Billy Branch Music and Blues@Logan Present:
The Blues is My Biography: Billy Branch and the Sons of Blues Record Release Concert
with special guests including The Chicago Fire Horns and Howard Sandifer’s Chicago West Community Music Youth Choir
Friday, November 21, 2025 | 7:30PM - Logan Center Performance Hall
FREE with Suggested Donation $10.00
“Willie Dixon taught me the true meaning of the Blues and inspired me to share it with passion. I will always be grateful that he believed in me.” – Billy Branch
Join 3 Time Grammy Nominee and winner of an Emmy Award and multiple Blues Music and Living Blues Critics Awards, Billy Branch as he shares his most personal and significant work to date: the release of his newest album.
The BLUES is MY BIOGRAPHY: BILLY BRANCH and the SONS OF BLUES.
Released by Rosa’s Lounge Records and produced by Larry D. Batiste, the album features special guests Bobby Rush, Shemekia Copeland, and Ronnie Baker Brooks.
The record release concert will include performances by:
Billy Branch and the Sons of Blues
Billy Branch-lead Vocals, harmonica
Ariyo (Sumito Ariyoshi) - piano, keyboards, & vocals
Giles Corey - guitar & vocals
Ari Seder - bass & vocals
Dionte Skinner - drums & vocals
Mae Koen - vocals
Diane Madison - vocals
Dan Porter - vocals
The Chicago Fire Horns: Bill McFarland, Hank Ford & Kenny Anderson
and Howard Sandifer’s Chicago West Community Music Youth Choir
The concert is presented by the Billy Branch Music and Blues@Logan in partnership with Rosa’s Lounge Records with the support of the Logan Center’s Evelyn Brody and Jack B. Siegel Concert Fund, the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, the TAPROOT Fund of the Mellon Foundation, the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation, and friends of the Logan Center.
The album will be on sale in the lobby following the concert. You can also preorder the record here: https://rosaslounge-records.com/blues-is-my-biography-album-pre-sale