House of Blues Locations Locator Map and Directory

From Wikipedia

House of Blues (HOB) is a chain of music halls and restaurants founded in 1992 by Hard Rock Cafe founder Isaac Tigrett and his friend and investor Dan Aykroyd. It is a home for live music and southern-inspired cuisine, whose clubs celebrate world cultures, specifically blues music and folk art, and the inspiration of music for the soul.

The charter HOB in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which opened its doors on Thanksgiving Day 1992, has since closed (although the original hands-in-concrete driveway still remains on the property). Jim Belushi is also closely associated with the enterprise and is present at most openings. HOB Development Company, whose President was Jim Cafarelli designed all original locations. After Cafarelli left the company, the chain did not build any new restaurants for six years. Liam Thornton, formerly of Disney and Universal was brought on in 2001 to oversee new expansion. Liam promptly recruited Aidan Scully, an original Senior Ops Executive with the Brand, and twenty five year industry veteran, to utilize his expertise to oversee design and construction on the ground of new venues. Aidan Scully nows heads up Brand development under LiveNation.

On July 5, 2006, House of Blues was purchased by Live Nation, the world's largest live entertainment company. HOB has expanded into the casino business, working with Harrah's Entertainment to open a club in the Showboat Hotel-Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. In November, 2006, Mohegan Sun in Connecticut announced that their Project Horizon expansion would include a hotel expansion featuring 300 House of Blues themed hotel rooms, as well as a House of Blues music venue with seating for 1,500 people. The project is expected to be completed in 2010.