1994 Chicago Blues Festival Program
Bill Kolstad
Dated 3/29/94.
The 1994 Chicago Blues Festival Program
Friday, June 3, 1994
Front Porch Stage
Noon Othar Turner's Mississippi Fife & Drum Band
12:15 Blues in the Schools Band, featuring Billy Branch, Carl
Weathersby, The Sons of Blues, and the students of Grant School
with Sterling Plumpp
2:15 Remembering the Masters: An Understanding of Classic,
Katherine Davis, Sid Wingfield, Floyd McDaniels, Erwin Helfer,
Jimmy Walker
4:20 Jimmy Rogers with Jimmy Lane (a family tradition)
5:00 Program Ends
Crossroads Stage
1:00 Mississippi Heat featuring Dietra Farr
2:30 Bob Margolin with special guests Snooky Pryor and John Brim
4:30 Maurice John Vaughn
5:30 Program Ends
Petrillo Music Shell
6:00 pm Chick Rodgers and the Masheen Company
6:50 Eddie "House Rockin" Shaw and his Wolg Gang
7:45 Chicago Soul Revue with Major Lance and Barbara Acklin
starring Gene Chandler
9:00 Jimmy Rogers' 70th Birthday Celebration with friends:
Bob Margolin, Jerry Portnoy, Snooky Pryor, and special
guest Pinetop Perkins
10:00 Program Ends
Saturday, June 4, 1994
Front Porch Stage
11:00 am Othar Turner's Mississippi Fife & Drum Band
11:30 Chicago Beau & Pete Crawford remembering John Lee "Sonny Boy
Williamson"
12:30 pm Remembering "Cow Cow" with Barrelhouse Chuck and Ken Saydak
1:15 John Primer and Mad Dog Lester
2:45 Booker T. Laury
3:45 Louisiana Red and Carey Bell
5:00 Program Ends
Crossroads Stage
Noon Manuel Arrington's Blues Band featuring Pat Scott
1:15 Aron Burton's Blues Band with special guest Pat Soul
2:30 Little Smokey Somthers with Lee Shot Williams
3:45 Falson's Reunion
4:45 Program Ends
Petrillo Music Shell
5:00 pm Billy Boy Arnold with Bob Margolin featuring special guest
Lacy Gibson
6:00 Vernon Garrett
7:00 "Bessie Smith Centennial Celebration" featuring
Katie Webster the "Bayou Swamp Queen" with the Vasti Jackson
Band
7:55 Floyd Dixon "Mr. Magnificant"
8:50 Linda Hopkins, "Salutes the Empress"
10:00 Program Ends
Sunday, June 5, 1994
Front Porch Stage
11:00 am Othar Turner's Mississippi Fife & Drum Band
11:30 Reverend Pinson and Elder Wilson
12:30 pm Honeyboy Edwards
1:00 Sunnyland Slim
2:00 Erwin Helfer and Jimmy Walker
3:00 Bermingham Sunlights
4:00 Program Ends
Crossroads Stage
Noon Dave Weld and his Imperial Flames
1:00 Barbara LeShoure Blues Band
2:00 L.V. Banks and his son Tre
3:30 Holmes Bros.
5:00 Program Ends
Petrillo Music Shell
5:00 pm Byther Smith Blues Band Sellers
5:55 Shirley Brown
7:15 Black Top Blues a-rama: Starring Earl King, Robert Ward,
Carol Fran, Clarence Hollimon, Kaz Kazanoff and the Kamikaze
Horn Section, with the Black Top Rhythm Section
8:55 Koko Taylor and her Blues Machine
10:00 Program Ends
All stages are located in Grant Park between Lake Shore Drive and
Michigan Ave. Listings for who will be appearing at Chicago's many
blues clubs will likely be available in a few weeks.
Hope to see many of you there.
Bill Kolstad
Governors State University
Academic Computing Services
email: guc...@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu