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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.
Guitarist Buddy Guy performing at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in 2006. Chicago blues is a form of blues music developed in Chicago, Illinois, in the 1950s, in which the basic instrumentation of Delta blues—acoustic guitar and harmonica—is augmented with electric guitar, amplified bass guitar, drums, piano, harmonica played with a microphone and an amplifier, and sometimes saxophone.
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 ...
He tours in Europe [2] [4] and he has played at the Chicago Blues Festival. [5] In 2014, he was inducted into the Chicago Blues Halls of Fame as a Master Blues Artist. [6] He is a regular performer at the famed Chicago blues club, Kingston Mines. [7] Wheeler formed his own band in 2001, the Mike Wheeler Band. The band has all of its original ...
The Chicago Blues Festival returns this year June 6-9 as part of Millennium Park’s 20th anniversary season, with some 35 performances and 250 artists celebrating the city’s blues legacy, the ...
ChicagoFest was a Chicago music festival established in 1978 by Mayor Michael Bilandic.It was a two-week event held annually at Navy Pier that featured sixteen separate stages, each sponsored by a national retail brand and a media sponsor compatible to the stage's format, e.g. Rock WLUP, Chicago Tribune Jazz, Miller Brewing Company Blues and WXRT, that broadcast live from the festival.
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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.