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Cape Fear Blues Festival in Wilmington, North Carolina
If you can’t be in Chicago tomorrow for the start of the Chicago Blues Festival, fear not. There’s another great lineup coming to the east coast in late July for the 14th Annual Cape Fear Blues Festival in Wilmington, North Carolina. Now I just need to find a top-quality west coast shindig and we’ll have the summertime blues trifecta.
The Cape Fear Blues Festival is the masthead event hosted every year by the Cape Fear Blues Society (CFBS), a non-profit dedicated to the preservation and promotion of blues music and performers in the Cape Fear region of North Carolina. While the CFBS is keeping that sound alive all year long with the semiweekly Cape Fear Blues Jam at The Rusty Nail in downtown Wilmington, blues fans both local and national can’t help but look forward to summer’s three-day festival.
Just perusing the schedule, the Cape Fear Blues Festival can seem a mish-mash of here-and-there events, which it is, so be sure to plan ahead in order to spend your time wisely. Additionally, beware that some of the concerts are free, notably the Sunday all-day blues jam at 16 Taps, while others have a cover charge or may even require advance ticket purchase.
If you want to get in on the most exciting event of the festival, sign up soon for the Cape Fear Blues Cruise. Opening the festival with style, the Blues Cruise is an always-sold out show cruise aboard Wilmington’s famous Henrietta III riverboat. Boasting three bands, three bars and three decks worth of dancing and dining, this isn’t the cheapest event of the festival, but it’s one you can be sure you’ll never forget. Cruise performers this year include Elliott & the Untouchables, El Jaye Johnson, Tommy B. and the Stingers and Spider Mike Bochey.
During the festival, you can also catch performances by The Contagious Blues Band, The Chickenhead Blues Band, Elliott New, Ten Dollar Thrill, The Dynamic Therm-O-Tones, Gypsy Fire and more. Additional events include a free blues workshop and a guitar giveaway (Fender Highway One Strat – very nice).
The 14th Annual Cape Fear Blues Festival will be held from July 24-26, 2009 at several locations around Wilmington, NC. Paid events require separate admission. Tickets for certain events, along with more information on everything above, are available at the Web site.
If you’ve been reading USA Travel Guide long, you know this isn’t our first trip to Wilmington, and we’ve got the hotels that we like. We’re big fans of the Hilton Wilmington Riverside as well as its sister property, the Riverview Suites. The former offers standard hotel accommodations at a fine rate, and the latter offers upscale suites (full kitchen and all) for not much more. Just depends on the kind of stay you want.
Have fun at the Cape Fear Blues Festival in July.
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