Chicago Blues Festival

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning. 

I was not one to be interested in The Blues that is not until I met my husband Arvid..........11 years ago.

If there was a man really born to listen to this kind of music it is him.  He lives it and feels it with an intensity like no other person I know.  So that said, we are constantly on a quest to follow the music be it wherever it takes us.

The Chicago Blues Festival has turned out to be our favorite venue for Blues Music. 

It is the largest free blues festival in the world and remains the largest of Chicago's Music Festivals. During three days on five stages, more than 640,000 blues fans prove that Chicago is the "Blues Capital of the World." Past performers include Bonnie Raitt, Ray Charles, B.B. King, the late Bo Diddley, Buddy Guy and the late Koko Taylor.

http://www.explorechicago.org/city/en/supporting_narrative/events___special_events/events/mose/chicago_blues_festival34.html

We have been coming here for many years and we right away fell in love with this beautiful and exciting city.

Home is Fort Lauderdale but more and more we are loving Chicago.  Arvid actually told me that he would not mind making this home..........if the winters were not that cold.  That said we could not live here in the cold months.

Yesterday was day one of the festival and let me tell you it was full of good music and to make it even more interesting there were so many things/people to look at doing and wearing unusual gear.  For instance take this man with the funny hat.  He was promoting the fact that The Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup Championship......

Simple music is the hardest music to play and blues is simple music.

Looking forward to the next two days filled with good music and who knows what else..........

 This is beautiful city with friendly people......unlike Ft. Lauderdale people here are more down to earth.  You would not find young girls at the blues festival wearing heels...here everyone is dressed for comfort and practicality.  Fort Lauderdale is another story.....not too many are practical.  Here you don't see the young girls with so much make-up....back home many young people I know hardly get out of their apartments without spackling (Arvid's word) their faces with tons of makeup.......when going to the beach some girls  take hours to prep themselves.......here it is more relaxed and we love it....we have not joined the rest of Chicago...instead of carrying a purse/handbag we now ONLY carry a backback everywhere we go....

The best part of all of this is that when we come home Brutus is waiting for us......

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Music is what feelings sound like

Time to go and listen to more music.....hasta luego amigos...

until later.....