Michael Charles and His Band

The Concert: Blues Hall of Fame and Grammy elected, Australian contemporary blues artist Michael Charles claims the stage with an elevated level of energy and a guitar driven journey through forty three years and forty three releases of his original music.
Leading off with an explosive blues number, the audience is soon captivated by well-rehearsed precision experiencing MC’s original blues, blues based rock, inspiring ballads, as well as some well-known covers. As in all of Michael Charles’ performances and recordings his guitar is kept forefront and is the driving force behind his music!

Available for Acoustic or Electric Performance

• 3 hour (or more) non-stop concert of contemporary blues, rock, ballads, originals and covers
from a discography of 43 releases.
• Full Publicity Team for working the internet, organizing television and radio appearances, press
releases
and interviews.
• Fully equipped, punctual, clean, and professional.
• Touring approximately 120 days a year in the USA, Canada, and Australia performing venues
small and large we are able to work with all venue's budgets.

Bio:
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 nine 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 including Chicago Blues Fest, Philadelphia Jazz and Blues Fest, Windy City Live Television, WGN TV, JBTV, The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Sun Times, and The College Music Journal.

In October of 2015 Michael Charles received the extreme honor of an induction into the Chicago Blues Hall of Fame. Michael has received endorsements from Vertex and LR Baggs and in Canada from Godin / Seagull Guitars. Michael Charles’ discography is comprised of thirty-seven releases including a double CD thirty year anthology.

In 2016 Australian film producer started work on a documentary chronicling the musical career of Michael Charles. The Documentary was released in March of 2018 and the DVD in 2019. "Soundtracked", the CD soundtrack to the documentary was also released in 2019. In 2020 Moonlight Label released “The Early Years" , a CD of the complete 45 r.p.m. singles released (phone number hidden)8 by Michael Charles in Australia before he moved to the U.S.A. in 1990.

Also, in 2020 “19”, the downloadable album of all the Alone and Acoustic songs recorded during the pandemic became available. In August of 2021 and partially sponsored by the Illinois Arts Council Association 19+, a 2 CD and 1 DVD Box set chronologizing the entire pandemic experience from the recording studio was released and 2022 saw the singles of “Key To The Highway” and Charles’ new original song “Silenced”. In 2023 Michael Charles released his version of “Wichita Lineman” paying homage to Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb. In 2025, Try Another Key [40th Anniversary] was released digitally as an expanded version of the 1985 of “Try Another Key” vinyl album. On January 1, 2026 “It Only Happens Once” compilation album with unreleased tracks was released.

At this time Michael Charles is traveling his nineteenth consecutive international tour, the “Where to Next 2026" tour, which will once again take him to the far corners of the USA, Canada, and Australia. The 2026 tour promises a multitude of concerts and publicity appearances as MC performs a whole new list of cities, festivals, and music venues and revisits some favorites from the last eighteen tours.

Standard band set up; monitors, speakers, sound board, cables, stands
Michael Charles tours with full PA if necessary.