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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.
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 largest free blues festival in the world will kick things off with a 6 p.m. June 6 opening night performance featuring Shemekia Copeland and Ronnie Baker Brooks at Bridgeport’s recently ...
The comeback did not materialise, although Red did make the occasional appearance, such as a side-stage performance at the Chicago Blues Festival. His health progressively worsened, ending his performances. Red spent his final years moving from one nursing home to another. [1] Piano "C" Red died on June 3, 2013, at the age of 79. [1] [3] [6] [7]
Hinds has worked as a blues musician for more than five decades. He remains active on the Chicago blues scene with his own shows and often performed with Eddie Taylor Jr. [4] He continues to play a regular gig at Buddy Guy's Legends. [5] He performed at the 14th, 15th, 20th, 24th, 29th, 30th and 31st Chicago Blues Festival. [6]
In 1978, the new band shell began hosting events such as Taste of Chicago, an annual July 3 Independence Day fireworks celebration, the Chicago Blues, Jazz and Gospel Festivals. [28] In October 1979, Pope John Paul II presided over the largest public mass ever held in Chicago on a terraced altar platform that was erected next to the band shell.
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.