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Friday, October 24th, 2003
Tickets on sale now for $150

AN EVENING WITH B.B. KING
“The King of the Blues”
In a live interview and PBS-TV Special interviewed by Isaac Hayes

Pre-Show Reception
5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
School for the Art Institute of Chicago - Grand Ballroom
112 S. Michigan Avenue
Entertainment by K.C.R. Ensemble

Program
8:00 p.m. (sharp) Doors open at 7:00 p.m.
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Arthur Rubloff Auditorium
230 S. Columbus Drive

Parking Instructions:
Monroe Street Underground Garage. Entrances on Columbus Drive and Michigan Avenue

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An Evening With annual celebrity interview event is The HistoryMakers‚ hallmark program. The intimate format of the interview, conducted before a live audience and taped for airing on PBS-TV, explores the fascinating lives of some of America‚s most beloved public figures. In 2000, we nationally launched The HistoryMakers with a program entitled, An Evening with Harry Belafonte, where Harry Belafonte was interviewed by his friend and actor/humanitarian, Danny Glover. The HistoryMakers produced An Evening with Dionne Warwick in 2001 and the legendary actress Diahann Carroll interviewed Ms. Warwick. In 2002, An Evening with Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, featured the lives of these "National Treasures" in an interview with their friend, well-known educator and activist, Angela Davis. Over 1000 people attended each event and all three have aired as PBS specials to much acclaim. This year's program, An Evening With B.B. King, features bluesman extraordinaire B.B. King interviewed by fellow musician and songwriter, Isaac Hayes.

B.B. King

B.B. King, the “King of the Blues,” is one of the most prominent and talented musicians of the twentieth century. He was born Riley B. King in Itta Bena, Mississippi on September 16, 1925 to sharecropper parents. His guitar-playing reverend first introduced him to gospel music as a child. By the early 1950s, King made his first recordings with Modern Records in Memphis. In the years following, King moved from the “chitlin circuit” of the south to concert halls, amphitheaters, and resort hotels around the world with classic performances such as “Everyday I Have the Blues,” “Why I Sing the Blues,” as well as his 1966 signature hit, “The Thrill is Gone.” An inductee to the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, King is also the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Arts and the Kennedy Center Honors. His international shows have come to define the blues for a global audience, and he continues to tour and influence musicians worldwide.

 

Isaac Hayes

Inductee to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, radio personality, musician, songwriter and humanitarian, Isaac Hayes has earned his position as a cultural legend. Bridging generations, Hayes’ has gained notoriety as one of the musicians that helped to define the “Memphis Sound.” His career was launched as the composer of the “Shaft” movie soundtrack, the first album in history by a solo black artist to hit #1 on the Pop and R&B charts and the first African American Academy Award winner for best musical score. For years, he has hosted the morning show on KISS-FM, New York’s top-rated urban radio show; and currently serves as the voice of “Chef” on cable TV’s Comedy Central animated program, “South Park.” Born to a sharecropper family on August 20, 1942, in Covington, Tennessee, Hayes, like B.B. King, now calls Memphis his home. Through his Isaac Hayes Foundation, Applied Scholastics’ World Literacy Crusade and other organizations, Hayes is devoted to promoting literacy and education worldwide.

      

Honorary Co-chairs: Lynn Whitfield, Gerhard Siebert, Senate President Emil Jones
Co-Chairs: Sue & Tom Carey, Patricia Andrews-Keenan, Gregory H. Rush,

Blues Welcoming Committee: Lonnie Brooks, Eddie Clearwater, Butch Dixon , Barry Dolins, Bruce Iglauer, Fernando Jones, Shirley King, Kevin Mabry, Griff Morris, Pervis Spann, KoKo Taylor, Joyce "Cookie" Threatt

Benefit Committee: Tracey Alston, Kate’y Assem, Jerry Blakemore, Dr. Kimberly Bolden, Jason Bonaparte, Alfreda Bradley-Coar, Cheryl Blackwell Bryson, Lonnie Bunch, Antoinette Cook Bush & Dwight Bush, Elvin Charity, Deborah Martin Chase, Anthony Cole, Rev. Dr. Johnnie Colemon, Carmen Corbett, Jacoby & Veranda Dickens, Jocelyn DiPasalegne, William Flynn, Dr. Celestine Fulchon, Denise & Gary Gardner, Jeffrey Hammond, Hermene Hartman, Malcolm & Gloria Hemphill, Theresa Jamison, Dr. Sokoni Karanja, Hazel King, Deborah LaViolette, Leonard E. and Rochelle L. McGee, Lester & Nancy McKeever, Ricardo Millett , Johnita Mizelle, Cynthia & Ira Moreland, Joe Moore, Trudy Moore, Sharon Morrow, Linda Murrain, Kevin Newell, Lisa Newman, Dr. Alice Palmer, Sabrina & Anthony Poole, Mary Hutchings Reed, Sharon Fairley Rogers, Belkis M. Santos, Ph.D., Harold Shepard, Rebecca Ford Terry, Deborah Thomas, Josephine Wade, Annetta Wilson, Antoinette Wright , Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon
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