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🎉 Chicago band Sweet Bike celebrate their bassist's birthday with a blowout at GmanTavern that also features their friends totallycashed, calicoloco, and gosh_diggity. | ✍️J.R. Nelson| Leor Galil👇

Chicago singer and bandleader Christy Bennett and her research into the life of prolific Black Tin Pan Alley songwriter Irene Higginbotham , which led her to scour the copyright records of the Library of Congress and the archives of Brigham Young University, as well as to correspond with Higginbotham’s surviving family.

In December, Bennett and her band Fumée self-released the tribute album, and it’s a corker, brimming with elegant arrangements that bring the songwriter’s majestic, resonant tunes to new life. On, Bennett and a seven-piece ensemble will tell Higginbotham’s story with a set of her songs newly arranged by bassist Ethan Philion, accompanied by video collages, live voice-overs, and pre-recorded voice-overs from Higginbotham’s nephew Marc Freeman and cousin Joe Orange.

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