7:30pm // Free! // 21+ Erwin Helfer, a Chicago boogie woogie innovator
and master, has been forging his own piano music legacy. Erwin has
been playing and performing for over forty years. The sounds and
personalities of past boogie woogie and blues pianists have nurtured
Erwin's musical growth. For many years, Erwin accompanied Mama Yancey,
the wife of Chicago blues piano patriarch Jimmy "Papa" Yancey, and
later recorded one album with her. He was also mentored and influenced
by Cripple Clarence Lofton, Speckled Red, and Sunnyland Slim. “a
bona-fide Chicago treasure” Howard Reich, The Chicago Tribune
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