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Music, Music Feature Jun 5, 2018
The Reader’s guide to the 2018 Chicago Blues Festival

The fest expands its footprint in Millennium Park with a diverse lineup that includes boogie-woogie pianist Erwin Helfer, southern soul-blues star Ms. Jody, and the Rising Stars Fife & Drum Band with Shardé Thomas.
- By Bill Dahl and David Whiteis
- Tags: Music Feature, Chicago Blues Festival, 35th Annual Chicago Blues Festival, Millennium Park, the blues, festivals, music festivals, free events, Delmark Records, Bob Koester, creative definitions of the blues, roots-blues fusion, southern soul-blues, boogie-woogie, Chicago Reader, past and future of the blues, tributes, Blues Festival, Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Pritzker Pavilion, Front Porch Stage, Mississippi Juke Joint, Rooftop Lounge, Windy City Blues Society, Wrigley Square, Cloud Gate, Blues Kids Foundation, Crossroads Stage, Mavis Staples, Fantastic Negrito, Vieux Farka Touré, Gene Barge, Willie Clayton, Erwin Helfer, Chicago Rhythm & Blues Kings, Shardé Thomas, Rising Stars Fife & Drum Band, Otha Turner, Delmark Records, Bob Koester, Ms. Jody, southern soul-blues, Daddy G, Little Walter, LJ Echols, Nellie “Tiger” Travis

Music, Music Feature Jun 5, 2018
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Shardé Thomas propels the Rising Stars Fife & Drum Band into a new century

The granddaughter of fife master Otha Turner flavors a Mississippi hill country tradition with modern hip-hop and R&B.
- Tags: Music Feature, Shardé Thomas, Otha Turner, Othar Turner, Rising Star Fife & Drum Band, Rising Stars Fife & Drum Band, fife, drum, blues, Mississippi, hill country, Shawty Blues, Little Sally Walker, Granny, North Mississippi Allstars, picnic, What Do I Do?, We Made It, Video

Music, Music Feature May 31, 2018
The complete schedule of the 2018 Chicago Blues Festival

Every set on all five stages in Millennium Park, from Friday morning through Sunday night—including Mavis Staples, Vieux Farka Touré, Fantastic Negrito, and dozens more
- Tags: Music Feature, Chicago Blues Festival, Blues Festival, Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Pritzker Pavilion, Front Porch Stage, Mississippi Juke Joint, schedule, Crossroads Stage, Rooftop Lounge, Millennium Park, Mavis Staples, Vieux Farka Touré, Fantastic Negrito, Chicago Rhythm & Blues Kings, Gene Barge, Delmark Records, Bob Koester, Rising Stars Fife & Drum Band, Shardé Thomas, Otha Turner, Willie Clayton, Ms. Jody, Erwin Helfer, Little Walter, Blues in the Schools, Bridges to the Blues

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