The 20th Annual Chicago Drum Show will be May 15 and 16, 2010

Planning is well under way; watch this space for announcements regarding the exhibit area and clinician roster!

2009 Show wrapup: Click here for the post-show press release. We will soon have lots of photos as well as links to the clinic highlight videos. In the meantime, there are already lots of show photo and video online! Just copy and paste the URL's listed here to your browser window!

Check out the Ludwig booth: http://www.ludwig-drums.com/ludwigtv/player.php?url=2009chicagovintageshow.flv

Show Pictorials: http://www.winniesdrumkit.nl/drumshows/2009Chicago/2009Chicago.htm, http://www.drumshowgallery.com/, http://www.flickr.com/groups/963879@N24/pool/

Be sure to check the footage and clips at Bart Elliott's Drummer Cafe! http://www.drummercafe.com/drummer-percussionist-drum-percussion-tv-channel.html

Click here for the 2009 exhibit area chart!

click here for a peek at the new venue

The 2009 show program can be seen by clicking on the image above. Be advised that this is a pretty large file; it's a PDF that is 24 Megs; you may have problems accessing it if you do not have a high-speed connection.

LUDWIG DVD Release at the Chicago Show!

Offered for sale for the first time at the Chicago Show!

Over a year in the making, this DVD is a fitting tribute to a century of "The Most Famous Name On Drums." It is also fitting that it is being released at the Chicago Drum Show. Ludwig was, of course, founded and operated in Chicago. Rob Cook, producer of the Chicago Drum Show, has been closely associated with Ludwig for over 30 years. He wrote The Ludwig Book and edited & published Wm. F. Ludwig II's autobiography The Making Of A Drum Company. Cook's first vintage drum project under the Rebeats banner was the video An Introduction To Vintage Drums in 1991. For that project, Wm. F. Ludwig II opened his home to Cook's camera crew. Footage from that visit is included in the DVD. Many of the drum personalities who appear in the DVD to share their memories and insights of the Ludwig company are Chicago Drum Show fixtures; Todd Trent, Bun E Carlos, Mike Curotto, Wm. F. Ludwig III, Dick Schory, Bermuda Schwartz, and Ronn Dunnett are included. No Ludwig story would be complete without Ringo- the former Beatle appears to explain how he came to buy his first Ludwig kit. The trailer for the Ludwig DVD can be accessed at the Ludwig company site as well as on youtube.

Drum Show Souvenirs: In addition to the usual show shirt (this year a tribute to Ludwig's 100th), we have commemorative drumsticks and stickers. The sticker (below left) is 5"x5" UV coated, ideal for road cases, etc. The 2009 show shirt (below right) is a tribute to Ludwig's 100th anniversary. This sold out at the show, but we're having a few more made up. $10.00 each plus $5.00 shipping in the USA.

Kane County Fairgrounds, 525 South Randall Rd, St Charles, Illinois Note: Do NOT ship to this address! Click on exhibitor info for details on shipping materials to the show.

Past Show info, Photos and Exhibitor Charts

Drum Show DVDs: Click here for ordering information!

For a look at the 2008 clinics and exhibits as well as the 2008 show memorial tribute to Wm F Ludwig II, go to www.youtube.com and search "Chicago Drum Show"

We'd like to thank Ronn Dunnett and the many other photographers who do such a great job covering this event. Ronn's pictorial of the 2008 show can be seen at http://www.drumsmith.com/chicago2008/chicago2008.html; just click on the banner below (designed by Ronn Dunnett) to get there.

Another site with outstanding coverage by Michael Barton can be seen at http://www.ambadextro.com/chicagodrumshow.html At this site you can view his great still photos in a slideshow format; just sit back and let his pics scroll by. Michael also took a lot of great video footage that can be accessed at the same site. There are several clip tours of the exhibit area, some clinic highlights. I am especially grateful to Michael for the footage of Billy Ward in his Master Class and in the Green Room before his clinic- very unique stuff!

. Also check out the photos at Winnie Mensink's site www.hidehitters.com and the video footage from the show at www.drummercafe.tv.
There are hundreds of nice photos from taken by Greg of Artisan Percussion that can be accessed at http://s83.photobucket.com/albums/j302/niacin/Chicago%20DS%2008/?start=all. There are also photos at the Craviotto Drum Co. site.

Click here to watch the 2007 drum show preview!

Click here to visit the 2007 Chicago Drum Show exhibits

Clinic highlight clips from the 2007 Chicago Drum Show (click on each name): Hannah Ford, Donny Osborne, Stanton Moore, Steve Fagiano, Johnny Rabb, Peter Erskine