| EVENTS: Chicago Blues Fest 2012 |
CHICAGO BLUES
FESTIVAL LINEUP 2012
A Celebration of Blues
Past and Present
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.
The
Chicago Blues season begins April 29 and continues through the festival
with many citywide events, concerts, lectures, films and tours.
Highlights include the Tuesday Blues Lunch Break Series at
the Chicago Cultural Center starting May 8 at Noon and continuing
each Tuesday in May. The
Chicago Public Library Blues Programs will feature lectures and
performances at various locations around the city and is free to the
public. Programming
includes the Blues Trio on May 12 at the Woodsen Regional
Library, Play & Singing the Blues on May 26 at the
Sulzer Regional Library and Speakin’ of the Blues on
June 1 at the Harold Washington Library.
Also
in May, blues enthusiasts can enjoy a special showing of the documentary
film, The Blues According to Lightnin’ Hopkins on
Thursday, June 7 at the Chicago Cultural Center’s Claudia Cassidy
Theater at 6:30 p.m. On,
Monday, June 4 at Noon, Melvia “Chick” Rodgers, Deitra Farr & the
Blues Machine Band will perform a special set on Daley Plaza
to preview the festival that weekend.
All events are free to the public.
For a full schedule of events, please visit
www.chicagobluesfestival.us
Attendee
review:
If you're the type of person that sends a newsletter out with your
photo Christmas
cards every year, you might need an oversized envelope for this
year's Christmas cards because this event was one to write home about!
With over 500,000 people in attendance, the World's Largest Free Blues
Festival certainly lived up to expectations! The five stages kept
rocking and rolling all weekend long and the worst part of the event was
having to decide which one to watch! All kinds of amazing acts pulled
out all the stops and put on incredible shows for the massive audience.
The Koko Taylor tribute on Sunday night was amazing and the largest
evening crowd in years according to festival staff. Mavis Staples (Mable
to Taylor, because of Taylor's inability to pronounce Mavis) was simply
stunning and I'm tempted to put the photo of her belting one out on my
Christmas cards this year because seeing her perform was the highlight
of 2012 for many gospel and blues fans,myself
included. I can't wait for 2013, because I can't imagine how the
festival this
year is going to be topped!
29th Annual Chicago Blues Festival Line-up
(Schedule subject to change)
Texas Johnny Brown headlines the Petrillo
Stage Friday |
FRIDAY, JUNE 8
BUD
LIGHT CROSSROADS STAGE
11:15 am – 12:15 pm
The Jimmy Reed Family
12:45 pm – 2:00 pm
Quintus McCormick
2:30 pm – 3:45 pm
Zora Young
4:15 pm – 5:30 pm
Joe Louis Walker
MISSISSIPPI
JUKE JOINT STAGE
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Panel Discussion (Lightnin’
Hopkins) with Roger Wood, Chris Strachwitz & Alan Govenor
12:45 pm – 1:30 pm
Ol’ Skool Revue from the Delta Music Institute of Delta State
University
1:45 pm – 2:45 pm
Eddie C. Campbell
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Vasti Jackson
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Johnny Rawls
6:00
pm – 7:00 pm
Jam Session with Kenny “Beedy Eyes” Smith
PEPSI FRONT PORCH STAGE
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Blues In The Schools w/Stone Academy, Eric Noden, Katherine Davis &
Erwin Helfer
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Fernando Jones and My Band!
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Matthew Skoller Band
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Big James & The Chicago Playboys
WINDY CITY BLUES SOCIETY STREET
STAGE
11:00 am – 11:45 am - Chicago Kingsnakes
Noon – 12:45 pm - Steepwater Band
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm - “Chicago Delta”: Mississippi Gabe Carter then Black
Oil Brothers
2:45 pm – 3:45 pm - Jimmy Dawkins
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm - Cash Box Kings
5:15 pm – 6:00 pm - Earwig Music Review: Rob Stone, Chris James &
Patrick Rynn
6:15 pm – 7:00 pm - “Acoustic Blues” Session
PETRILLO MUSIC SHELL
(A Centennial Celebration of Lightnin’
Hopkins)
5:50 pm – 6:35 pm
Rev. K M Williams
7:00 pm – 8:05 pm
Milton Hopkins and Jewel Brown
8:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Texas
Johnny Brown
SATURDAY, JUNE 9
Floyd Taylor headlines the Petrillo Stage |
BUD
LIGHT CROSSROADS STAGE
11:15 am – 12:15 pm
Tommy McCracken
12:45 pm – 2:00 pm
Diunna and Blue Mercy
2:30 pm – 3:45 pm
Bob Jones with Ronnie Hicks & The Masheen Company Band featuring Mike
Wheeler
4:15 pm – 5:30 pm
Billy Branch and the Sons of Blues
MISSISSIPPI
JUKE JOINT STAGE
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Panel Discussion of Malaco Records (Tommy Couch, Jr., Wolf Stephenson,
Brett Bonner & Alex Thomas)
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Terry “Big T” Williams
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Mark “Muleman” Massey
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Homemade Jamz Blues Band feat. Ryan, Kyle & Taya Perry
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Jam Session w/ Ronnie Hicks & The Masheen Company Band
PEPSI FRONT PORCH STAGE
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Columbia College
Blues All Stars
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Rev. K M Williams
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Sam Lay Blues Band
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Tribute to Hubert Sumlin featuring Steady Rollin Bob Margolin,
Eddie Shaw, Dave Specter , Bob Corritore, Johnny Iguana,
Kenny “Beedy Eyes”
Smith & Bob Stroger
WCBS STREET STAGE
11:00 am – 11:45 am - Fernando Jones presents “Blues Kids of America”
with special guests Ray Goren & Alex Lund
Noon – 12:50 pm - Big DooWopper
1:10 pm – 2:10 pm - Sam Lay joins Bob Riedy and Bob Corritore
2:30 pm – 3:45 pm - Omar Coleman & Friends: Kenny Smith, Bob Stroger &
Billy Flynn
4:00 pm – 5:15 pm - Harmonica Blowout: Harry Garner Band with many
special Harp guests
5:30 pm – 6:10 pm - Nigel Mack Band, Winners of the WCBS “Best CD” for
2011
6:25 – 7:05 pm - Geneva Red’s “Original Delta Fireballs”
PETRILLO MUSIC SHELL
5:40 pm – 6:10 pm
Paul Kaye (Tribute to David Honeyboy Edwards)
6:35 pm – 8:00 pm
Celebrating Muddy Waters Disciples --
Pinetop Perkins, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith & Mojo Buford --
featuring Steady Rollin Bob Margolin, Mud
Morganfield, Kenny ”Beedy Eyes” Smith, Barrelhouse Chuck, Lil’
Frank, Bob Stroger & Joe Filisko
8:25 pm – 9:30 pm
Floyd Taylor
SUNDAY, JUNE 10
Mavis Staples closes out the fest/ photo:
Jennifer Noble |
BUD
LIGHT CROSSROADS STAGE
11:15
am – 12:15 pm
Demetria Taylor
12:45 pm – 2:00 pm
Mary Lane
and the No Static Blues Band
2:30 pm – 3:45 pm
Charles Wilson
4:15 pm – 5:30 pm
Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials
MISSISSIPPI
JUKE JOINT STAGE
11:30 am – 12:15 pm
Howlin’ Wolf B-Day/Panel Discussion with Barbra Marks, Sterling Plumpp & Dick Shurman
12:30 pm – 1:25 pm
The Rising Stars Fife and Drum Band
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Eden
Brent
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Pat Brown
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Patrice Moncel
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Mississippi Jam Session w/ Dexter Allen
PEPSI FRONT PORCH STAGE
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Homemade Jamz Blues Band featuring Ryan, Kyle & Taya Perry
1:30pm – 2:30 pm
Lurrie Bell
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Omar Coleman and Friends
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Eddie Shaw & The Wolf Gang
WCBS STREET STAGE
11:00 am – 11:45 am - Moonlighters with Butt Naked Sam
Noon - 3:50 pm - Five bands compete in ROUND 1 of Windy City Blues
Society’s Annual “Chicago Blues Challenge”
4:10 pm – 5:00 pm - Pistol Pete Band Winners of the WCBS Chicago Blues
Challenge “Band” Contest
5:15 pm – 6:00 pm - Kilborn Alley Blues Band with special guest Deak
Harp
6:15 pm – 7:00 pm - Liz Mandeville & Donna Herula Duo Winners of the
WCBS Chicago Blues Challenge “Solo/Duo” Contest
PETRILLO MUSIC SHELL
6:00 pm – 7:20 pm
Celebrating Women in Blues – Tribute to KoKo Taylor:
featuring Melvia “Chick” Rodgers, Jackie Scott, Deitra Farr, Nora
Jean Brusco and The KoKo Taylor Blues Machine Band
7:45 pm – 9:00 pm
Mavis Staples
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