Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials Nov 7th

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11/7/2026 ALL AGES | Doors 7:00PM | Show 7:30PM | $25 RES Seats, $18 GEN (standing)| Ignition Music Garage 120 E Washington St. Goshen

“Lil’ Ed Williams is a slide guitarist extraordinaire…electrifying and raucous. He represents one of the few authentic links to pure Chicago blues.” – The Chicago Tribune

“Outrageous, forceful Chicago blues slide-guitar…piping hot energy…Lil’ Ed is a star of the first magnitude.” – DownBeat

“Muscular, scalding, explosive guitar…incendiary soul played with fiery intensity. This doesn’t just rock the house; it threatens to blow the whole thing down…a raw-boned tour-de-force, raucously felt and blisteringly articulated.” – Blues Revue

For nearly 40 years together, Blues Hall Of Famers Lil’ Ed Williams and The Blues Imperials—bassist (and Ed’s half brother) James “Pookie” Young, guitarist Mike Garrett and drummer Kelly Littleton—have been delivering gloriously riotous, intensely emotional, wickedly playful Chicago blues to audiences around the world. Lil’ Ed—like his musical forebearers, slide guitar masters J.B. Hutto (Ed’s uncle), Elmore James and Hound Dog Taylor—is among the giants of the genre. His celebratory slide work, deep blues string bending, fervent vocals and riveting original songs, all powered by The Blues Imperials’ rock-solid, road-tested, telepathic musicianship, are as real and hard-hitting as Chicago blues gets. According to Guitar World, “The band is a snarling boogie-blues machine.”

From Ignition Music Garage