East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival

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The East Coast International Blues & Roots Music Festival is an annual music festival held for five days over the Easter long weekend at Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia. As an event it features a huge selection of blues and roots performers, both international and local.

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[edit] History

The festival began in 1990 as a four day indoor event at The Arts Factory in Byron Bay, drawing a capacity crowd of 6,000 people in its first year. In 1993 the event moved outdoors, and has since developed into one of the most prominent events on the Australian and international festival calendar.[citation needed] The festival runs four stages and on most days performances begin in the early afternoon and end at midnight.

The East Coast Blues and Roots Festival won the Robert Helpmann Award for Best Contemporary Music Festival in Australia for 2004 and 2005. The Bluesfest has also been a finalist in the US-based Pollstar Concert Industry Awards for the past two years, placing the festival alongside names like Montreaux and Glastonbury.

In December 2004, director and founder of the event, Keven Oxford, left the festival for other pursuits. His co-founder, Peter Noble, continues to run the event with new partners, Michael Chugg Entertainment and Glenn Wheatley, who acquired Oxford's shares in the company.

[edit] 2007 Line Up

The Line Up for the 2007 East Coast Blues & Roots Festival (5 April to 9 April 2007 at Red Devil Park ) was released on November 22, 2006.[1] The first announcement included:

Other acts include:

[edit] References

  • East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival (December 1, 2004). Bluesfest Change Of Ownership.

[edit] External links

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