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Larry McCray
Larry McCray
Larry McCray
-In 2014, McCray was named the top blues guitarist by British journalists in the International Blues Matters 2014 Writers Poll. “They do have an appreciation for the roots there and the closer to the roots the better it is for you,” says McCray.
American Blues Scene- Don Wilcock
Nora Jean
Larry McCray
Larry McCray
Fellow blues singer, Koko Taylor once commented, "Nora Jean sounds just like I did when I was her age. She is one of the new upcoming women that's singing the real blues. I know she is going to make it."[5] Nora Jean was named one of the ten great women in Chicago blues by Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.[6] She has been nominated various times for a Blues Music Award. - Wikipedia
Vino Louden
Larry McCray
Michael Kelsey
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Vino Louden is the quintessential blues guitarist, best known for his work as a bandleader for Koko Taylor’s Blues Machine. Vino is a widely charismatic performer and a gifted guitarist. This Hayti, Missouri native, settled in Chicago and went on to be well-known for his accomplishments as a blues artist and leader of Koko Taylor’s Band. Vino has given performances in blues festivals all over this country and in Europe- Navy Pier
Michael Kelsey
Corey Dennison Band
Michael Kelsey
A fearless experimenter, Kelsey is an acoustic guitarist who weaves a multitude of unusual sounds and rhythms into his patchwork quilt of work. Part performance artist and part virtuoso musician. Kelsey takes the widest possible variety of music and makes it his own.”
-Nuvo Magazine,Indianapolis, IN
Corey Dennison Band
Corey Dennison Band
Corey Dennison Band
Although Corey Dennison is considered a young gun in the blues world, he’s far from an amateur. Hailing from Chattanooga, Tennessee, he got his first guitar at the age of six. Weaned on a combination of blues and soul, Dennison spent a dozen years as a sideman for Carl Weathersby. In 2013, he struck out on his own, forming the Corey Dennison Band, and setting Chicago on its collective ear. They’ve been nominated at the BMAs for Best Emerging Artist Album, and won Best Blues Album at the 2016 Le Prix Blues Awards in France.- A. Blues Scene- JD NASH
Jimmy Nick
Corey Dennison Band
Corey Dennison Band
“Not everyday you get to meet an absolute musical #genius. Yesterday we did — @jimmynickmusic at the @arcadatheatre Speak Easy in St Charles IL — Wow!“ – Donnie Wahlberg (Actor: Blue Bloods/Musician: NKOTB) LINK
Dean Justus
Dean Justus
Dean Justus
About MFMF
For Our Artist
What kind of Memories MFMF wants For You?
Hopefully One Day, One like this One.
Quotes about the festival
- We were ready to rock out and we waited and waited and finally it was our turn... ...there were a half million people asleep. These people were out. It was sort of like a painting of a Dante scene, just bodies from hell, all intertwined and asleep, covered with mud.
- And this is the moment I will never forget as long as I live: a quarter mile away in the darkness, on the other edge of this bowl, there was some guy flicking his Bic, and in the night I hear, 'Don't worry about it John. We're with you.' I played the rest of the show for that guy."
- John Fogerty regarding Creedence Clearwater Revival's 3 a.m. start time at Woodstock.