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Michael Charles with special guests Brian Spencer's Blues Project and Gerard Burke
Kevin Black Presents Eight-time Grammy-nominated Blues Hall of Fame artist, Michael Charles, makes his way from Chicago June 21st to play The Range in Ithaca with special guests Brian Spencer Blues Project and Gerard Burke. This is a show you won't want to miss!
Michael Charles musical pilgrimage began over five decades ago in his homeland Melbourne, Victoria Australia.
While enjoying a successful musical crusade of touring, recording, and numerous television and radio appearances in his homeland, Michael received an invitation from Buddy Guys management to appear at the infamous Legends in Chicago, Illinois USA. Graciously accepting the honor, Michael Charles traveled the twelve thousand five hundred miles and took the stage with Mr. Buddy Guy. After numerous trips back and forth, Michael Charles made the monumental and life changing decision to make America his new home. Charles worked the whole Chicago blues circuit performing with Mr. Buddy Guy, Phil Guy, James Cotton, Eddy Clearwater, Junior Wells, George Baze, as well as touring with blues legend, Jimmy Dawkins.
Through the next twenty plus years, and now a eight times Grammy elected artist, Michael Charles enjoyed being featured in numerous television and radio broadcasts and several music magazines, along with gracing countless stages and pages including Chicago Blues Fest, Philadelphia Jazz and Blues Fest, Windy City Live Television, WGN TV, JBTV, The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Sun Times, and The College Music Journal.
In October of 2015 Michael Charles received the extreme honor of an induction into the Blues Hall of Fame. Michael has received endorsements from Vertex and LR Baggs and in Canada from Godin / Seagull Guitars. Michael Charles discography is comprised of thirty-two releases including a double CD thirty year anthology released in 2014 and the live CD Concert at the Nest, released in the winter of 2015.
Michael Charles embarks on his tenth consecutive tour in 2017, the All I Really Know Tour, which will once again take him to the far corners of the USA, Canada, and Australia. The 2017 Tour promises a multitude of concerts and publicity appearances as MC performs a whole new list of cities, festivals, and nightspots and revisits some favorite venues from the last nine annual tours.
As always and with all Michael Charless performances and recordings, his guitar is kept forefront and is the driving force behind his music.
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LocationThe Range (View)
119 E. State street
Ithaca, NY 14850
United States
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