Chautauqua Hills Blues Festival

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This year’s festival featured 5 IBC champs and we could not resist inviting our friends from KC to make history. We will have 6 IBC champs as Trampled Under Foot joins the 2011 festival lineup.  Times are still to be determined, they will play for sure late Saturday night at the Gregg Theater.

Saturday tickets:

At this late time, e-mail reservations can be made for Saturday.  Seats are available call here (620-725-3834)  leave your name, number and the number in your party, I will confirm asap.

All Session passes:  It is too late for any mailing, you can get them anytime Friday or Saturday on the festival grounds or any of the Saturday Venues.

We are sorry about any inconvenience getting a Saturday only or All Session pass but we must be able to guarantee your seat at the Gregg Theater.

We do have a Friday night Block party sponsored by area business (Sedan Area Economic Development Council), this is a great festival kickoff featuring the Lionel Young Band, the 2011 International Blues Challenge Champions.

ALL of our Saturday performers will be there to be a part of this very special night, do NOT miss this.

Thank you to everyone who came to the tenth annual, there were some unbelievable performances.  The All Session Passes were a huge hit, Gregg Theater was a sold out show!!!  Thanks to all you campers, the campgrounds were left in beautiful order. Thanks to great campers we will continue to offer free camping and be able to improve access to more of the property, thanks again.  Please check the website for pictures (coming soon) and please email in your favorites.  Looking forward to the 11th annual!!

We are just a few days away and we have a lot of people to thank for making this the best festival ever. Thank you to Chautauqua County for coming out and widening the entry way to the festival grounds, and thank you to the city of Sedan for all their work helping pull off the Saturday shows.  Thank the downtown merchants for all their work downtown and support.  Some have offered discounts for anyone wearing the bluesfest wristband.  At the east end of town be sure to visit the hollow and chamber office in the old school house, stop by the Emmett Kelly Museum accross from the big flag.  The Saturday show held with the Art show will feature live demonstrations and some great blues educators.  There will be some little surprises early in the day so don’t be late.  Also at the art show they have BBQ dinners for $7 or $10.

We are sorry about the session passes not being available at all the outlets so we will continue to sell them for $30 on Saturday.  We did not print tickets for Saturday because had they been distributed to all the outlets we could not track the numbers.  Thanks to all who have called and reserved their seats.  There are plenty of seats left.  Call 620 725-3834 to reserve a seat.  At the festival grounds we have had no rain in over week and we want to remind everyone that it is ok to build small fires near your campsite, away from trees.  If you build a fire ring, throw the rocks back into the tree line when finished (for mowing).

If you come out on Friday there is a block party in downtown Sedan and the Yellow Brick Road parade starts at 10am on Saturday.  Most of the downtown businesses will be open between the shows on Saturday, be sure to thank them for their support.  The Gregg Theater is on Chautauqua just south of Main street.  Their is a lot of beautiful sights in the county see any merchant for details.

In response to tickets not being available in Wichita as originally advertised we will be at Sharon’s Charter Country, 1107 West Harry Street (Harry and Seneca) from 8 – 10 Saturday May 22nd.  We will give a coozie for every ticket purchased.  We apologize for any inconvenience.  We do have an agreement with CD Tradepost for next year.  This Year you can get tickets in Wichita at the JumpStart, 21st and West and G & L Garage, a block east of Grove on 13th.

Please stop by and say hi and see one of my favorite blues bands Made From Scratch!!

The 2010 Chautauqua Hills Blues Festival presents, for its 10th annual, some familiar faces and some true legends.  We have the one of the greatest living Harmonica players, the 3 time Band of the Year, the 2009 female entertainer of the year, the 2008 and 2009 International Blues challenge champions, the 2008 Piano Player of the Year and the 2010 Beale Stree Blues Kings.  Please check the schedule tab for details.  E-mailgreg@cqbluesfest.com or call 620 725-3834 with any comments or questions.  Thank you for ten great years!!

The Saturday afternoon show kicks off with some folksy blues and features 2 very accomplished blues educators.  The Saturday night show has our home town heroes, that spent the the past three months in the Roots Blues charts in the top 5.  Also an artist back for his 6th appearance and he brings his band up for a first for our Acoustic night.  His band has been touring the world with the U.S. State Department and we can’t wait to see what he’s been showing the world.

Get ‘em while they’re hot!!

TICKETS

and check out the schedule!

Schedule

Don’t forget to buy tickets! However thanks to Tom L. for the 2009 Festival photos. Check out the gallery for all the photos from past years. If you have any you’d like to see up there please send them to Greg. Please make sure they are .jpg files and are small enough to post on the web. Enjoy!

The photo galleries are back and better than ever! We are still working on them so some images may be out of place or missing, that should be corrected within a week or so.

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