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Monthly Show 2nd Tuesday of Every Month Mrs. Murphy & Sons Irish Bistro (3905 N Lincoln, Chicago) 7:30 PM FREE Doors open at 6:45. |
This Much Is True is dedicated to bringing the members of our community together in a welcoming environment where we can share with each other, listen to each other, and learn from each other. Once a month, we gather to celebrate the uniqueness of the individual while simultaneously tapping into the universality of the human experience.
Our core group of storytellers is joined each month by special guests from every corner of Chicago's creative community. The stories are often hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, but always true.
Please join us for an evening of memorable tales and delicious craft beer in the intimate upstairs lounge of one of Chicago's finest Irish taverns. We look forward to meeting you or seeing you once again.
Our core group of storytellers is joined each month by special guests from every corner of Chicago's creative community. The stories are often hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, but always true.
Please join us for an evening of memorable tales and delicious craft beer in the intimate upstairs lounge of one of Chicago's finest Irish taverns. We look forward to meeting you or seeing you once again.
Our Next Show is on Tuesday, March 11th, With Regulars:
Stephanie Douglass
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Scott Whitehair
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And Featuring These Special Guests:
Rene Albrecht-Mallinger
Renee Albrecht-Mallinger is a Moth
StorySLAM winner, a math teacher, and a school leader. For the last seven
years, she has been coaching teachers, making teenagers care about mathematics,
and getting school staff to talk openly about race, gender, and
sexuality. She is currently developing a high school computer
science curriculum and telling stories about mistakes, family, mental
health, and what it’s like to be born lucky.
Danny Black
Danny
black, of chicago band ‘the blacks’
(bloodshot) has jumped into storytelling & comedy with stories covering his
favorite topics: sex, religion, family life & mental illness and has
performed at cool shows like “paper machete”, “guts & glory”, “the blackout
diaries”, “the moth”, “seven deadly sins”, “solo in the 2nd city”,
“i shit you not” and is the producer of “the god, sex & death variety hour”
every 4th Tuesday @ the
hideout.
Margaret Burk
Margaret is a storyteller, writer, educator and
speaker. She believes in the power of story to touch the heart, to spark
the imagination, to embolden the spirit, and to remind us of the greatest of
human potential! Margaret is the
author of a newly published book of reflections on Scripture for
children. She is President of Illinois Storytelling, a statewide organization of
storytellers and listeners and hosts the monthly Illinois Storytelling Open Mic
at Dominican University in River Forest.
Bull Garlington
Christopher "Bull" Garlington is an author and syndicated humor columnist whose
work appears in parenting magazines including Chicago Parenting, New York
Parenting, Michiana Parent, Tulsa Parent, Birmingham Parent, and Carolina
Parent. He is co-author of the popular foodie compendium, The Beat Cop’s Guide
to Chicago Eats. Garlington’s features have appeared in
newspapers and magazines across the nation since 1989; he won the Parenting
Media Association’s Silver Award for best humor article in 2013.
Corky Siegel
Corky Siegel has earned an international reputation as one of the world’s great blues harmonica masters. He is a composer, blues pianist, singer / songwriter, and recent winner of the Lila Wallace/Reader’s Digest/Meet the Composer’s national award for chamber music composition and the Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Award for Music Composition. Mr. Siegel’s career began with a fortunate break when he formed the legendary Siegel-Schwall Band that toured the major rock palaces and clubs in the 60′s and 70′s. He was introduced to the blues through his very first steady engagement at Peppers, where his job included performances with the blues masters themselves, such as Willie Dixon, Little Walter, Muddy Waters, and Howlin’ Wolf. Corky Siegel has 18 recordings and over 35 reissues on: Vanguard, RCA, Alligator and Gadfly Records, and two album projects for the prestigious classical label Deutsche Grammophon (DG). Mr. Siegel’s solo recorded performance of William Russo’s Street Music with Seiji Ozawa and the San Francisco Symphony won the French Government’s Grand Prix du Disque, and received the Recording of Special Merit in Stereo Review for the LP and again in 1988 for the re-released compact disc. Corky Siegel has written and performed works for Arthur Fiedler and the San Francisco Symphony, the Grant Park Symphony, the National Symphony Orchestra – for a Kennedy Center performance. His latest symphonic work Blues for a Green Planet – Opus 10 was commissioned and performed with the Grant Park Symphony in Chicago. He also composed “Continuum” with Alwin Nikolias (father of modern dance) and Murray Louis. His music has been choreographed by 5 different international ballet companies and has been used for many national TV specials and motion pictures as well as the 1988 Olympic men’s figure skating competition, the 1997 World Championship skating competition, and three PBS programs – one of which won an Emmy Award in 2002. Mr.
Siegel continues to perform as guest soloist with symphony orchestras
world-wide, and has continued to
perform numerous symphonic collaborations through the years with Doc
Severinsen.
