Designate the time and space to create!!! Everyone welcome--artists, writers, performers come chill, chat, communicate, create in an inspiring space!!! EVery Tuesday. Some supplies for art and writing provided or bring your own.

Come join in on our new unplugged patio OPEN MIC!!! Every Thursday----ALL WELCOME!!! Singers, performers, poets, readers, etc. etc. Open at 5pm. Music 6-9pm!!!

Come enjoy Live Music in safe socail distanced environment with the ever so talented Allegra Malone! Allegra Malone is a songstress, writer and instrumentalist with stories to tell. The Revival, her band of musical A-listers, bring the velocity of full throttle rock and roll, soul stirring blues and epic ballad’s to heights that signal a new moment in country music. The songs are a lyrical collage of love struck vulnerability, intimate peril and beaming transcendence. Old country and gospel folklore effortlessly reinvent Allegra’s Muscle Shoals (Al) roots, while pop undertones make her a cross genre artist with influences that range from Little Feat to Chris Stapleton. Her songwriting has been compared to Joni Mitchell, Susan Tedeschi and such notable country icons as Loretta Lynn, for her punchy upbeat songs like Ripe on the Vine (2020). Friday night favorites such as Sweet Virginia, are instrumentally driven with such scorching momentum that by the end, it feels like the song is on the verge of exploding. Allegra’s voice is unbridled and passionate; she emotes an unmasked strength and femininity that has garnered her attention from fellow artists and audiences alike. SOCIAL DISTANCING in full effect!

Donna Herula is a Chicago-born blues singer, songwriter and acoustic slide guitarist that has a passion for playing traditional country blues, Delta Blues, early Chicago Blues, folk, roots, and Americana in addition to contemporary and original songs. Her sound combines her love for music of the Deep South and Chicago with her love of blues guitar improvisation.

Acoustic Guitar Magazine named Donna one of the “top 10 up and coming resonator guitar players” and featured her in an article, “Down and Dirty: 10 contemporary resonator players talk about their love for that nasty sound.” In October 2016, Donna was inducted into the Chicago Blues Hall of Fame.

Donna is a regular performer at Buddy Guy’s Legends in Chicago and has opened for Buddy Guy multiple times. She is also a teacher at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago where she teaches Acoustic Slide Guitar, Blues and Americana Fingerstyle and Electric Slide Guitar group and individual lessons.

Donna was the headliner of the 2014 Durban International Blues Festival in South Africa and has performed at the Chicago Blues Festival three times and King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena, Arkansas twice, including solo tributes to Robert Nighthawk, Sister Rosetta Tharp and Johnny Shines. She was also the co-winner of the 2010 and 2011 Chicago Blues Challenge, solo-duo category.

Donna has provided numerous educational blues programs at libraries and has also performed at many music festivals, art festivals and concert series. She plays as a soloist, in a duet or band depending on the venue.

Donna has been inspired by blues singers, guitarists and songwriters, including Son House, Rory Block, Lucinda Williams, Johnny Winter and Lyle Lovett.

Born in the swamp land of Chicago, IL, Dan began pluckin’ a guitar at the tender age of 6 minutes and thus sealed his destiny as a struggling, penniless artist. Although, along the way he did make many a friend and occasionally enjoyed a few moments of hope and glory.

For those of you interested, you can find Dan performing in saloons, hole-in-the-wall dives, honky-tonks, juke joints and parking lots all over the world as well as the occasional rock tour and Broadway show.

Dan has recorded two albums & tours with his roots-rock, power trio The West Side Winders (original music available on iTunes & Amazon – http://www.westsidewinders.com,) performs weekly solo acoustic shows and also plays festival, theater & club dates with Chicago Tribute Anthology.

In 2014/15, Dan starred & played lead guitar in the debut of (Twisted Sister frontman) “Dee Snider’s Rock N Roll Christmas Tale” at The Broadway Playhouse in Chicago, IL. From 2012 to 2014, he was a semi regular performer on lead guitar in the long running Broadway musical Rock of Ages (with additional productions in Ft Worth, TX 2017, Chicago, IL 2017 & Pittsburgh, PA 2019.) In Spring of 2019 in Chicago, Dan played lead guitar in the Drury Lane Theater production of Mamma Mia. In 2013, Dan worked/performed on the development of the “EMO” project, a new rock musical with Blue Man Group Productions in NYC. He was the original guitarist for classical/rock fusion PBS touring project Rocktopia. He also records for video game companies Zynga and Incredible Technologies. His guitar can be heard all over the popular arcade game Golden Tee. Finally, Dan is a busy guitar instructor and produces demos for up and coming singer/songwriters.

His other credits include work with: Kristin Chenoweth, Under The Streetlamp, The Company Men, The Chicago Bulls (performance of Star Spangled Banner & O Canada w/Dee Snider,) Post Modern Jukebox vocalist Michael Cunio, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Joe Piscopo, the touring production of Ain’t Nothin’ But The Blues, Wicked on Broadway, Jools Holland, Otis Rush, Steppenwolf Theatre Co., The Chicago Children’s Choir, The Rock Tenor, Broadway Rox.

For a further glimpse into the demented psyche of Dan, check out his blog. It is updated on a weekly basis. Or at least when he’s feeling coherent.

Maybe someday you too can hire the A-Team (I mean Dan) if you can find him…