The Chicago Blues Festival

The Chicago Blues Festival is an annual event held in June that features three days of performances by top-tier blues musicians, both old favorites and the up-and-coming.

Chicago, FL (prHWY.com) December 13, 2012 - The Chicago Blues Festival is an annual event held in June 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 Mayor's Office of Special Events, and always occurs in early June. The event has always taken place at Petrillo Music Shell in Grant Park, adjacent to the Lake Michigan waterfront east of the Loop in Chicago.

The 29th Annual Chicago Blues Festival, the world's largest FREE blues fest, will be held in Grant Park on June 8-10 (Fri-Sun). The Fest's theme will be "A Celebration of Blues Past and Present" and will feature tributes to blues legends we have lost last year, including Pinetop Perkins, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Hubert Sumlin, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith and Mojo Buford. There will also be a number of city sponsored blues music events outside of Grant Park before and during the festival.

History of the festival
Chicago has a storied history with blues that goes back generations stemming from the Great Migration from the South and particularly the Mississippi Delta region in pursuit of advancement and better career possibilities for musicians. Created by Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Lois Weisberg, the festival began in 1984, a year after the death of McKinley Morganfield, better known as Muddy Waters, who is generally considered "the father of Chicago blues". Each year the organizers choose a theme, generally to honor a recently departed blues musician. Obviously, Chicago blues acts are common. Also, in keeping with the blues' influence on other musical genres, there are some soul, jazz blues and blues-rock acts. Since those early beginnings the festival has risen to a status that the City of Chicago bills as the world's largest free concert of its kind.
The Blues Festival is the largest of the city's music festivals.

The Chicago Blues Festival 2013

June 7-8-9, 2013

Don't miss this opportunity to be a part of the largest FREE Blues Festival in the world and advertise in the official Blues Festival program. This is the only program that is at the festival. It is printed in glossy and will be distributed freely to the largest music festival of the year in Chicago.

The Chicago Blues Festival is held in Grant Park during the weekend of June 7-9th, and is the largest free blues concert in the world, last year the fest attracted over 500,000 people and this many more are expected to attend the three-day event.

Chicago Blues Festival Information

Date of the 2013 Blues Festival
June 7-9, 2013 from 11:00 a.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Location
Grant Park at Jackson Boulevard & Columbus Drive.

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