List of blues festivals

Main articles: Blues and List of music festivals
List of blues festivals
General Information
Related genres Blues, jazz, R&B, blues rock, blues subgenres, country blues, Delta and Piedmont, Chicago, West Coast blues, electric blues
Location Worldwide
Related events Category:Music festivals, concert tour, music festival, folk festivals, rock festival, bluegrass music festivals, jazz festivals, Christian music festival, old-time music festivals, jam band festivals

The following is an incomplete list of blues festivals, which encapsulates music festivals focused on blues. This list may have some overlap with list of historic jazz festivals and list of historic rock festivals, both later genres dependent on elements of the blues. The blues is a genre[1] and musical form that originated in African-American communities in the "Deep South" of the United States around the end of the 19th century. The genre is a fusion of traditional African music and European 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. In the 1960s and 1970s, a hybrid form called blues rock evolved, which was featured prominently in the Summer of Love, for example, and became ubiquitous at rock festivals.

Related lists and categories

The following lists have some or total overlap:

The following categories are related:

  • Music festivals
  • Folk festivals
  • Blues festivals
  • Old-time music festivals
  • Country festivals
  • Bluegrass festivals
  • Jazz festivals
  • Rock festivals
  • Hip hop festivals

Festivals

United States

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Blues festivals.

References

  1. ↑ Kunzler's dictionary of Jazz provides two separate entries: blues, an originally African-American genre (p.128), and the blues form, a widespread musical form (p.131).
  2. ↑ "The Evolution of Differing Blues Styles". How To Play Blues Guitar. Archived from the original on January 18, 2010. Retrieved August 11, 2008.

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