Pay the Musicians

Given the hard times that we’re in, we need blues music now more than ever. As fans, we can listen to the music while we make sure that musicians can pay their bills – even when we’re not out in the clubs.

Below are links to live performances by some of Chicago’s great blues musicians, listed alphabetically by first name. Listen and enjoy. Then, take the money that you’d spend on going out to see that concert, and give it directly to the musicians. There’s a list of Paypal IDs for many of your favorite blues musicians, both leaders and side musicians. Here’s info in case you need to learn how to use PayPal, Venmo, and CashApp. And if you’d rather give to the organization and let us divide up 100% of your donation among to the musicians, you can do that, too.

Livestreams – do you have a livestream concert from your living room coming up? Send us information and we’ll post it to our Facebook and Twitter pages. We will also link it here after the show. Send information to paythemusicians@chicagobluesrevival.org

Ariyo 

Big Dog Mercer

Billy Branch

Brother John Kattke

Chainsaw Dupont

Charlie Love

Corey Dennison Band 

Corky Siegel

Donna Herula

Eric Noden

Felton Crews

Gerry Hundt

Giles Corey

John Primer

Larry Taylor Band

Low-reen & the Maxwell St Market Blues Band featuring Stewart & DC

Low-reen unplugged

Luca Kiella

Michael Charles

Mud Morganfield 

Pete Galanis & Friends with Dave Herrero

Smiley Tillmon Band 

Tom Holland and the Shuffle Kings

Tomiko Dixon

Toronzo Cannon and the Chicago Way 

Thaddeus Krolicki

Willie Buck