Chicago Blues Festival 2010

Chicago Blues Festival 2010

Date Posted: May 01 2010

Written By: chicago blues

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The 27th annual Chicago Blues Festival will happen in beautiful Grant Park (Columbus and Jackson Streets) this summer June 11-13. This is the largest free Blues Festival in the World with over 600,000 music fans listening to blues on five stages. Once again Chicago Jazz Magazine will be publishing the official Chicago Blues Festival program and will have a tent at the festival which will feature live performances from blues and jazz groups throughout the weekend.

Here is the line-up for the 2010 Chicago Blues Festival


Friday, June 11, 2010 "Smokestack Lightning"

Front Porch

11:30 am-1pm - Blues in the Schools featuring Eric Noden, Katherine Davis and the Stone Academy Blues Students and more (Katherine appears on Delmark CD, The Dixie Stompers' Ain't Gonna Tell Nobody 'Bout, DE 224)

1:30-2:30 pm - Henry Gray and Andy Cornett (Mr. Gray appears on Delmark's anthology, Chicago Ain't Nothin' But A Blues Band, DE 624)

3-4:30 pm - Jimmy Dawkins w / Taildragger - (celebrating their upcoming Delmark CD- Jimmy Dawkins presents The LERIC Records Story - anthology featuring Tail Dragger's 1st recordings!, along with Tail Dragger's new live CD and DVD, Live at Rooster's Palace with Jimmy Dawkins and Rockin' Johnny, DE 803/1803)

5-6 pm - Café 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 with Abb Locke (celebrating their new Delmark CD and Delmark debut, Burnin' Love - DE 806)

1:45-3:15 pm - Mary Lane and the No Static Blues Band with Rockin' Johnny

3:45-5 pm - Grady Champion



Mississippi Juke Joint

12:30-1:30 pm - Grady Champion

2-3 pm - Sam Lay (appears on Eddy Clearwater's Boogie My Blues Away on Delmark-DD 678)

3:30-4:30 pm - Stevie J and the Blues Eruption

5-6 pm - Adib Hasser

6:30-8 pm - Mississippi Jam



Zone Perfect All-Nutrition Bars Route 66 Roadhouse

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 - Main Stage

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 (Jody Williams appears on on Delmark's J.T. Brown's Windy City Boogie - DE 714

6:05-7 pm - Otis Taylor Band

7:10-8:10 pm - James Cotton Blues Band with special guest Matt "Guitar" Murphy (MT Murphy appears on both Memphis Slim's Delmark CDs and Chicago Ain't Nothin' But A Blues Band)

8:20-9:30 pm - Zora Young's Tribute to Wolf and Sunnyland with special guest Hubert Sumlin



Saturday, June 12, 2010 "Spoonful"



Front Porch

11:30-12:30 pm - Ramblin' Rose

1-2:15 pm - Bobby Dixon Blues Band

2:45-4 pm - Nora Jean (will be appearing on upcoming Delmark CD- Jimmy Dawkins presents The LERIC Records story- her first recordings!)

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



Zone Perfect all Nutrition Bars Route 66 Roadhouse

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 - Main Stage

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 "Sitting On Top of the World"

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 with Giles Corey (who appears on Mississippi Heat's CDs)



Gibson Guitar Crossroads

12-1:15 pm - Quintus McCormick

1:45-3 pm - Gibson Guitar Showdown w/ Carl Weathersby and Larry McCray (Carl appears on Mississippi Heat's Delmark CDs)

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 - Main Stage

5-5:50 pm - Erwin Helfer's Chicago Boogie Woogie Ensemble

6-7 pm - Vivian and Vance "Guitar" Kelly and the Backstreet Blues Band (Vance will be featured on upcoming Delmark CD- Jimmy Dawkins presents The LERIC Records Story- his first recordings!)

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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