Music with Little Howlin' Wolf and Lord of the Yum-Yum

Thursday, November 16, 7pm, $10 suggested donation

Little Howlin' Wolf
With a voice like a cross between an earthquake and a bear, Little Howlin’ Wolf has paid his dues as a street musician in Chicago and Europe and as a denizen of the old Maxwell Street Market musical turf.  Wolf sings and plays gruff, abstract acoustic blues, sometimes skronking multiple horns at the same time.  After years of obscurity, he recently recorded a record on Baltimore noise band Nautical Almanac’s Here See Label in collaboration with his long-running underground label Solidarity Records.  Join us for this rare and incredible solo performance by one of Chicago’s homegrown blues eccentrics.

Lord of the Yum-Yum
Also from Chicago, Paul Velat, aka Lord of the Yum-Yum, is a wildly talented solo vocal gymnast.  He combines a guttural scat vocal style, classical/jazz themes, throat singing, improvisation, and electronics to take the modern voice to a new place. His unrepentantly silly stage persona must be seen to be believed.