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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 a live album by the American blues musician Luther Allison, ... Recorded at the Chicago Blues Festival on June 3, 1995 (tracks 1-7, 9 & 10) and ...
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 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.
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 ...
Billy Branch (born William Earl Branch, October 3, 1951) is an American blues harmonica player and singer of Chicago blues. Branch is a three-time Grammy nominee, a retired two-term governor of the Chicago Grammy Chapter, an Emmy Award winner [ citation needed ] , and a winner of the Addy Award .
Chicago Blues Festival (US). Mississippi Heat has often appeared at this festival, most recently in 2018. Lucerne Blues Festival (Switzerland), 2014, 2000, 1996, 1995. A live recording was made in 1996 but has not been released. Montreal International Jazz Festival (Canada). The band has been a headliner at this festival on numerous occasions.
In October 2015, Farr was inducted into the Chicago Blues Hall of Fame as a "Legendary Blues Artist". [5] Deitra received "The Koko Taylor Queen of the Blues Award" from the Jus Blues Music Foundation on August 3, 2017. [6] June 10 was proclaimed Deitra Farr Day in the City of Chicago in 2023. [7]