Paul Filipowicz, Westley Heine
North Street Cabaret 610 North St., Madison, Wisconsin 53704
Alexis Rhone Fancher
A close-up of Westley Heine.
Westley Heine
Busking Blues: Recollections of a Street Musician and Squatter, a 2022 novel by Westley Heine, is set during the Great Recession of the 2000s and follows a musician who ends up working the streets of Chicago to try to make a living somehow. Heine will read from the book and share stories at this double feature with music by bluesman Paul Filipowicz — a Chi-town native and longtime Madison-area resident who also put in some time as a busker when starting his career about five decades back. (And be sure to ask Filipowicz about his own entry into the writing game, the entertaining pulp series Saturday Night Crime Spree.)
media release: Join us for a special night of blues and storytelling with Chicago Blues Hall of Famer Paul Filipowicz, and and author Westley Heine reading from his new book Busking Blues: Recollections of a Street Musician & Squatter.
The North Street Cabaret, 610 North St, Madison, WI, 53704
Friday June 16 8 pm
$15 cover