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Blue Lake Blues Series |
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Blue Lake Blues Series Events: Buddy Brown Blues Festival August 17, 2002, Perigot Park, Blue Lake |
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The Blue Lake Blues Series, a non-profit, volunteer group, is the blues music element of the Humboldt Folklife Society. Our specific purpose is to develop venues to showcase local blues musicians as well as introducing musicians from out of the area to local blues fans. Our flagship event is the Buddy Brown Blues Festival (previously the Blue Lake Blues Festival) named in memory of our first headliner and local blues favorite, Buddy Brown, who passed away last year. The financial focus of this annual event, held at Perigot Park in Blue Lake in mid-August, is fund raising for one or more local non-profit community programs or activities. This year's beneficiary will be the RAILS TO TRAILS organization's efforts to develop the Arcata to Blue Lake Trail (Annie and Mary railroad). The Blue Festival is the premiere showcase for local blues talent in Humboldt County and was wildly successful in its first year, raising much-needed funds for the SAFE Program (Safe Access For Everyone), a wheelchair ramp construction program for low-income residents of Humboldt County. Our latest endeavor, from which we took our group's name, is the Blue Lake Blues Series, an effort to, again, promote local blues talent and introduce outside talent when available. It is also our intention to help promote the City of Blue Lake as a performing arts center. Using one of the three potentially available venues in Blue Lake -- The Red Radish, DelArte Theatres, and the Grange Hall, we expect to promote up to 6 shows per year. |
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To be placed on the email list for notification of future events, click on the link and send an email to notify@bluelakeblues.com Please include your name and phone number in the message. TICKET RESERVATION PROCESS Our primary vehicle for outreach, reservations, etc. for the Blues Series will be the Internet, with limited outside advertising and ticket sales as necessary. Notification of upcoming shows and an opportunity for making reservations will be made first to the Blue Lake Blues Series email list. If you want to make a reservation for tickets to a particular show, please send an email with your name, address, phone number, the date and artist you wish the tickets for, and the number of tickets you are reserving to: RESERVATIONS WILL BE FIRM: anyone making reservations is responsible to pay for their tickets whether they come to the show or not unless they inform BLBS at least ONE WEEK in advance of the show. Failure to honor a reservation will result your removal from the ticket list and you will not be allowed to reserve any tickets for future events. Remember, all work by BLBS is VOLUNTEER/NON-PROFIT---we don't want to loose money or credence with musicians or venues. |
