The Chicago Blues Festival is the city’s largest music festival, and is of course an appropriate festival for the City of Blues. Chicago became a mecca for blues after musicians from the Mississippi delta migrated there generations ago looking for a better life.

I went there this evening with my friends. What a stunning setting!! The festival (the organizers say its the world’s largest free concert of its kind) is held in Grant Park, with the beautiful Chicago skyline surrounding the show.

Here’s Mary Ellen, Phil, Lynzee and me (I often stay at Phil’s when in Chicago)

and the main stage…

…and now its time to sleep…  I have to get up at 4am and get ready for the weekend’s show…