Kingston Mines (Club)

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Kingston Mines is one of the oldest and most famous blues clubs in Lincoln Park, Chicago , Illinois . The club was opened in 1968 and has two stages on which two artists or groups play live concerts every day, 365 days of the year.

history

Lenin “Doc” Pellegrino, MD , opened the club in 1968 in a former machine shop as a café and event location. The original version of the musical Grease premiered here in 1971 before the musical premiered on Broadway the following year . Kingston Mines was relocated to its current location at 2548 North Halsted in 1982.

Concerts

Kingston Mines presents different styles of blues on two stages every day, from Delta Blues to Chicago Blues . Kingston Mines has been owned by the Pellegrino family since the founding and is the oldest continuously operating blues club in Chicago . Blues legends such as Koko Taylor , Carl Weathersby and Magic Slim played here. Carl Weathersby, Linsey Alexander, Eddie Shaw , Mike Wheeler, Peaches Staten, Joanna Connor and Ronnie Hicks make regular appearances. In Kingston Mines concerts have been repeatedly recorded and released as live albums over time.

Awards

The club was awarded the “Keeping the Blues Award for Blues Clubs” by the Blues Foundation in 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kingston Mines . Chicago Tribune . Retrieved April 28, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b Barry Kerzner: Kingston Mines Earns 2014 Keeping The Blues Alive Award . Chicago blues. January 27, 2014. Archived from the original on May 22, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 28, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chicagoblues.com
  3. ↑ Kingston Mines Schedule . Kingston Mines. Archived from the original on April 25, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 28, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kingstonmines.com
  4. ↑ Live at the Kingston Mines, Chicago, 1978 on Allmusic (English). Retrieved August 26, 2015.
  5. ↑ Live at Kingston Mines on Allmusic . Retrieved August 26, 2015.

Coordinates: 41 ° 55 ′ 43.3 "  N , 87 ° 38 ′ 56.8"  W.