Legendary Blues Band Releasing Lost Live Album With New Comic Book first appeared on Parade on Jun 20, 2025 This story was ...

A master of gritty, blue-collar blues, Seals was a Chicago guitar icon. Here, he discusses his beloved Guild Starfire, and why blues guitarists need to remember to keep things fun ...

The largest free blues festival in the world lived up to the hype with a glorious weekend of great blues music across 4 days ...

The annual Chicago Blues Festival's 40th year got underway on Friday, ... Blues musician Mr. Sipp is Friday's headliner, while Grammy-nominated band Southern Avenue will take the stage on Saturday.

In fact, the City of Chicago says it is the largest free blues festival in the world. The event at Ramova Theatre, 3520 S. Halsted in Bridgeport, is also free, but advance tickets are sold out.

Chicago Blues Festival. ... Joined by Paula Abdul and DJ Jazzy Jeff, the iconic boy band will hit Tinley Park’s Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre on June 15. Kenny Chesney, Zac Brown Band.

When the great migration of Southern African-Americans came north in the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s, more of them landed in Chicago than anywhere else—and they brought the blues with them.

Blues documentary ‘Born in Chicago’ finally arrives after more than a decade of woodshedding Movie focuses on the genre’s elders mentoring young turks including Mike Bloomfield and Paul ...

The Chicago Blues Festival is back in Chicago this weekend, featuring the biggest names in the genre. The free four-day festival kicks off on Thursday in the Bridgeport neighborhood and will be ...

In the film’s fanciful plot, the band plays a climactic gig at a fictional Palace Hotel Ballroom, ... "High Fidelity" (2000) is hipster Chicago. And ‘The Blues Brothers’ is my Chicago.

Gravenites is best known for writing “Born in Chicago,” the opening song on the first Paul Butterfield Blues Band album in 1965, which exposed White rock and pop audiences to Black electric blues.