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If anyone is spending next weekend in Milwaukee, there's a blues festival Friday evening through Saturday that honors the musical legacy of Paramount Records, an early blues record company in the unlikely location of Grafton WI, 20 miles north of Milwaukee.

This festival was featured in the current American Profile, a weekend newspaper supplement.

Read about the festival and lineup here.
http://www.graftonblues.org/id4.html

According to the website
http://www.paramountshome.org/

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From 1917 to 1932, the chair company plant in Grafton produced thousands of 78-rpm records, including Paramount label releases by blues legends such as Blind Lemon Jefferson, Ma Rainey, Charley Patton, Son House and Skip James. The latter three were among hundreds of artists who came to Grafton to record music in the final three years before the plant closed.

http://www.paramountshome.org/index.php?...cle&sid=68

I lived in or near Wisconsin for many years and knew nothing of this!

You find the coolest things Margaux! Highfive

Should we move this to the Messages for Taylor thread? Devil

I thought that's where this was, Liz... ??

LOL sorry, I didn't catch that...brain dead from work w00t

Anyhow,
I hope he gets to check it out Highfive

This festival does sound right up his alley.

I do think it would be cool to start hearing tales of Taylor showing up unannounced in Milwaukee clubs this fall. Chicago is very very close, and Brian G's home town of St. Paul is only 6 hours up the interstate.

Margaux Wrote:

Chicago is very very close,

Buddy Guy's Legends Club ! ! - - and Shemekia Copeland lives there - could be around to sing a tune with - - aaggghhh - I'm killing myself here Sad

remembered seeing last spring that the club was going to be closing / moving in June because the college that owns the real estate was expanding but his site had this up so looks like they got a temporary reprive

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YES, WE ARE OPEN! Buddy Guy's Legends will be staying put at 754 South Wabash Avenue for the time being. Buddy Guy's Legends continues to operate in its current home and will continue to do so until the doors are ready to open in the new location. It's business as usual with live music seven nights a week. Columbia College has been very accommodating and will allow the club to remain open for now. We will eventually move but we will NOT close.

Margaux

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