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2011 Festival Headliners - Our 15th Year!!
The Limestone City Blues Festival will once again bring Downtown Kingston alive with the sounds of the blues August 25, 26, 27 and 28, 2011.
The festival is delighted to announce that Walter Trout will headline the
Springer Market Square stage Saturday night the 27th! Opening for Mr. Trout will be the 2008 International Blues Challenge winners Trampled Under Foot and Canada's own Paul Reddick
2011 International Blues Challenge Winner Grady Champion will headline the Princess Street (at Barrie) stage, Friday August 26th with Canadian Jack de Keyzer opening.
The festival will open with the award winning band Monkey Junk kicking things off in Confederation Park on Thursday August 25th at 7pm.
We'll turn up the heat presenting more than 50 shows in over a dozen participating venues (= over 100 hours of programming) - three afternoons of concerts in Confederation Park, live blues nightly in many downtown clubs, restaurants and cafes as well as brunch Blues.
A $10 bracelet gets you 4 days and nights of the Blues! Bracelets are now on sale at the following locations - Kingston Guitar Shop, Indigo Books & Music, MotoSport Plus, Chris James, Kingston Brewing Company, The Visitor Information Centre and participating blues venues.
HOMEGROWN BLUESFOOD! This year Kingston Chefs are going southern style! The 2nd annual HOMEGROWN BLUESFOOD is the tastiest, addition to Kingston’s Limestone City Blues Festival - 10 of Downtown Kingston’s best restaurants will take the flavours of Kingston’s countryside and create locally sourced “southern” style dinner menus. Pulled pork, smoked ribs, and fresh local grilled corn, are just some of the southern comfort foods sure to steal the spotlight during this year’s Blues event! Click here to download the list of restaurants |
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