About Kingston Mines
Kingston Mines is the largest and oldest continuously operating blues club in Chicago and both of its stages are favored by magician Slim, Koko Taylor and Sugar Blue as well as Billy Branch, Junior Wells, Mike Wheeler, Joanna Conner and other music superstars. Over the years, Kingston Mines has won numerous awards including the 2016 Chicago Reader's Best Blues Club Award, the 2016 Chicago Music Awards, the 2016 Most Popular Blues Club Award (again!) and the 2016 Chicago Blues Torchbearer Award, Chicago Concierge Favorite Award and Certificate of Excellence for Travel Consultants. What keeps the Kingston mine alive today is precisely the reason it was born in the precarious 1960s.