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Featured Festival
Legendary Rhythm and Blues Cruise
Sunday-Sunday, January 22nd-29th 2012
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA

http://bluescruise.com/ - - www.bluescruise.com

Featured Festival
Tampa Bay Blues Festival
Friday-Sunday, April 13th-15th 2012
St. Petersburg, Florida, USA

727-895-6153 - hppt://www.tampabaybluesfest.com

Featured Festival

International Golf & Blues Experience

International Golf & Blues Experience
Sunday-Saturday, April 15th-21st 2012
Biloxi, Mississippi, USA

IP Casino and Various Venues - 855-515-7061 - www.golfandblues.net?refid=bluesfestivalguide

Headliners: Chuck Jackson
Featured Festival

Simi Valley Cajun & Blues Music Festival

Simi Valley Cajun & Blues Music Festival
Saturday-Sunday, May 26th-27th 2012
Simi Valley, California, USA

Rancho Santa Susana Community Park - 805-517-9000 - simicajun.org

Featured Festival
Dauphin County Music & Wine Festival
Saturday-Sunday, June 9th-10th 2012
Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA

717-599-5188 - www.dauphincounty.org/parks-recreation/festivals/blues-and-wine-festival

Featured Festival
Donkey Creek Festival
Friday-Sunday, June 22nd-24th 2012
Gillette, Wyoming, USA

Gillette College - - www.ci.gillette.wy.us/index.aspx?page=735

Featured Festival
South Bend Blues & Ribs Fest
Saturday, June 23rd 2012
South Bend, Indiana, USA

Coveleski Regional Stadium - (574) 299-4765 - sbpark.org

Headliners: Jimmie Vaughan & Tilt-A-Whirl, Corky Siegel & Schwall Band & Bernard Allison
Featured Festival
Bear Creek Blues Fest
Saturday, June 30th 2012
Slater, Missouri, USA

Slater City Park - 660-529-2212 - www.bearcreekblues.com

Featured Festival
Thunder Bay Blues Festival
Friday-Sunday, July 6th-8th 2012
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

- www.tbayblues.ca

Featured Festival

Rhythm & Blues Cruise
Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise

JANUARY 22-29, 2012 CARIBBEAN
Ft. Lauderdale to Caribbean, Holland America ms Nieuw Amsterdam
Now Pre-Booking - SOLD OUT

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OCTOBER 27- NOVEMBER 3, 2012 Southeastern Caribbean
San Juan, Puerto Rico to Barbados, St. Lucia, Martinique,
Dominica & returning to San Juan

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Featured Festival
B. B. King

As the basis for American music, the rhythms and musical progressions of blues music has had a public following since the early 20th century. As time progressed, the sounds of blues music have been altered, expanded, and often renamed. The basis of rock 'n roll, hip hop, rap, heavy metal, and jazz all have a genesis in blues music. To ensure the continued survival of an audience for blues music and expand the financial opportunities for blues and it's life blood festivals The Blues Festival Guide is committed to the process of outreach and a search for methods to present blues to a wider public.

Blues Music... Sometimes sad, lonely and mournful, but in other cases fully energized and bursting with electric-guitar-fueled vigor, blues is one of the most powerful, influential and popular musical styles to have risen during the last few centuries.

The song structure is simple - much of classic blues is based around a three-chord, 12-bar progression that leaves room for boundless improvisation - and it serves as a foundation for much of today's popular music.

Today it's still being picked on the front porches of tar-paper shacks, but it's just as frequently fired up loud and proud in front of a barroom (or for that matter stadium) crowd. In either case though, it remains a music that reflects hardship, trouble and strife, but also perseverance and strength of character - to know the blues is to be in touch with your true spirit and soul.

Notableartists include: B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters, Jimi Hendrix, Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Etta James, Buddy Guy, Delbert McClinton, Robert Johnson, Willie Dixon