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 onsite! Guests can order from a limited menu of appetizers, entrees, and desserts. We do not sell alcohol onsite. While we do offer a selection of non-alcoholic beverages for sale, you are still welcome to bring-your-own beer, wine, liquor, etc.
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August 20 @ 6:30PM-8:30PM
Christopher L. Wilson Trio
Christopher Lucas Wilson is a hard swingin' pianist originally from metropolitan Detroit, transplanted for a decade to Los Angeles, and now living in Chicago. His music is highly influenced by hard swing, bebop, and the rich history of jazz piano trios. His focus is the uplifting nature of swing and the beauty behind the jazz piano trio. His arrangements are thoughtful and his music contagious...
Christopher Wilson - piano
Isaiah Spencer - drums
Alex Austin - bass
Check him out on Facebook
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August 27 @ 6:30PM-8:30PM
Michele Thomas
Michele Thomas - vocals
Darren Scorza - percussion
Neal Alger - guitar
Jazz singer-songwriter, entrepreneur, and educator Michele Thomas is a suave innovator. The daughter of a preacher, she brings an irresistible gospel-soul warmth to jazz. With silken grace she eases in her formative gospel background and her love of R&B, soul, and neo-soul, into a musical language that shows a dedication and a passion for jazz, spanning all of its defining eras. Michele’s restless creativity reflects jazz’s improvisatory spirit—for jazz, like life, is a journey and not a destination.
With an A-list cast of Chicago musicians for her much-anticipated third album release, The Assumption - she developed a coalescence of contemporary and straight-ahead jazz stitched with threads of soul – in which she brings her original compositions along with captivating new jazz arrangements centered around a concept: “What is trust?”.
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August 29 @ 6:30PM-8:30PM
The Cat Gaddis Project
A collective of some of the best talent in the Chicagoland Area who have been performing for decades.
Cat Gaddis - Vocalist
David Kellen - Keyboards
Glover Washington- Drums
Reggie Harrington - Bass
David Jordan - Guitar
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September 3 @ 6:30PM-8:30PM
Jutta & the Hi-Dukes
Wolves, rabbits, ravens, and nightingales abound in this magical tour of world music that includes Balkan, Gypsy, Klezmer, Scandinavian, French, Dixieland, Greek music, and more. This trio of eclectic troubadours paint powerful pictures in their own colorful way on mandolin, kaval, violin, guitar, accordion, and percussion with two to three singing voices.
The band tours internationally and their ever-changing spectrum of sound transports souls of all ages across cultural borders. Terry Loncaric, an Illinois entertainment writer and poet, wrote, “Their artistry and sense of musical history is infused in their delicious tracks. I like [their] intelligent approach to music as well as the old world flavor of what [they] do.”
If you have not yet experienced this group, make sure to catch them to find out why a music reviewer wrote “[Their] music is exciting and listeners will find it hard to keep from leaping up to dance” and why Earwig Music Company's Michael Frank decided to sign them as his Blues label's first world music act saying, “I imagine you will find Jutta & the Hi-Dukes as exciting as I do!”
Jutta Distler - mandolin, violin, guitar, vocals
Terran Doehrer - Bulgarian end-blown flute, guitar, percussion, vocals
George Petrov - Tupan (Bulgarian double-headed drum), accordion, kaval, vocals
Check out the band at https://www.hidukes.com and https://www.facebook.com/hidukes
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September 10 @ 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.
- Chris Greene - saxes
- Damian Espinosa - piano
- Marc Piane - bass
- Steve Corley - drums
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!
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