Alvin Youngblood Hart and Marquise Knox’s Chicago Blues Festival to perform at Blues Alive

The newly announced names promise an extraordinary experience again: the eclectic band Alvin Youngblood Hart’s Muscle Theory will play loud guitar blues spiced with elements of rock and funk. The extraordinary line-up billed as Chicago Blues Festival created for this year’s 53rd Chicago Blues Festival features three stars: guitarist and singer Marquise Knox, considered one of B.B. King’s successors, guitarist and singer Dexter Allen, and Seattle blues and soul singing star Anita White, known as Lady A.

Nashville-based Australian Kara Grainger impresses the audience with her brilliantly mastered slide guitar playing. GravelRoad’s work combines the most raw Hill Country blues and Seattle grunge, and their performance will surely bring to mind the audience’s well-known T-Model Ford, whom they accompanied late in his career on records and live. French band Shaggy Dogs will be performing a rip-roaring set of what they call a “blues’n’roll fiesta”. And there will also be bands that made it to the festival through our Blues Aperitiv search competition last year: Karlovy Vary’s Steven’s, Vsetín’s Dazed and Confused and Silesian Black Pin.

In addition to the aforementioned, the Blues Alive festival will feature guitar virtuoso Tommy Castro and his band The Painkillers, winner of the Blues Music Award in the main category Entertainer of the Year for 2022, saxophonist and singer Jimmy Carpenter, winner of two Blues Music Awards, mid-generation guitar great Bernard Allison, young British guitarist, singer and blues-rock singer-songwriter Krissy Matthews, and last but not least, French band Delgres, whose sound blends classic blues with Caribbean rhythms as known in New Orleans.

We are happy that we were able to secure such a quality lineup for the festival well in advance. And what’s more: this is not all! Audiences can look forward to more names being announced throughout the spring…

All-festival passes are on sale until 31st May for 2300 CZK. The price will increase to 2500 CZK from 1st June. Tickets can be purchased HERE.
Single day tickets will be on sale in limited quantities from 1 September 2023. The price of single day tickets will be 1600 CZK.

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This post was written by Štěpán Suchochleb