List of blues festivals in Canada
Canadian blues festivals range from small, community-based festivals that feature mostly local performers to major corporate-sponsored festivals that draw nationally and internationally prominent blues bands and huge crowds. Some of the large festivals include the Ottawa Bluesfest, Bluesfest Windsor, the Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Tremblant International Blues Festival in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec and the Edmonton's Labatt Blues Festival. These festivals, which are usually organized by volunteer-based blues societies, are an important part of the Canadian blues scene.
List
British Columbia
Matt Andersen entertaining the Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival
- Burnaby Blues + Roots Festival - August in Burnaby[1]
- Hornby Island Blues Workshop - May in Hornby Island
- Pender Harbour Blues Festival - early June in Pender Harbour
- Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival - August in Salmon Arm, in British Columbia's interior
- Summertime Blues Festival - August in Nanaimo
- Vancouver Island Blues Bash - Labour Day Weekend in Victoria, British Columbia
Alberta
- Beaumont Blues & Roots Festival - June (previously Labour Day long weekend) in Beaumont
- Calgary International Blues Festival - August
- Calgary Midwinter Bluesfest - February
- Edmonton's Labatt Blues Festival - August in Edmonton
Saskatchewan
- Saskatoon Blues Festival - End of February in Saskatchewan
Manitoba
- Great Woods Music Festival - August in Beausejour, Manitoba
Ontario
- Atomic Blues Fest - Lindsay
- Barrie Jazz and Blues Festival - second weekend in June in Barrie
- Bluesfest International - July in Windsor and London
- Boon's House Blues & Roots Festival - July in Hamilton
- Burlington Jazz & Blues Festival - July in Burlington
- Calabogie Blues & Ribfest - August in Calabogie
- Canal Bank Shuffle - October in Thorold
- Coal Flats Blues Festival - September in Port Burwell
- Escarpment Blues Festival - mid-July in Milton
- Georgetown - Festival on Main - Father's Day Weekend, third weekend in June in Georgetown
- House Full of Blues Festival - North Bay
- Kitchener Blues Festival - August in Kitchener
- Limestone City Blues Festival - late August in Kingston
- London Blues Festival - August in London, Ontario
- Mudcat Blues Fest - August in Dunnville
- Orangeville Blues and Jazz Festival - first weekend of June in Orangeville
- Orillia Spring Blues Festival - Orillia
- Oshawa Jazz and Blues Festival - August in Oshawa
- Ottawa Bluesfest - July in Ottawa
- Paisley Blues Fest, first weekend of june in Paisley, Ontario
- Porquis Blues Festival - early July in Porquis
- Port Credit Blues and Jazz Festival (also called the "Southside Shuffle") - early September in Port Credit, Mississauga
- Stratford Blues and Ribfest - June in Stratford
- Thunder Bay Blues Festival - July in Thunder Bay
- Twisted Pines Blues Festival - May in the Midland/Penetanguishene area
- Wasaga Beach Blues - September 13–15, 2013, at Stonebridge Town Centre in Wasaga Beach
- Women in the Wilds Blues Festival - September in Atikokan, Northwestern Ontario
- Bluesfest Windsor - July 10–12, 2015 in Windsor, Ontario
Quebec
- Festival de Jazz et Blues de Saguenay - April in Chicoutimi
- West Island Blues Festival - June in Pierrefonds/Roxboro, Island of Montreal
- Montreal International Jazz Festival - June in Montreal (Blues Stage)
- Tremblant International Blues Festival - July in Mont-Tremblant
- Sherblues & Folk - July in Sherbrooke
- l'Ile en Blues - August in Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans
- Les Nuits Blues Laurentides - August in Saint-Sauveur
- Festival de Blues de Donnacona - August in Donnacona
- Trois-Rivières en Blues - August in Trois-Rivières
- Festival de Blues de Joliette - October in Joliette
East coast
- Dutch Mason Blues Festival - August in Truro, Nova Scotia[2]
- Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival - September in Fredericton, New Brunswick
- Wreckhouse International Jazz & Blues Festival - early July in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador[3]
Blues d'la Baie Petit Rocher, Nouveau Brunswick fin juillet.
References
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