Baton Rouge Blues Festival
Boogie down in Baton Rouge with this annual blues extravaganza
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Repentance Park 275 South River Road, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802
Originating in 1981, the Baton Rouge Blues Festival is one of the oldest free blues festivals in America and exists to encourage promotion, preservation, and advancement of Baton Rouge's native Swamp Blues music. This free-to-the public, family-friendly festival will feature an impressive lineup of internationally-recognized performers and local blues legends alike, including: Kenny Neal, the Michael Foster Project, Henry Turner Jr. & Flavor, Lil' Jimmy Reed, Smokehouse Porter & Miss Mamie, Louis Michot, Jonathan Boogie Long, and more. Held at Repentance Park and Galvez Plaza, downtown Baton Rouge. Free. batonrougebluesfestival.org.
VIP tickets may be purchased for $125 at the Blues Fest site, and include exclusive access all weekend, gourmet food and snacks provided, unlimited alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, and private restrooms.
For more on the Baton Rouge Blues Festival, read Ruth Laney's article on 2018 Blues Festival poster artist John Lawson, here, and learn more about the history of Baton Rouge's particular brand of Blues in John Wirt's story from our 2024 Music Issue.
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