Chicago Blues Festival Schedule
June 6, 2012 6:18PM
Mavis Staples
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Updated: July 9, 2012 6:03AM
JUNE 8
Bud Light Crossroads Stage
11:15 am – 12:15 pm | The Jimmy Reed Family
12:45 pm – 2:00 pm | Quintus McCormick
2:30 pm – 3:45 pm | Zora Young
4:15 pm – 5:30 pm | Joe Louis Walker
Mississippi Juke Joint Stage
11:30 am – 12:30 pm | Panel discussion (Lightnin’ Hopkins) with Roger Wood, Chris Strachwitz & Alan Govenar
12:45 pm – 1:30 pm | Ol’ Skool Revue from the Delta Music Institute of Delta State University
1:45 pm – 2:45 pm | Eddie C. Campbell
3 pm – 4:00 pm | Vasti Jackson
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm | Johnny Rawls
6 pm – 7:00 pm | Jam Session w/ Kenny “Beedy Eyes” Smith
Pepsi Front Porch Stage
Noon – 1 pm | Blues in the Schools w/Stone Academy, Eric Noden, Katherine Davis & Erwin Helfer
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm | Fernando Jones and My Band!
3 pm – 4:00 pm | Matthew Skoller Band
4:30pm – 5:30 pm | Big James & the Chicago Playboys
Petrillo Music Shell
A Centennial Celebration of Lightnin’ Hopkins
5:50 pm – 6:35 pm | Rev. KM Williams
7 pm – 8:05 pm | Milton Hopkins and Jewel Brown
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Texas Johnny Brown
JUNE 9
Bud Light Crossroads Stage
11:15 am – 12:15 pm | Tommy McCracken
12:45 pm – 2 pm | Diunna and Blue Mercy
2:30 pm – 3:45 pm | Bob Jones with Ronnie Hicks & the Masheen Company Band featuring Mike Wheeler
4:15 pm – 5:30 pm | Billy Branch and the Sons of Blues w/special guest Jamiah “On Fire” & the Red Machine
Mississippi Juke Joint Stage
11:30 am – 12:30 pm | Panel Discussion of Malaco Records (Tommy Couch, Jr., Wolf Stephenson, Brett Bonner & Alex Thomas)
1 pm – 2 pm | Terry “Big T” Williams
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm | Mark “Muleman” Massey
4 pm – 5 pm | Homemade Jamz Blues Band feat. Ryan, Kyle & Taya Perry
5:30 pm – 7 pm | Jam Session w/ Ronnie Hicks & the Masheen Company Band
Pepsi Front Porch Stage
12 pm – 1 pm | Columbia College Blues All Stars
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm | Rev. KM Williams
3 pm – 4 pm | Sam Lay Blues Band
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm | Tribute to Hubert Sumlin featuring Steady Rollin Bob Margolin, Eddie Shaw, Dave Specter, Bob Corritore, Johnny Iguana, Kenny “Beedy Eyes” Smith & Bob Stroger
Petrillo Music Shell
5:40 pm – 6:10 pm | Paul Kaye (Tribute to David Honeyboy Edwards)
6:35 pm – 8 pm | (Celebrating Muddy Waters Disciples — Pinetop Perkins, Willie Big Eyes Smith & Mojo Buford featuring Steady Rollin’ Bob Margolin, Mud Morganfield, Kenny ”Beedy Eyes” Smith, Barrelhouse Chuck, Lil Frank , Bob Stroger & Joe Filisko
8:25pm – 9:30 pm | Floyd Taylor
JUNE 10
Bud Light Crossroads Stage
11:15 am – 12:15 pm | Demetria Taylor
12:45 pm – 2 pm | Mary Lane and the No Static Blues Band
2:30 pm – 3:45 pm | Charles Wilson
4:15 pm – 5:30 pm | Lil’ Ed & the Blues Imperials
Mississippi Juke Joint Stage
11:30 am – 12:15 pm | Howlin’ Wolf B-Day/Panel Discussion with Barbra Marks, Sterling Plumpp & Dick Shurman
12:30 pm – 1:25 pm | The Rising Stars Fife and Drum Band
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm | Eden Brent
3 pm – 4 pm | Pat Brown
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm | Patrice Moncel
6 pm – 7 pm | Mississippi Jam Session w/ Dexter Allen
Pepsi Front Porch Stage
Noon – 1 pm | Homemade Jamz Blues Band featuring Ryan, Kyle & Taya Perry
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm | Lurrie Bell
3 pm – 4 pm | Omar Coleman and Friends
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm | Eddie Shaw & the Wolf Gang
Petrillo Music Shell
6 pm – 7:20 pm | Celebrating Women in Blues — Tribute to Koko Taylor, featuring Melvia “Chick” Rodgers, Jackie Scott, Deitra Farr , Nora Jean Brusco and The Koko Taylor Blues Machine Band
7:45 pm – 9 pm | Mavis Staples
Schedule subject to change without notice.
