Event Listing - Music, City Events

Sat Sep 29, 2007 - Sun Sep 30, 2007

35th Annual

San Francisco Blues Festival

Location	Date and Time
Great Meadow at Fort Mason Corner of Bay and Laguna Street San Francisco, CA - district: Marina/Cow Hollow	Sat Sep 29, 2007 (11am - 6pm) Sun Sep 30, 2007 (11am - 6pm)

Description

Tom Mazzolini, founder and producer of the San Francisco Blues Festival, has announced the line-up for this September’s annual blues extravaganza at the magnificent Great Meadow at Fort Mason. This year’s festival marks the 35th anniversary for the long-running production, which began in 1973 and is the oldest blues festival in the world.

The show has always featured the blues idioms of Chicago's Southside, New Orleans, Louisiana, the Mississippi Delta, Texas and the West Coast. This year’s lineup includes some of the best known names on the worldwide blues scene as well as some of the hottest up-and-coming acts. Well known blues artists such as Allen Toussaint, John Hammond, and Charlie Musselwhite are complemented by the Grammy Award-winning Robert Randolph & the Family Band and Grammy nominee, British R&B James Hunter.

The complete two-day line-up is as follows:

Saturday, September 29, 2007

· Robert Randolph & the Family Band with special guests Calvin Cooke and Aubrey Ghent -- “A sacred steel band extravaganza!”
· The Tommy Castro Band -- “The Bay Area King of Soulful Blues!”
· Billy Boy Arnold and Deitra Farr with the Chicago All-Stars, featuring Bob Stroger, Billy Flynn and Kenny Smith -- “Vintage Southside Chicago blues!”
· Eric Bibb -- “More real acoustic folk blues!”
· Nick Moss and the Fliptops -- “Chicago blues deluxe!”
· Dave Alexander -- “Blues and boogie-woogie piano master!”
· John Nemeth -- “Young vocal marvel!”

Sunday, September 30, 2007

· Special Anniversary Blues Fest Bash featuring Allen Toussaint, John Hammond and Charlie Musselwhite -- “Three great legends!”
· James Hunter -- “British soul and R&B sensation!”
· Joe Louis Walker, Sugar Pie DeSanto and Jimmy McCracklin -- “A historic solo blues revival special!”
· Blues Farm Revue featuring the Carter Brothers, Johnny ‘Da Doo’ Wilson, Hosea Leavy and Fillmore Slim -- “The Highway 99 caravan comes north!”
· Ron Hacker and the Hacksaws -- “Naptown moan!”
· Tribute to Little Walter Jacobs with Gary Smith, Dave Barrett, Joe Filisko, Paul Durkett and special guest Craig Horton -- “A dedication to a blues harmonica master!”
· Blues Guitar Women Showdown featuring Carmen Getit, Pat Wilder and Laura Chavez -- “Wild about you, baby!”

For further information, call (415) 979-5588 or visit the SFBF Web site at www.sfblues.com.

Ticket Information: Tickets are $35 in advance, $40 at the door (cash only), $55 for a two-day ticket (advance purchase only), $50 for a single-day reserved lawn, front-of-stage ticket (advance only), and $80 for a two-day reserved lawn, front-of-stage ticket (advance only).

Tickets are available at all Ticketmaster outlets, and Tix Bay Area in Union Square. To order by phone, call (415) 421-8497, (510) 625-8497 or (408) 998-8497 or visit www.ticketmaster.com. Tickets are also available at Streetlight Records in S.F. (24th Street/Noe Valley store), Streetlight Records in San Jose, Down Home Music in El Cerrito, Village Music in Mill Valley, and The Movies in Fresno.

Children under the age of 10 are admitted free.