August Blues Festival | |
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Genre | Blues |
Location(s) | Haapsalu, Estonia |
Years active | 1993-present |
Website |
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August Blues Festival ( Estonian: Augustibluus) is a blues music festival held in Haapsalu, Estonia since 1994. [1] [2]
The festival takes place mainly inside the walls of Haapsalu Castle. [3] It is the biggest blues festival in the Baltic states. [4]
Besides Estonian blues musicians, there have been guests from United States and elsewhere. [1] Andy Fairweather Low, Nik West, Candye Kane, Earl Thomas, Omar Kent Dykes, Gene Taylor, Lucky Peterson, Lance Lopez, Coco Montoya, Kirk Fletcher, Jimmy Zavala, Eric Gales, Artur Menezes, [5] and Duke Robillard have all performed at the festival.[ citation needed]