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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Donations
Please reserve a ticket through Eventbrite (using buttons below) to help us anticipate the size of our audience for this concert. We hope you will consider making a donation at the door when you arrive at Colvin House. We suggest $20/person, but any amount you are able to give will help us to pay our talented, local musicians and to continue supporting the performing arts by producing these community concerts at the Colvin House.
While we prefer cash donations, Colvin House cannot make change onsite, so please keep that in mind. We also accept Venmo, PayPal, and Zelle, if an electronic payment is preferred. Thank you! We look forward to seeing you.
If you or your organization are interested in sponsoring Colvin Concerts, please explore our sponsorship opportunities here.
We are now serving food & drinks! We have food and a selection of beverages (sodas, beer, and wine) for sale onsite at Colvin House! Guests can order from a limited menu each week.
*Starting May 2025, we will no longer allow outside food or beverages!*
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May 6 @ 6:30PM-8:30PM
Radium Swing Band
Radium Swing Band is an acoustic band that plays the hot gypsy jazz music of Django Reinhardt and his Hot Club of Paris from the 1920s, 30s, and 40s in addition to western swing, New Orleans, and popular songs from the era. The band includes vocals, clarinet, violin, accordion, bass, and guitars.
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May 13 @ 6:30PM-8:30PM
Peter Demuth
Peter Demuth has been singing all his life. He began writing his own songs at age 18. He has written over 150 tunes and has produced 8 full length CDs-including The Hero Who Never Quits, The Lot of the average man, Somewhere in Spare Moments, The Famous Test of Time, Watchwords, Noah, 99 Whole Days, and his recently released (09/21/2021) Counting to Infinity. His roots are firmly established in the Beatles ( especially John Lennon) and The Bee Gees. He has played internationally and has lived in New York, Baltimore, Key West, Liverpool, and most recently in Chicago.
Learn more about Peter on Jango
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May 16 @ 6:30PM-8:30PM
Hannah Judson
Hannah Judson is an internationally touring American/French singer-songwriter with a career that spans grunge-era Wicker Park, Chicago, and folk-rock café culture in Paris, France. She performs original indie folk-rock songs that draw her audience into lyrically potent narratives constructed with electric guitar and percussive vocals, live looping harmonies, and rhythmic layers. Hannah’s vocals are intimate, with a modern folk sound reminiscent of Aimee Mann, Lucinda Williams, and Nathalie Merchant. Noted as “the real deal” by UK’s country music Maverick Magazine and “with a style that channels Elliott Smith” by Indie Country FM radio, Hannah has appeared regularly in Paris, around Europe, and the US.
Hannah Judson (guitar, vocals), Jeff Phillips (bass, vocals), and Leslie Santos (drums)
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May 20 @ 6:30PM-8:30PM
Jimmy Bennington Colour and Sound Trio
Timeless Jazz standards, original compositions, and rare and obscure tunes from Broadway Show and Tin Pan Alley's early Americana.
Once mentored by the late Elvin Jones of John Coltrane A Love Supreme fame, Drummer Jimmy Bennington has been performing and recording in many parts of the world for 35 years. A mainstay on the Chicago music scene since 2006, Bennington brings his working trio, Colour and Sound, to Colvin House to play timeless Jazz standards, original compositions, and rare and obscure tunes from Broadway Show and Tin Pan Alley's early Americana. An uncompromising artist, expect raw passion mixed with grace and elegance…
Featuring Brian Seyler, tenor saxophone / Devin K. Foster, acoustic bass / Jimmy Bennington, drums
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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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