List of blues festivals
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| Related genres | Blues, jazz, R&B, blues rock, blues subgenres, country blues, Delta and Piedmont, Chicago, West Coast blues, electric blues |
| Location | Worldwide |
| Related events | Category:Music festivals, concert tour, music festival, folk festivals, rock festival, bluegrass music festivals, jazz festivals, Christian music festival, old-time music festivals, jam band festivals |
The following is an incomplete list of blues festivals, which encapsulates music festivals focused on blues. This list may have some overlap with list of historic jazz festivals and list of historic rock festivals, both later genres dependent on elements of the blues. The blues is a genre[1] and musical form that originated in African-American communities in the "Deep South" of the United States around the end of the 19th century. The genre is a fusion of traditional African music and European folk music, spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads.[2] Blues has since evolved from unaccompanied vocal music and oral traditions of slaves into a wide variety of styles and subgenres, such as country blues, Delta and Piedmont, Chicago, West Coast blues. World War II marked the transition from acoustic to electric blues and the progressive opening of blues music to a wider audience, especially white listeners. In the 1960s and 1970s, a hybrid form called blues rock evolved, which was featured prominently in the Summer of Love, for example, and became ubiquitous at rock festivals.
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Festivals
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North America
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Oceania
| Festival name | 1st yr |
Country | Province | City |
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| Bluesfest Byron Bay | 1990 |  Australia |
New South Wales | Byron Bay |
| Blues Train | 1993 | Australia |
Victoria | Queenscliff |
| Dingo Creek Jazz and Blues Festival | 2002 | Australia |
Queensland | Gympie |
| West Coast Blues & Roots Festival | 2004 | Australia |
Western Australia | Fremantle |
| Bendigo Blues and Roots Music Festival | 2011 | Australia |
Victoria | Bendigo |
Asia
| Festival name | 1st yr |
Country | Province | City |
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| Himalayan Blues Festival | 2007 |  Nepal |
Nepal Mandala | Kathmandu |
Europe
See also
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Related lists
- List of music festivals
- List of Canadian blues festivals and venues
- List of folk festivals
- List of bluegrass music festivals
- List of jazz festivals
- List of rock festivals
