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The Chicago Lighthouse Jazz Spotlight
The Chicago Lighthouse Jazz Spotlight
Date Posted: December 19 2008
Written By: chicago jazz
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Acclaimed jazz musician Lisa Hilton of Los Angeles and guest artist Tom Burrell of Chicago will headline a special fundraiser at Andy’s Jazz Club, Thursday, January 8, benefitting people who are blind or visually impaired.
The event, which will take place from 6 to 9 pm at 11 E. Hubbard, will also salute the late Dave Margulis, a Chicago Lighthouse volunteer and donor who was a regular patron at Andy’s.
Ms. Hilton, who is receiving accolades across the country for her newest CD, “Sunny Day Theory,” has also been saluted for her service on behalf of blind children. She visited the Lighthouse last January and did a session with the agency’s very own group of talented musicians, “Vision Quest.” In addition, Ms. Hilton, who has also worked with students at the Perkins School for the Blind near Boston and at the camp for the junior blind in her hometown of Malibu, California, has voiced her support for a music education program at the Lighthouse to benefit blind youngsters.
A successful jazz musician in his own right who sits on the board of the Lighthouse, Mr. Burrell is also universally admired as a marketing communications pioneer. He is founder and chairman emeritus of Burrell, one of the nation’s leading African-American owned full-service communications agencies. From doing events with Rudy Jones; Gentlemen of Leisure, ETA Jazz Mondays (twice), jam sessions at clubs around Chicago, with Butch Stewart at Pick Stage, the Park District, Velvet Lounge, (J's South Shore Cultural Center), with Ron Carter and the Northern Illinois University jazz Orchestra, Columbia College, to weddings and birthday parties, Tom Burrell has “Bona fide” chops and his first CD, REWIRED proves it.
Tickets available for purchase online. $35 each online, $40 each at the door. Additional details are still being finalized.
Proceeds from the event will support the agency’s ongoing programs to improve the lives of children and adults who are blind or visually impaired. Among them are Low Vision Rehabilitation Services, the Birth-to-Three Family Intervention Program as well as Youth and Adult Employment Programs.
For additional information, contact Special Events at (312) 997-3679.
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