American Folk Blues Festival Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Rev. Gary Davis, Cousin Joe and Otis Spann. For filming, the company transformed the disused Wilbraham Road railway station into "Chorltonville", giving it the supposed appearance of a southern U.S.-style station. About 200 fans were brought by train to the platform opposite the performers. The performance was interrupted by a rainstorm, after which Tharpe performed the gospel song "Didn't It Rain". Blues musicians who performed on the American Folk Blues Festival tours included Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, John Lee Hooker, Sippie Wallace, T-Bone Walker, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Memphis Slim,
Artie "Blues Boy" White and stage presence, toured internationally, and headlined the 2000 Chicago Blues Festival. In 2001 he released the album "Can’t Get Enough" on his own AChillTown label. He became ill later in the decade, developing multiple health issues and increasingly becoming confined to a wheelchair, but returned to occasional performances such as a concert to honor Buddy Guy in 2008. White died from Parkinson's disease in 2013, shortly after his 76th birthday. After his death, the Artie “Blues Boy” White Youth Scholarship Foundation was set up in Illinois. Its expressed purpose is "to mentor and support youth, up to age 21