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Hutto<\/em><br \/>\nDemetria Taylor and Tomiko Dixon \u2013\u00a0<em>Tribute to Big Time Sarah<\/em><br \/>\nSteve Bell and Lurrie Bell \u2013\u00a0<em>Tribute to Carey Bell<\/em><br \/>\nJimmy Johnson and Dave Specter \u2013\u00a0<em>Tribute to Magic Sam<\/em><br \/>\nOmar Coleman \u2013\u00a0<em>Tribute to Junior Wells<\/em><\/p>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h3><strong>Saturday, June 9, 2018<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5><strong>Jay Pritzker Pavilion<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><a title=\"Billy Branch (Photo by: BCharvolin)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofchicago.org\/content\/dam\/city\/depts\/dca\/Blues%20Festival\/blues_performers_2018\/billybranch800.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Billy Branch (Photo by: BCharvolin)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cityofchicago.org\/content\/dam\/city\/depts\/dca\/Blues%20Festival\/blues_performers_2018\/billybranch135.jpg\" alt=\"Billy Branch (Photo by: BCharvolin)\" width=\"203\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>5:30-6:30pm &#8211; Selwyn Birchwood<\/li>\n<li>6:45-7:45pm &#8211; Willie Clayton<\/li>\n<li>8-9:30pm &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Little Walter Tribute<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Featuring harp players:<\/em>\u00a0Billy Branch, Corky Siegel, Rick Estrin, Sugar Blue and others.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h3><strong>Sunday, June 10, 2018<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5><strong>Jay Pritzker Pavilion<\/strong><\/h5>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a title=\"Fantastic Negrito\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofchicago.org\/content\/dam\/city\/depts\/dca\/Blues%20Festival\/blues_performers_2018\/fantasticnegrito750.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"Fantastic Negrito\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cityofchicago.org\/content\/dam\/city\/depts\/dca\/Blues%20Festival\/blues_performers_2018\/fantasticnegrito135.jpg\" alt=\"Fantastic Negrito\" width=\"90\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a title=\"Kenny Neal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofchicago.org\/content\/dam\/city\/depts\/dca\/Blues%20Festival\/blues_performers_2018\/kennyneal800.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"Kenny Neal\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cityofchicago.org\/content\/dam\/city\/depts\/dca\/Blues%20Festival\/blues_performers_2018\/kennyneal135.jpg\" alt=\"Kenny Neal\" width=\"108\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>5:30-6:30pm &#8211; Fantastic Negrito<\/li>\n<li>6:45-7:45pm &#8211; Kenny Neal<\/li>\n<li>8-9:30pm &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Mavis Staples<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Blues Festival 2018 Headliners Chicago Blues Festival\u00a0 &gt;\u00a0\u00a02018 Headliners Celebrating Chicago&#8217;s Music Legacy Bob Koester \u00a0Little Walter \u00a0Mavis Staples (click on image to enlarge) &nbsp; (schedule is subject to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-breaking-news","category-this-just-in"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}