Sun 2/25 @ 11AM
Typically, the Music Box’s Sunday music brunches feature one type of tribute band or another. But this Sunday, music fans and brunch devotees can partake of the club’s lavish all-you-can-eat buffet spread while listening to music by one of the area’s treasured veterans: blues harmonica player Wallace Coleman, now 87. After retiring from Hough Bakery in 1987, Coleman joined Robert Lockwood Jr’s Band and played with him until 1996 when he started his own group. Like Lockwood, who was playing until just a few months before his death in 2006 at the age of 91 (and like so many other blues musicians, for whom music isn’t a just a hobby but a passion), it seems like Coleman won’t be giving up his harmonica until it’s pried from his cold, dead hands. In fact, it will probably go into the coffin with him! His band includes five other seasoned players who help drive his music, a combination of the big electric Chicago blues sound and the more intimate southern country blues.
Get tickets here; the buffet us optional and you can purchase it once you’re seated.
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