Michael Charles
Mon, Oct 27
|The Alamo
🎸 Grammy-elected artist and international blues ambassador Michael Charles returns to The Alamo for a Blue Monday you won’t forget. 🌍 From Australia to the U.S., his high-voltage guitar work and road-honed blues will light up the stage.
Time & Location
Oct 27, 2025, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
The Alamo, 115 N 5th St, Springfield, IL 62701, USA
About the event
Michael Charles' musical pilgrimage began over six decades ago in his homeland Melbourne, Victoria 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 twelve thousand five hundred miles and took the stage with Mr. Buddy Guy. After numerous trips back and forth, Michael made the monumental and life changing decision to make America his new 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 thirty years, and now a ten 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…