Confirmed dates
29 July - 6 August, 2006
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It was last updated on 5 May 2006
Headliner this year: Sherman Robertson on 29 and 30 July
Other acts already provisionally booked for the Gloucester Festival include
The Worried Men, Ian Briggs and The Supervampers, Blues Brothers Reloaded, Mick Pinni, Jimmy Carl Black (ex Mothers of Invention), Ian Jennings, The Razors, Stringybark McDowell, Paul Cowley (duo), D.B. Smith Band, Bridget and Big Girls Blues, The Suspects, Acoustic Too, Will Killeen, Steve Browning, Keith Thompson's Strange Brew, Kingsley Salmon, Molly Brown, Kent DuChaine, The Swamp Band, Studebaker John and the Hawks and Sons of the Delta
Plus a pre-festival Blues Cruise from Gloucester on the 21st July with the great Gloucester duo Sons of the Delta.
There's also a gig on the 22nd July with Eddie Martin and Backdoor Slam at Sudeley Castle. This is an open air event starting at 7pm - gates open at 6.30pm. Tickets are £7.00 each and available by calling 01242 602308 or can be booked in person at the Visitor Centre at Sudeley Castle Gardens & Exhibitions. People are encouraged to bring picnics and something to sit on.
We'll be making more announcements in the very near future so check back here soon.
For a look at some of the photos from the 2005 festival, the best ever, click here
We have now set up a blogger-type page for you to post your comments about this site as well as to tell us what you think about the artistes we are booking, to give us a short review if you've seen them recently, or generally just have a good chinwag about Gloucesterblues.
If you have anything to say - and keep it clean mates or it won't get posted - send it to gloucesterblues@aol.com
This is not where acts should request a booking, by the way. If you are interested in performing at the festival, please email info@gloucesterblues.co.uk
I'll put it on line as soon as I can at the Gloucester Blues Blog on this site
Gloucester pubs that participated in the 2005 festival included Café René, The Fountain, Fosters, The Bell, Sloans, The Pig Inn the City, The Union, The New Inn, Fosters, the Conservative Club, the Station and more.
To learn what's happening on the blues scene in and around Gloucester, please read
The most recent edition of Tim Porter's newsletter from Brailes.
NEWS
The George Hotel, Lower Brailes, is changing
landlords! It is currently closed and there will
be no music there this weekend - Sunday 30 and
Monday 1 May. Nicholas Gill and Debbie Arthurs's
Sunday afternoon Classic Jazz performance will be
rescheduled.
Click here for information from the Blue Front Blues Room - Monday nights in the Forest
Click here for information from the Painswick Blues Club
Stroud's Blues & Beyond Festival 2006 (Held 13-15 April)
Here's the Tubby Blues site for blues in Cheltenham
Click here for the Upton Blues Festival 14-16 July
There's a lot of blues elsewhere on the air waves.
Click on Radio to learn more (a big .pdf file, so be warned)
or on www.meekstudios.co.uk
You can also go to our links page for other ideas
We greatly appreciate the support given to this year's festival by sponsors and backers, including
Main Sponsor: Kings Walk Shopping Centre :Main Sponsor
Main Sponsor: Gloucester City Council :Main Sponsor
Main Sponsor: Central Gloucester Initiative :Main Sponsor
Quick Print Gloucester
Griffiths Marshall Chartered Acountants
We hope you will support them as well. For details, click on Sponsors. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor or backer for the 2006 festival, please contact the organisers.
The European Blues Association has some very good news:
After five years effort, supported by the CGI (organisers of the Blues Festival) , they are only six months away from the goal of establishing the first dedicated Blues Archive Resource Centre in the United Kingdom. The EBA now needs to raise £50,000 for building works for the refurbishment, conversion and fitting out of the second floor space allocated to us by the Gloucestershire County Library Services in the Music and Drama Library in Gloucester. Please go to 'The EBA Archive' for more details.
Finger pickers (and others) might want to check out Rick Payne at
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