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Michael Charles and His Band

Blues Band

Also Performs As: Acoustic Band, Duo
Country: United States
Based In: Chicago, Illinois
Performs: Worldwide
From: $800

Join us for a 40th Anniversary Tour concert by Chicago Blues Hall of Fame, Australian born muso Michael Charles and His Band as they take you through forty years and forty releases of music. The three hour non-stop concert overflows with precise, energetic, intense, or

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Set-List

90% originals
10% covers

Biography

Michael Charles musical pilgrimage started over five decades ago in his birth place Melbourne, 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 Guy’s 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 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-nine 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-five releases including a double CD thirty year anthology and a one hour documentary of the life and musical career of Michael Charles released by Australian film producer Salik Silverstein in 2018. The CD soundtrack as released in 2019. In 2020 Moonlight Label released “The Early Years" , a CD of the complete 45 r.p.m. singles released 1984-1988 by Michael Charles in Australia before he moved to the U.S.A. in 1990. Also, in 2020 “19”, the CD of all the Alone and Acoustic songs recorded during the pandemic became available in download form and in August 2021 a 2 CD and 1 DVD Box set chronologizing the entire pandemic experience from the recording studio and in 2022 saw the singles of “Key To The Highway” and Charles’ new original song “Silenced”.
At this time Michael Charles is traveling his seventeenth consecutive international tour “40th Anniversary Tour, which will once again take him to the far corners of the USA, Canada, and Australia. The 2024 tour promises a multitude of concerts and publicity appearances as MC performs a whole new list of cities, festivals, and music venues and revisits some favorites from the last sixteen tours.
As always and with all Michael Charles’s performances and recordings, his guitar is kept forefront and is the driving force behind his music.

Reviews (7 Reviews)

Michael Charles and His Band - Blues Band - Chicago, Illinois Event Location: Byron’s Pomeroy, Iowa USA Event Type: venue 2nd December 2019

I remember the first time he played here. He just blew me away. But he’s just fantastic. What a guitar player.

Reviewed by: Byron Stuart / Owner, Byron’s

Michael Charles and His Band - Blues Band - Chicago, Illinois Event Location: Micek’s Shangrila, Columbus Nebraska USA Event Type: Venue 1st December 2019

I met Michael when he came to Columbus Nebraska. It’s his second or third time here and they’re coming back again the same time next year. A year out and I booked Michael Charles again because he’s just awesome.

Reviewed by: Zeke / Talent Buyer, Micek’s

Michael Charles and His Band - Blues Band - Chicago, Illinois Event Location: Bobby’s Place, Olde World Tavern Calgary, Alberts Canada Event Type: venue 25th October 2019

I’ve never seen any other artist play for three and half solid hours without taking a single break. We love Michael, I can’t even put into words and he’s, we look forward to his visit every year and it’s the only band I stop what I am doing and come out and watch. He could play anywhere and fill any venue and here he is and I always say I am so humble he is here. He could play downtown Calgary somewhere in a venue eight times this size and have it packed full.

Reviewed by: Michael and Lynn Cullen, Owners

Michael Charles and His Band - Blues Band - Chicago, Illinois Event Location: The Dream Cafe Penticton B.C. Canada Event Type: Venue 18th October 2019

Charles wows them at iconic South Okanagan venue Blues musician Michael Charles played to a sold-out crowd at the Dream Café Saturday From down under to over the top, transplanted Aussie blues master Michael Charles shared the music of his life with a sold-out crowd at the Dream Café Saturday. Now living in Chicago, where he’s a member of the Blues Hall of Fame, the seven-time, Grammy-elect musician and his band, (always smiling) drummer Tony Berkman and bassist Denis Kozlowski, spent the evening in the iconic, intimate setting of the Dream reaching out to the audience. “It was great, fantastic, it was a really wonderful crowd, it was the first time in a venue like that and having such a great crowd, you can’t beat that with a stick, man,” said Charles after the show. READ MORE: Penticton’s Dream Café hosting blues great Michael Charles Growing up in Melbourne, it was his dad who taught him his first chords, which would eventually lead him down the musical path which he st ...

Reviewed by: Mark Brett

Experience

Touring approximately 180 days a year performing in venues and events of all sizes
Michael's list of past festival performances includes:
Chicago Blues Fest Chicago
Ship & Shore Fest Michigan
Music In The Park Rawlins, Wyoming
Sage YMCA of Metro Chicago Blues-N-BBQ
Braceville Summer Kick Off Illinois
New Orleans Jazz and Blues Festival New Orleans
New Mexico Riverfest New Mexico
Arizona Blind and Deaf Childrens Festival Arizona
Memphis Crossroads Festival Memphis
Pako Fest Geelong Australia
Catfish Days Festival Wilmington, Illinois
Homestead Festival Point Cook Australia
... Blue Rooster Music Festival Hinsdale Illinois
BBQ Ribfest Fort Wayne Indiana
New Orleans Cutting Edge Festival New Orleans
Arts International Festival South Carolina
Mount Helena Montana Music Fest Montana
Porky' Rib Fest Toyota Park Bridgeview Illinois
Maywood Family Festival
Sandwich Illinois Concert in the Park Series
Philadelphia Blues Fest Philadelphia
Saskatoon Blue Fest Canada
Calgary Blues Fest Canada
Midwinter Blues Fest Chicago Illinois
Fargo Indoor Blues Festival North Dakota
Blues Cruise Williamsville, New York
La Porte Firefighters Blues Festival Indiana
Round Barn Blues Fest Kirksville Missouri
Firefighters Blues Festival Liberty Indiana
Maywood Illinois Blues and Gospel Fest Illinois
Bringing the Blues to You Pekin Illinois
Howl N Blues Concert Series Muskegon Michigan
Soul Shine Blues Festival Fostoria Ohio
Blues at the Bow Alberta Canada
La Porte County Blues Fest Indiana

Previous Clients

Buddy Guy's Legends 700 S Wabash Ave Chicago, IL 60605 312-427-1190
The Boathouse Beer Garden 6128 State Route 89 Romulus, New York 14541 607-280-0064
Fanatics Pub 7281 W Main St Lima, New York 14485 585-624-2080
Flatted Fifth Blues & BBQ 300 Potter Drive Bellevue, Iowa 52031 563.872.3838
Slippery Noodle 372 S. Meridian Street Indianapolis, IN 46225 317-631-6974
River City Pub 112 1 St E Revelstoke, British Columbia Canada 250.837.2107
Rose and Crown Alberta 202 Banff Ave. Banff, Canada T1L 1B5 403-762-2121
see michaelcharles.us/ tour dates past and present

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