2024 buddy brown blues Festival
Perigot Park, Blue Lake
$15 General/$12 HFS Members/ $5 Kids
Saturday August 10th
11a Back Seat Drivers
12:15p Buddy Reed
1:30p The Bluetones
2:45p Lost Dogs
4:00p Uptown Kings
5:15p Jenni & David and The Sweet Soul Band
2023 Buddy Brown Blues Festival
Humboldt Folklife Society invites the public to the 21st Annual Buddy Brown Blues Festival, on Saturday, August 19, 2023, from 11-6p at Perigot Park in Blue Lake. The blues festival features all local bands and there will be a BBQ food truck! Get tix HERE!
Lineup:
11a Oryan Peterson-Jones
12:15p Willow and the BlueTones
1:30p Anna Hamilton Trio
2:45p Buddy Reed
4:00p Jenni & David and the Sweet Soul Band
5:15p Blu Axis
Would you like to volunteer for our annual Buddy Brown Blues Festival? We need help putting on this event. Things like set-up, info booth, and clean up. This is your chance to see some great music FREE all while helping your community put on these fab events. We encourage you to sign up!
2022 Buddy Brown Blues Festival
Humboldt Folklife Society invites the public to the 20th Annual Buddy Brown
Blues Festival, on Saturday, August 6, 2022, Perigot Park, Blue Lake, CA. The blues festival features all local bands, and is the only fundraiser that the Folklife Society puts on annually. The festival was cancelled the last two years due to Covid restrictions.
Gates open at 10:30 A.M. and six acts perform hourly from 11 A.M. until 6:30 P.M. Tickets are $15 general public, $12 for Folklife Society members, $5 for children 12 and under, and can be purchased at the gate, or go to buddybrown.brownpapertickets.com
Festival scheduled performances feature the best of area acoustic and electric blues acts:
Back Seat Drivers, 11:00 A.M.
Mojo Rockers, 12:15 P.M.
Buddy Reed & the Rip It Ups, 1:30 P.M.
Jim Lahman Band, 2:45 P.M.
The Uptown Kings, 4:00 P.M.
Black Sage Runners, 5:15 P.M.
Festival organizers are looking for volunteers. For 4 hours of volunteering, volunteers will receive two complementary tickets, a beverage ticket, a Buddy Brown Blues T-shirt, and Folklife Society steel cup. Interested community members should e-mail humfolklife@gmail.com.
Festival sponsors are Green Diamond Resource Company, Six Rivers Optical, Pierson’s, and Lost Coast Communications. There will be local beer and wine and good food available, and the Blue Lake weather is generally sunnier than the coast.
The Buddy Brown Blue Fest began in 2001as the Blue Lake Blues Festival, and was renamed in memory of Richard Duggins (better known as Buddy Brown), who opened the festival its first year and passed away shortly after. .For over 40 years, the Humboldt Folklife Society has existed to teach, celebrate, and encourage participation in folk and traditional arts.