Twenty five years ago, before Trayvon Martin, George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, Chicago’s DuSable Museum of African-American History hosted the premiere performance of Doo Lister’s Blues. There were cheers. And tears. And the distant echoes of voices crying to be heard.

Garfield Park’s songwriting barber dreams of becoming the next Marvin Gaye. But following the West Side’s urban uprising, his Motown dreams are disrupted by activist Rebecca Zweig, and transformed by unspeakable tragedy into the fires of rebellion.

Inspired by the work of Gil Scott-Heron, Muddy Waters’ Grammy-Winning collaborator, Terry Abrahamson crafts an epic celebration of the enduring power of family and the vital role of music as an instrument of social change…when it’s allowed to be heard.

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West Side Chicago native, Terry Abrahamson is the only artist in history to have work performed by Prince, Muddy Waters, Les Paul, John Lee Hooker and Joan Jett, and presented by the Smithsonian, the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival, the Chicago Blues Festival, the Boston Celtics games, at Johnnie Cochran’s funeral and before the US Supreme Court.

CONTACT TERRY terryabrahamson@gmail.com