Photos from the 1997 Chicago Blues Festival

The 14th annual Chicago Blues Festival was another success! This year's largest free blues music festival was held on June 5th through June 8th, 1997. Each year the festival seems to grow larger, both in attendance and number of performers. Fans were rewarded this year with an extra day (Thursday) of blues music. Once again, the webmasters of the Worldblues Wed Site attended the festival, and we are sharing our photos of the event with our fellow B.B. King and blues fans. To view the larger JPEG images of our photos, click on the small thumbnail GIF images shown below. Please do not copy or distribute these photos without permission from the owner.

Did I see Elwood Blues at the "House of Blues" tent eating red beans and rice (or was it dry white toast)? After all, we were in Chicago ...

Here's a shot of the Worldblues webmasters, Dennis O'Neill and Jim Kerekes, paying our respects to Lucille!

Buddy Guy was definitely the highlight of this year's festival!
Here's 6 photo's from Thursday night's show.

Warming up for Buddy Guy was Roy Hytower, the "Root Doctor" (left), and the "Sax Preacher" (right).

Erwin Helfer's Boogie Woogie Ensemble (left) performed Friday afternoon on the Front Porch stage, featuring vocals of Katherine Davis (right).

Also performing on the Front Porch stage on Friday was Howard Armstrong (left) and his string band, including Sid Selvidge and Jim Crosthwait - check out that bass! (right)

Known for great acoustic blues performances, Saturday's Front Porch stage featured Big Bo (left) on harp, accompanied by Little Whitt (right) on guitar.

Two legends of the blues and yearly Chicago Blues Fest performers, David "Honeyboy" Edwards (left) and Homesick James (seated at right).

One of the new young guns of the blues, Tommy McCracken and the Force of Habit Band.

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