Going To Any Blues Fests?

I'm hoping to attend the Choctaw Indian Fair again this year. Last summer I saw Mato Nanji of Indigenous and this year I am hoping the Choctaw Nation's talent board is able to bring Six Nations bluesman Derek Miller from Canada.

Derek's got a fused Johnny Winter/Rory Gallagher sound and despite being Canadian his sound is electrified delta.

There may be another Robert Johnson fest down in Crystal Spring this summer. Last summer I saw Honeyboy Edwards.

It's great to live in a state where the blues is all around you and everyone wants to come play here.

If I head up I-55, I'll bring my own Community Dark Roast coffee. I don't drink and I don't trust coffee from out of town. Thanks for the invite!

I'd love to go to several fests; it all depends on timing and location. The Long Beach Blues Fest took a nosedive years ago, but I've been feeling nostalgic about it recently. The San Francisco Bay Blues Fest is in a beautiful setting overlooking the bay and generally has more real blues these days than the Long Beach show. If I'm in Portland, OR on July 4th, which is a possibility, I'll definitely go to the Waterfront Blues Fest-located on the Willamette river in the heart of downtown. Wish I could get to Chicago and take you up on your offer. I'm with you on Bud-horrid stuff. I don't mind a long neck Coors in a roadhouse, but Bud is just an abomination.

By way of reciprocation, I think you ought to come west for the Strawberry Music Festival in Yosemite. I've got all the camping gear and we can fill the cooler with real beer ;)

http://www.strawberrymusic.com/home.asp

I live in Chicago and the fest is one day shorter and fairly weak line upthis year. More likely to hit the local clubs than the fest.

However June 19-20 is Blues on the Fox. Saturday June 20 the headliners are Sugar Blue, Watermelon Slim, and Los Lobos. And it's free.

If I can get off work I'm heading to ChiTown ... I was on the booking committee for the FIRST Chicago Blues Fest in 1984 ... those were the days! And I can still usually find my way backstage to the green room ... "friends in the business," ya know.

That must be the one to go to. I take it you don't want to put money into anheizer bush's pockets. I never do either.

Thanks for the notice and offer for help.

Pleasure Island Seafood Blues Jazz and Festival, I usually go to. I am trying to remember the last time I saw a bluesperson for the main act. Last October, rain was a mess. I didn't go see Johnny and Edgar Winter,

Previous years. Dave Mason,

years Atlanta Rhythm Section

I usually go.

Hmm.... for the first time in awhile I won't be working this summer. Bad in some ways, good in others: I might take you up on it.

But I don't drink Budweiser anyway.

Yes, I'm 12 and I'm going to a local blues fest. No big famous celebs, tho.

Are you refering to the mainstreet blues and brews pageant in gloucester? oftentimes beer fests sell tickets for non-tasters yet i do no longer see that decision on the internet web site. nevertheless i do no longer see plenty information on the internet web site.

Budweiser doesn't count as beer