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 Charles 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 twenty plus years, and now a seven 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.
Presently Michael Charles travels his 2015 RIFF Tour which will take him to the far corners of the USA, Canada, and Australia. The 2015 RIFF Tour promises a multitude of concerts and publicity appearances as MC performs a whole new list of cities, festivals, and nightspots and revisits some favorite venues from the last seven annual tours.
While on the road in 2014, Moonlight Label, Michael Charles’ USA record label based in Chicago, and Newmarket Music, his record label in Australia, released Michael Charles’ 2 CD anthology, Three Hundred Sixty, and a follow up EP “Why Am I Here?”.
As always and with all Michael Charles’s performances and recordings, his guitar is kept forefront and is the driving force behind his music.
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