Chicago Plays The Stones
8/9/19 at Sorg Opera House
Doors at 7:00PM, Show at 8:00PM
All Ages
$25
More info: www.sorgoperahouse.org
Doors at 7:00PM, Show at 8:00PM
All Ages
$25
More info: www.sorgoperahouse.org
Imagine classic Rolling Stones songs played by their Chicago blues heroes such as Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter or Sonny Boy Williamson. What would those songs sound like?
Friday, August 9th at 8:00 p.m., the Sorg Opera House will host a unique concert featuring today’s greatest Chicago blues artists who will answer that question. We invite you to experience “Chicago Plays the Stones,” inside 63 S. Main St., Middletown, OH.
Chicago guitar-slinger and singer, Ronnie Baker Brooks and Chicago harmonica master and vocalist Billy Branch, among today’s foremost inheritors of the Chicago blues tradition and keepers of the flame, unite to give the songs of the Rolling Stones a remarkable rebirth. Brooks and Branch strip those rock songs down to their Chicago blues essence and bring the songs of Jagger-Richards back to their spiritual home and their point of origin. There is no more seminal association in the history of rock and pop music than those ties that bind Chicago’s electric blues with the Rolling Stones. “CHICAGO PLAYS THE STONES” will take you on a powerful musical journey that will delight fans of the Stones, the blues and general music audiences alike.
But wait – there’s more! The show also include songs from the 1940s Mississippi Delta by a young Muddy Waters up through the groundbreaking electrification of the country blues in Chicago by Waters and other pioneering Windy City blues artists. It’s an evening that at its core, celebrates the blues’ lasting effect on rock and pop music. The kinship between the Stones and Chicago—and between rock and blues—lives on, live on stage at the Sorg Opera House. (Thanks to the Ted Kurland Agency). Box office opens at 5:00 p.m., doors at 7:00 p.m., show at 8:00 p.m. Sorg’s “Chicago Plays the Blues” concert is sponsored, in part, by a generous grant from the Middletown Community Foundation.
Free parking behind the building off of Broad Street and off of First Street.
Friday, August 9th at 8:00 p.m., the Sorg Opera House will host a unique concert featuring today’s greatest Chicago blues artists who will answer that question. We invite you to experience “Chicago Plays the Stones,” inside 63 S. Main St., Middletown, OH.
Chicago guitar-slinger and singer, Ronnie Baker Brooks and Chicago harmonica master and vocalist Billy Branch, among today’s foremost inheritors of the Chicago blues tradition and keepers of the flame, unite to give the songs of the Rolling Stones a remarkable rebirth. Brooks and Branch strip those rock songs down to their Chicago blues essence and bring the songs of Jagger-Richards back to their spiritual home and their point of origin. There is no more seminal association in the history of rock and pop music than those ties that bind Chicago’s electric blues with the Rolling Stones. “CHICAGO PLAYS THE STONES” will take you on a powerful musical journey that will delight fans of the Stones, the blues and general music audiences alike.
But wait – there’s more! The show also include songs from the 1940s Mississippi Delta by a young Muddy Waters up through the groundbreaking electrification of the country blues in Chicago by Waters and other pioneering Windy City blues artists. It’s an evening that at its core, celebrates the blues’ lasting effect on rock and pop music. The kinship between the Stones and Chicago—and between rock and blues—lives on, live on stage at the Sorg Opera House. (Thanks to the Ted Kurland Agency). Box office opens at 5:00 p.m., doors at 7:00 p.m., show at 8:00 p.m. Sorg’s “Chicago Plays the Blues” concert is sponsored, in part, by a generous grant from the Middletown Community Foundation.
Free parking behind the building off of Broad Street and off of First Street.