Venues and Festivals

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UK and Ireland

The 100 Club - official website
606 Club - live jazz and blues seven nights a week in Chelsea
Abbeyfest in South London
The Acoustic Festival of Britain - all genres, in Natwich, Cheshire
Ain't Nothin' But - Live blues in London seven nights a week
Alter States - regularly held at The Bassment Club, Chelmsford - Blues, Americana, Roots and Folk
Appleby Beer and Blues - festival in Cumbria
The B-Bar - Music bar at the Barbican, Plymouth
Barnoldswick Blues Club - the north's premier blues venue
Barrelhouse Blues Club - at The Exchange, Sturminster Newton, Dorset
Basingstoke Blues Club - great blues at the Moose Centre
Beepy’s, Lakeside, Frimley Green - top-class blues and R&B gigs
The Bell at Ash - quality blues in deepest Somerset
Bentworth Blues Afternoon 2007 - at The Star Inn, Alton, Hampshire
Bishopstock - Devon's fine annual blues festival
Bluescene - live at The Lion, Teddington
Blueszone - blues club in Barrington, Cambridgeshire
The Blue Front Blues Room in the Forest of Dean
Blues Dragon Club - leading blues venue in Cardiff
Blues Nights at the Dorchester Arts Centre and news from Dorset
Blues At The Farm in Billericay, Essex
Blues At The Fort - live blues, real ale and food, Fort Purbrook, Hampshire
Blues at The Stables - September Blues Festival in Milton Keynes
Blues at The Lock, Wallbridge, Stroud and Blueroots at The Cross, Avening
Blues of the Month Club - at the Queens Hotel in Cleethorpes
Blues on the Bay Festival - Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland
Blues On The Beach - in Newquay, Cornwall
Blues On The Farm - Pump Bottom Farm, near Chichester, Sussex
Blues West 14 - South Ken top blues venue, London
The Boarhunt Blues Club - fine venue, north of Portsmouth, Hampshire
Boaters Blues - The best in blues & roots at this beautiful riverside location in Kingston, Surrey
Borderline - all music genres in the heart of Soho, London
Bottleneck Blues Club - world class music at fine venues in Kent
Brecon Jazz Festival - Fine jazz and blues in Wales
The Brickyard - Carlisle's live music venue, real beer - real music!
The Brook and Talking Heads - Southampton venues
Brook's Blues Bar - in the Brook Green Hotel, Shepherds Bush
Bubbles - the original Cellar Club from the sixties - Ashington, Northumberland. Great local bands.
Bullfrog Blues Club - South Parade Pier, Southsea
The Bullingdon - new web site for the blues venue in Oxford
The Bunch Of Grapes, Bristol - Keeping music live at The Blues Club
Burnley Blues Festival - the blues is back in Burnley
Bushy's Big Wheel Blues Festival - Laxey, Isle Of Man: electric, roots, acoustic, eclectic!
Capital Blues Festival in Edinburgh
Cellar Bar Blues - Farnham Maltings, Farnham - blues & boogie
Cellar Bar Blues - the best of British Blues in Bracknell, Berkshire
Cheltenham International Jazz Festival
Chichester Real Ale and Jazz Festival - In its 21st year
City Blues and Acoustic Festival, Leicester - international artists, lots of great stuff including an All Dayer at the De Montfort Hall
Colne - The great British R&B festival
Crawley Blues Club - if you like the blues, this is the place to be
Crossroads Blues Club - every Thursday at the Tower of Song, Cotteridge, Birmingham
The Crown, Leyhill, Bucks
Darlington R&B Club - Live blues and rock bands
Deep Blues Club - bringing the best in blues to York
Drayman's Arms - Spalding, Lincolnshire - fine beer, excellent food, outstanding live music
Dundee Blues Bonanza -   July weekend festival - 55 acts - all free!
Eclectic Live Music - at the Cranleigh Arts Centre and Chiddingfold Music Club
The Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival - one of the country's premier events
Entertainment in Shropshire - a mass of links!
Exeter Arms, Barrowden, Rutland - top quality blues
The Famous Monday Blues at the Bullingdon, Cowley Road, Oxford
The Ferry in Glasgow - home of the Blues on the River Festival
Fizgig guide - a welcome to blues in Lincolnshire
Forest Arts - blues and more besides, New Milton in Hampshire
The Fox and Hounds, Stony Stratford - Live folk, blues & jazz
The Globe, Brentford - OK it's your round, get em in
2nd International Gloucester Blues & Heritage Festival - Hard-hitting blues
The Greys - Brighton's finest (smallest?) acoustic roots music venue
Guisborough R&B Club - official web site
Half Moon, Bishops Stortford - Blues Alive
Halifax Blues in the heart of West Yorkshire
Harvest Time - blues festival in Co. Monaghan, Ireland
HGSA Music Club - at Holmer Green, near Amersham. Blues and sports!
High Cross Inn - Broughton in Furness, Cumbria
Highs and Blues - monthly blues at Sloanes, Taunton, Somerset
Hooker's Blues Club - the only blues club in Wrexham!
Howden Live - volunteer-run, charity registered, organisation "enjoying live entertainment in the company of others"
International Guitar Festival of Great Britain
The Ironworks - music, theatre and arts venue in Oswestry on the Shropshire/North Wales border
Jagz - Ascot club/bar/restaurant, stages the best in all forms of jazz & blues
Jazz & Blues At The Park - exciting new venue in Peterborough
The Joiners, Southampton - Quality blues and roots
Keighley Blues Club - Worth Valley's original blues venue
Kirkby Blues Festival - Best live music in the Midlands
The Kite Club - A haven for blues aficionados in Blackpool
Lee Delta Blues Club - the best in blues from Cork, Eire
Lichfield Arts - live jazz and blues every Friday at Lichfield Garrick, Staffs
Lichfield Blues - at The Kings Head. Play, sing or just listen to live blues
Linton Festival - 3 day International Blues Festival in Herefordshire
London Blues Festival - gigs at the Union Chapel in November
Mama K's - Friday jam nights in Croydon
The Mariners, Frensham - best of acoustic blues
The Marine Hall - Fleetwood, home of Wyre Blues 2006
Maryport Blues Festival - ultimate blues in the Lake District
The Moon and Sixpence, Glossop - Top-flight live music
Mr Kyps - Poole's premier live music venue, all genres
The MS1 Club - Cardiff's premier full-on rock 'n' roll venue!
Mumbles Mostly Jazz And Blues - on the Gower Peninsula
The Musician - fillin' yer boots with roots in Leicester
The Nairn Blues Festival - roots and shoots of the blues in Scotland
The Naughty Rhythms Tour - A blast from the past
The New Crawdaddy Club at the Belvedere, Billericay, Essex
Northill Blues Festival - beer, food and blues, in a field, on a summer's day - in Bedfordshire
Orkney Blues Festival - Rollin' in the Isles!
Otterton Mill - a working mill with restaurant, bakery and gallery and live music throughout the year!
Oxford Blues - cornucopia of blues gigs in and around Oxford
PubRock.com - Live music in and around London
The Ranelagh Arms - Brighton's finest small blues venue
Red Lion Rocks - live music in High Wycombe
Reflex Blues Club - at the Wedgewood Rooms in Portsmouth
The Retreat - at Bocking, Essex - the best in blues
Riga Music Bar - Southend's premier live music venue
Ripley Blues - built in 1854, it has taken a while for the Town Hall to boogie but in 1999 it discovered the blues!
The Roadhouse Venue - the best little gig in Birmingham
The Robin 2 - "the Midlands best live music venue"
RocknRoots - Herefordshire's huge festival line up of old and new folk, roots, blues, ska & rock artists
Rocking The Blues - Annual blues festival in March - Tring, Herts UK
Rocking the Blues at the Limelight  - Monthly blues club in Aylesbury
Ronnie Scott's - home of the best live jazz in London - one of the world's premier jazz venues
Rory Gallagher International Tribute Festival - in Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal, June 2005
Rose and Crown, Sandhurst - real ale, real music, real food. Live jazz and blues every Saturday
Rudi's Blues Cafe - South Yorkshire's finest blues venue
The Running Horse - Nottingham's answer to the House Of Blues!
Seaxe Bar - Blues, Country and Roots regularly at The Essex Arms, Brentwood
Smokie Blues - dedicated to making Arbroath a centre of note for live blues
Spalding Blues Club - at the Red Lion Hotel
Spike's Music Bar, Mansfield Woodhouse - Live music from the heart of Sherwood Forest
Stanley Blues Festival - County Durham festival in its tenth year!
The Star Inn - Bentworth, Hampshire, home of the Bentworth Blues Afternoon
The Station Tavern - will it ever return? London's finest blues venue
Steel City Blues weekend, Sheffield, Yorkshire
Blues Night at the Stokes Bay Festival, Gosport, Hampshire
Sutton Blues Collective - monthly blues club in the West Midlands: jams, special guests
Swanage Blues Weekend
Tawe Delta Blues Club - home of the blues in Swansea, South Wales
Telford's Warehouse, Chester - Good food, good wine and fine music
Tenby Blues Festival - now in its third year and already established on the UK scene
Thurrock Music Festival
The Top Bell, Barton under Needwood - top class blues
The Torrington, North Finchley
Tower Blues - live blues in Blackpool
The Troubador - blues in Earl's Court, London
Tubby Blues Club - in Cheltenham, raising money for the renal unit of the Royal Gloucestershire Hospital
Ullapool Guitar Festival - in the north west of Scotland
Upton Blues Festival - free, in the pubs of Upton upon Severn, Worcestershire
The Wallingford Blues and Beer Festival 2002 - bringing you the best of British blues
Wilbarston - the blues/rock venue: Market Harborough/Corby
The Willoughby Arms - Norbiton, early home of Clapton and Beck!
Windlesham Live, Surrey
Worcester Park Club, Surrey
World Class Blues & Roots nights in South Devon

Not UK

Åmåls Blues Förening - the #1 blues festival in Sweden!
The Banana Peel Club in Ruiselede, Belgium
Bielefelder Blues Festival - East Westfalian blues
Biscuits and Blues - hot biscuits and cool blues in San Francisco
Bluesapalooza Festival in Covina, California
The Blue Cafe - top blues venue in Long Beach, California
Blue Chicago - Clubs and gigs in Chicago, store and gallery
Blues Blast 2000 - Escape the cold weather in Arizona - Phoenix Blues Society
Blues at Bardies - a weekend of music and fun in the foothills of the Pyrenees
Blues Sur Seine - THE blues festival in the Paris area
Boom Boom Room, John Lee Hooker's San Francisco home of blues and boogie
Bragdoya Blues Festival - Christiansand, Norway
Bubba Mac Shack - barbeque, seafood and blues in New Jersey
Buddy Guy's Legends - pride of Chicago online
Budweiser Lowcountry Blues Bash - great annual blues festival (since 1991) in Charleston, South Carolina
Cafe Boogaloo, Hermosa Beach, California
Carolina Downhome Blues Festival - excellent downhome club crawl (since 1997) in Camden, South Carolina
Castel San Pietro Blues Festival, Italy
Catalina Island Blues Festival
Cognac cité du blues - en Francais!
Darwin's, Marietta, Georgia - 'Where great blues evolves'
Dobrofest in Trnava, Slovakia
Eslöv Blues Festival - in southern Sweden less than one hour from Copenhagen
Estafette - Blues festival in Utrecht, Holland
French Quarter Festivals - showcasing New Orleans culture and heritage for 20 years
Grand Emporium - Kansas City's top live blues venue
Harelbeke - Belgian R&B festival
House Of Blues - Concerts, blues clubs and cybercasts
Inn on the Blues - On the coast of Maine at York Beach
Java Jive - Auckland, New Zealand's blues bar
King Biscuit Fest - Premier event in Helena, Arkansas
Kingston Mines - Chicago's oldest and largest blues club
Lillehammer Music - blues, rock and country festivals in Norway
Lucerne Blues Festival, Switzerland. The blues is back in town!
Maxwell Cafe - home of blues in Neuilly, France
Memphis In May - a month-long celebration highlighting the indigenous charms of Memphis!
Mojo Blues Bar, Copenhagen and the Copenhagen Blues Festival
Mystic Knights of the Mau Mau - keeping rock and roll alive in New Orleans
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival - the best, this and every year
Notodden Blues Festival, Norway
Ole Blues festival in Bergen, Norway
Open Strings international guitar festival in Osnabruck, Germany
Patersdreef Blues Festival - Tielt, Belgium
The Poretta Soul Festival, Bologna, Italy - a tribute to the memory of Otis Redding and more..
Roots 'n' River blues festival 2001, Rovaniemi, Finland
Roque's Blues Hall - Natchitoches, Louisiana - the best juke joint/blues bar in the South
Sarasota Blues Festival
Schleswig-Holstein Blues Festival 2001, Northern Germany
Southside Shuffle - on the banks of Lake Ontario, Canada
Tampa Bay Blues Fest - Florida 2000
The 'Thanks Jimi' Festival in Wroclaw, Poland, plus an attempt on the Largest Guitar Orchestra world record!
Tipitina's is THE New Orleans music venue
Vic's Kangaroo Cafe - A taste of Down Under in New Orleans?
White Mountain Jazz and Blues Festival - North Conway, New Hampshire
The Zoo Bar, Lincoln, Nebraska - Everybody's rockin'

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