Concerts and other programming will be at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, the Ramova Theatre and on Maxwell Street.

The blues will be celebrated in a big way this summer if the 2025 Chicago Blues Festival lineup announced Wednesday morning.

To mark the announcement, McCray has dropped the album’s lead single ... soul, and the blues stylings of B.B., Albert, and Freddie King. After relocating to Saginaw, Michigan, at age 12 ...

B.B. King, a 15-time Grammy Award winner ... including King's Grammy-winning album, "Blues Summit." Known primarily as a blues guitarist and vocalist, the McComb native also performs rock ...

The Stephen Lear Band began by gigging around town as much as possible, securing a Thursday night residency at the Lion’s ...

A new tribute album to the King of Zydeco Clifton Chenier will feature The Rolling Stones, Lucinda Williams, Taj Mahal, Steve ...

Veteran bluesman Chris Cain has been called “one of the greatest guitarists you’ve never heard of.” Now at age 69, he has released “Good Intentions Gone Bad,” an album which critics have called his ...

I’m like BB King: I’m not fast at it, but if you give it to me and give me time, I can memorize it. But the older you get, the less you can memorize. Whatever can help the blues stay alive ...

Listen to an imagined set list for a supernatural juke joint featuring Albert King, Outkast, Cécile McLorin Salvant and more.

The blues shredder also reveals that her faithful cigar-box guitar may soon reach the end of its days on the road ...

His forthcoming album, to be released in June, will join the 350 recordings Alligator has released since 1971. Especially influenced by B.B. King though he is, Harrell blends blues-rock ...