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Blues festivals are music festivals which focus on blues music. Blues is a genre[1] and musical form that originated in African-American communities in the Southern United States around the end of the 19th century. It has elements of traditional African music, American folk music, spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads.[2] Blues has since evolved from unaccompanied vocal music and oral traditions of slaves into a wide variety of styles and subgenres, such as country blues, Delta and Piedmont, Chicago, West Coast blues. World War II marked the transition from acoustic to electric blues and the progressive opening of blues music to a wider audience, especially white listeners.
List of blues festivals
editNorth America
editCanada
edit| Name | City | First year |
|---|---|---|
| Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival | Fredericton | 1991 |
| Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival | Salmon Arm | 1991 |
| Ottawa Bluesfest | Ottawa | 1994 |
| Bluesfest International Windsor | Windsor | 1995 |
| Edmonton's Labatt Blues Festival | Edmonton | 1999 |
United States
editOceania
edit| Name | First year |
City |
|---|---|---|
| Bendigo Blues and Roots Music Festival | 2011 | Bendigo, Australia |
| Blues on Broadbeach Music Festival | 2002 | Gold Coast, Australia |
| Blues Train | 1993 | Queenscliff, Australia |
| Byron Bay Bluesfest | 1990 | Byron Bay, Australia |
| Dingo Creek Jazz and Blues Festival | 2002 | Gympie, Australia |
| West Coast Blues & Roots Festival | 2004 | Fremantle, Australia |
| Marysville Jazz and Blues Weekend | 2014 | Marysville, Australia |
Asia
edit| Name | First year |
City |
|---|---|---|
| Himalayan Blues Festival | 2007 | Kathmandu, Nepal |
| Kathmandu Blues n Roots Festival | 2016 | Kathmandu, Nepal |
| Mahindra Blues Festival | 2011 | Mumbai, India |
Europe
editSee also
editReferences
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