Schedule of Events:

Diunna Greenleaf, Sunday Morning Gospel Blues  | 11:00 am

The Peoples Queen of Blues
• 3-time BMA Award Winner
• 2023 BMA finalist for the Koko Taylor Award
• 2022 French Academy Couer de Cos Jazz Award Winner
• 2017 and 2014 Winner of the “Koko Taylor Award – Traditional Blues Female”
• 2008 BMA Winner 'Best New Artist Debut' award for Cotton Field to Coffee House.
Her vocals are steeped in Gospel, she commands one of the strongest voices in blues today. This former three-sport athlete earned a college degree, served in the US military, attained corporate employment, completed graduate school, and worked in academia—all before ever gigging in a blues club. Diunna Greenleaf is not only a dynamic performer but also a bandleader who manages her own career. This passionately independent woman has prevailed, touring and recording to global acclaim since she and her band, Blue Mercy, won the 2005 International Blues Challenge.

Fred Willie Hill | Side Stage 12:20 to 12:40 pm

There’s an undeniable chemistry within Fred Willie Hill, a power trio from Thornton, New Hampshire. The band features Pete Downing on electric guitar, acoustic guitar, and vocals, Mike Benton on drums and vocals, and Jacob Benton on bass guitar, vocals, and keys. With a strong focus on developing original music, the band has crafted a sound that is both fresh and deeply rooted in rock tradition—with an obvious nod to the blues.

Sugaray Rayford | 12:40 pm

Sugaray Rayford is a man with a message and a larger than life personality and voice to deliver it. Working with producer, songwriter Eric Corne for the past 3 albums, the pair’s first collaboration, Somebody Save Me, earned Rayford a 2020 Grammy nomination. Later that year he took home Blues Music Awards for ‘Soul Blues Male Artist’ and ‘B.B. King Entertainer of the Year.’ Rayford’s follow up In Too Deep won a plethora of awards including the Blues Music Award for ‘Soul Blues Album of the Year’.

Juke Joint Devils | Side Stage 2:00 to 2:20 pm

The Juke Joint Devils is an old school Jump Blues and Swing combo whose musical style draws heavily from Chicago, Memphis and New Orleans blues music of the 1950s, as well as the modern West Coast style of today.

3:40 to 4:00 pm, Juke Joint Devils with Pat Pepin

DK Harrell | 2:20 pm

In less than a year singer-guitarist D.K. Harrell catapulted from a blues artist with promise to one of the most sought-after musicians in the blues realm. His debut record, The Right Man on Little Village, won immediate critical raves worldwide upon its release in June 2023 and became the second most-played blues album on U.S. radio in 2023. In 2024 he was honored as Best Emerging Artist in the prestigious Blues Music Awards celebration held by the Memphis-based Blues Foundation. He also will play a stream of major U.S. festivals this year and has five European tours. In all he will play in 10 different countries this year.

Nick Moss | 4:00 pm

Hot on the heels of winning the Blues Foundation 2024 Band of the Year (again!) with Get Your Back Into It!, Chicago native, guitarist and vocalist Nick Moss and New Jersey native, harmonica player and vocalist Dennis Gruenling – together with Rodrigo Mantovani on bass, Taylor Streiff on keyboards and Pierce Downer on drums – deliver a deeply rooted, timeless blue collar blues album. Their first two Alligator albums, 2018’s The High Cost Of Low Living and 2019’s Lucky Guy!, hit blues fans, press and radio by storm. Moss, Gruenling and the band received a total of five Blues Music Awards, with wins in 2020 for Band Of The Year, Song Of The Year (“Lucky ) and Traditional Blues Album Of The Year (Lucky Guy!), and in 2019 for Traditional Blues Male Artist (Moss) and Instrumentalist—Harmonica (Gruenling).

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