Billtown Blues Festival
Written by Wayne Laepple
Add together a sunny Sunday in June, a great outdoor venue, seven musical acts and a couple thousand people. What you get is the Billtown Blues Festival. The 2009 Billtown Blues Festival is the 20th annual, so the formula obviously works and work well. It will be held at the Lycoming County Fairgrounds in Hughesville on June 14, with the music starting at noon and continuing until 10 p.m., rain or shine. For details, visit www.billtownblues.org or call (570) 584-4480. Billtown has earned a reputation amongst East Coast blues music enthusiasts as one of the best one-day festivals, bringing a broad spectrum of blues styles to the stage, while offering spectators a chance to meet the performers up close and personal.
The 2009 event marks 20 years of great music, and over the years, such blues legends as Nappy Brown, Pinetop Perkins, Hubert Sumlin, Bob Margolin, Levon Helm and Willie "Big Eyes" Smith have performed on the stage. The stage has also been graced by up-and-comers as Tab Benoit, Diunna Greenleaf, Deanna Bogart, E.G. Kight and Gary Davis.
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