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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.
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.
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.
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 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 ...
Thanks to a rather lukewarm live music season in 2024, the music fest and concert scene is ready to come back to life in 2025. What does the year hold in store, and will 2025 be the comeback year ...
The 2013–14 St. Louis Blues season was the 47th season for the National Hockey League (NHL) franchise that was established on June 5, 1967. They were eliminated in the first round of the 2014 Stanley Cup playoffs by the Chicago Blackhawks , four games to two.
Maxwell joined Chicago Women in Blues at Reggie's Rock Club in Chicago in 2011 in response to the lineup of almost all male performers at the Chicago Blues Festival . [11] She hosted an all-female performance at the 2011 Chicago Blues Festival, featuring Liz Mandeville , Demetria Taylor , Peaches Staten, and Ramblin' Rose. [ 12 ]