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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  

 

1996

   

13th Annual Festival: "I Ain't Superstitious, Black Cat Cross My Path"

 

May 31

 

Front Porch
Othar Turner
Santeria: Son de la Loma-Armando Sanchez
Blues in the Schools with students from Grnat Academy and Stone Academy
Homesick James
Dave Myers
Diamond Teeth Mary
Corey Harris

 

Crossroads Stage
Quintus McCormick, Anthony Palmer, Will Crosby
Jimmy Dawkins mc
Paul black and the Flip Kings

 

Juke Joint Stage
Eddie Shaw
Billy Branch/ Carl Weathersby
Lonnie and Ronnie Baker Brooks
Corey Harris
Fernando Jones

 

Petrillo Music Shell
Sons of the Blues
"I Ain't Superstitious" Eddie Shaw and the Wolf Gang with Hubert Sumlin, Abb Locke. Chico Chism Little Smokey Big Mojo Elem and Lester Davenport
Lonnie Brooks Band

June 1

 

 Front Porch
Othar Turner
Morikebe Kouyate
Corey Harris
"Sunnyland Memorial Piano Set" featuring Big Joe Duskin
David "Honeyboy" Edwards
Homesick James
Karen Carroll and Lurrie Bell
Vance Kelly

 

Crossroads Stage
Studebaker John with Big Mojo Elem
Michael Hill's Blues Mob
John Mooney

 

Juke Joint Stage
Corey Harris
Sugar Blues
Michael Hill
Ichiban Ladies

 

Petrillo Music Shell
Phil guy w/ Big James Montgomery and special guest Nellie Travis
Sugar Blue
Trudy Lynn and Francine Reed

June 2

 

Front Porch
Otha Turner
Guy Davis
Pistol Pete
Remembering Rev. Gary Davis featuring David Bromberg, Andy Cohen, Manny Greenhill, and Tiny Robinson
Corey Harris
Remembering Rev, Robert T. Wilkins featuring David Evans, lane Wilkins, and Eric Noden
Homesick James
Paul Geremia

 

Crossroads Stage
Jimmy Rip
Pete Mayes and his Texas House rockers
Bobby Parker

 

Juke Joint Stage
Paul Geremia and Guy Davis
Corey Harris
Long John Hunter
Alvin Youngblood Hart

 

Petrillo Music Shell
Willie Clayton
Sue Conway
Long John Hunter w/ special guest Phillip Walker
Screamin' Jay Hawkins

 
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