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George Tyrogalas
Editing by:
Ken Kingsbury
2008 Poster:
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The longest ongoing blues bonanza in the nation. |
| San Francisco Examiner – 2007 |
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... imaginative bookings and awesome views. |
| USA Today – 2007 |
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Where the blues still live. |
| -U.S. News and World Report |
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... the West Coast's greatest blues bash... |
| -San Francisco Chronicle - 2007 |
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There are very few options available to express your anxieties, and the blues (Fest) is one. |
| -Men's Book - 2007 |
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... an event that respects the music's past while keeping one ear open to the latest... |
| -San Jose Mercury News - 2007 |
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... singing the blues... overlooking the San Francisco Bay... |
| -New York Times - 2007 |
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... as beautiful a concert site as there is on
this earth. |
| -Marin Independent Journal |
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... a blues mecca... |
| -Rolling Stone |
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One of the most popular
outdoor
concerts... |
| -New York Times |
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... one of the country's
premier
music festivals... |
| -S.F.Chronicle |
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... one of the best sites
in America to see music... |
| -Blues Access Magazine |
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... nirvana by the Golden
Gate ... |
| -Bieler Tagblatt - Switzerland |
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This internationally
recognized
festival has a knack for mixing
headliners with regional acts and acoustic roots players true to the
delta
sound. |
| -Downbeat Magazine |
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... the San Francisco Blues
Festival ... is a celebration of both
the enduring popularity of indigenous American music and the spirit of
the
independent
music industry. |
| -Cashbox Magazine |
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Nearly 20,000 fans ...
baked in
the
midday sunshine ... |
| -San Diego Evening Tribune |
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... San Francisco Blues
Festival
breaks
all the rules. |
| -Sacramento Bee |
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... one of the music events
of
the year. |
| -Oakland Tribune |
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Forget Woodstock...the...San Francisco Blues Festival...has become a
gathering of the tribes for dedicated worshippers of the true faith...
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| -San Francisco Examiner Magazine |
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...if you haven't been to the San Francisco Blues Festival, then get
yourself to the Bay Area. It's a blues town.
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| -Southland Blues Magazine |
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... one of the best blues
events in the world. |
| -Blues Review Magazine |
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The San Francisco Blues
Festival
has been a showcase of the best
in blues music for over a quarter of a century.
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| -Where Magazine |
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...the music stretched out
like a road map across
the United States. |
| -Valley Times |
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This town sure knows how to
put
on a blues festival...the San Francisco
Blues Festival...was just about as close to paradise as mortal blues fans
want
to get. |
| -San Jose Mercury News |
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The San Francisco Blues
Festival is such an organized festival...and
what a location to enjoy the blues, with San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate
Bridge as a backdrop. |
| -Blues Notes, Portland, Oregon |
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Whatever your preference
when it
comes to blues -- Mississippi Delta,
Chicago Electric, Memphis R&B, Gospel Roots -- you'll get your fill at
the San
Francisco Blues Festival. |
| -S.F. Bay Guardian |
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This is one of the premier
festivals. It's very well-run. It's a
gorgeous location. People talk about it everywhere I go, all over the
world. |
| -John Hammond, quoted in the Contra Costa Times. |
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With palm trees, green
grass, a
view of the Golden Gate Bridge
and a stage full of musical talent, you had to go some to have the blues
... it
was a party of the first order. |
| -S.F. Examiner |
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...a dream weekend... |
| -Alameda Times Star |
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There are blues festivals and
there are blues festivals. This is
one of the grandest (and grandaddiest) of them all...
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| -Stockton Record | |
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An outstanding festival at a beautiful location in one of America's
great cities.
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| -Blues Access Magazine | |
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September never slips away before becoming gritty and hot, sultry and
steamy, with two days of serious blues.
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| -San Francisco Magazine | |
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Each year in September, blues lovers descend on San Francisco for a
joyful, spirited party in honor of a kind of music that is derived from
a sorrowful place. The blues, that wonderful, heartfelt, uniquely
American genre of music, has a home in this city and is welcomed with
open arms during the annual San Francisco Blues Festival.
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