Chicago Blues Festival
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The Chicago Blues Festival is an annual event held in June, that features three days of performances by top-tier blues musicians, both old favorites and the up-and-coming. It is hosted by the City of
The Blues Festival stage at the Petrillo Music Shell before nightfall
A Blues Festival performer plays jazz
Otis Rush
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Otis Rush Jr. was an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter. His distinctive guitar style featured a slow-burning sound and long bent notes. With qualities similar to the styles of other 1950s
Chicago Blues Festival
…Louisiana Red, Luther Allison, Eddie Cusic, Lurrie Bell, Magic Slim, Matt Murphy, Memphis Slim, George "Mojo" Buford, Mick Taylor, The Neville Brothers, Otis Rush, Pee Wee Crayton, Ike Turner, Pinetop Perkins, Ray Charles, Robert Cray Band, Robert Lockwood, Jr., Sam Lay, Otis "Big Smokey" Smothers, Snooky Pryor…
Rush in 1997
Otis Rush performs at the 1970 Ann Arbor Blues Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Rush performing in 2002