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New Sponsor-Abita Brewing Company!

March 3, 2012

We’ve added a new sponsor for 2012 — Louisiana’s foremost craft-brewery, Abita Brewing Company!  Not only is Abita our newest sponsor, they will be offering their newest products:  Amber, Purple Haze, and Jockamo IPA — in cans.  That’s right!  Abita has moved into the canned beer market and will have their top sellers available at the Fest.

Abita’s brews will go well with the food offered at the Fest.   Any of the Abita 3 will complement Shirley Neal’s amazing chicken wings, MRTN Ventures’ crab beignets, or Voodoo BBQ…  And you KNOW that Abita and the Blues go well together — that’s been a stable partnership for years.

So come to the 2012 Fest with your ears ready to listen, your feet ready to move, and your appetite ready to savor the flavor.

Fest is More than a Day of Blues

February 22, 2012

The Fest is more than just a single day of Blues — there are three days of great music going on that weekend. On Friday the 13th, you’ll
have the great GOOD LUCK to see and hear Lil’ Band O Gold at Live After Five. Lil’ Band O Gold is the premier Swamp Pop/Blues
Supergroup, featuring such notables as SW Louisiana legend, CC Adcock, Fest 2012 artist Lil’ Buck Senegal, Swamp Pop founders Tommy McLain &
Warren Storm, and Cajun superstar, Steve Riley. Dance the night away and get your moves ready for the Fest on Saturday. This opening Live
After Five show is sponsored by the Downtown Business Association, The East Baton Rouge Parish Library and the Baton Rouge Blues Foundation.

On Sunday the 15th, the fabulous blues pianist Eden Brent will be the featured artist for Sunday in the Park. Brent is the 2010 Pinetop
Perkins Award winner and is known for her boogie style and great singing. This show is sure to get you movin’ and groovin’ and is a
great finale to a weekend of fantastic music and fun. Sunday in the Park is sponsored by the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge & 225
Magazine, in collaboration with the Baton Rouge Blues Foundation.