Common Grounds: An Evening with friends 🎶 Presented by Get Local Beverly
The Land that is the forest preserve grounds at 87th & Western Ave. is among the most beautiful in all of the city and surrounding areas.
On Saturday, October 5th, 2019 we hosted an intimate musical experience for all of those who have contributed and supported our efforts in bringing incredible live music experiences to Beverly and the surrounding areas.
We had performances from local artist and Beverly native, Brandon Cobb, Nashville folk duo, Carolina Story, L.A. based singer/songwriter, Anna Ash, the multi-talented and Southside favorite, Anthony Massaro, and Chicago’s own, Mississippi Gabe Carter, one of the best blues musicians of our time. It was a beautiful night full of music and community.
We want you, our neighbors, our friends, our fellow Beverly residents to create with us, to cultivate with us, to sit with us, stay with us, relax with us, and just listen to the beautiful music all around us.
Our event on 10/05/19 was held in the pavilion on these breathtaking grounds. The valley echoed with the sounds of sweet sweet music shaking the surrounding hills of the city’s highest elevation, Chicago’s highest point.
This music experience on these grounds was the first of many leading up to us hosting a Music Festival here in the late summer/early fall of 2022. We will have many great opportunities to support our upcoming festival and our dream of music, music, and more music. Stay tuned 🎶
When people come together for a common cause there is nothing that is impossible. We have a dream that there will be many places and spaces popping around our community that are filled with music and dedicated to music.
Music Gives a Soul to the Universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and LIFE to EVERYTHING.
Get Local with us Beverly.
Playbill
MISSISSIPPI Gabe Carter
Chicago Blues Musician, Preacher, Music Man
Mississippi Gabe Carter was born in South Bend, Indiana. He was raised in rural Southwest Michigan.
Carter was given his first guitar at age five. The guitar was purchased, by his father, for $5.00 at a garage sale. Carter started by teaching himself to play blues on one string. He also played along with his father, who played blues on the piano.r
As a young man Carter saw a guitarist by the name of Jack Owens -- of Bentonia, Mississippi -- in a documentary that had been rented on video from the local public library. Carter, from that point on, was deeply influenced by the music of Owens; and the school of music that is native to the Bentonia region of Mississippi. By far, the most well known musician from Bentonia was Skip James. During Carter's last decade of living and busking on the streets in Chicago, he earned the nickname "Mississippi" through his front porch, "down-home" style of playing.
Carolina Story
Nashville Folk Duo
Ben & Emily have been playing music together for over ten years. They have opened up for country legend Loretta Lynn, and graced the stage at the Grand Ole Opry with the likes of Gillian Welch, David Rawlings and Willie Watson. These Tennessee Titans have even played Beverly a time or two. Their music is timeless and their sound is the kind that leaves your knees knocking and your heart pounding. The melding of their voices over the sweet melodies they provide are beyond words. One of our all time favorite musical duos and great people through and through.
Brandon Cobb
Local Favorite and Beverly Native
Hip Hop artist, writer, poet, producer, and filmmaker.
MC for the night.
Brandon is the new age renaissance man. He writes he raps he produces he directs he creates he is always moving always grooving right along with us. Our partner in creativity he has been a solid friend compadre and co-creator since we’ve started discovering our creative dreams. He’s always been there encouraging us and inspiring us with his Artistic Genius. Up up and away he goes. Reminding us all to follow our bliss.
Anthony Massaro
Frontman/Guitarist/Songwriter/Producer/Sound Engineer
Representing the Beverly Music scene, born and raised on the South Side of Chicago. His vast sound is always the kind of music that soothes the soul. Wether he be leading with vocals or guitar, writing, producing or running an entertainment company on the side, he is fully immersed in the music. The feelings he evokes through his music is reminiscent of some of the greatest musicians and sounds of all time.
Anna Ash
L.A. based singer/songwriter
One of the deep pleasures of listening to a well-crafted album is the way it becomes inextricable from a mood or a moment, a habit of mind or a time of day. With her new album L.A. Flame, Anna Ash captures those long late afternoons when the sun is low but the heat hasn’t yet broken, when you wipe the dirt-muddled sweat from the back of your neck with the condensation on the day’s first beer. - Connor Towne O'Neill
Singer-songwriter Anna Ash makes songs so eerily nostalgic they feel like classics you loved in a past life. Born and raised in rural Michigan, Ash grew up listening to Pasty Cline and Bonnie Raitt, whose expressive, lovesick voices clawed their way into her being. Ash currently lives in Los Angeles, which in part explains the surreal aftertaste her tunes leave behind, channeling the city’s mix of authenticity and make-believe.
Ash started singing in college, first studying classical voice before veering into jazz on a teacher’s suggestion. Since she began writing and performing her music, one of the main struggles has been unlearning what she’d been taught. “It took a lot to think less when I sing,” she said. “To fully let the song be whatever it is.” “My question is ―- how do I serve this tune? How do I give it what it deserves?”
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