Gerald Dowd
FITZGERALDS SIDEBAR PRESENTS:
GERALD DOWD seen HERE
w/ JENNY BIENEMANN
Mr. Dowd will be hosting a monthly residency in FITZGERALDS SIDEBAR. It's called SONG OF THE MONTH CLUB, and for a damn good reason: each month he and his invited guest will debut one BRAND NEW SONG. among the many other cool things they will do. You'll want to be in the room when it happens.
FREE SHOW! Click “Book Now” to RSVP
Enjoy dinner from BABYGOLD BARBECUE
***PARKING***
There is rather limited street parking in the area, we recommend arriving by rideshare, bicycle, or rickshaw.
Gerald Dowd has been described as “the hardest working drummer in Chicago” (Richard Milne, WXRT), playing on over 100 albums, and averaging 150 live dates a year around the world. In recent years, he's been releasing solo albums of original material, starting with his 2012 release, Kingsize EP. In 2014, he was the recipient of an IAP arts grant from Chicago's Dept. Of Cultural Affairs/Special Events (DCASE), which led to his first full-length solo album, Home Now, produced by Grammy-nominated producer Liam Davis, and featuring, among others, Chicago legends Robbie Fulks and Nora O'Connor. To celebrate the release, he held a benefit concert (DAY OF THE DOWD) at which he played for 13 hours straight with 16 different bands, raising over $10,000 for the Greater Chicago Food Depository.
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Jenny is an award-winning singer/songwriter who garners international radio play with 3 studio albums and 2 live albums. She has opened for Greg Brown, John Gorka, Sons of the Never Wrong, Steve Dawson, and Louden Wainwright III among many.
She is a published author, the poet and photographer behind the Haiku Milieu series which includes three books, an audiobook, a soundtrack, the Sunday Haiku Milieu Email Club, the Haiku Milieu YouTube channel, and a concert series of songs inspired by Haiku Milieu.
For the Haiku Milieu concert series, she invites fellow songwriters to write songs based on a photo and haiku. She collects the songs as videos, and gathers them into concert "movies." The Haiku Milieu YouTube channel now features more than 225 original songs inspired by her haiku and photo.
Jenny has a monthly musical residencies at FitzGerald's and Friendly Tap, and teaches workshops and classes on creativity and songwriting..
Grab dinner before the show at BABYGOLD BARBECUE
