arts The blues are back Annual Blues Fest returns to Marquette’s lower harbor Story by Pam Christensen
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he Marquette Area Blues Society is looking forward to hosting its 17th Marquette Blues Festival 2021, to be held at Marquette’s Ellwood Mattson Lower Harbor Park Labor Day Weekend, September 3-5. The first Blues Fest was held in 2004 at Marquette Mountain. In the subsequent years, the festival has grown to become one of the premier music events in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The festival features an amazing array of world-class Blues musicians, a variety of food vendors, beer and wine tent, free workshops, a large dance floor and vendors selling arts and crafts and Blues-related merchandise. A Welcome Back to the Blues concert will be held on Friday night. This event is free to the public as a thank you to the community and a way to introduce the audience to the Blues. Saturday and Sunday events are ticketed. Tickets can be ordered via the
Top and above, Ivy Ford and James Arms will perform at this year’s Blues Fest. Right, John Primer performs at a previous Blues Fest. The annual event is returning to Marquette’s lower harbor this September. (John Primer photo courtesy of Tom Daniel)
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Marquette Monthly
September 2021
