The Marquette Area Blues Fest

Three days of world class blues music, workshops, a dance floor, vendors, and a wide array of food and beverage choices! Find out more!

 

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Special 2017 Marquette Area Blues Fest Ticket And Lodging Packages Available Now!

Posted on July 11, 2017

 

Get your tickets and lodging covered for the 2017 Marquette Area Blues Fest with one easy purchase.  Thanks to a special deal with the Marquette Comfort Suites at the Superior Oasis, you can get weekend tickets and overnight lodging for one low price. The purchase includes regularly scheduled shuttle runs from the Superior Oasis to the festival grounds at Mattson Lower Harbor Park in Downtown Marquette. Packages are limited and going fast, so make your reservations today!

 

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2017 Marquette Area Blues Fest Lineup Announced

Posted on May 14, 2017

We are proud to officially announce the lineup for this year’s Marquette Area Blues Fest!  This year, we continuing the tradition of bringing world-class blues performers to the stage in Marquette, MI over Labor Day Weekend, Sep. 1-3, 2017.

For the latest showtime and ticket info, click on the “Festival Information” link here on the page, and get all of the performer lineup in this video.  Thanks to Tom Daniel for putting it together for us!

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  Walt Lindala

  11 hours ago

  

  The final Marquette Area Blues Society board meeting before the 2017 Blues Fest is tonight at 6:30 at the Border Grill on Washington Street across from ShopKo in Marquette. Come on by and have a burrito! ...

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  Steve Jones

  12 hours ago

  

  Press Release
  8th Annual Crossroads Blues Festival
  
  The 8th annual Crossroads Blues Festival will be held at Lyran Park on Saturday, August 26th. This annual event is growing and gets bigger and better every year. Featuring music from noon to 9:30 PM, it is non-stop fun and excitement!
  
  Starting the day on stage is Ivy Ford, the great young blues woman from Waukegan. At 2 PM it is the fabulous Corey Dennison Band, one of the top up and coming bands in the blues world. Corey is a great singer and guitar player and Rockford native Gerry Hundt joins him on guitar for a superb Chicago act for all to enjoy- don’t miss them! The ever-popular Jimmy’s are on at 4 PM, bringing their swinging sound back the Rockford once again. Jimmy Voegeli leads the band on B3 organ and keys and Perry Weber is on guitar. We may even have a Bun E. Carlos sighting on the drums- the Cheap Trick drummer often joins the band for some fun music for all to enjoy. The horn section also adds so much to the mix- you won’t want to miss these guys, either!
  
  At 6 PM it is the ever-great Kinsey Report taking the stage. Formed by Papa Kinsey in the mid-1980’s, his sons Donald, Ralph and Ken keep the band going and amazing audiences all over the world. Andrew Ogrodzinski also plays guitar with the band and they are one of the blues world’s top acts! These guys are the real deal. Closing the day at 8 PM will be our headliner, the swinging and rocking blues of Doug Deming and the Jewel Tones. Doug is originally from Detroit and now hails from Bradenton, Florida where he and his band are fixtures on the local music scene. Doug is a fantastic guitar player and vocalist and he’s touring this summer with the great Panamanian born and St. Louis based saxophone player David Gomez. This will be an outstanding show to cap off an extraordinary day of music!
  
  In between the stage acts we will feature four different acts in the pavilion. The youth band Brutal Wedgie will bring their blues infused rocking sound out for us to enjoy at the first break, then we have Joe Filisko’s harmonica workshop with free harps to kids 10 and under at the next break. Paul Kaye will have a guitar workshop at the third break and the last break features Delta blues man Dan Phelps and Hardtimes Cigar Box Guitars. Dan won our local blues challenge and represented us in Memphis in February at the International Blues Challenge.
  
  Nine acts like this for a $5 advanced ticket ($10 at the gate) is unheard of but they do it and have done it for 8 years now! Kids five and under get in free and kids under 18 are $5 accompanied by an adult. The festival is Crossroads fundraiser for their Blues in the Schools program. In the past 15 years they have produced 244 programs for almost 55,000 students in northern Illinois at no charge to schools. Last year’s 61 programs were a record for them and they hope 2017/2018 will be even better! The 2017 Blues Blast Music Award winners will also be announced at the festival along with a new music scholarship opportunity!
  
  The fest features over 30 types of beer and wines for sale at only $4 each. The regular Budweiser, Miller and Coors products will be there along with beers from Founders, Revolution, Bells, Guinness, Corona, Stella, Goose Island, Mike’s, Angry Orchard and more. Pop and water will be available for only a dollar. A very affordable day! A nice assortment of foods including barbecue, Mexican food, Italian beef and sausage, burgers, pork chops, brats, gelato and shaved ice, and all sorts of other food and snack will be for sale at reasonable prices, too.
  
  Tickets are available in Rockford at: Woodman’s Market, Perryville Road, Culture Shock, Charles St, Guzzardo Music, Charles Street, Smokehouse BBQ ,South Main Street, CD Source, State Street, Just Goods, 7th Street, Toad Hall Records, Broadway, and the Lyran Society, 4th Avenue; Loves Park at: Hope and Anchor English Pub, N 2nd St; Winnebago at: Snyder’s Pharmacy; Byron at: Snyder’s Pharmacy and Felker’s Values Fresh Market; Oregon at: Snyder’s Pharmacy; Freeport at: Tony's Oyster Bar and Logan's Bar and Grill; Beloit at: Grand Avenue Pub; New Milford at: Lazy Bonz Liquor. On line sales at crossroadsbluessociety.com or www.crossroadsbluesfestival.com.
  
  Free parking. Golf carts are available for rides to and from your vehicle if needed. No coolers or pets allowed in the festival. Primitive campsites are available for $20 a night on both Friday and Saturday. For more information go to www.crossroadsbluesfestival.com or call 779-537-4006. Lyran Park is a private park and is located at 4781 S Bend Rd, Rockford, IL 61109, just south of Rockford Airport. ...

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  Tickets for the the 8th Annual Crossroads Blues Festival at Lyran Park are one sale! See below for location or click here to buy.

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