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The Chicago Blues Festival is an annual event held in June, [1] that features three days of performances by top-tier blues musicians, both old favorites and the up-and-coming. It is hosted by the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (formerly the Mayor's Office of Special Events), and occurs in early June.
Live in Chicago is an album of live recordings by Little Walter and Otis Rush, purportedly recorded at the Chicago Blues Festival in 1967. According to the All Music Guide to the Blues, "These live performances have been circulating around bootleg channels under a plethora of titles for decades." [1] Some of these titles include:
In 2021, Alligator celebrated its 50th anniversary, [8] in observance of which Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot declared June 18, 2021 as “Alligator Records Day” in Chicago, [8] and U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky added comments on Iglauer's and Alligator's part in the "American cultural legacy of Chicago blues music" to the Congressional Record.
The initial plan was that the larger annual music festivals such as the Blues and Jazz Festivals and Taste of Chicago would continue to be held in Petrillo Music Shell because they are too large to be hosted at the Pavilion. [42] However, smaller festivals such as the Chicago Gospel Music Festival have been hosted at the Pavilion since 2005.
Chicago Blues Festival: 1984 present Chicago [9] Cincy Blues Fest: 1992 intermittent Cincinnati [10] Crossroads Guitar Festival: 1999 intermittent various [11] Dusk Til Dawn Blues Festival: 1991 present Rentiesville [12] French Quarter Festival: 1984 present New Orleans [13] Heritage Music BluesFest: 2000 present Wheeling [14] Highland Jazz ...
Ultimately, Chicago always simultaneously supports their own and serves as an excellent host for visitors at Riot Fest, and it comes with a seemingly endless amount of Italian beef. The Mess ...
A series of albums followed thereafter, and he started to perform more frequently in the Chicago club and blues festival circuits. Bell is featured on Gettin' Up – Live at Buddy Guy's Legends, Rosa's and Lurrie's Home, a 2007 CD and DVD release from Delmark, where he plays with his father Carey. Soon after this release, Carey died in May 2007 ...
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