Off the Green Line’s Garfield stop, DJ Nigel Ridgeway organizes records, ranging from Afro Jazz to Chicago house music. Miyagi Records, owned by DJ’s Marco Jacobo and Ridgeway, opened this Friday in Washington Park’s “Art Block.” Miyagi means “shire fortress” in Japanese, an image Ridgeway and Jacobo portray in their record store, protecting the music.
Rebuild Foundation––the platform for art, cultural development, and neighborhood transformation founded by artist and social innovator Theaster Gates––announced that Chicago-based record shop Miyagi Records will open in April on the Arts Block, a vibrant collection of cultural and commercial spaces in Chicago's Washington Park neighborhood.