Name: Bobby Rush
Start: 2026-04-21T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2026-04-21T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Blue Strawberry STL

3x Grammy Winner
5x Grammy Nominee
16x Blues Music Award Winner
B.B. King Entertainer of the Year
Blues Hall of Fame
The 92-year-old Bobby Rush is a three-time Grammy Award winner for “Best Traditional Blues Album” for “Porcupine Meat,” “Rawer than Raw” and 2024’s “All My Love For You.” He is also a 16-time Blues Music Awards winner (with 56 career nominations), and has been inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame and Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame.
The blues legend is having a major career moment with his involvement in the hit film written and directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B. Jordan, “Sinners”; the now Grammy Nominated album with multi-platinum artist Kenny Wayne Shepherd titled “Young Fashioned Ways”; his first-ever Grand Ole Opry performance with Shepherd; and a 2025 Austin City Limits performance. His segment is a tribute to 50 years of the Austin-based blues club Antone's. The episode includes Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, Jimmy Vaughan, and Charlie Sexton. Austin City Limits is the longest-running music show on television, airing Saturday nights on PBS.
Rush has become one of the most prominent advocates for the blues tradition and says, “It’s the root of all music, it’s the mother of all music. If you don’t like the blues, you probably don’t like your mama.”