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Encyclopedia > Chicago Blues Festival

The Chicago Blues Festival is an annual event that features four days of performances by top-tier blues musicians, both old favorites and the up-and-coming. It is hosted by the City of Chicago Mayor's Office of Special Events, and always occurs in early June. The event takes place in Grant Park, near the Loop in Chicago. Grant Park adjoins the Lake Michigan waterfront. The blues is a sexual and instrumental form of music based on a pentatonic scale and a characteristic twelve-bar chord progression. ... ... June is the sixth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with a length of 30 days The month is named after the Roman goddess Juno, wife of Jupiter and equivalent to the Greek goddess Hera. ... The Taste of Chicago is held in Grant Park annually around Independence Day. ... The Loop is what locals call the downtown neighborhood of Chicago. ... ... Sunset on Lake Michigan Another sunset along the lake. ...


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Chicago Blues Festival (1607 words)
The various local blues clubs usually have booths too, where you can pick up their show schedules if you are ready to keep going after the official festival wraps each night.
It is one of Chicago’s gems, famous for Buckingham Fountain, which many people know from the opening credits of the TV show “Married, with Children.” It is a large, formally-arranged park based on geometric shapes.
Chicago is the birthplace of the modern skyscraper, the greatest showcase of 20
Chicago Blues Festival - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (107 words)
The Chicago Blues Festival is an annual event that features four days of performances by top-tier blues musicians, both old favorites and the up-and-coming.
It is hosted by the City of Chicago Mayor's Office of Special Events, and always occurs in early June.
The event takes place in Grant Park, near the Loop in Chicago.
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