• Liz Mandeville & Donna Herula are 2012 Windy City Blues Challenge winners.
  • March 2011, Liz makes historic new recordings with Willie “Big Eye’s Smith and Eddie Shaw at Planet10 Studios, Chicago.
  • Oct 2010 & 2011, Liz Mandeville Headlines the  Durban South Africa International Blues Festival. 10/11, performs on KFFA’s King Biscuit Hour DJ Sonny Payne’s historic 50th Anniversary Broadcast with James Cotton, Sugar Blue and others.
  • 2010, Liz’s song, Scratch the Kitty, spends 22 weeks @ #1 in the Cashbox Top 20 Charts.
  • 2009, Liz becomes a featured columnist for the online blues e-zine, ChicagoBluesGuide.com
    Her column, “Inside the Blues” gets 14k global hits!
  • Liz Mandeville is nominated Songwriter of the Year 2008 by the American Roots Music Assoc.
  • 2008, Following her set at the Chicago Blues Fest, Front Porch Stage, Liz sets a record for most CD’s sold by one artist in the fest’s 20 year history, according to the Best Buy sales manager.
  • Chicago commercial radio station, WXRT’s Tom Marker names Liz’s song Illinois National Guard Blues one of his top 10 picks for 2008.
  • 2008 Liz’s fourth CD, Red Top, is released rocketing to the #3 spot on the RootsTime Radio charts and staying in the top 20 for 22 weeks.
  • 2007 & 2008, Liz tours Holland & Belgium with the Blues Crowns, ending in a multi-national band performance at the Chicago Blues Fest.
  • 2005-7  Liz & the Blue Points are the Monday Night House Band for Chicago’s oldest blues club, the Kingston Mines.
  • 2003-4 Liz & the Blue Points host the Tuesday jam at Bill’s Blues, Evanston Il.
  • 2005, Liz is 1st Prize Winner of the USA Songwriter Competition for her song He Left It In His Other Pants
  • 2005 By popular vote, Liz Tied with Pat Scott for Best Blues Singer in Chicago!
  • Hon. Mention 2005 International Songwriting Competition,for Juice Head Man
  • June 3, 2005, the City of Chicago’s Justin O’Brien and Channel 23 TV document Liz’s show for the Harold Washington Library Blues Archives.
  • Liz participates in Mayor Richard M. Daley’s historic Year of the Blues (2003), with performances at the blues museum and an historic photograph taken January 18, 2004 documenting blues artists of note in Chicago.
  • January 2003 Liz’s third album, Back In Love Again nominated Best Blues CD of the Year 2002 by the Chicago Music Awards.
  • January 2003, Liz and the Blues Points tour Germany with David Honeyboy Edwards and Louisiana Red
  • 2002, Liz and Johnny Drummer write the song Back In Love  Again.
  • January 2001, Liz’s second album, Ready To Cheat nominated Best Blues CD of the Year 2000 by the Chicago Music Awards
  • July 2001, Liz and the Blues Points tour Germany with Robert Cray
  • 1999, Liz sang the duet Stop Cheatin’ with Johnny Drummer on his Earwig Music Co. CD Unleaded Blues
  • 1997 Liz records two tracks for the Blue Chicago CD, The Red Hot Mamas!
  • 1997 Liz appears on the Crossroads Stage of the Chicago Blues Festival with the Earwig Music Company Revue.
  • 1997 Liz makes her European debut at the Moore Blues Fest in Zottegem Belgium, with tours of Belgium & Germany later that year.
  • Look At Me named to the Top 10 releases of the year by Bill Wax, Sirius Radio
  • November 1996 Liz’s first CD, Look At Me is released on Earwig Music Co.
  • July 1996 Liz makes her professional recording debut with two tracks on Aron Burtons Live From Buddy Guys Legends
  • 1994-1999 Diva in Residence @ Blue Chicago on Clark, appearing every Tuesday for 5 years! 1994 Liz’s debut appearance Chicago Blues Festival.