The Joanna Connor Band

What sets Chicagos Joanna Connor apart from the rest of the pack of guitar playing blues singers is her skill on the instrument. Her overnight success was decades in the making, but a video gone viral of a jaw dropping slide guitar performance has helped bring Joanna Connor to the world. With nearly a half a million views, the performance displays scholarly blues virtuosity and crowd pleasing pyrotechnics Chris Beard is a modern blues guitarist and singer like few others. His personal connections to the blues were forged with the living blues men he has sat with since childhood. Beard is the son of Joe Beard, a fine blues guitarist who grew up on Beale Street in the 1950s. When family friends like Matt Guitar Murphy and Buddy Guy stopped by, young Chris became their willing pupil. Now Chris carries on those lessons and traditions to audiences today.