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Blues camper gets down at Buds on
Broadway club
Photo by Grant Romanica

is one of very few, if not
the only acoustic blues
workshops in the nation
focusing on traditional old-
style blues. One concert is
planned during the series
that is targeted to the very
young. This year, Lightnin’
Wells will perform tunes
Young blues campers have the opportunity to perform at Buds on Broadway club from his CD titled Jump Little Children: Old Songs for Young Folks.
during the Saskatoon Blues festival Photo by Grant Romanica centrum.org/port-townsend-acoustic-blues-festival-workshop

Centrum’s Port Townsend Paramount Blues Festival
Acoustic Blues Workshop and Festival (Grafton, WI) September 5, 2014
(Port Townsend, WA) July 27-August 3, 2014 This festival offers a free blues school featuring a band that
The festival begins with week-long, multi-generational works with the kids who will get to play instruments from guitars to
performance workshops. Participants under 18-years-old are washboards and jugs. Each kid also gets a free harmonica or t-shirt
welcome and encouraged to attend the workshop but must have a (while they last). Their admission policy: If you bring your school-age
chaperone. The main mission is the workshop week, and the festival kids to the festival, the entire family gets in free! They encourage
itself is a public celebration with the artist faculty performing on the family attendance to get kids involved with the music and a family
main stage and downtown in six venues for two nights. Workshop workshop is also offered.
scholarships are provided to youth as well as adults in need. This www.graftonblues.org/paramountbluesfestival

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