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The Illinois Blues Coalition supports Blues Societies, Blues Music Entertainers, and Blues Music Education by offering grants and scholarships to help fund projects which preserve and promote the history and future of blues music. The objective of the Illinois Blues Coalition is to promote the art form of blues-related music by performance, by interpretation, by preservation, and by enhancement of appreciation through knowledge and education.
Jay Goldberg Events & Entertainment presents the 26th anniversary of the Illinois Blues Festival on the Peoria RiverFront Festival Park in Peoria, IL from 6pm-12midnight on 8/29/14, and 1pm-12midnight on 8/30/14. The Illinois Blues Festival features two days of internationally known Blues artists and is produced with proceeds going to the Illinois Blues Coalition.
Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the gate for a Friday only one-day ticket, $20 in advance or $25 at the gate for a Saturday only one-day ticket, or $35 in advance or $40 at the gate for a Two-Day Festival Ticket.
Advance tickets are available at Co-op Records (in Pekin or East Peoria) or Emack & Bolio's Ice Cream (on the Riverfront Peoria & Peoria Heights), or by calling 1-800-514-etix (3849).
To order tickets online and for full details of the festival, visit http://illinoisbluesfestival.com.
Three stages of entertainment, two sun-sational days of blues that you can sho 'nuff use; this is the Blues event that did it and got away with it, the 26th Annual Illinois Blues Festival along Peoria's Riverfront happens on Labor Day Weekend! Don't miss it!
