Festival Guide: Long Beach Blues Festival, Long Beach, CA
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Date: August 30-31, 2008, $45-$85
For the 29th consecutive year, the popular two-day blues event takes over Long Beach, hosted for the first time on the tree-lined lawns of Rainbow Lagoon Park. This established annual fundraiser for the area's publicly supported KKJZ radio station will showcase the best of the blues with Chuck Berry , Booker T. Jones and John Mayall , among others.
Lineup (subject to change):
- Chuck Berry
- Booker T. Jones
- John Mayall
- Pinetop Perkins
- Dirty Dozen Brass Band
- Charlie Musselwhite
- Joe Louis Walker
- Roy Rogers
- Ana Popovic
- Roy Young
Long Beach Blues Fest website
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Chuck Berry tickets at Ticketmaster
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