Blues performer reschedules class appearance

The “Schwall” half of the Siegel-Schwall Blues Band will demonstrate blues styles to a university class on Thursday, March 22, rescheduled from March 29.

Students in the Blues Legacies course – and anyone interested – can listen to Schwall during the class, which meets at 1:20 p.m. at Luther’s Blues Club, 1401 University Ave.

Additional classes meeting at Luther’s on Thursdays this semester include:

• University of Pennsylvania musicologist Guthrie Ramsey, who will discuss “Blues and the Ethnographic Truth” April 5. A quartet of UW–Madison music students will help him illustrate his points.
• A session with Chicago blues harpist Billy Branch April 26. Branch will talk with students and guests at Luther’s via a remote satellite link from the University of Chicago.

The free lectures are open to the public. For information, contact class instructor Ronald Radano, at (608) 263-1642, rmradano@facstaff.wisc.edu.