Grammy elected and recent Blues Hall of Fame inductee, Australian blues artist Michael Charles is playing in Kelowna this week.
Charles will take fans through 香蕉视频直播渁 guitar driven journey through thirty four years and thirty four releases of his original music,香蕉视频直播 at the Gratefl Fed on Friday, Sept. 29.
Leading off with an explosive blues number, the audience is soon captivated by well-rehearsed precision experiencing MC香蕉视频直播檚 original blues, blues based rock, inspiring ballads, as well as some well-known covers.
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Bio:
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香蕉视频直播檚 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 years, and now an 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香蕉视频直播 discography is comprised of thirty-four releases including a double CD thirty year anthology released in 2014 and the live CD 香蕉视频直播淐oncert at the Nest香蕉视频直播, released in the winter of 2015. In 2016 Australian film producer started work on a documentary chronicling the musical career of Michael Charles. The DVD will be released in 2017.
At this time Michael Charles is traveling 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.