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Chicago Blues Festival

Petrillo Music Shell with skyline in the background during the daytime
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Chicago Blues Festival Performers By Year

  

1990

 

June 8    "Sweet Home Chicago"

 

Front Porch
Blues in the Schools w/ Billy Branch, Jimmy Walker, and Smokey Smothers
Smokey Smothers w/ Honeyboy Edwards and Charlie Musselwhite
Sunnyland Slim with friends

 

Crossroads Stage
Lil Doc
John Watkins
Fenton Robinson

 

Petrillo Music Shell
“Night of the Eagle”
L.V. Johnson w/ special guest
Harmonica Set with Sons of the Blues featuring Billy Branch, Carey Bell, Golden Wheeler
Charlie Musselwhite
Zora Young w/ A.C. Reed
James Cotton

June 9    We Go out to Play, Tribute to T-Bone Walker

 

Front Porch
Detroit Jr.
Lovee Lee
Lonnie Pitchford
Special Tribute to T-Bone
Lowell Fulson
Bob Margolin
Jerry McCain and Willie Cobbs

 

Crossroads Stage
West Side Heat
Dave Spector and the Bluebirds featuring Barkin’ Bill hosting Katherine Davis, Mary Lane, Dietra Farr
Foree Superstar
Salute to T-Bone featuring Floyd McDaniels and Zuzu Bollin

 

Petrillo Music Shell
Big Daddy with the Kinsey Report
Lowell fulson
Jay McShann
Otis Clay
Tribute to T-Bone
Lowell Fulson, Otis Rush, and Duke Robillard featuring Grady Gaines and Joe Hughes. (Wayne Bennet added)

June 10    Piedmont to Delta Blues

 

Front Porch
Moving Star Hall singers
Piedmont Guitar Styles with Archie Edwards, Bones, Barry Lee Pearson and John Cephas
Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis and the Black Lone Ranger
Maxwell Street featuring Dancin’ Perkins, Riler Robinson, L.V. Banks, and Billy Dean.
Florence’s Revisited Tribute to Houndog
Brewer Phillips and Ted Harvey with special guest Lil’ Ed
Guitar jam with Magic Slim, Jimmy Dawkins and Lefty Dizz with B.B. Odom

 

Crossroads Stage
Byther Smith
Saffire, the Uppity Blues Women
Cephas and Wiggins
Cicero Blake

 

Petrillo Music Shell
Luther Allison
Nappy Brown w/ Bob Margolin’s Band
Cephas and Wiggins
Ruth Brown
John Lee Hooker w/ special guests

 
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