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DESCRIPTION:2012 Blues Music Award Nominee&nbsp\;- Gibson Guitar Award - 
 an honor he has won previously 4 times.\n2011 Blues Music Award Nominee:
 &diams\; Traditional Blues Album of the Year for Passport to the Blues&d
 iams\; Best Instrumentalist - Guitar\n2011 B. B. King International Arti
 st of the Year Award Nominee&nbsp\;in&nbsp\;The Toronto Blues Society's 
 15th Maple Blues Awards&nbsp\;program. Duke won this award&nbsp\;three y
 ears in a row (2001-2003)&nbsp\;and this also marks Duke'sseventh nomina
 tion\n2010 GRAMMY Nomineee for Best Traditional Blues Album&nbsp\;for&nb
 sp\;Stomp! The Blues Tonight&nbsp\;(2nd nomination in 3 years in this ca
 tegory)\n2010 Blues Music Awards Winner&nbsp\;for&nbsp\;Traditional Blue
 s Male Artist of the Year. Also nominated in&nbsp\;2010 for Album of the
  Year\,&nbsp\;Band of the Year\, andBest Instrumentalist - Guitar.\nFour
 -time Best Blues Guitarist Winner at the Blues Music Awards\nThe Chicago
 -Sun Times&nbsp\;says of&nbsp\;Passport to the Blues&nbsp\;(2010): "If t
 he theory holds that a musician who's having fun conveys that same giddy
  feeling to his listeners\, then "Passport [To The Blues]" should be a c
 ertified joy-bringer."\n&nbsp\;&nbsp\;\nCollaborations&nbsp\;playing wit
 h and/or producing:&nbsp\;Bob Dylan\, Tom Waits\, Maria Muldaur\, Dr. Jo
 hn\, John Hammond\;&nbsp\;plus sorely-missed legends such asJay McShann\
 , Ruth Brown\, Jimmy Witherspoon\, Rosco Gordon&nbsp\;and&nbsp\;Long Joh
 n Baldry.&nbsp\;Duke also produced&nbsp\;Joe Louis Walker's&nbsp\;"Betwe
 en a Rock and The Blues"&nbsp\;which won&nbsp\;Album of the Year at the 
 2010 Blues Music Awards.\nFeatured on&nbsp\;Mountain Stage (NPR)&nbsp\;i
 n July 2009 and frequently spotlighted on&nbsp\;House of Blues Radio Hou
 r\, most recently having&nbsp\;Passport to the Blueschosen as Blues CD o
 f the Month for September 2010\n2004 Keeping The Blues Alive Award&nbsp\
 ;for&nbsp\;Best Producer&nbsp\;presented by&nbsp\;The Blues Music Founda
 tion\nThe legendary&nbsp\;B.B. King&nbsp\;says of him:&nbsp\;"Duke's one
  of the great players."\n"a soloist of stunning force and originality"&n
 bsp\;- The New York Times\nFounder and 12-year member of&nbsp\;Roomful o
 f Blues\, which accompanied&nbsp\;Big Joe Turner&nbsp\;and&nbsp\;Eddie "
 Cleanhead" Vinson&nbsp\;and many more on record and in live appearances.
  After leaving the group\, Duke played briefly with rockabilly king&nbsp
 \;Robert Gordon\, then replaced&nbsp\;Jimmie Vaughan&nbsp\;in&nbsp\;the 
 Fabulous Thunderbirds.&nbsp\;
URL:http://palatine.patch.com/events/duke-robillard-d2405c14
SUMMARY:Duke Robillard
LOCATION:275 Parkway Dr\, Lincolnshire\, IL 60069: 275 Parkway Dr\, Linco
 lnshire\, IL
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