Be sure to check out these great photos from Hall Photography from this year's show!
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Ladies and gentlemen, Blues Project 2015 is a wrap. There's a lot I loved about this year's show - Logan Conrick's shredding on "I Can't Quit You Baby," Fernando joining Fruteland Jackson on "Key to the Highway," Kylie Staples bringing some deep soul to the house, Gracie Ault's amazing "Sweet Home Chicago," an amazing rendition of "Now Let Me Fly" from our middle school singers, Greg Guy closing out the night playing his Dad's polka-dot guitar, Jake Snider owning "Who Do You Love," Gerry Hundt killing it every time he hit the stage...I could go on and on. I thought the stage-set up was the best we've ever had, and we just had some great student performances all the way around. Oh, and the food!! That was fantastic. Thanks to everybody for helping to educate our kids and our community on the roots of American history and culture. We're on a mission from God.
Be sure to check out these great photos from Hall Photography from this year's show! https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152619590686470.1073741861.147202016469&
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Fruteland Jackson returned to Ben Franklin this Feb to teach his Blues 101 course to our 8th graders. As always, he was phenomenal. He chronicled how the blues was born from field hollers which developed the throat, work songs which developed the beat, and spirituals which gave it feeling. He went on to explain how the blues was born out of the sharecropping south and was transcribed by WC Handy and rose to world-wide acclaim. Like many bluesmen, Fruteland was born in the Mississippi Delta, and migrated north with his family to Chicago, and his own personal account of the Great Migration was especially interesting. Be sure to come to the Blues Project concert finale at VHS on Saturday, March 14th at 7pm to see him perform Big Bill Broonzy's "Key to the Highway."
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