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Current Events • Concerts • New Stuff

• Sunday, Oct 26 - 6 PM - Milwaukee - Plenty of tickets available.

• Jingles for Democracy - It’s all about harmony. And like a trojan horse of joy it rides to the place of battle to defend our democracy for the sake of harmony.

• Just added: Workshop - Nov 1 - 11 to 1 PM. Now available in Chicago In-person. It’s the most powerful musicianship tool I've ever found."    —Mark Gray, Jazz bassist, Music Educator, Aspen CO

• Symphonic Blues No. 6 by Corky Siegel
”A masterpiece of stunning proportions” GOLDMINE - Mike Greenblatt.

Symphonic Blues born in 1966 from my residency (with Siegel-Schwall) in the smokey rooms with the Chicago Blues masters, like Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Willie Dixon, to the ornate concert stages with 50+ symphony orchestras of the world and counting, including Chicago, Boston, New York Philharmonic, NHK in Japan, and Swisse Romande, This has been an unprecedented ground-breaking 6 decade history culminating in late 2024 with a recording of Symphonic Blues No. 6, This is my 6th (out of 7) symphonic blues commissions that I composed in 2007 and my last. My symphonic blues performances will continue as well as performances with Chamber Blues. This 60 year study and exploration of an unlikely compositional juxtaposition is not to be confused with the brand new “Morgan Freeman’s Symphonic Blues Experience” of 2025. I haven’t heard the work yet, but of course I endorse any idea that brings people of different cultures together. Thank you Morgan.

• Free listening

Concert Dates.

Sat. August 30, 2025 - Carbondale IL - Varsity Center - Corky Solo SOLD OUT

Sun. Sept. 21, 2025 - Denver CO - Swallow Hill - Corky Solo

Fri Sept. 26, 2025 - Backroom - Berkely CA - Corky Siegel and Ernie Watts SOLD OUT

Sat Sept. 27, 2025 - Backroom - Berkely CA - Corky Siegel and Ernie Watts CANCELLED by mistake then almost SOLD OUT

Sun. Sept. 28, 2025 - Westlake Village CA (near Los Angeles) - Corky Siegel and Ernie Watts - 7 to 9 PM. Village Homes Club House - BOTH SHOWS SOLD OUT

Sat. Oct 4, 2025 - Chicago - Old Town School- MUSIC WORKSHOP SOLD OUT

Sun. Oct 26, 2025 - Milwaukee WI, Anodyne Coffee - Corky Solo - 6pm

Sat, Nov 1, 2025 at 11 am till 1 pm - Chicago - Old Town School (The last workshop SOLD OUT so we are adding another!) MUSIC WORKSHOP. Room for 6 participants - minus tickets already sold. “I have been a musician for 45 years playing bass and everything from symphony orchestras to jazz, rock, folk, country, and zydeco band, to renaissance groups. This has been the most powerful musicianship tool I've ever found.” —Mark Gray, Performer, MusicEducator, Roaring Fork High School and Carbondale Middle School, Carbondale, Colorado

Sat. Nov 22, 2025 - North Shore Center PAC - Guest appearance TBA

Are you kidding me? Are we already booking summer of 2026. I don’t believe it! That’s a long way from 1943!

May 17, 2026 - Evanston - SPACE - Chamber Blues (returns from Earth to Space)

June 13, 2026 - Hayward WI - The Park Center - Corky and Randy Sabien

Where in the World?

Austria • Australia • Brazil • Canada • England • France • Germany • Holland • India • Japan • Mexico • New Zealand • Portugal • Qatar • Serbia • Texas • United States 48 • Virgin Islands - British & US - Click here for other past performance dates

Thoughts on Masks and Science

I’m always recommending that masks be considered for all crowded indoor events. I got covid recently and had to cancel a show. If I had worn a mask for a previous two hour indoor gathering it would have been an inconvenience but not as much as an inconvenience of being sick (with covid, flu, a cold) for a week and missing out. Getting a cold might be inevitable but why do it on purpose in situations where the chances are much higher of being infected, like at crowded indoor events. And we are talking for short periods and only occasionally. - Your own Germaphobe - Cousin Corky :-)

Knowing the odds in a world that makes us all gamblers.
I am convinced, that science, even with its inconsistencies, still offers the best odds — as a tool in this life — for making our best choices. The inconsistencies also exist in alternatives — with less guard rails. If am going for an alternative, at least I will give medical science a chance to have my back. Please make sure you are up to date and ready for treatment if it is recommended by your doctor. Again - Science isn’t perfect but it brought us the iPhone, your ability to read sent messages like this as they travel through space and time to you, … and a few other conveniences . - Corky

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