Blues Venues, Festivals and Jams

• An excellent page listing many festivals exists at FestivalFinder -- check this out before you go too far
• The Treasure Coast Blues Festival, in Fort Pierce, Florida, March 15-16, 1997
• An ambitious effort, the beginnings of a national list of blues jams -- chiefly New York and California links right now, but feel free to send them your updates.
• A nationwide list of blues festivals at BluesFestivals.com -- please be aware that the home page is heavily graphical although the graphics present only text -- it might take a while to load
• The East Coast Blues Festival, April 5-7, 1997. That's the east coast of Australia, mate -- Byron Bay -- and including many big-name international artists
• A link to the National Guitar Summer Workshop -- worth noting is that this is not specifically a blues workshop, but I do note that Ronnie Earl is on their board of directors.
• The White Mountains Jazz & Blues Festival, September 6, 1997 in Bartlett, New Hampshire
• The Hell Blues Club in Norway, with information about the Hell Blues Festival
• If you're elsewhere in Norway, be sure to check out Oslo Bluesklubb, which appears to be one of the more happening blues joints in Scandinavia
• The Tower Mardi Gras has Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown playing this February 11, 1997 (which is also Melville W. Fuller's birthday) in Fresno, California.
• A link for the Pocono Blues Festival, which I think we used to have on this page but for some reason I took it off. Lowell Fulson's playing this year...
• Blue Cat Blues, in Dallas, Texas
• Elsewhere in Texas, Fort Worth specifically, you can hit the JJ Blues Bar
• The House Of Blues
• Antone's in Austin, Texas
• The King Biscuit Blues Fest (not related to the King Biscuit Time link)
• The Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival, in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Yes, that means Canada.
• A nationwide listing of open jams (all music, not just blues) -- over 100K