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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

  

1993

May 28

 

Front Porch
Othar Turner’s Mississippi Fife and Drum Band
Blues in the School featuring Billy Branch and the Students of Grant School
Erwin Helfer and Jimmy Walker
Yank Rachell w/ Jimmy Walker and Homesick james
Dave Myers, Jr. Wells and Robert jr. Lockwood

 

Crossroads Stage
Delta Fish Market featuring Boston Blackie, Taildragger, Little Wolf, and Vernon Harrington
Zora Young and her Blues Posse
Mighty Joe Young’s Blues Band

 

Petrillo Music Shell
Celebrating Delmark Records
Ice Cream Men featuring Jimmie Lee Robinson, Golden Wheeler, and Yank Rachell
Dave Specter with Special Guests Jesse Fortune, Robert Jr. Lockwood, and Mighty Joe Young
Big Time Sarah with Jimmy Johnson
Willie Kent with Bonnie Lee, Barkin’ Bill, and Jimmy Dawkins
Jr. Wells Blues Band

May 29

 

Front Porch
Othar Turner’s Mississippi Fife and Drum Band
Detroit Jr.
Pinetop Perkin’s 80th Birthday Bash with Chicago Beau and the Blue Ice Band
Youngbloods featuring Fernando Jones & Chip Ratliff, Butch Dixon, James and Tyson Bell, Ronnie and Wayne Baker Brooks, and Noel Neal
Chubby and Roy Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band

 

Crossroads Stage
Nolan Struck and King Edward Blues Band
West Coast harp Review featuring William Clarke, Curtis Salgado, and Mark Hummel
Eddie Shaw and his Wolfgang

 

Petrillo Music Shell
Jimmy Walker’s Birthday Celebration w/ Erwin Helfer, Billy Boy Arnold, Pete Crawford and Billy Branch
Jimmy McGriff and Hank Crawford Quartet
Johnny Otis Show
Johnny Copeland with special guests Joe Hughes and Hank Crawford

 

May 30

 

Front Porch
Othar Turner’s Mississippi Fife and Drum Band
Mississippi John Hurt Jr.
David “Honeyboy” Edwards
Ken Whitley’s salute to Big Bill and Blind John
Jerry Ricks

 

Crossroads Stage
Big Bad Smitty with Bennie Smith
Bowling Green John Cephas and harmonica Phil Wiggins
Guitar Shorty with Casey Jones

 

Petrillo Music Shell
Big Bill Broonzy Centennial with Studs Terkel moderating
Featuring Sunnyland Slim with Big Four featuring Brother John Sellers and Pops Staples
Little Johnny Taylor
Elvin Bishop with Little Smokey Smothers
Staple Singers

 
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