This Festival is scheduled and presented by the Mayor's Office of Special Events. What's amazing about this festival is not only the line-up, which is extraordinary, but the fact that The Chicago Blues: A Living History Band is headlining day 2 of the festival.
Chicago Blues: A LIVING HISTORY is it. They are considered by many to be the most important tribute to the blues of our time.
CBLH brings together two generations of Chicago's greatest living traditionalists. In an unprecedented Chicago Blues collaboration, the legendary Billy Boy Arnold, John Primer, Billy Branch and Lurrie Bell-inheritors of the Chicago Blues tradition-have come together to celebrate and pay tribute to the evolution of the genre from its earliest days through the present. You can't ask for a better line up than that. You'd have to be crazy to miss this one.
You can also buy an album these guys put out in 2009. It's a 2 disc set that pays tribute to blues creators, its history, its tradition, and its lifestyle. Of all the reviews this CD has gotten, I have yet to see a bad one. This CD is essentially mandatory for any serious blues fan. This set has been nominated for a Grammy, a Blues Music Award, and more. It is certainly worth a listen.
Here's the rest of the line-up for the Festival:
Friday, June 11, 2010
Front Porch
11:30 am-1pm - Blues in the Schools featuring Eric Noden, Katherine Davis and the Stone Academy Blues Students and more
1:30-2:30 pm - Henry Gray and Andy Cornett
3-4:30 pm - Jimmy Dawkins w / Taildragger
5-6 pm - Caf R&B
6:30-7:30 pm - Big George Brock and the House Rockers with George Brock Jr.
Gibson Guitar Crossroads
12-1:15 pm - Dave Weld and the Imperial Flames
1:45-3:15 pm - Mary Lane and the No Static Blues Band
3:45-5 pm - Grady Champion
Mississippi Juke Joint
12:30-1:30 pm - Grady Champion
2-3 pm - Sam Lay
3:30-4:30 pm - Stevie J and the Blues Eruption
5-6 pm - Adib Hasser
6:30-8 pm - Mississippi Jam
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12:00-1:00 Beginning Delta Blues Harmonica Lesson with Joe Filisko
1:30-3:30 pm - Discussing Wolf: 100 Years of Remembrances moderated by Dick Shurman, with Betty Kelly. Barbara Marks, Eddie Shaw, Hubert Sumlin, and Josh Hecht.
4-5 pm - Wildsang
5:30-7 pm - East of Edens Soul Express
Petrillo Music Shell
5-5:55 pm - Howlin' Wolf alumni featuring Eddie Shaw and the Wolf Gang with Jody Williams, Sam Lay, Henry Gray,Abb Locke, Corky Siegel and special guest Hubert Sumlin
6:05-7 pm - Otis Taylor Band
7:10-8:10 pm - James Cotton Blues Band with special guest Matt “Guitar" Murphy
8:20-9:30 pm - Zora Young's Tribute to Wolf and Sunnyland with special guest Hubert Sumlin
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Front Porch
11:30-12:30 pm - Ramblin' Rose
1-2:15 pm - Bobby Dixon Blues Band
2:45-4 pm - Nora Jean
4:30-5:30 pm - Andre Williams
6-7:30 pm - Johnny and Destiny Rawls
Gibson Guitar Crossroads
12-1:15 pm - Toronzo and the Cannonball Express
1:45-3 pm - Sugar Blue Band
3:30-5 pm -Sonny Rhodes
Mississippi Juke Joint
12:30-1:30 pm - Jarekus Singleton w/ Keeshea Pratt
2-3 pm - David “Honeyboy" Edwards
3:30-4:30 pm - Bill “Howlin Madd" Perry with Alphonso Sanders
5-6 pm - Dexter Allen
6:30-8 pm - Festival Jam featuring Blue Plate Special
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12-1 pm - Beginning Southern Blues Harmonica Lesson with Joe Filisko
1:30-2:30 pm - Joe Filisko and Eric Noden
3-4:15 pm - Rev. K.M. Williams and the Amazing Trainreck
4:45-5:45 pm - Larry Hoffman interviews William Ferris
6:15-7:30 pm - East of Edens Soul Express
Petrillo Music Shell
5-6:10 pm - Nellie “Tiger" Travis and guest
6:20-7:25 pm - Bobby Parker and the Blues Night Band
7:35-9:30 pm - Chicago Blues A Living History featuring Billy Boy Arnold, Billy Branch, John Primer, Lurrie Bell and special guest Carlos Johnson
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Front Porch
11:30-1 pm - Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir
1:30-3 pm - Dancin' Perkins
3:30-4:30 pm - Ramblin' Jack Elliott
4:45-5:45 pm - Guitar Shorty
6:15-7:30 pm - Lubriphonic
Gibson Guitar Crossroads
12-1:15 pm - Quintus McCormick
1:45-3 pm - Gibson Guitar Showdown w/ Carl Weathersby and Larry McCray
3:30-5 pm - Roy Roberts with special guest Barbara Carr
Mississippi Juke Joint
12:30-1:30 pm - Jimmy Duck Holmes and Terry “Harmonica" Bean
2-3 pm - Bobby Rush
3:30-4:30 pm - Homemade Jamz
5-6 pm - Jarekas Singleton with Keeshea Pratt
6:30-8 pm - Mississippi Jam
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12-1 pm - Beginning Chicago Blues Harmonica Lesson with Joe Filisko
1:30-2:30 pm - Larry Hoffman rambles with Ramblin' Jack Elliott
3-4:30 pm - Blues Books: University of Illinois Press
5-6:30 pm - East of Edens Soul Express
Petrillo Music Shell
5-5:50 pm - Erwin Helfer's Chicago Boogie Woogie Ensemble
6-7 pm - Vivian and Vance “Guitar" Kelly and the Backstreet Blues Band
7:10-8:20 pm - Chicago Blues Reunion featuring Barry Goldberg, Corky Siegel, Nick Gravenites, Harvey Mandel and special guests Charlie Musselwhite and Sam Lay
8:30-9:30 pm - T.K Soul
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