NeighborSpace Benefit Discount This Saturday ChickenFat will be playing (as a quintet) at “Put the Garden to Bed,” a benefit for NeighborSpace. NeighborSpace is …a nonprofit organization whose mission is to acquire and support the community based management of small parks, gardens, natural areas, river edges, and scenic landscapes in the City of Chicago for preservation, conservation, and… Read More
Chicago World Music Festival 2009 In case you missed it, Chicago’s World Music Festival is going on this week. They always draw many amazing bands from around the globe–it’s difficult to choose which shows to see. I’ve already seen great performances by Mostar Sevdah Reunion, Little Cow, and Phyllis Chen. I’m hoping to catch a few more (including Mongolian overtone… Read More
You can spread it on your kishkes Like all awesome bands (um…The Monkees?) we have a theme song. Although the melody is from “Abi Gezunt”, the lyrics are provided by Eric*, our multitalented mandola, harmonica, djembe, and doumbek player. Inspired by a particularly interesting practice session at our drummer Andy’s place, he wrote the lyrics that gave us our name: “Well there’s… Read More