Barry Dolins
Deputy Director, Mayor''s Office of Special Events, Chicago Blues Festival

Barry Dolins is Deputy Director of the Mayor’s Office of Special Events and the coordinator of the Chicago Blues Festival since 1985. He came to the Mayor’s Office in 1984 while working on a National Endowment of the Arts-funded seminar of mini-blues festivals as an instructor at Loyola University developing a multi-media curriculum, Chicago Blues: An Urban Experience, supported by the Illinois Arts Council and the Carnegie Miller Foundation.

Dolins has served as a governor of the Chicago Chapter of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as on advisory boards for the Blues Foundations and Blues Heaven Foundation.

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