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	Chicago Blues Festival
		The various local blues clubs usually have booths too, where you can pick up their show schedules if you are ready to keep going after the official festival wraps each night.
		It is one of Chicago’s gems, famous for Buckingham Fountain, which many people know from the opening credits of the TV show “Married, with Children.” It is a large, formally-arranged park based on geometric shapes.
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	theculturedtraveler.com /Archives/MAY2005/Chicago_Blues_Festival.htm (1607 words)

	Chicago Blues Festival - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Chicago Blues Festival is an annual event that features four days of performances by top-tier blues musicians, both old favorites and the up-and-coming.
		It is hosted by the City of Chicago Mayor's Office of Special Events, and always occurs in early June.
		The event takes place in Grant Park, near the Loop in Chicago.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chicago_Blues_Festival (107 words)

	Chicago Blues Festival at Grant Park
		Chicago's African-American community was introduced to the blues generally by WVON and other soul/RandB stations, while most white blues fans got their first exposure through British Invasion groups and other guitar slingers.
		Rarely has the Chicago Blues Festival struck a better balance between the tastes of the soul-blues and blues-rock audiences as it did Sunday, closing day of the 21st annual fest.
		Their music is raw and primal one-chord blues, an ethnomusicologist's dream of a regional sound almost totally free of outside influences.
	www.suntimes.com /output/music/cst-ftr-blues15.html (606 words)

	Chicago Blues Fest: Chicago-Sun Times Special Report
		Be it ever so humble, Chicago is still a sweet home for the blues on any given night.
		The Chicago Blues Festival, which has been sorely lacking in star power in recent years, has announced a schedule for 2005 that offers an intriguing nightly mainstage lineup.
		The lineup is particularly heavy on established stars on the local blues scene.
	www.suntimes.com /special_sections/blues/bluesfest.html (1012 words)

	Chicago Blues Festival \| The Chicago Blues Festival. The World's Largest Free Blues Festival \| The most comprehensive ...
		The most comprehensive Chicago blues music festival resource.
		While this year's headliners are a veritable who's who of Chicago blues legends, the festival also features a host of lesser-known acts chosen for their virtuosity and authenticity...
		This annual outdoor event is the largest free-admission blues festival in the world.
	chicagobluesfestival.org (191 words)

	Chicago Reader Sidebar: Chicago Blues Festival 2005
		Taylor's 1966 version, issued by Checker, was one of the last Chicago blues platters to become a national R and B hit, and it's her signature song to this day--there's still nobody who can pitch a wang dang doodle the way she does.
		But his apparently inevitable ascent to international blues stardom was interrupted by mental illness, and he wouldn't begin a full-fledged comeback till the late 90s, when he recaptured and refined the daunting blend of rootsy traditionalism and post-70s pyrotechnics that had distinguished him in his early years.
		Scott's ensemble is one of the tightest and most versatile in Chicago blues, proficient in everything from gutbucket 12-bar raunch to breezy neosoul; his punchy vocals are grittier than a gravel road but surprisingly melodic, and on guitar his brother Walter can handle greasy funk and slow-burning blues with equal aplomb.
	www.chicagoreader.com /music/sidebars/BLUES2005.html (5881 words)

	Blues On Stage - Chicago Blues Festival 1997
		Shirley and her earthy blues vocals were joined by her Chicago Blues Band featuring Greg Buetow on keyboards, Phil Armetta on guitar, Sandi Greco on drums and Lindell Thurmond on bass.
		Chicago, on any regular weekend, has more blues performances going on in the myriad blues clubs around town than any blues festival anywhere else in the world.
		Friday at lunch we were back at the House of Blues to hear Jimmie Lee Robinson who performs during the lunch hour during the week and calls the HOB his second home.
	members.aol.com /mnblues/c_b_fest97.html (3352 words)

	Chicago Blues Festival 2006 - Citysearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Chicago, known for cultivating the blues, delivers a can't-miss blues festival year after year.
		Casual fans and blues aficionados alike appreciate the artists that grace the stages at this four-day festival.
		Chicago is the supreme blues town, with live music hangouts that range from comfortably mainstream to downright divey.
	chicago.citysearch.com /profile/11397506/chicago_blues_festival_2005.html (387 words)

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	chicago-blues-festival.lojka.com (704 words)

	Chicago Blues Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		LaVette was the brightest surprise of the festival.
		A dynamic singer, when she periodically dropped the microphone to howl a cappella, she got the lawn crowd halfway across the park to howl back.
		By comparison, Shemekia Copeland filled much of her headlining set on Saturday with the sort of pedestrian blues-rock found on Seger's lesser records, and all the energetic showmanship of her crowd-pleasing set couldn't make up for the shortcomings of her material.
	www.bettyelavette.com /Gigs___Tours/Chicago_Blues_Festival_/chicago_blues_festival.html (257 words)

	Cosmik Debris Magazine Presents Cosmik Blues - with Eric Steiner: A Chicago Blues Pilgrimage (Part 2 of 2)
		Chicago Breakdown, the 22nd Annual Chicago Blues Festival, celebrates the 100th birthdays of Jimmy Walter, Big Maceo-Major Merriweather, and Meade Lux Lewis.
		While the music is clearly the main reason to go to the Chicago Blues Festival, there are songwriters' workshops, opportunities to learn about Blues in the Schools from some talented young people, a soul cooking class, and discussions featuring some of the world's most talented blues writers.
		Mike Rowe's excellent Chicago Breakdown is one of the blues' signature reference works, and it is the standard against which I measure any book on the blues.
	www.cosmik.com /aa-junejuly05/eric114.html (1344 words)

	Chicago Blues Festival 2002
		The set included blues rock, soul and r’n’b, and covered material from her two albums “Turn the heat up” and “Wicked” and her soon to be released c.d.
		Their jazz-funk licks with soul driven rhythm’s were not what most people would expect as a headline act on a last night of a blues festival.
		In trying to introduce modern styles to the citizens of Chicago, [a city who’s musicians were responsible for the biggest change of musical styles in the last century], all it done was highlight the fact that too much change too quickly, will not be welcomed.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /mike.prendergast/mikesite/pages/articles/chicagoblues.htm (3264 words)

	Chicago Blues: From the Delta to the World
		Fruteland created the award winning "All About The Blues" series Blues in the Schools programs, to bring his love of the blues and its important contribution to music in the world to every venue and classroom he is invited.
		Blues selections from Smithsonian Global Sound, Alexander Street Press’ "virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions" with streaming audio will be played during the program.
		Chicago blues : as seen from the inside : the photographs of Raeburn Flerlage by Raeburn Flerlage and edited by Lisa Day, ECW Press, 2000.
	www.libraries.psu.edu /beaver/chicagoblues (594 words)

	The Chicago Blues Festival 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Chicago Blues Festival took place in Grant Park over the weekend of June 7-10, and I consider myself a fortunate witness to this tradition.
		This is one of the most popular stages of the festival and tends to favor the very urban blues rock Chicago sound.
		The whole bunch of them are total blues fanatics and had flown in that morning from Rhode Island, ready to be drenched in the blues for the entire weekend.
	www.tribalsoulkitchen.com /david/july01.html (1601 words)

	23rd Annual Chicago Blues Festival in Chicago - metromix.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The largest free outdoor blues event in the world features performances by local and national artists.
		Chicago, IL Kim Simmonds and Savoy Brown rocked some heavy British Blues Thursday night.
		Chicago, IL This is one of the best summer fests.
	metromix.chicagotribune.com /reviews/reader/34595,0,3664279,reviews.event?page=1 (244 words)

	Blues News: Features: CHICAGO BLUES FESTIVAL 2002
		The festival itself has grown from 145,000 people in 1984 to 750,000 in 2001.
		The only complaint I've ever had with this festival is that I can't be everywhere at once.
		This festival is close enough to drive to and it's worth it.
	www.blues.co.nz /features/article.php?id=132 (463 words)

	Chicago Blues Festival 2005
		Chicago Blues Festival 2005 Schedule 22nd Annual Chicago Blues Festival 2005 "Chicago Breakdown" Celebrating the centennials of Jimmy Walker.
		Blues in the Schools Session Petrillo Music Shell - 40th Anniversary of the British Blues Invasion 6:00-6:50 p.m.
		Chicago Blues Harmonica Project, 2005: Dusty Brown, Larry Cox, Russ Green, Little Addison, and Omar Coleman featuring the Chicago Bluesmasters Gibson Guitar's Crossroads 1:30-3:00 p.m.
	talkaboutthemusic.com /group/uk.music.rhythm-n-blues/messages/7948.html (691 words)

	News and Events
		While it's true that Johnson City may not be a blues center on par with Chicago, the town that was once known as “Little Chicago” (for its bootlegging activity) has become the traditional destination for regional blues fans on the last weekend in April.
		Kicking off the Little Chicago Blues Festival on Thursday, April 24, will be Tri-Cities blues veteran Bleu Jackson and his band.
		Tickets for the Little Chicago Blues Festival are $14 per night, and are available at the Down Home, 300 W. Main Street, Johnson City.
	www.etsu.edu /calendars/calendars_news.asp?EventID=1985 (509 words)

	Chicago Blues Festival \| News \| David 'Honeyboy' Edwards \| The most comprehensive Chicago blues music festival ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For one thing, this man has been around since 1915, and that kind of time on the earth would be enough to make most folks with their faculties intact pretty interesting.
		"I quit my job as a schoolteacher the during the '95 Chicago Blues Festival, and playing with Honeyboy on the stage at Navy Pier for his second set was one of the greatest gigs of my life."
		Part of the appeal to the 12-bar blues is knowing where everything is going to happen.
	chicagobluesfestival.org /news_blues2.php (1016 words)

	Chicago Blues Festival: 20, 50, Year of the Blues Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The 2003 Chicago Blues Festival was the 20th anniversary of the fest, the 50th anniversary of Delmark records, the so-called Year of the Blues (More on that in a bit) and the second festival since my darling daughter Emma was born.
		I understand that rap and hip-hop are the blues of today and everyone's heart was in the right place, but the execution was not that exciting.
		When you're performing at the Chicago Blues Festival and you say 40 minutes into your show that it's time to play some blues now, that's probably not the best idea.
	www.mnblues.com /review/2003/chicagobluesfest2003-ms.html (1243 words)

	Chicago Reader Sidebar: Chicago Blues Festival 2003
		He was one of the first young white bluesmen who dared to investigate live blues on the south and west sides, and he's undertaken more than his fair share of harmonica innovation in the decades since.
		She and Noden have been teaching blues and blues history to the students at Spencer under the auspices of the Old Town School of Folk Music's Folk and Blues Cultural Studies Program.
		Suggesting that the blues may have arisen out of a cultural commonality between native spiritualist music and dance and the traditions of African slaves, it incorporates a wide spectrum of "contemporary aboriginal music" ranging from the folk stylings of Buffy Sainte-Marie to the rock-powered blues and boogie of this group.
	www.chicagoreader.com /music/sidebars/BLUESFEST2003.html (7407 words)

	19th Annual Chicago Blues Festival
		Blues fans will be heading towards the waters in Chicago once again this year when the 19th annual Chicago Blues Festival honors Muddy Waters, May 30-June 2 at Grant Park.
		The Chicago Blues Festival is the largest free admission Blues festival in the world, and is open from 12:00-9:30 p.m.
		The Chicago Blues Festival brings people of all ages, families and blues afficionados from all over the world to enjoy the blues.
	www.concertlivewire.com /bluesfest.htm (459 words)

	Chicago Blues Festival 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The world's largest free blues festival began in 1984 and has become the city's most popular music festival.
		The festival's most historic event was the 50 year reunion between Bo Diddley, Billy Boy Arnold and Jody Williams.
		Blues On Stage is a ® Trademark of Ray Stiles.
	www.mnblues.com /review/2002/cbf2002-th.html (1181 words)

	Chicago Blues Fest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Happily, as blues lovers awoke Sunday morning after a night in the clubs, they saw that the sun shone brightly and was working hard to dry the ground at the festival site.
		The House of Blues, soon to be a presence in Chicago, brought up Muddy Waters' house from Mississippi and stuck it, rather incongruously, in the middle of Columbus Avenue.
		One of the things that makes the Chicago Blues Festival such a special musical event is the action in the clubs and alternate venues each evening after the festival.
	www.island.net /~blues/niles.htm (2947 words)

	MAXWELL ST. EVENTS DURING THE 1999 CHICAGO BLUES FESTIVAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An Blues jam in the old Maxwell Street neighborhood, Sunday morning, June 6, 1999 from 9:30AM to 1:00PM, outside, at the northeast corner of Maxwell and Halsted.
		Red at the Chicago Blues Festival in Grant Park on Saturday, June 5, 1999, at THE ROUTE 66 STAGE at 2:30 PM..
		An Blues jam in the old Maxwell Street neighborhood, Sunday morning, June 6, 1999 from 9:30AM to 1:00PM, outside, at the northeast corner of Maxwell and Halsted, across of Original Jim's Hot Dog Stand, about a mile south of the Sears Tower.
	www.openair.org /maxwell/eve99.html (779 words)

	Chicago Blues Festival on Chicago Citysearch
		Chicago celebrates the blues and its contribution to America's musical history.
		B.L.U.E.S. 2519 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL Lincoln Park club with some of the smoothest music in town.
		2548 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL No Chicago blues excursion is complete without a last blast at this Lakeview spot--any night of the week.
	chicago.citysearch.com /roundup/37327 (484 words)

	Chicago Blues Festival: June 9-12, 2005
		The 22nd annual Chicago Blues Festival testified to that, presenting four days and nights of superb music in Grant Park.
		Chicago is justifiably proud of its rich blues history.
		And he was by no means the only younger performer on stage in Chicago, but he did have the star quality that appeals to younger generations at risk of abandoning real music in favor of hip hop.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=18088 (1089 words)

	Chicago Blues Festival on Centerstage Chicago - Chicago Blues Festival : Grant Park, Chicago, , Recreation, Festivals & ...
		The world’s largest free admission Blues festival turns 23 this year, with plans to celebrate, once again, with top talent.
		Six stages and more than 70 performers ensure you'll have no need to sing the blues after a day spent at the world's largest free admission blues festival.
		For complete coverage of the Chicago Blues Festival, please visit the new www.ChicagoBluesFestival.org or the Official City of Chicago website here.
	centerstage.net /recreation/chicagoblues.html (159 words)

	Chicago Blues Fest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The 1995 Chicago Blues Festival saluted what they called "The Class of 1915," honoring the 80th birthdays of Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Memphis Slim, Johnny Shines, Eddie Boyd and Josh White.
		Billy Branch and "Blues in the Schools" followed, another festival tradition, the harmonica hero leading his classroom of kids through blues standards including "Stormy Monday" and the inevitable "Got My Mojo Working." Branch and his band, The SOBs, also got a chance to spotlight several songs from their new Verve/Polygram CD.
		Attending the Chicago Blues Festival is a must for all blues lovers.
	www.island.net /~blues/chicago.html (1386 words)

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