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Complete Artist Line-ups have been Announced!!
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RIVERFRONT AFTER-PARTY TICKETS
ARE ONLY AVAILABLE FROM DSBS
You can send for tickets now, or get them from the DSBS tent at the Festival (if still available)!!

FRIDAY'S
Diamond State Blues Society
AFTER-PARTY
in the ballroom at the Sheraton Downtown

Leading the festivities & the Riverfront Artists' Jam is
Lonnie Shields
NOTE: Tickets for afterparty are only available thru DSBS

$10 Members / $15 Non-Members

     Shields was brought up in a family where the church played a central role in daily life, and his gospel roots show through in everything he sings. He began playing soul and funk before discovering the Delta blues through his friend Sam Carr.
     Lonnie Shields career has skyrocketed over the past few years and he is performing all over the world. And over the years, Lonnie has played with many Blues greats including Carr, Sonny Rhodes, Eddie Shaw and Big Jack Johnson to name a few.
     Lonnie's latest release "Keeper of The Blues" is another jewel in a string of 5 CDs featuring his soulful, "down home" Blues with a contemporary focus yet juke-joint feel.

SATURDAY'S
Diamond State Blues Society
AFTER-PARTY
in the ballroom at the Sheraton Downtown

NOTE: Tickets for afterparty are only available thru DSBS

$15 Members / $20 Non-Members

     Billy Branch has recorded and/or performed with an incredible list of Blues legends including: Muddy Waters, Big Walter Horton, Son Seals, Lonnie Brooks, Koko Taylor, Johnny Winter, and Albert King. In 1990, he appeared with three harp legends:Carey Bell, Junior Wells, and James Cotton on W.C Handy Award winner, Harp Attack! His most recent recordings for the Polygram label are entitled The Blues Keep Following Me Around and Satisfy Me.
     Billy is also passing on the blues tradition to a new generation through his Blues In The Schools program. He is a dedicated blues educator and has taught in the Chicago school system for over twenty years as part of the Urban Gateways Project. In 1996, some of his finest students opened the Main Stage at the Chicago Blues Festival which was broadcast throughout the U.S. on NPR (National Public Radio).
     Blues producer, Chicago Beau has written, "Billy Branch has become a beacon, and model for his times; as an artist, and social/cutural activist... Billy Branch is a Bluesman; Billy Branch is the Blues."

Leading the festivities & the
Riverfront Artists' Jam is
Billy Branch
& the Sons of Blues

And don't forget the
Bucks County Blues Society's 27th Annual
Rhythm & Blues Picnic
      Saturday, July 18th
                       with Michael Burks headlining a full day of
        GREAT blues music.       Click for more info

and don't forget, too, their Blue Thursday's
at McStew's (formerly AJ's) in Levittown, PA, a 40 minute drive from Wilmington.
After 12 years, still a great place to see local, regional and national blues acts.
Hosted by BCBS Vice President, Bob Settelen, Blue Thursday is an institution.
Check out their upcoming schedule here.

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Shows to date
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GREAT Pics of 2008's
Past Events
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THANKS to all who attended last year's
RIVERFRONT BLUES FESTIVAL!!
Because of YOU it was a THREE DAY SELL-OUT
and of some of the Best Blues in the US!!

Click for PICTURES of
2008's BluesFest!
and a great little video of Koko's opening number
from Saturday night! (It's down the page, so keep lookin'!)

Or the 2007 Festival

or CLICK to see some Pics of the 2006 Festival

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