As we head into our 22nd edition of the Edmonton Blues Festival we continue to embrace the old, the new, legends, up and comers, the best guitarists, piano players, harmonica players, singers and all around entertainers in the blues world. Most of all, we’ve always brought the best damn Blues Party you’ve ever seen to Hawrelak Park every summer!

Along the way we’ve been recognized by The Blues Foundation, based in Memphis and are proud recipients of the “Keeping the Blues Alive” award (2008, first Canadian festival to be so honoured!). Festival Producer Cam Hayden has been inducted into the Edmonton Blues Hall of Fame, The Calgary Blues Hall of Fame, and has been honoured nationally with a Maple Blues Award as Blues Booster of the year. In 2018 the festival received a special proclamation from the city of Nashville recognizing it as a premier blues event… Why? We love the blues and we love embracing the worldwide blues community and inviting them to our party. As always, we’ll have visitors from all across the United States and Canada and from other parts of the world; folks who know a great party when they see one and want to be part of it. To encourage a younger audience to discover and enjoy the blues we’ll have a limited number of special 1/2 price “Youth” passes for those 17 and under.

Steve Kozak Band performs Sat. Aug. 22 at 2:30 PM Steve Kozak will again be hosting the after hours All-Star jam sessions each night following the festival at The Chateau Louis Hotel and Conference Centre in Julian's Piano Bar. Festival tickets available at: http://www.bluesinternationalltd.com/tickets-info/