Blues Hall of Famer Michael Charles Performs in Waterville, OH
Australian blues artist Michael Charles will claim the stage at Third Street Cigar (located at 20 N. 3rd Street Waterville, Ohio) for an elevated level of energy, and a guitar-driven journey through 32 years and 32 releases of his original music. Charles is an eight-time Grammy elected artist and a recent Blues Hall of Fame inductee.
Leading off with an explosive blues number, the audience is soon captivated by well-rehearsed precision experiencing MC’s original blues, blues based rock, inspiring ballads, as well as some well-known covers. As in all of Michael Charles’ performances and recordings, his guitar is kept forefront.
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 12,500 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 20 years, 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 ninth consecutive tour in 2016, the Coming Back Home Tour, which will once again take him to the far corners of the USA, Canada, and Australia. The 2016 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 eight annual 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!
Press Release Contact Name: Jane Rogers
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Press Release Contact Phone: 7083438809
Organization Name: Moonlight Label
Website or Link: www.michaelcharles.us
Organization Address: P.O. Box 6581, broadview, IL, 43566