From Eddie Cochran’s “Summertime Blues” to Sly and the Family Stone’s “Hot Fun in the Summertime” to Harry Styles’ ...

Chicago offers an intoxicating blend of world-class architecture, cultural sophistication, and Midwestern charm. This 3 day ...

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The St. Louis Blues announced their rebrand, setting a new identity for the franchise and what it will entail for the future.

Cited as one of the first representations of black queer popular culture, Ma Rainey's sensational Prove It on Me Blues is a ...

The Austin Town Hall Cultural Center is staging the permanent exhibit "Unsung Austin-West Side Stories,” chronicling the ...

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

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Chicago Blues Festival returns to Millennium Park with Mavis Staples, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, D.K. Harrell and more Chicago has the blues—the good kind! Go to the content Go to the footer ...

Headliners Mavis Staples, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, and Bobby Rush only begin to tap the music available during Chicago Blues Fest across 4 days and multiple stages June 5-8, 2025.

Chicago is a town that oozes great blues. During the '40s and throughout the '50s, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Reed, Chuck Berry, and B.B. King all made their names in the Midwestern capital.

"The blues are the roots of all American music," Willie Dixon, who knew a thing or two about trading in Mississippi gospel for Chicago blues, once said. "As long as American music survives, so will ...