The Great American Blues Festival is taking place August 16-17, 2014 Arron Bessant Park (Pier Park) in Panama City Beach, FL
Please see website for festival tickets and schedule.
Thefirst-ever Great American Blues Festival is bringing in eleven blues favorites, including Royal Southern Brotherhood. The band was nominated in 2011 for The Blues Foundation’s ‘Best Blues Rock’ award, and won 2010′s Blues Music Awards. Also playing will be the Legendary Blues Hall of Famer Joe Louis Walker, who has four Blues Awards and twenty-two albums to his credit. Another heavy-hitter performing at the festival, with thirty-eight albums and over 45 years to their credit is Canned Heat.
The infamous Jimmy Thackery and the Drivers will be playing the festival. Thackery is known in the blues community as a guitar god, originally playing with the Nighthawks. The list continues with 2012 BMA winner Biscuit Miller & The Mix with performances both days. Honey Island Swamp Band, winners of Best Roots Rock at the 2012 Big Easy Awards. Also playing are T.C. Carr, Betty Lou Fox, and The Homemade Jamz Band, an award-winning internationally acclaimed blues band composed of three siblings from Tupelo, Mississippi. 2013 International Blues Challenge winner Selwyn Birchwood, and Big Llou, voice of BB King’s Bluesville on Sirius XM will complete the lineup.
The festival is also hosting a Harley Davidson BBQ Challenge, which includes twenty professional teams. GABF is a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) benefit festival, with proceeds from the festival going to benefit local charities.
American Blues Scene Magazine
MUSIC SCHEDULE
Saturday, August 16, 2014
1200p-1:00p
BISCUIT MILLER 12p – 1p
SELWYN BIRCHWOOD 1p-2:15p
T.C. CARR 2:15p-3:30p
BIG LLOU’S BLUESVILLE REVIEW 3:30p-5:00p
THE BETTY FOX BAND 5p-6p
JIMMY THACKERY 6p-7:30p
Sunday, August 17, 2014
BISCUIT MILLER 12p-1p
CANNED HEAT 1p-2:15p
HONEY ISLAND SWAMP BAND 2:15p-3:30p
JOE LOUIS WALKER 3:30p-5:00p
HOMEMADE JAMZ BAND 5p-6p
ROYAL SOUTHERN BROTHERHOOD 6p-7:30p
Please see website for festival tickets and schedule.
Thefirst-ever Great American Blues Festival is bringing in eleven blues favorites, including Royal Southern Brotherhood. The band was nominated in 2011 for The Blues Foundation’s ‘Best Blues Rock’ award, and won 2010′s Blues Music Awards. Also playing will be the Legendary Blues Hall of Famer Joe Louis Walker, who has four Blues Awards and twenty-two albums to his credit. Another heavy-hitter performing at the festival, with thirty-eight albums and over 45 years to their credit is Canned Heat.
The infamous Jimmy Thackery and the Drivers will be playing the festival. Thackery is known in the blues community as a guitar god, originally playing with the Nighthawks. The list continues with 2012 BMA winner Biscuit Miller & The Mix with performances both days. Honey Island Swamp Band, winners of Best Roots Rock at the 2012 Big Easy Awards. Also playing are T.C. Carr, Betty Lou Fox, and The Homemade Jamz Band, an award-winning internationally acclaimed blues band composed of three siblings from Tupelo, Mississippi. 2013 International Blues Challenge winner Selwyn Birchwood, and Big Llou, voice of BB King’s Bluesville on Sirius XM will complete the lineup.
The festival is also hosting a Harley Davidson BBQ Challenge, which includes twenty professional teams. GABF is a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) benefit festival, with proceeds from the festival going to benefit local charities.
American Blues Scene Magazine
MUSIC SCHEDULE
Saturday, August 16, 2014
1200p-1:00p
BISCUIT MILLER 12p – 1p
SELWYN BIRCHWOOD 1p-2:15p
T.C. CARR 2:15p-3:30p
BIG LLOU’S BLUESVILLE REVIEW 3:30p-5:00p
THE BETTY FOX BAND 5p-6p
JIMMY THACKERY 6p-7:30p
Sunday, August 17, 2014
BISCUIT MILLER 12p-1p
CANNED HEAT 1p-2:15p
HONEY ISLAND SWAMP BAND 2:15p-3:30p
JOE LOUIS WALKER 3:30p-5:00p
HOMEMADE JAMZ BAND 5p-6p
ROYAL SOUTHERN BROTHERHOOD 6p-7:30p
