Festival Hub: Chicago Blues Festival

The Scene: The largest free blues festival in the world, the Chicago Blues Festival treats fans to four days of live music across four stages. The Blues Capital of the World includes alumni like Ray Charles, B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, Bo Diddley, Buddy Guy, Koko Taylor, Shemekia Copeland, and Gary Clark Jr.

Chicago Blues Festival 2024: June 6-9, 2024
  • Buddy Guy
  • Mr. Sipp
  • Shemekia Copeland
  • Southern Avenue
Chicago Blues Festival 2023: June 8-11, 2023
  • Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra featuring Terrie Odabi
  • Big Mike and the R&B Kings featuring Sierra Green
  • Blind Boys of Alabama
  • Carl Weathersby
  • Demetria Taylor with The Mike Wheeler Band
  • Donald Kinsey
  • Duwayne Burnside
  • Eddie Cotton
  • Jimmy Burns Band
  • Joe Pratt & The Source One Band
  • John Primer and the Real Deal Blues Band
  • Jontavious Willis
  • Larry McCray
  • Lightnin’ Malcolm
  • Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials
  • Los Lobos
  • Melody Angel
  • Mud Morganfield
  • Mzz Reese
  • Nora Jean Wallace
  • O.B. Buchana
  • Rico McFarland
  • Sheryl Youngblood
  • Stephen Hull
  • Sugaray Rayford
  • Terry “Harmonica” Bean
  • Vasti Jackson
  • Zac Harmon
Chicago Blues Festival 2022: June 9-12, 2022
  • Jamiah Rogers
  • Joanna Connor
  • Toronzo Cannon
  • Shemekia Copeland
  • Linsey Alexander
  • Robert Kimbrough
  • The Keeshea Pratt Band
  • Eddie Cotton
  • Thornetta Davis
  • The Mike Wheeler Band
  • Billy Branch
  • Nora Jean Wallace
  • Lucious Spiller
  • Grady Champion
  • Ms. Jody
  • Nick Alexander
  • Melody Angel
  • Rico McFarland
  • Ronnie Baker Brooks
  • JW Williams
  • Dexter Allen
  • Keith Johnson & The Big Muddy Band
  • Ivy Ford
  • Annika Chambers
  • Eric Gales
  • Lurrie Bell
  • Johnny Rawls
  • Mr. Sipp
  • Rising Stars Fife & Drum Band
Chicago Blues Festival 2019: June 7-9, 2019
  • Benny Turner and Real Blues
  • Bettye LaVette
  • Billy Boy Arnold
  • Bob Stroger
  • Bobby Rush
  • Bombino
  • Breezy Rodio
  • Bridges to the Blues
  • Cash Box Kings
  • Charlie Musselwhite
  • Chicago Blues Piano Master-A Tribute To Otis Spann
  • Chicago Bound Blues Band
  • Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore with The Guilty Ones
  • Doktu Rhute Muuzic
  • Dom Flemons
  • Dom Flemons
  • Don Bryant
  • Eric Noden
  • Erwin Helfer
  • Gerry Hundt’s Legendary One-Man Band
  • Grady Champion
  • Guy King with special guest Chris Cain
  • Harmonica Hinds
  • Ivy Ford Band
  • Jarekus Singleton
  • Jesse “Guitar” Robinson
  • Jimmy Burns Band
  • Jimmy Johnson Blues Band
  • Jimmy Nick & Don’t Tell Mama
  • Joanna Connor
  • John Primer & The Real Deal Blues Band
  • Karen Wolfe
  • Kenny Smith & The House Bumpers
  • King Edward
  • Larkin Poe
  • Latimore
  • Lurrie Bell
  • Marquise Knox
  • Mary Lane
  • Melody Angel
  • Melvin Taylor & The Slack Band
  • Mike Wheeler Band
  • Mojo Morganfield & The Mannish Boyz
  • Morry Sochat & The Special 20s
  • Mzz Reese
  • O.B. Buchana
  • Omar Coleman
  • Rick King’s Royal Hustle
  • Rico McFarland, Carl Weathersby and Kenneth “Hollywood”
  • RL Boyce
  • Russ Green
  • Ruthie Foster
  • Super Chikan
  • The Joel Paterson Organ Trio
  • The Kinsey Report
  • Thornetta Davis
  • Tom Holland & The Shuffle Kings
  • Toronzo Cannon
  • Willie Buck
  • Zac Harmon
Chicago Blues Festival 2015: June 12-14, 2015
  • Alex Dixon
  • Barrelhouse Chuck
  • Billy Branch and the Sons of Blues
  • Bob Margolin
  • Bob Stroger
  • Bobby Dixon
  • E.G. McDaniel
  • Freddie Dixon
  • Jerry Portnoy
  • John Primer
  • John Watkins
  • Keisha Dixon
  • Kenny “Beedy Eyes” Smith
  • Mud Morganfield
  • Paul Oscher
  • Rick Kreher
  • Sugar Blue
  • Tomika Dixon
Chicago Blues Festival 2013: June 6-9, 2013
  • Blues Kids of America
  • Jamiah on Fire & The Red Machine.
  • Quinn Sullivan
  • Shemekia Copeland
  • More TBA