Isaiah Spencer’s combo. Prior to those accomplishments, he was selected as one of the 2024 YoungArts winners for jazz piano.Learn More on Instagram: @miramiraraven & @coffeejazzcollective
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July 1 @ 6:30PM-8:30PM
Aaron Shapiro
Aaron Shapiro is a guitarist and composer who has been a fixture in Chicago's eclectic music scene since 2010. As a writer and arranger, he has composed for a 15-piece big band, a Hammond Organ trio, and an album of guitar & vocal duets with singer Mary Lawson. Over the past decade, he has performed at many of Chicago’s renowned music venues, including Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Ravinia Festival’s Bennett Gordon Hall, and The Jazz Showcase.
Aaron was a member of the Grammy Jazz Ensemble in 2011 and has performed with avant-funk band The Eternals since 2015. He has also collaborated on recording projects with saxophonist Patrick Bartley and drummer Daru Jones. For the Colvin Concert series, Aaron's trio will be presenting two sets of original music with some choice cover songs. He will be joined by bassist John Sutton and pianist Paul Giallorenzo.
Learn More: Website
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July 3 @ 6:30PM-8:30PM
Fumee
Fumée (feminine noun): smoke, smolder. Is there anything more French?
Bandleader and vocalist Christy Bennett named the band after bringing together a group of musicians to perform music in a style inspired by Django Reinhardt. Classically trained, her mastery of romance languages as well as her instrument informed her choice of repertoire for the group. Performing music of the past, often rare hidden gems and music from around the world, Bennett combined their love of old things with a passion for making great music. The Fumee lineup includes a rotating cast of some of the best musicians Chicago has to offer. The upcoming concert at Colvin House features: The Irving Berlin Connection: Irving Berlin and the Songwriters He Influenced.
Learn More: Nerd Mountian • FumeeJazz
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July 8 @ 6:30PM-8:30PM
The Peter Schwendener Quartet
The members of this group have known each other and played together for four decades. In 2011, four of them (Peter, Phil, Art, and Dan) released a jazz album entitled "Kickstand" that was critically acclaimed.
Our music is mainstream jazz, meaning that it emphasizes melody, lyricism, and swing. Our goal is simple: to communicate musically with an audience.
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July 15 @ 6:30PM-8:30PM
John Neafsey and Ron Sorin
John Neafsey (vocals & guitar) and Ron Sorin (harmonica) play classic Chicago Blues in the styles of Little Walter, Jimmy Rogers, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, & other Chicago greats. They play regularly at local venues including Cunneen’s Bar, Cary’s Lounge, and Buddy Guy’s Legends.
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July 17 @ 6:30PM-8:30PM
Anna Soltys
Anna Soltys & the Familiar is a modern Folk Rock band with an entrancing new sound. Anna spent the first part of her childhood in Poland, followed by 6 years in Paris before she moved to her self-proclaimed home, Chicago. It is the cross-cultural awareness that may awaken the type of delivery that is so unique to her sound. On top of the music, her lyrical, poetic content fills the heart with an awareness of the self we could all use a little of.
Anna’s music explores and embodies elements of pain, strength, honesty, and sorrow. From start to finish, lyrically driven, simple melodies leave you with a sense of colorful melancholy.
Anna Soltys (guitar, vox), Larry Beers (drums), John Pirrucello (guitar), David Smith (bass)
Learn More: website
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July 22 @ 6:30PM-8:30PM
The Chris Greene Quartet
The Chris Greene Quartet has been a highly visible part of Chicago’s jazz scene since 2005, and has maintained a stable lineup from the beginning, with the exception of Steve Corley, who has held the drum chair since 2011. Damian Espinosa on piano and keyboards, and Marc Piane on acoustic and electric basses, have been onboard since the beginning.
Unique among Chicago bands, most of whom feature, by necessity, constantly shifting personnel, the CGQ has been able to develop a true group sound and feel, harking back to bands from the classic age of jazz when groups could stay together for long periods of time. While honoring the tradition, the CGQ incorporates elements of funk, hip-hop, rock, pop, the blues and reggae, reflecting their diverse backgrounds.
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July 29 @ 6:30PM-8:30PM
Javier Red Quartet
"Sublime beauty…
(Chicago Reader, US)
..beyond contemporary jazz..
(RadioFrance, France)
..Bursting with emotion and original ideas..
(Radiohoerer, Germany)
NPR Jazz Critics Best Of 2019 Debut Album selection
In his new quartet, Javier Red is composing for and making music with Dakarai Barclay (trumpet), Jeff Wheaton (bass), and Daniel Gayden (drums). The band serves as a vehicle for musical exploration along three lines: the rhythmic pulse and repetition rooted in West African music traditions, the creative personalities of the band members, and the continual reinvention or reinterpretation of both Javier's original compositions and music from great jazz composers such as Monk, Henderson, Coltrane, and Shorter that have a special connection with Javier's rhythmic explorations."
Members: Javier Red Piano, Dakarai Barclay Trumpet, Jeff Wheaton Bass, Daniel Gayden Drums
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July 31 @ 6:30PM-8:30PM
Charlie Vibes Island
Featuring Angie Mack
Charlie Vibes Island blends styles of the Caribbean to create island time sounds, no hurries, no worries. Experienced musicians Angie Mack's love of the blues, Chuck Diesel's steelpans and percussion textures, and the bass tones of Paul Terrien send listeners to a cool state of mind away from concerns of the mainland. Experience Charlie Vibes Island in their first Chicago appearance.
Angie Mack - vocals, Chuck Diesel - steelpan/percussion loops, and Paul Terrien - bass
Learn More: YouTube
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