It was a big day for the blues at the Monterey Jazz Festival on Saturday.

Mr. Sipp, the Missippi blues belter who won the The B.B. King Entertainer of the Year trophy at the 2025 Blues Muisc Awards, opened up the festival’s big Jimmy Lyons Stage on Day 2 of the this three-day festival at the Monterey County Fairgrounds and had fans thoroughly grooving along to his guitar-drenched tunes.

“Can we turn this place into a juke joint real quick?” Sipp asked the crowd. “In a juke joint, they don’t sit down. Get up! Everybody get on up!”

He didn’t have issue that command a third time, as people rose to their feet and acted as if they weren’t in Monterey, but rather at Po’ Monkey’s or some other cool juke joint in the Mississippi Delta.

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