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Chicago Blues Festival
    2007 June 7-10, 2007
    Grant Park in Downtown Chicago

Free Admission
    11 a.m. - 9:30 p.m.

 Six Stages of Blues Each day
   

 Click day to see schedule for:

Thursday June 7  Friday June 8

Saturday June 9  Sunday June 10

Entire Schedule
 

    Festival Website: Click Here 

 

Chicago Blues Festival 2007 Line Up      Bobby Rush, Phil Guy & Chicago Machine, Cephas and Wiggins, James Cotton, Zac Harmon, Chainsaw DuPont, John Primer,  Magic Slim and the Tear Drops, Muddy Waters Junior, Koko Taylor & the Blues Machine, Jimmy Dawkins, Willie Clayton, Billy Branch’s Sons of the Blues, Barrelhouse Chuck, Carl Weathersby, Mighty Joe Young Jr. featuring Chontella Renee, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, Kenny Barker with Big Time Sarah and Deitra Farr, Hubert Sumlin, Eddie Shaw, Abb Locke, Henry Gray, Jody Williams, Smokey Smothers with Lafayette “Shorty” Gilbert, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Lil’ Howlin’ Wolf, Carlos Johnson and the Serious Blues Band, Fruteland Jackson, Erwin Helfer, Katherine Davis and Eric Noden, The Stone Academy All Stars, Aaron Moore, Bobby Slim James with Joanne Graham, Lila Ammons, Edsel Ammons, Sonny Leyland, Renaud Patigny, Bob Hall, Bob Jones, Rip Daniels, Julius Lewis, Willie Clayton, Jimmy Duck Holmes, Dave Specter, Aron Burton, Kenny Smith, Willis Prudhomme & Zydeco Express, Carl Sonny, Charles E. Shaw & Chicago Blues Rebellion Band, Lady Sax, Lady Cat, Osee Anderson & Da Blooze Folks, Muddy’s side men featuring George Mojo Buford, Rick Kreher, Ray Killer Allison, Calvin Fuzz Jones, J.W. Williams and the Chi Town Hustlers, Vernon and Joe Harrington, The No Static Blues Band, Mary, Lynn and Renee Lane, Johnnie Mae Dunson and son Jimi Prime Time Smith, Jimmy Duck Holmes,  Terry “T” Williams/Wesley Jefferson, Kenny Smith, Guy King, Darryl Davis, Ken Saydak, Ariyo, Wanda Johnson & Shrimp City Slim, Chicago Harmonica Project Part II with Little Arthur Duncan, Charlie Love, Big D, Jeffery Taylor, Mervyn ”Harmonica” Hinds, Reginald Cooper, Rick Kreher, E. G. McDaniel, Mark Brumbach, Twist Turner, Illinois Slim, Khalif Wailin’ Walter, Terry “T” Williams, Homemade Jamz Blues Band - Runner Up in the 2007 International Blues Challenge, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Dave Drazin, Drink Small, Tony Llorens, Elmore James Jr. with Cadillac Zack, David Dee and Family, The Honeydripper All-Stars featuring Gary Clark Jr., Eddie Shaw, Arthur Lee Williams, Henderson Huggins, and Mabel John, Nellie Tiger Travis, Big Jay McNeely with Jesse Scinto, Irma Thomas and the Professionals, Melvia Chick Rogers and her Gospel Harmonizers, Howlin’ Wolf Birthday Party with family and friends, Chicago Jam Station w/ Dave Specter, Harlan Terson, and Mike Schlick, Henry Gray and the Cats, Katherine Davis Blues Ensemble, Maurice John Vaughn Blues Band, The Disciples Playing for Sunnyland: Sam Burkhardt leads Steve Freund, Bob Stroger

 



2007 IH Mississippi Valley Blues Festival
CLICK HERE for complete schedule with performance times

Friday June 29th
Damon Fowler Group  Albert Cummings  Chubby Carrier & the Bayou Swamp Band  Robert Randolph & the Family Band  Robert Belfour  Paul Oscher  Big Bill Morganfield  Nappy Brown  Bob Margolin  Willie “Big Eyes” Smith 
Mookie Brill

Saturday June 30th
Kelly Richey  Jason Ricci and New Blood  Big James & the Chicago Playboys 
The Jackie Payne and Steve Edmonson Band  Blues harp blowout featuring Mark Hummel  James Harman  Paul Oscher  Bad Luck City featuring Matt Woods and Michael Swanger  Jimmy “Duck” Holmes  Alberta Adams & RJ’s Rhythm Rockers with CeeCee Collins  Ari Brown Quartet  Watermelon Slim  Trudy Lynn with The Chicago Rhythm & Blues Kings

Sunday July 1st
 Doña Oxford  Tom Principato  Ruby Wilson  Little Charlie & the Nightcats  Drink Small “The Blues Doctor”  Dave MacKenzie  Bruce Katz  Henry Gray & the Cats

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Jack Daniels & Beamish Irish Stout presents...

MARK HUMMEL'S BLUES HARMONICA BLOWOUT

Friday June 29th, 2007

Best Western Ashland House
201 Ashland Ave, Morton, IL
309 266-6919
 

Featuring:

    Blue Bella Recording Artist's
Kilborn Alley Blues Band

Russell Miller & 6V6

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Nothin' But The Blues Festival

 

July 20th and 21st, 2007

The Sale Barn - 2027 S Main St
Bloomington, Illinois   * Directions *
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Friday July 20th

6:00 pm Rooster Alley
7:00 pm Doña Oxford
8:15 pm John Primer and the Real Deal Blues Band
9:30 pm Blues Caravan 2007 "The Guitar Women"
**Sue Foley - Debra Coleman - Roxanne Potvin*"

 

Saturday July 21st

1:30 pm TBA
2:45 pm Central Illinois Blues Challenge Winner
4:45 pm TBA
6:00 pm Big Ray and Chicago's Most Wanted
7:30 pm Tab Benoit
9:00 pm C.J. Chenier

 


Miller Lite
Spoon River Blues Festival

JULY 28, 2007 - NOON TO MOON

INGERSOLL COUNTRY MANOR

Route 78 N. Just North Of Canton, IL

DEVON ALLMAN’S HONEYTRIBE

 

       

The Dave Chastain Band

 

 

Steve the Harp & the Blues Deacons

 

 

The Sally Weisenburg Trio

 


10th Annual

Prairie Dog Blues Festival

The only Blues festival in the Midwest held on an island in the middle of the Mississippi River!

 

  July 27th & 28th, 2007
Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin on St. Feriole Island

Click HERE to visit Festival Website

Friday, July 27, 2007

The Tom Hunter Band - Shannon Curfman
Alvin Jett & Phat noiZ - Tab Benoit 
Plus Big Daddy Cade & The Blues Masters
 

Saturday, July 28, 2007

Everett Smithson Band - Kevin "B.F." Burt & the Instigators
Mark Sallings & the Famous Unknowns 
Steve Arvey & The Saxtelles 
Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials  Anthony Gomes
Plus  Pete Cornelius  (from Australia)

 


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