Bobby
Womack, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Mavis Staples, and the Funky Meters
will be among the performers at the 30th annual Long Beach Blues Festival
set for Saturday and Sunday, September 5 and 6, at Rainbow Lagoon
Park, adjacent to the Long Beach Marina, in downtown Long Beach. Tickets
for the festival went on sale on May 30, with ticket information available
at jazzandblues.org.
The festival is the flagship event and an
important revenue generator for KJAZZ 88.1 FM, the #1 full-time
Jazz and Blues radio station, and one of only five remaining in
the country.
Shepherd tops the bill on Saturday along
with New Orleans’ Funky Meters featuring original members
Art Neville and George Porter Jr. Also appearing Saturday are Johnny
Winter, Betty Lavette, the Homemade Jamz Blues Band (the youngest
band ever to be nominated for a Blues Music Award), and Hill Country
Revue featuring Cody Dickinson and Chris Chew of the North Mississippi
Allstars.
Sunday includes recent Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame inductee Womack, Staples, the Blind Boys of Alabama, Louisiana
slide-guitar wizard Sonny Landreth, four-time Blues Music Award
nominee Diunna Greenleaf, and the Andy Walo Trio, whose guitar-wielding
frontman accompanied the late Junior Wells for many years.
Presale
tickets became available exclusively through Ticketmaster Thursday,
May 28. VIP ticket packages are available directly from KJAZZ by calling
(310) 478-5061 or online at jazzandblues.org.
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