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Contact: Frank Scott Jr. 773-264-4746; 312-397-1497  

Frank 'Little Sonny' Scott Jr. presents a Celebration of Maxwell St.
Blues

Frank 'Little Sonny' Scott Jr. presents a Celebration of Maxwell St.
Blues at Uptown World Famous Maxwell St. Polish Sausage Restaurant,
4429 N. Broadway, just North of Montrose in Chicago, IL. The event is
on Saturday, February 2, 2002 from noon to until at least 3PM. 

This is an authentic Maxwell Street Blues jam session along with a
display of Mr. Scott's folkart Maxwell Street Blues posters.  This is
free.  Listen, clap your hands, or dance to the music of these
legendary Maxwell Street musicians: 

� Bobby 'Top Hat' Davis
� Mr. H.
� Jimmie Lee Robinson, the Lonely Traveler 
� Johnnie Mae Dunson (maybe)
� Frank 'Little Sonny' Scott Jr. 

Says Mr. Scott, "All musicians are invited to jam with these legendary
Maxwell Street Blues musicians and are urged to bring drum sticks,
axe, or whatever you got to play with.  We are trying to spread the
sound and spirit of Maxwell St. everywhere. The light got to be kept
burning and the onions be cooking." 

Frank Little Sonny Scott Jr. is from Texas and came to live on Maxwell
Street in 1950. He played on the street there with Freddy King and was
the first to introduc Freddy King to  playing blues in public.  Later,
in the 1950s, he  was in a band with Freddy King and Jimmie Lee
Robinson, called the Every Hour Blues Boys.  He is a drummer,
guitarist, singer, songwriter and inventor of the Percussive Blues
House Keys, the instrument he now primarily plays.  He built the now
demolished Juketown Community Bandstand on Maxwell Street. 

To learn more about Maxwell St. visit
www.openair.org/maxwell/preserve.html 

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