30th Annual Long Beach Blues Festival

Coming to downtown Long Beach on September 5 & 6. This is  a yearly fundraiser for Cal State Long Beach KKJZ FM 88.1.  That is a GREAT jazz and blues station if you are within range of its’ signal and this event keeps it on the air for twelve months.

The  venue is Rainbow Lagoon Park and the headline performers include  Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Bobby Womack and the very unique voice and styling of Mavis Staples.  

This will be the 30th annual year for the this wonderful event.  It will also feature The Blind Boys of Alabama,  Funky Meters, Johnny Winter, Sonny Landreth, Betty Lavette, Homemade Jamz Blues Band, Diunna Greenleaf, Andy Walo Trio and the Hill Country Review.

The Long Beach Blues Festival has become one of the top summer venues in Southern California. Tickets, we hear, are selling  said to be almost sold out.  You can go to Ticketmaster as well as World of String in Long Beach.  Additional info is available at KKJZ’s website www.jazzandblues.org.  Tickets are from about $55 to $90. (for both days)

For those who have never been there….this is an annual  “happening”