Chicago is home to many great festivals and events. One of the biggest is the Chicago Blues Festival in Grant Park every year in June. This year the festival is a celebration of the reference point for the 25th Annual Chicago Blues Festival, 5 to 8 June 2008. The largest free admission blues festival in the world, offers a four-day festival was preceded by the best in national, international and local Blues entertainment on six stages with more than 70 performances a month activities Blues, also known asBlues season in Chicago.
In commemoration of the 25 th Annual Meeting event, the festival is not only a quarter of a century of festival highlights the blues, but also to celebrate centennial of Louis Jordan, Tommy McLennan and Blind John Davis. Throughout its history the festival blues sounds, and moments of countless millions of fans from around the world blue on the popular lakeside park in Chicago. Chicago Blues Festival honors the life and holds aimportant part of the heritage of the city. The city's blues festival in 1984 helped open the summer season of festivals in Chicago and came a year after the death of Muddy Waters.
Over the years the festival has been celebrated many landmarks and celebrated men and women engaged in their lives and lived to sing the blues. Where else have fans may look blue, like Chuck Berry on stage with Keith Richards, he dances in a circle with Janie Hunter, John Lee Hooker led a"Boogie Chillen '," only for a crowd of hundreds.
The 25 Annual Meeting Blues Festival returns to estimate the same crowd snapshot moments have learned. Crowds get the royal treatment on Friday evening, June 6, with headliners Koko Taylor and her Blues Machine, Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater, and a special series in honor of the past, Ruby Andrews, Cicero Blake and Jackie Ross.
The Queen of the Blues, Koko Taylor is no stranger to Chicago, she is at home. Known for theirhoarse voice is expressive and Taylor for Chess Records, and more recently with Alligator Records. He won more than 25 WC Handy Awards and performs over 100 concerts a year. His talent has influenced strong female musicians such as Bonnie Raitt, Janis Joplin and Shemekia Copeland.
Eddy Clearwater is a versatile artists of Blues in Chicago was nominated and won several WC Handy Awards. E 'for his performance on stage as an entertainer who is also knownthe left hand on the head of the guitar. Friday night will be performing with the entire cast of his newly released CD, West Side Strut. The project includes Billy Branch and Otis Clay, Jimmy Johnson, Lonnie Brooks, and band members Ronnie Brooks (son of Lonnie Brooks), along with bandmates Eddy. Chicago Blues Festival fans will be happy to play these variables together on a stage at the Petrillo Music Shell for a memorable evening to see.
Sunday evening, June 8, Chicagothe royal treatment with a performance by blues legend BB King. Final evening of the festival will be headlined with a majestic, even Little Willie Littlefield, Bobby Parker and Karen Carroll with Charlie Love and special guest Lurra Bell. Known as the King of the Blues, BB King has graced the stages of the world, and at the age of 82 years, continues, as often as he did in his youth tour. Last King played at the festival in 1988. With an identifiable style in musicBusiness, has influenced a large number of talented musicians kings, including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and George Harrison.
The Chicago Blues Festival has grown a lot in his 25 years and now has more than one hundred performances in seven stages and extended opening hours from 11.00 am 09.30 am Clock Chicago Blues Festival, known worldwide as one of the biggest Blues events and best on the planet, drawing hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world to Grant Park, yearYear.
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