Omar Coleman & Westside Soul

Name: Omar Coleman & Westside Soul
Start: 2024-05-23T17:30:00-05:00
Location: Granary Green

Schedule

Thu May 23 2024 at 05:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Granary Green | Omaha, NE

Please join us for The Blues on Granary Green! This exciting new outdoor series features incredible talent from across the country in a vibrant new Ralston facility. Special guests from Blues Ed will open the shows.
Omar Coleman as a rising star with iron-clad longevity in the national blues scene. Hailing from the West Side of Chicago, Coleman grew up entrenched in soul music and black music that defined the era in the mid-90s. Working as a barber by trade, Coleman recalls being bored at his shop on Michigan & Adams in Downtown Chicago and sauntering to the music shop down the street to pick up an instrument to pass the time. He landed on the harmonica thinking it would be easy to learn quickly and would fiddle around on it between cutting hair and usurping the shoeshine guy’s chair when he went to shine shoes in the back. With many clients being musicians, Coleman would learn about Chicago being heralded as ‘Home of the Blues’ and was tipped off to legends such as Buddy Guy, Howlin’ Wolf, and more. Another world opened up.
Admission is $15 or just $5 with a Blues Society of Omaha membership! Memberships available at the show, please bring a friend!