Corky Siegel?s Chamber Blues with Blues Legend Sam Lay

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Is it blues, is it classical? Gritty Chicago blues and rarefied classical chamber music might not seem like a match made in Heaven ? until you hear composer and harmonica virtuoso Corky Siegel bring the two together. Described by critics internationally as: remarkable, astonishing, extraordinary, hot, mesmerizing, joyous and outrageous fun, their music and concerts have delighted diverse audiences globally and their genre-defying presentations are drawing new and old concert-goers to places they have never been before. Corky Siegel is known internationally as one of the world?s great blues harmonica players, and is a celebrated composer, blues pianist, singer, songwriter, band leader and author. Along with the likes of John Cage, Steve Reich and Meredith Monk, he is the recipient of a Meet the Composer/Reader?s Digest Commissioning Program for New American Music grant for chamber music composition resulting in his Chamber Blues ensemble?s popularAunt Lila?s Suite; he has also been honored with the Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Award for Music Composition, the Chicago Music Awards? Lifetime Achievement Award, and induction into the Chicago Blues Hall of Fame.