ChicagoFest Lineup 1980
8/1/1980
• Pablo Cruise
• Louisiana LeRoux
• Bozo's Circus
• Trillion
• Skater
• Europe (Chicago)
• Brandy
• Maynard Ferguson
• The Jeff Lorber Fusion
• Mosaic
• Ken Chaney Experience
• Willie Dixon
• Jimmy Johnson
• Leontine Dupree
• J.B. Ritchie's Liquid Chrome Band
• Orleans
• John Anthony and Touch Of Class
• Diamond
• Jerry Grossman
• Joe Sun
• Megan McDonough
• Diamond T
• Stage West
• The Dukes Of Dixieland
• Corky Siegel Blues Band
• Jim Craig
• Ann and Jan Hills-Burda
• Denise Shaffer
• Mandingo Griot Society
• The Lasting Impression Dancers
• The Dooley Brothers
• Ace Trucking Company
• Snopek
• Locomotion Vaudeville
• The Comedy Rangers
• Omura
8/4/1980
• Chicago Symphony Orchestra
• Heartsfield
• Fayrewether
• Poison Squirrel
• Next Movement
• Sonny Rollins
• Eldee Young Ensemble
• Tune Time
• Matthew Klein Ensemble
• Delbert McClinton
• Tim Krekel and The Sluggers
• Eddie Shaw and The Wolf Gang
• Skid City Blues Band
• The Buckinghams
• Bobby Vee
• Kool Ray and The Polaroids
• Rampage
• Mirage
• Asleep At The Wheel
• Country Gazette
• Cadillac Cowboy
• Poker Flatts
• The Chieftains
• Chicago Brass Quintet
• Gentlemen of Leisure
• Sweet Comfort Band
• Mercy River
• Kip Addotta
• Snopek
• Locomotion Vaudeville
• Just Kidding
• The Flying Karamazov Brothers
8/5/1980
• Charlie Daniels Band
• Mickey Gilley
• Luther Allison
• Heartsfield
• Addie
• Desmond
• Na Bers Loves Army
• Mongo Santamaria
• Frank Walton
• Clarence Wheeler and The New Enforcers
• Cheryl Burdell
• Bobby "Blue" Bland
• The Jessy Dixon Singers
• Jump Jackson
• The Mark Hannon Blues Band
• The Lettermen
• The Shakers
• Freedom
• James Durst
• Asleep At The Wheel
• Whiskey Drinkin' Music
• Pork and The Havana Ducks
• Prairie Fire
• The Chieftains
• Bryan Bowers
• Gamble Rogers
• Al Day
• Steve Camp and Band
• Tramaine Hawkins
• Bruck Arbor
• Kyle Nash
• The Great Wilsone
• Edwin L. Barron
• Jim Ridgley
• Joe Gattone
• Kip Addotta
• Snopek
• Locomotion Vaudeville
• Laugh Track
• The Flying Karamazov Brothers
8/6/1980
• Aretha Franklin
• Ray Charles
• The Sorrows
• Pezband
• Adrian Belew
• Red Bud Thunder
• Mongo Santamaria
• Joanne Brackeen
• That
• The Jazz Prophets
• The Neville Brothers
• The Wild Tchapitoulos
• Otis Rush
• Jimmy Rogers
• Honey Boy Edwards
• The Four Tops
• Click
• Bushwack
• Three-Story Brownstone
• Carl Perkins
• Country Gazette
• Perry Jordan
• Near Beer
• Steve Goodman
• Harry Waller
• Third Rail
• John Benischek
• The Ink Spots
• Eddie Blazonczyk and The Versatones
• The Popovich Brothers
• The Dynamic Christian Souls
• Sandy Mason
• Jim Ridgley
• Frank Fiore
8/7/1980
• Atlanta Rhythm Section
• Michael Stanley
• Toronto
• The Thom Bishop Band
• Take Me
• The Swingers
• Angela Bofill
• Joanne Brackeen
• Jugular
• Millie Torme
• The Neville Brothers
• The Wild Tchapitoulos
• Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater
• Corey Bell
• Aron Burton
• The Four Tops
• One Way
• American English
• Midnight
• The Earl Scruggs Revue
• The Tennessee Railsplitters
• Porter County Line
• Show Down
• Steve Goodman
• Bob Gibson
• Tom Paxton
• Amy Levin
• Ilene Weiss
• Big Ed
• Freda Lee
• Gina Gibson and The Chicagoans
• Taylor Mason
• 33: Tommy Novak
• La Justicia
• Caribbean All-Star Steel Band
• Marty Kapuchi
• Monteith and Rand
• Snopek
• Locomotion Vaudeville
• Moving Targets
• Jacob Mills
8/8/1980
• Peaches and Herb
• Jerry Butler
• Carolyne Mas
• Mitch Ryder
• The Pearl Handle Band
• The Rage
• Spyro Gyra
• Chevere
• Bill Porter's Trombones
• Ellen Johnson Quartet
• John Hammond
• Koko Taylor
• The Powder Blues
• Peter Dames River Blues Band
• Chubby Checker
• J.P. and The Cats
• The Game
• Screams
• Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown
• Hotspurs
• Tumbleweed
• Dave Gibson
• The Dells
• Claudia Schmidt
• Airflow Deluxe
• Cindy Mangsen
• David Remain
• Gwen Pippin
• Will Soto
• The Hungerian Gypsy Orchestra
• Art Caveleri
• Willie Tyler and Lester
• Snopek
• Locomotion Vaudeville
• Maurice Peretz
8/16/1980
• Chuck Berry
• The Shirelles
• The Coasters
• Freddie Cannon
• Tantrum
• Gambler
• The Roadside Band
• Tiger Tiger
• Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers
• Bobby Lewis
• Larry Novak
• Apprentice
• Muddy Waters
• Mighty Joe Young
• Fenton Robinson
• Matteson All-Stars
• The Buckinghams
• Davis Import
• Dash of Class
• Stop
• Lacy J. Dalton
• Dive Bombers
• Joel Daly
• Ed Clem Band
• Paul Winter Consort
• Panama
• Bill Quateman
• Blind Jim Brewer
• Shannon Rovers Irish Pipe Band
• Chicago Balkan Dancers
• La Solucian
• Terry Callier
• Biff Rose
• Robert Johnson
• Barrington Perry
• O'Brien and Sevara
• Exit Laughing
• Jackie Vernon
• Locomotion Vaudeville
• The Alley Cats