Thanks to LCC TV!
Check out this short look at Old Town BluesFest 2011′s Kidz Beat area, produced by LCC TV. We’re looking forward to what this year will...
Read MoreThanks for a Great BluesFest 2011!
It was great spending a September weekend with you and some of the hottest blues musicians around. Thanks for coming out to celebrate! Our photo gallery now features some photos from this year’s event. If you know of any footage or coverage of BluesFest 2011 that hasn’t been posted to our Media Room, we’d appreciate you letting us know so we can add a link. We’ve also drafted a brief BluesFest survey and would love to hear your thoughts on how we can make the festival better. See you in the streets next...
Read MoreVisit Custom Guitar Builders
Saturday 1-7pm during the BluesFest, Perspective2 (319 E. Grand River Ave.) will be hosting the 2011 Old Town Custom & Vintage Guitar & Stringed Instrument Builders and Restorers Show. Admission is FREE. See, hear and play custom guitars that are built by some of the best instrument builders in Michigan and the Midwest—all under one roof! Come see the tools and materials used to build these instruments and talk with luthiers (stringed instrument makers). It’s your chance to ask questions and learn about the fine art of instrument building. Seminars will also be offered during...
Read MoreLearn Blues Swing!
The MSU Swing Dance Club is coming Friday evening to give FREE lessons at the Mighty Medicine and Long Tall Deb & the Drifter Kings performances. They have a special blues swing dance to teach anyone interested.
Read MoreAvoid Construction on the Way to BluesFest
There are a few areas of road construction and detours to avoid on your way to and from BluesFest this year: Grand River Avenue is currently blocked off at the railroad tracks between Larch and Pennsylvania. Cedar Street still has some lane closures heading south from the festival site. (Cedar and Larch Streets have been under construction from Lake Lansing Road all the way to Edgewood Boulevard.) Oakland Avenue is closed from Walnut Street to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. (On the west side of town, Saginaw Street still has lane closures and detours between Marketplace Boulevard and...
Read MoreNous parlons blues
This year’s BluesFest will have a bit of French flair as we welcome journalists from Blues & Co. magazine out of Thouars, France, coming to cover the event. Feel free to practice your language skills with them if you like. Et ne vous inquiétez pas, des journalistes françaises. Nous parlons blues.
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Welcome to BluesFest 2011
The Old Town BluesFest is a two-day FREE music festival that brings national, regional, and local acts to an audience of roughly 15,000 people from across Michigan and nearby states.
BluesFest’s music truly is living music, history in the making. Each artist at the festival is asked to play an original composition, something that hasn’t been played at any other festival.
