Best Buy Presents Bonnie Raitt at Chicago Blues Festival.Entertainment Editors MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 7, 2003 Get ready, Chicago, Best Buy (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BBY BBY Best Buy (stock symbol) BBY Before Battle of Yavin (Star Wars) BBY BeBeyond (Chinese online community) ), one of the nation's leading specialty retailers of technology and entertainment, is presenting music superstar, Bonnie Raitt Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949) is a nine-time Grammy award-winning American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist who was born in Burbank, California, the daughter of Broadway musical star John Raitt. , at the Chicago Blues Festival The Chicago Blues Festival is an annual event that features four days of performances by top-tier blues musicians, both old favorites and the up-and-coming. It is hosted by the City of Chicago Mayor's Office of Special Events, and always occurs in early June. . Best Buy has sponsored the Chicago Blues Festival main stage for eight years. During her 32-year recording career, Raitt has won nine GRAMMY awards Grammy Awards Annual awards given by the Recording Academy (officially the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences). The first Grammies (the name is a dimunitive of “gramophone”) were given in 1958. and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, dedicated to recording the history of some of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, and other people who have in some major way influenced the music industry, particularly in in 2000. Raitt's versatile music style has made her a best-selling artist, respected guitarist, expressive singer and accomplished songwriter. Chicago Blues Festival visitors can attend Raitt's free performance at the Grant Park Petrillo Band Shell on May 31 at 8:15 p.m. "Best Buy is excited to bring Bonnie Raitt to this year's Chicago Blues Festival," said John Curley John Curley was head of Gannett News Service, during which time the news service won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. The first editor of USA Today, Curley was a member of Gannett's Board of Directors from 1983 until his retirement. , Best Buy district manager. "Sponsoring the festival has been a long tradition for Best Buy and it is one of the best ways we can offer our customers the ultimate entertainment experience." The 20th Annual Chicago Blues Festival will take place in Grant Park, May 29-June 1, 2003. The festival is the largest, free-admission Blues festival in the world. The four-day event offers the best in national, international and local Blues entertainment on six stages with more than 70 performers, preceded by a month of Blues activities (Blues season) throughout Chicago. The Chicago Blues Festival brings more than half a million people of all ages, families and blues aficionados from all over the world. About Best Buy Stores LP Best Buy Stores LP, owned and operated by Minneapolis-based Best Buy Co., Inc., is one of the nation's leading specialty retailers of technology and entertainment products and services. Best Buy was founded in St. Paul, Minn., in 1966. Best Buy Stores reach an estimated 300 million consumers per year through more than 500 retail stores in 48 states and online at BestBuy.com. For more information about Best Buy, visit the virtual pressroom at http://onlinepressroom.net/bestbuy. |
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