13th Annual Blues Festival June 8th, 2024
Springfield Missouri

Jarekus Singleton

Blues guitarist Jarekus Singleton,touted as the "New Face of Blues," will blow you away with his alternating soulful and blazing guitar licks -playing beyond his 29 years. His band is tight and they perform as seasoned musicians .

The Jarekus Singleton Band performs regularly in clubs, festivals and venues across Mississippi and the Southeast, as well as private events, parties and wedding receptions. They performed at the 2013 Chicago Blues Festival, the 2011 Oxford Blues Festival, the LowCountry Blues Bash in 2011, and The Juke Joint Festival and The Greenwood, South Carolina Blues Cruise in 2012 .

Jarekus and his band competed in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis TN in 2013 and came away with rave reviews and new fans both here in the USA and abroad. He was named 2011 Guitar Center's King of the Blues in Mississippi and labeled as a "star on the rise" by Blues & Rhythm Magazine in the United Kingdom. Jarekus received a guitar endorsement from Clevenger Guitars. Jarekus was chosen as the 2012 Blues Artist of the Year and the 2013 Artist of the Year by the Jackson MS Music Awards.

Jarekus has performed with well-known artists King Edward, Omar Cunningham, Zac Harmon, Grady Champion and others.

Jarekus will tell you, " I play what I feel," and that is evident in his music and lyrics. Feeling comes out of his guitar, vocals and his band. In 2011 Jarekus released his first CD, Heartfelt (all originals), and has had 3 songs from that CD in rotation on B.B. King's Bluesville on Sirius/XM radio. He is currently working on his second CD which will be released in early 2014. Jarekus Singleton is a guitar master beyond his years, whose time has come.