US Booking: lou@loushieldsart.com 847-217-7520
European Booking: kurt.de.bont@telenet.be +32 495 53 53 08
Lou has played many festivals across the country and in Europe including: Great River Folk Fest LaCrosse, WI | Turkey River Concerts – Elkader, IA | Bonfire Fest and People Fest, Yuba, Wisconsin | Firefest, Madison, Wisconsin | Atwood Fest, Madison, WI | Great Midwestern Hootenanny, Madison, WI | Choice City Stomp Spring Swing – Ft Collins, CO | Muddy Roots Music Festival – Cookeville, TN | Westport Roots Music Festival – Kansas City, MO | Mile of Music Festival – Appleton, WI | MoonRunners – Chicago, IL | Chicago Blues Festival – Chicago, IL | Hobo Fest – Pullman, IL | MoonRunners – Chicago, IL | Chicago Blues Festival – Chicago, IL | Juke Joint Festival – Clarksdale, MS | Gdnyia Blues Festival – Gdnyia, Poland | Buffalo Valley Folk Festival – Johnson City, TN | Delta Busking Festival – Clarksdale, MS | Deep Blues Fest – Clarksdale, MS | Larryfest – LaFarge, WI | RibFest – Chicago, IL | Geozothofkf Roots Festival – Belgium | Tobacco Road Festival – Miami, FL | Farm Fest – Sprague, WI | Mountain Top Festival – Wakefield, MI | Kids and Billies Festival – Netherlands | Music Festival – Middleburg, Netherlands | Muddy Roots Europe – West Flaaderen, Belgium
Over the last few years he has played with bands such as: Pokey LaFarge | Marcus King Band | Cesar Rosas | Will Hoge | Sanctified Grumblers | CW Stoneking | Devil In A Woodpile | Murder by Death | Dead Horses | Charlie Parr | William Elliott Whitmore | The Resonant Rogues | Lovestruck Balladeers | Hooten Hallers | Possessed by Paul James | Jimmy Duck Holmes | Willy Tea Taylor | Aaron Lee Tasjan | Tom Vandenavond | Dom Flemmons | Soda Gardocki | Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit | Left Lane Cruiser | Dig Deep | Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band | Mountain Sprout | Lonesome Dan Kase | Joe and Vicki Price | Tom Feldman | Him For Her | Fruteland Jackson | Corey Harris | JD Wilkes and The Dirtdaubers | LC Ulmer | Reverend John Wilkens | Joesph Huber | Carrie Nation and the Speakeasy | Calamity Cubes | Duayne Burnside | Southern Culture On The Skids | Jimmy Burns
“If you met Lou Shields on the street, you might think that he just walked off the set of The Grapes of Wrath, until you saw his shoes.” Robert Chiarito – The Chicago Ambassador