Sunday Aug 4 – Mainstage with Bob Margolin on guitar and Bob Corritore on harp “The BOBS!” Bob Stroger Blues legend Bob Stroger, born on December 27, 1930, is considered one of Chicago’s top blues bassists. This Blues Music Award winner is respected and internationally well-known. A blues artist of this caliber is truly a…
Sheryl Youngblood Friday, Aug. 168:45 pm Delmark recording artist Sheryl Youngblood is a singer, songwriter (and former drummer) with an assured and welcoming stage personality. She began performing gospel and worked with many top-tier Chicago gospel, blues, and soul bands before stepping out front triumphantly as a bandleader in 2013. She has recently returned from a successful…
NATE MANOS W/ SHIRLEY JOHNSON Nicknamed the “Sweetheart of the Blues” by the staff at BLUE CHICAGO, Shirley has been gracing the stage here since the 1990s with her spectacular performances.Like so many African-American vocalists, Shirley Johnson started out singing in church and then went on to embrace secular music. The Chicago resident, whose influences range from…
MIKE WHEELER BLUES BAND W/ Mzz Reese Mike Wheeler has a vast knowledge of music and a voice that’s reminiscent of the late Sam Cooke. He can sing and play everything so well that you may forget what the original record even sounds like. From Jazz to Rock, from popular music to Top 40, he slides in…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUJAS5XKCIou0026t=6s DEMETRIA TAYLOR BLUES BAND https://www.bluechicago.com/demetria-taylor DEMETRIA TAYLOR Demetria Taylor has been performing at BLUE CHICAGO since 2010. She is the seventh child of eight from the family of the late blues legend Eddie Taylor Sr. and is helping keep the legacy of her father alive. Eddie is best known as the rhythm guitarist in the band…
KINGSTON MINES 2548 N HALSTED 10:30PM Mike Wheeler Band :: Thats What Love Will Make You Do Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Look up on the stage. It’s SuperMike, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel strings with…
ABOUT STUDEBAKER JOHN Studebaker John Grimaldi was born in an Italian-American section of Chicago and started playing harmonica at age 7. Under the spell of music he heard on Maxwell Street, Chicago’s famed blues melting pot, Grimaldi began performing as Studebaker John and the Hawks in the ‘70s. The band referenced the Studebaker Hawk, a…
ABOUT STUDEBAKER JOHN Studebaker John Grimaldi was born in an Italian-American section of Chicago and started playing harmonica at age 7. Under the spell of music he heard on Maxwell Street, Chicago’s famed blues melting pot, Grimaldi began performing as Studebaker John and the Hawks in the ‘70s. The band referenced the Studebaker Hawk, a…
https://www.omarcolemanmusic.com/ Omar Coleman It’s the core philosophy of astute curiosity that’s established Omar Coleman as a rising star with iron-clad longevity in the national blues scene. Hailing from the West Side of Chicago, Coleman grew up entrenched in soul music and black music that defined the era in the mid-90s. Working as a barber by…
JOHNNY’S BLITZ 20 N MAIN ST WESTMONT IL 8PM Mike Wheeler Band :: Thats What Love Will Make You Do Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Look up on the stage. It’s SuperMike, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend…
