Tied for “Best Blues Singer in Chicago,” multi-talented Liz Mandeville has played hundreds of gigs around the country and consistently wows her audiences. Liz brings to the stage a giant presence built over decades of touring that’s impossible to resist. She wins hearts with her emotional music, witty banter, down-home personality, twitching hips, and insistent guitar and rub-board rhythms.
“If California could hook up to Liz, there wouldn’t be any power shortage!” says Richard Benson of Blues On Stage.
Liz Mandeville’s 2008 CD “RED TOP” shot to #3 in the Roots Time Radio Charts and stayed in the top 20 for as many weeks. Amazingly, “Scratch the Kitty,” one of that CD’s tunes, returned to the #1 spot on the Cashbox Charts in 2010, making it one of the most downloaded blues songs ever!
Liz has produced 4 critically acclaimed, original, internationally released CDs, showcasing her powerful, rich, versatile voice and her creativity as a producer, arranger, guitarist, and song crafter. She was nominated as 2008 Songwriter of the Year by the American Roots Music Association and won the 2005 USA Songwriting Contest for “He Left It in His Other Pants,” also garnering an honorable mention in the American Songwriting Contest for the deep blues song “Juice Head Man.”
Based in Chicago, Liz has led her band through countless tours, playing venues from New York City’s Terra Blues to Seattle’s Bourbon Street, Wilebski’s in St. Paul to the Green Parrot in Key West. She delights audiences all over the world.
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Welcome to BluesFest 2011
The Old Town BluesFest is a two-day FREE music festival that brings national, regional, and local acts to an audience of roughly 15,000 people from across Michigan and nearby states.
BluesFest’s music truly is living music, history in the making. Each artist at the festival is asked to play an original composition, something that hasn’t been played at any other festival.
