The Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Stage Schedule is released!
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009Buy tickets from this link to enjoy free Break-Fist w/ Sexfist, Cobalt & the Hired Guns, and the Great Divide.
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BREAKOUT BANDS DO “BREAK-FIST w/ SEXFIST” AT CHIGAO BLUEGRASS & BLUES FEST | Cobalt and the Hired Guns, Great Divide join Sexfist to kick off CBB with a little help from GOLD N’ PEAR
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
To get free Break-Fist w/ Sexfist, Cobalt & the Hired Guns, and Great Divide this Saturday at the Chicago Bluegrass & Blues festival, buy your tickets through this link and then RSVP to (312) 77-BANJO – First 100 get catered breakfast from Chicago’s own Gold ‘n’ Pear.
Chicago, IL – November 30, 2009. After touring the country and racking up some excellent press and radio airplay, Great Divide and Cobalt & the Hired Guns are happy to announce that they will be joining Sexfist for a very special kick-off to the second annual Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival (www.cbbfestival.com).
Sexfist has taken Chicago by storm, amazing audiences with their high-energy, hard-driving picking and angelic harmony singing, and sidling up alongside Cornmeal as Chicago’s most popular bluegrass act. They recently shared “Last Banjo Standing” honors with Great Divide, becoming the 24th and 25th bands to join the bill.
Jambase calls Ann Arbor, Michigan’s Great Divide a band that excels at “…setting the tone for the night, with tight, soulful horns, keys and a great jazz guitar bass combo…sophisticated talent…”
Friends since they were just little buckaroos, the boys of Cobalt & the Hired Guns arrived on the Chicago scene in 2008. That year’s Jump the Fence saw the band getting serious about art and environmentalism–the album was a carbon neutral project–and the new “double single” (”You left your sweater” b/w “Of Summer”) aims for the rafters with a one two punch of boot-stompin’, tambourine-shakin’ cow punk! Cobalt & the Hired Guns have shared the stage with the likes of Dashboard Confessional, Ha Ha Tonka and The Avett Brothers and are proud to add Great Divide and Sexfist to the list.
Vittles come courtesy of Gold N’ Pear, the celebrated catering company run by nationally-published food writer Nancy Backas and Terry Feingold (aka “Dr. Soup”). Purchase tickets here to enjoy the spoils! (http://www.clubtix.net/ql.php?a=O&e=8754491074a70d357b96f9&p=12184991904b02cb85d7869)
Be sure to set your alarms to get up early on Saturday, Dec. 12. Start off a full day of music and fun with Cobalt & the Hired Guns, Great Divide and “Break-fist with Sexfist.” For more on Gold N’ Pear and the bands, check out:
http://goldnpear.com/index.html
http://www.myspace.com/sexfist
http://www.myspace.com/cobaltandthehiredguns |http://www.myspace.com/greatdividelive
Tourcast.tv to provide live webcast of the two main CBB Festival stages!
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009Tourcast.tv will be providing a live video and audio feed from the Main Stage area and the Pavilion stage throughout the entire duration of the Chicago Bluegrass and Blues Festival. This is an awesome addition to an already wonderful festival.
People who already have tickets: Now you can let your friends from around the country and world know they can watch the show that you will be attending! Go ahead and make them jealous, they will appreciate the good music anyway. And know that there will be a recording of the experience for you to have later.
People who cannot attend the show: We are aware not everyone who would like to attend this festival actually lives in Chicago. We don’t want to exclude you guys! So be sure you watch, because its still winter for you also and who couldn’t use a festival right now?
People who live in Chicago but are not going to the show: Don’t be a weirdo, get your tickets, its only $1.40 a band and the next festival is when? June or something? Okay, but even if you insist not on going, we still got love for you, we invite you to watch what you are missing.
To watch you can go to WWW.TOURCAST.TV or you can watch the video screens provided beneath the schedules.
Here are the lineups for the webcast:
The is the live feed from the Main Stage area at the CBB Festival
This is the live feed from the Pavilion Stage at the CBB Festival
10 Bonuses for CBB Festival Goers: what an incredibly unique experience it will be.
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
So there are many reason that The Chicago Bluegrass and Blues Festival is a unique experience worth any Chicago music fan’s attention. We know that it has Béla Fleck & Dr. Dog, and that is Chicago’s only winter music festival (and the nation’s largest). But there may be some aspects that you don’t know, and they are listed below. What you will find is that the CBB Festival, at heart, is a festival put on for music-festival lovers by music-festival lovers. We don’t just want to put bands on a couple stages and call it a day, we want to make it a one-stop, comprehensive, music-festival experience. Indoors… in the winter. Don’t believe me? Well… just read about the 10 bonuses for CBB Festival goers below; and trust me, you will be surprised.
1. There is unlimited re-entry until 6pm, and as long as you leave the building before then, you can come back in whenever! We don’t want to tell you you have to eat and drink here, so feel free to move freely in and out until evening time. Check out other FAQs here: http://cbbfestival.com/about/
2. There’s somewhere to smoke without leaving venue & going out in the cold. We don’t judge, we know that to be trapped inside all day long is not appealing to out friends who enjoy nicotine from time to time. Thats why we will provide an on-site smoking section, it will still be quasi-outdoors, but totally within the festival’s confines.
3. KIDS 12&UNDER ARE FREE. Yeah that’s right, you read that correctly. We feel for our brethren who feel like they can’t go to a festival because they have little ones and either don’t want to leave them along, or feel that buying them a ticket is a waste of money. Fear no more, we got you on this one, any kid under 12 will be admitted free of charge.
4. Buy a ticket and a holiday gift with one purchase, thanks to Bike and Roll’s Green Pass package. By purchasing a ticket through this link, and adding on a “Bike and Roll GREEN PASS” entitles the purchaser to a half-day bicycle rental for 2 people at any of their 9 locations around Chicago. Representing a 64% discount off the normal Bike and Roll price ($70), and printed by the city’s only green certified printer on recycled paper using soy inks, this is a great “green” gift for yourself or a friend. The Green Pass expires 12/31/10. To purchase or learn more click here.
5. Just to give you an idea of what this year has in store, and to get you excited about this year’s festival, we’ve released a preview footage of our soon to be released concert film “Windy City Dawg – David Grisman & Friends @ the Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Fest” – View it here.
6. You will be able to eat great food at the festival. Browns Restaurant (formerly Browns Chicken) is our exclusive food sponsor, and will be offering up deliciousness; including Hot Dogs, Polish Sausage, Nachos, Browns’ Famous Mushroom, and Chicken Wings.
7. We will even be providing live video/audio of the stages! This festival is about sharing good music, even to those who haven’t paid to get in. Preview the action and learn more at http://www.tourcast.tv/.
8. There will be a pre-party the Thursday before the festival.. On December 10 five bands will take the stage at Elbo Room, hosting an evening of Chicago’s best Rock-Folk musicians. This is a “teaser” for the 2nd Annual Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival on December 12 since two of the bands, Goodbyehome and Cobalt & The Hired Guns, are going to be performing there as well! Click here to learn more.
9. Wait, there is another pre-party as well, and its free! The OFFICIAL FESTIVAL EVE PRE-PARTY will be held on, 12/11, at Heartland Cafe (http://www.heartlandcafe.com/). It will be $5 or free w/ Festival ticket or confirmation e-mail.
9 – 935 pm Barehand Jugband
9:50 – 10:30 Rust Belt Ramblers
10:45 – 11:30 Le Percolateur
11:50 – ? Band Called Catch
Curfew @ 110 AM
9:50 – 10:30 Rust Belt Ramblers
10:45 – 11:30 Le Percolateur
11:50 – ? Band Called Catch
Curfew @ 110 AM
10. There is a free after-party for all of us late-night people! The OFFICIAL CBB FESTIVAL AFTER PARTY will happen at Elbo Room, it will be $5 or free w/ CBB Fest Ticket Stub! Come check out:
Coyote Afloat 9:15pm-10:15pm
Mandy & the Bandits – 10:30-11:00
Zach Pietrini & Broken Bones – 11:15 – 12:00
Kurt Helmbacher (Solo Acoustic) 12:15am – 1:15am
THE OFFICIAL CBB FESTIVAL AFTER PARTY…
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
There is a free after-party for all of us late-night people! The OFFICIAL CBB FESTIVAL AFTER PARTY will happen at Elbo Room, it will be $5 or free w/ CBB Fest Ticket Stub!
Come check out:
Coyote Afloat 9:15pm-10:15pm
Mandy & the Bandits – 10:30-11:00
Zach Pietrini & Broken Bones – 11:15 – 12:00
Kurt Helmbacher (Solo Acoustic) 12:15am – 1:15am
Brown’s Chicken to kindly supply the comfort food for our winter festival!
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009Incase you have not heard the good word, you will be able to eat great food at the festival! Browns Restaurant (formerly Browns Chicken) is our exclusive food sponsor, and will be offering up deliciousness; including Hot Dogs, Polish Sausage, Nachos, Browns’ Famous Mushroom, and Chicken Wings. We are so happy that Brown’s chicken will be going out of their way to supply food for our festival, we absolutely love the food and are happy to find that a large food company would jump at the chance to become involved with a music festival. And in case all this food talk hasn’t gotten your mouth watering, take a look at the pictures below… To learn more about Browns Chicken and where you can find it, just click here.
There are TWO PRE-PARTIES THIS WEEK for CBB Festival, so jump into the fun early!
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
There will be a pre-party the Thursday before the festival.. On December 10 five bands will take the stage at Elbo Room, hosting an evening of Chicago’s best Rock-Folk musicians. This is a “teaser” for the 2nd Annual Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival on December 12 since two of the bands, Goodbyehome and Cobalt & The Hired Guns, are going to be performing there as well! CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE.
Wait, THATS NOT ALL, there is another pre-party as well, and its FREE! The OFFICIAL FESTIVAL EVE PRE-PARTY will be held on, 12/11, at Heartland Cafe (http://www.heartlandcafe.com/). It will be $5 or free w/ Festival ticket or confirmation e-mail.
A little information about our festival-friends at KudmusArts.com
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
KadmusArts is the leading online destination for information, exchange, and connection to every kind of Dance, Music, and Theatre festival in the world. In addition, to the 6,000+ festivals they profile, KadmusArts offers Festival News, Artists News, the arts and culture Blog, Playlists, and Special Features.
Check out KadmusArts.com right now and see that they are featuring the CBB Festival in the days leading up to the event.
Their online community, the Forum is ideal for posting a multiple of topics — experiences, reactions, tips, collaborations, volunteer positions and jobs, and other exchanges about anything festival-related. Registration is free and open.
You can also find festivals all over the world, through the search parameters of location, interest or time of year. How cool is that? So check out KasmusArts.com and be more on top of the latests festival news from around the world.
Buy a CBB Festival ticket and a holiday gift with one purchase
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Buy a ticket and a holiday gift with one purchase, thanks to Bike and Roll’s Green Pass package. By purchasing a ticket through this link, and adding on a “Bike and Roll GREEN PASS” entitles the purchaser to a half-day bicycle rental for 2 people at any of their 9 locations around Chicago. Representing a 64% discount off the normal Bike and Roll price ($70), and printed by the city’s only green certified printer on recycled paper using soy inks, this is a great “green” gift for yourself or a friend. The Green Pass expires 12/31/10. To purchase or learn more click here.
