Lake County Audubon Society celebrates 40 years
The Lake County Audubon Society will celebrate its 40-year anniversary and conduct its first benefit from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 27.
The event will feature Barrelhouse Chuck, award-winning Chicago blues player, and his band. The performer will be joined by The Great E.G. McDaniel on bass, Harmonica Todd and Thaddeus Krolicki on guitar.
The event is in the upstairs lounge at O'Toole's of Libertyville, 412 N. Milwaukee Ave., Libertyville, and will be an opportunity to celebrate 40 years of Lake County Audubon service.
The benefit is being held to support Audubon's various activities, including monthly programs open to the public; providing classroom subscriptions of Audubon Adventures; sponsoring the first nature photo competition; birdscaping projects that involve planting open space areas with shrubs and trees to support bird populations; restoration of nesting sites; and providing various scholarships for nature education for a range of ages.
Tickets are $10 per person at the door. There will be door prizes donated by local business supporters, and food and beverages will be available at the cash bar.
Barrelhouse Chuck is a Libertyville resident who specializes in a specific type of piano blues known as "barrelhouse," described as "wild, improvised piano, with an accented two-beat rhythm."
He has recorded more than a dozen albums, has been nominated for several blues music awards and has a full performance schedule in Chicago and around the U.S., as well as internationally. He recently returned from a performance trip to Finland, one of several Scandinavian countries where he is a popular performer.