Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite Duo will headline this year’s Greeley Blues Jam, joined by an exciting lineup announced Friday night.
Chris Haug announces the lineup for this year’s Greeley Blues Jam while at the Moxi Theater in Greeley on Friday. (Jim Rydbom/Staff Photographer)Festival organizers announced the 2025 Greeley Blues Jam Music Festival lineup Friday night at the Moxi Theater in downtown Greeley.
As a light wind kept things chilly outside, local blues artist Mojomama heated up the Moxi stage inside as attendees danced and grooved to the tunes.
“This is the best night,” festival director Chris Haug said.
The Blues Jam will start Friday, June 6 with live bands at more than 18 venues in downtown Greeley. The event is free to attend as a part of Greeley’s Friday Fest on the 9th Street Plaza.
The festival continues starting at noon Saturday, June 6 on the main stage in Island Grove Regional Park adjacent to the Island Grove Event Center, 421 N. 15th Ave. The final day of the festival goes until 9 p.m.
Tickets and camper reservations went on sale Friday night.
In 1963, Bishop was a founding member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. In 2015, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 1976, his single “Fooled Around and Fell in Love” reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. Bishop is a three-time Grammy nominee and was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2016.
Musselwhite has been touring for 50 years and has put out more than 20 albums since his 1966 debut album “Stand Back!”
“I think it’s a dynamic lineup. Maybe the most dynamic lineup we’ve ever had,” said Scott Ehrlich, president of the committee.
The Motet, Eddie 9V, Ben Chapman and Meg McRee, Jackie Venson, A.J. Fullerton Band, Black Cat Zydeco featuring Dwight Carrier and Erica Brown, and the Guerrilla Fanfare Brass Band fill out the rest of this year’s lineup.
The crowd at the Moxi Theater in Greeley, listen to the sounds of the blues band Mojomama during the announcement of the year’s Greeley Blues Jam on Friday. (Jim Rydbom/Staff Photographer)A.J. Fullerton, an American roots-rock artist originally from Colorado, was named one of the “75 Modern Blues and Blues Rock Artists You Must Hear” by Blues Muse Magazine in 2021. His latest record, “The Forgiver and The Runaway,” debuted at No. 1 on the iTunes Blues Charts and the Colorado Roots Report.
The Guerrilla Fanfare Brass Band is composed entirely of local musicians from Denver and was formed in 2015. The band plays fiery pop arrangements, traditional jazz and innovative original music.
Venson is a Texan singer-songwriter and guitarist who has released four albums since 2019.
Eddie 9V, as UK’s Classic Rock put it, “is something else. A man who genuinely inhabits golden-era American roots, playing the most instinctive blues, you’ll hear all year.”
Ben Chapman hails from Georgia and recently released the album “Downbeat.” The album “is a Southern-funk jam-band country thing,” he said.
The Black Cat, also known as Dwight Carrier, has a unique style that uses his zydeco, blues, country and R&B influences.
Pam Bricker and her husband, Al, announced on the festival’s final day last June they were stepping away from the Blues Jam Committee and handing over their majority of responsibility to Haug. The Brickers founded the festival 21 years ago.
Mojomama lead signer Jessica Rogalski sings during the opening of the Greeley Blues Jam announcement on Friday night at the Moxi Theater in Greeley.(Jim Rydbom/Staff Photographer)Even though Haug is calling the shots now, he doesn’t plan to err from the recipe that has allowed the Blues Jam to bring the blues to the Greeley community for the last 21 years.
“It works so well,” Haug said. “I mean, I’m not messing with a good thing.”
To purchase tickets, make camper reservations or for more information about the festival, go to greeleybluesjam.org.
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