It features award-winning blues musicians performing in a Gothic-style church sanctuary, built in 1924, which was bought and converted into a modern recording studio/concert hall by music entrepreneur Chad Kassem.

After the Salina First Christian Church congregation relocated, Kassem, the founder and owner of Acoustic Sounds, Inc., bought the building to provide more storage space for the international LP record and CD mail-order business he started in 1986.

In such an intimate, theater-style setting, the music emanates beneath a 42-foot vaulted ceiling supported by arching walnut beams.

Four oak-trimmed stained glass windows at either side of the sanctuary interior gleam from the stage lights.

During the Blues Masters concert weekend, artist recording sessions take place at the studio.