INTERNATIONAL and National Headliner PERFORMANCES:
1998: Maxwell Cafe - France
2000, 2004, 2005, 2009: 17th,21st,22nd, & 26th Annual Chicago Blues Festival
2000: SoulShine Festival w/Magic Slim & The Teardrops
2001: Jazz ,& Blues Bar - Hong Kong, China
2001 - 2006: Bitzes Blues Club w/LBB Riga, Latvia
2004: Soulshine Festival, Bascomb, Ohio
2004: Centro Jazz Torino, Italy
2005: Italy, Ausrtia, & Switzerland w/ MORBLUS Band
2005: Ruta 61 Mexico City, Mexico (twice) and a Festival
2005: Blues Festival in Zacetcas, Mexico, Ruta 61
2006: The Taste of Chicago
2008: Carribean Jazz Festival w/Cozy Cotton Band, Aruba
2009: Blues Festival in Iceland, w/Blue Ice Band
2009: Zandvoort Jazz Festival, Holland w/Cozy Cotton Band
2009: Carribean Jazz Festival w/Cozy Cotton Band, opening for David Sanborn
2009: Winner of the Windy City Blues Society Chicago Blues Challenge
INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCES WITH MY PEERS:
2001: 6th Annual Blues Cruise, The Grana'Louise Band, Gatemouth Brown, Charlie Mussellwhite,
The Persuasions, Shemeika Copeland, Billy Branch, and Big Walter Smith
2005: Blues Festival in Brazil, w/The Chicago Blues Ladies ( Big Time Sarah, Nellie"Tiger" Travis)
Magic Slim, CoCo Montoya, Rod Piazza & The Mighty Flyers
2006: Blues Festival in Ryky, Iceland w/Deitra Farr & Zora Young under the name The 3 Divas
2007 - 2008: Women of Chicago Blues Tour w/Deitra Farr & Zora Young France, Switzerland, Norway, Marie-Gulant
(too many cities in each place to name them all!)
Discography
HIT THE BIG TIME: Diamond Blue Records, MPLS. MN
This Lady’s talent is so huge that her first CD " Hit The Big Time", sold out completely, both nationally and internationally! Febuary 1999. FIGHTIN' THE BLUES: Crazy Joe Records, MPLS. MN Duet with Joe Juliano on the song 12 Bar Blues.
MOJO MAMAS : CD compilation of the best women of Blues in Chicago. Blue Chicago Label, Chicago IL.
GENERATIONS : Released June 2003, Crystal Blue Records, Riverside Studios, Chicago IL, has heavy rotation at several Chicago, and surrounding areas radio stations-( it hit the Top 10 at WBEZ) and in Minneapolis/St. Paul, on KFAI Fresh Air Radio, and Jazz 88 KBEM. Also radio stations in Houston TX, New York, Boston, Maine, Colorado, and Philly.
"...this CD makes me want to come out and see you live, which I will do...I hope that you will be encouraged to keep creating fresh new material."
- Bruce Iglauer (Alligator Records)
ALLIGATOR CRAWL: Delmark, Riverside Studios, Chicago IL GRANA' LOUISE is a Special Guest Vocalist with The Bay City Jazz Band.
WILD ABOUT THAT THING (Ladies Sing The Blues) Delmark's 50th Anniversary CD. GRANA' LOUISE is featured on this fantastic CD, with Dinah Washington, Blu Lu Barker, and others.
Media Acclaim:
2009 - Aruba News- Front Page
2007 - Blues in Britain Magazine - Front Cover
2005 - IL Blues , One of Italy's top Blues and Music Magazines
2004 - GRANA’ LOUISE’S original song "City Slicker Bill" (from her GENERATIONS CD) was chosen and is featured in the newly nationally released movie "JUSTICE".
The movie premiered on Showtime’s Black Starz Channel on Cable and Satellite Dec. 3, 2004. On March 3, 2005 the movie was released in Detroit,MI, and March 4, 2005 "JUSTICE" was released in Chicago, IL and surrounding suburbs, as well as New York, DC, San Francisco, Philly, Cleveland, and etc.
Justice is also available on DVD.
Another one of her original songs (her GENERATIONS CD) "It's Another Workday" is being currently played on the DMX Music Service for Cable and Satallite, on their Blues Channel.
GRANA’ LOUISE was featured in the traveling museum exhibition " Sweet Home Chicago: Big City Blues, 1946-1966", which was on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, thru June 2004.
2002 - GRANA’ LOUISE appeared on the Cable Access Program, "Speaking of the Blues", by Living Blues Magazine’s Justin O’Brien - August 2002. An audio tape of the show is archived at the Harold Washington Library in downtown Chicago.
GRANA’ LOUISE also garnered Top Reviews :
2005 IL Blues Magazine Italy
March 2005 Blues Revue
Chicago Reader June 2005
Soul Bag 2000
Living Blues Magazine July/August 2004, & 1999
Blues Access 38 Summer 1999
Big City Blues June/July 2003, 1999
and other Internationally recognized Blues Magazines
Contact Info: GRANA' LOUISE
granalouise@gmail.com