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<p>Can live blues music make a park safer?&nbsp; It sure helps!&nbsp; Check out Bonni's <a href="http://www.austinweeklynews.com/Community/Blogs/8-2-2018/%22Light-in-the-Night%22-:-Live-Music,-Safety/">Austin Weekly News Blog</a> and watch s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP3G13kbnTI">VIDEO</a> of her playing with Larry Taylor's band in Hubbard Park with the BUILD nonprofit program "Light in the Night."</p>
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<p>Each year one of the members of meetings gathered in the regional Illinois Yearly Meeting of Friends gives a talk about their life's spiritual journey. In her&nbsp; Plummer Lecture June 24, 2018 at ILYM, Bonni talked about how we can choose , every minute, to follow our ego or the Divine. <a href="https://www.fgcquaker.org/cloud/oak-park-friends-meeting/announcements/bonni-mckeown-delivers-plummer-lecture-illinois-yearly">Text of the whole thing</a> posted by Oak Park Friends Meeting, where Bonni is a member.</p>
<p>She also led blues workshops and singalongs during the annual meeting at McNabb, IL.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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<p>In the fall of 2017, Bonni added freelance stories to her <em>Austin Weekly News</em> writings. She had a chance to interview the iconic couple Charlie Joe and Marie Henderson and their <a href="http://www.austinweeklynews.com/News/Articles/10-31-2017/The-ballad-of-Charlie--and-Marie/">Out of the Past Records</a> shop on Madison Street; Rosemarie Rodriguez at her <a href="http://www.austinweeklynews.com/News/Articles/12-5-2017/Rosemarie-Rodriguez,-owner-of-Tee's-(where-everybody-knows-your-name)/">Tee Snack Shop</a>;&nbsp; and Dr. <a href="http://www.austinweeklynews.com/News/Articles/1-5-2018/Dr.-Rashad-Saafir,-on-tackling-mental-health-/">Rashad Saafir</a> who talked about the effect of hardships in the hood on people's mental health.</p>

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<p>In summer 2017 Bonni helped organize a series of <a href="http://austintalks.org/2017/06/west-siders-look-to-turn-blues-heritage-into-tourist-attraction/">public discussions</a> about blues, arts and culture for neighborhood development and tourism. Guest speakers have included Dr. Janice Monti, professor at Dominican who has led blues tours and symposia; State Reps. LaShawn K Ford and Camille Lilly; community and nonprofit guru Valerie Leonard; and bluesman Larry Taylor. Hosted by Crystal Dyer at <a href="https://www.goneagaintravel.com/">Gone Again Travel and Tours.</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; Bonni and Larry also appeared on Valerie Leonard's "Nonprofit U" <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nonprofit_u/2017/06/19/monday-june-19-2017-200-pm-300-pm-cst-episode-67-can-west-side-tourism-ben">podcast</a> . of June…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/news/blog/6141765/blues-for-west-side-tourism">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>Blues music for the benefit of Blues Communities! Bonni talks about her current projects including Larry Taylor's CD <a href="https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/larrytaylor1">"New Chicago Sounds"</a> and how the good old stuff never goes away.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LWrAn5vJw0">VIDEO</a></p></div>
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<p>Southwest Side <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/news/ct-stn-ahern-column-st-0112-20170110-story.html">newspaper</a> gives a progress report on Barrelhouse Bonni... music, film, blues education and how blues brings people together!</p>
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<p>The new Rolling Stones new album "Blue and Lonesome" is all Chicago blues--including a song by the late Eddie Taylor Sr., stepfather of Larry Taylor, the bluesman Bonni works with. &nbsp; We're raising money to complete <a href="http://www.austinweeklynews.com/Community/Blogs/12-20-2016/Larry-Taylor-album-on-the-way:-New-generations-of-Chicago-Blues/">Larry's second album</a>. You can help bring this great old/new music forward in 2017!</p>

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<p>Barrelhouse Bonni and Larry Taylor's acoustic duo performed at the annual Beverly Unity in Diversity Picnic on the grounds of Unitarian Castle, 103 and Longwood. Thanks to all who helped make the picnic a success. Glad to be part of it!</p>

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<p>From Bonni's "West Side Blues" <a href="http://www.austinweeklynews.com/Community/Blogs/5-10-2016/Blues-Clubs-are-Back-on-the-West-Side!/">blog</a> with Austin Weekly News. Austin is the farthest west neighborhood on the West Side.&nbsp; Can blues lead to an economic and social revival in the neighborhood?</p>
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<p><strong>Chicago, IL, March 26, 2016—</strong> &nbsp; Congressman Danny K. Davis, Illinois 7th District, invites everyone to celebrate our city’s historic legacy of blues and soul music by supporting the Chicago independent movie <em>The Rhythm and the Blues.</em>&nbsp; Davis and other officials are hosting a fundraiser April 3<sup>rd</sup> to help producers finish the film, which is two thirds complete and stars the actor Leon as the frustrated blues guitarist Eddie Taylor.</p>
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