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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 ...
Chicago's music scene has been well known for its blues music for many years. "Chicago Blues" uses a variety of instruments in a way which heavily influenced early rock and roll music, including instruments like electrically amplified guitar, drums, piano, bass guitar and sometimes the saxophone or harmonica, which are generally used in Delta blues, which originated in Mississippi.
20th century, Chicago, U.S. Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago, Illinois. It is based on earlier blues idioms, such as Delta blues, but is performed in an urban style. It developed alongside the Great Migration of African Americans of the first half of the twentieth century. Key features that distinguish Chicago ...
Kingston Mines showcases blues music ranging from delta blues to Chicago blues. Their featured artists cover a broad and diverse spectrum of the genre. Blues legends such as Koko Taylor, Carl Weathersby, and Magic Slim have played there; among a myriad more. The Kingston Mines has two alternating "headline" performances on its two stages into ...
Blues Blues Blues. Blues Blues Blues is an album credited to the Jimmy Rogers All-Stars. [1][2] It was released in January 1999, just over a year after Jimmy Rogers's death. [3] The album peaked at No. 1 on the UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart. [4] Mick Jagger, one of the album's many featured musicians, considered Rogers to be the originator of ...
Phans and Deadheads alike will find their tribe when the gates open at 10 a.m. Music starts at 7 p.m. Thursday and noon Friday and Saturday. Tickets are $145 for all three days, $50 for Thursday ...
Johnson was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2016. [3] On June 7, 2019, while performing at the 36th annual Chicago Blues Fest, Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot officially declared it to be Jimmy Johnson Day. [9] He was honored as "Best Blues Guitar Player" in 2020 by Living Blues, before being named "Blues Artist of the Year" the following ...
Blues is a genre [1] and musical form that originated in African-American communities in the Southern United States around the end of the 19th century. It has elements of traditional African music , American folk music , spirituals , work songs , field hollers , shouts and chants , and rhymed simple narrative ballads . [ 2 ]