Our picks for events in and around Chicago this weekend, including Meltin’ Margs, Black Yacht Festival and Diana Krall.

The free four-day festival kicks off on Thursday in the Bridgeport neighborhood and will be held in Millennium Park on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Festivities start Thursday night at the Ramova ...

Credit: Charles Osgood; courtesy the artist The Chicago Blues Festival reliably offers a constellation of opportunities to explore an original American music genre in the city that made it great.

Chicago Blues Festival day one Thu 6/5: Today’s event begins with a Living Blues panel discussion at 4 PM and a talk with Bobby Rush at 5:30 PM. Bobby Rush headlines; Billy Branch & the Sons of ...

She is among the headliners this weekend at the Chicago Blues Festival. Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images, File Share Alison Krauss & Union Station David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori’s Tony Award ...

7:30 p.m. June 6 at Soldier Field, 1410 Special Olympics Drive; www.soldierfield.com Chicago Blues Festival: Mavis Staples caps off the Chicago Blues Festival on Sunday, but in the meantime ...

WGN’s Dean Richards offered a look at some of the shows and events taking place around Chicagoland this weekend. Get Dean’s reviews and A-List interviews delivered right to your inbox. Sign ...

John is at the Chicago Blues Festival on June 6 th with Steve Bell on the Jay Pritzker Pavillion stage at 6:30pm-7:15pm. -And on June 7 th on the Mississippi Crossroad Stage with the Real Deal ...

If you know, you know! The Chicago Blues Fest is one of the greatest Blues Fest in the land. Headliners Mavis Staples, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, and Bobby Rush only begin to tap the music ...

The largest free blues festival in the world lived up to the hype with a glorious weekend of great blues music across 4 days in Chicago. (OK, there was one ...

and My Lucky Life in and Out of the Blues,” a great way to usher in the Chicago Blues Festival this weekend. Mischa Richter Share Jerry Portnoy can still remember moment Muddy Waters hired him ...