It’s a good time to give Good Morning Gloucester the news on our headliner for the Gloucester Blues Festival taking place in Stage Fort Park on Saturday, August 11th.
Shemekia Copeland is at the top of her game, and will thrill the blues lovers at Stage Fort Park this August. She performed earlier this week at the White House for President Barack Obama and shared the stage with blues luminaries like Buddy Guy, B.B. King, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Jeff Beck, Keb Mo, Warren Haynes and Trombone Shorty.
On Monday night at 9:00 p.m., PBS will be broadcasting the show: “In Performance at the White House Red, White and Blues”. I urge our friends to tune in and get a small sampling of the powerful voice of Shemekia Copeland, the Queen of the Blues.
The Gloucester Blues Festival is a Paul Benjamin/Bob Hastings Production. Paul Benjamin is the producer of the North Atlantic Blues Festival in Rockland, Maine which attracts 16,000 people to the Maine waterfront each July:
We promise to bring the finest in blues to Gloucester this summer. We will be releasing the names of other performers in the weeks ahead.
Gloucester Blues Festival Headliner
Saturday, August 11th, 2012 – 11:00 to 7:00
On the beach – Stage Fort Park, Gloucester, MA
The Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce is the primary sponsor of the Gloucester Blues Festival
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Joanne
Paul F. Frontiero Jr.
Joey C
Marty Luster
David B. Cox
Ed Collard
E.J.
Sharon
Vickie & Peter
Kim Smith
Fr Matthew Green
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Paul Morrison & RD
Manuel F. Simoes
S.D. Kelly
Thom Falzarano
When KoKo Taylor died 3 years ago the new Queen of the Blues was crowned…I can’t believe that we are that lucky to have her here…unbelieveable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WooHoo…
This will be The Event of the summer for the city …I can’t wait!! A Blues Fest at Stage Fort Park..really..WooHoo indeed!!
This is going to be an AWESOME event….. I have been to many Blues Fests and this will just be the beginning…. people will come from ALL over….. I love living in Gloucester….. I can’t wait!!!
OMG heard about this possibly coming to Gloucester, when I was at the white Mountain Boogie and Blues Festival in NH soooo glad to hear it has come to GLOUCESTER !!!! Just the begining of GREAT things to come the calander is marked !!!!
I have many friends how are Blues fans. They are all saying that they want to see Keb Mo in Gloucester!
Hooray!! Imagine living on Cape Ann and thinking I cannot go away this weekend because……
St. Peter’s Fiesta, 4th of July, Schooner Fest, Craft Fair, CycloCross, Road Races, Main St. Block Parties, Sidewalk Sale, Blackburn Rowing Challenge, (bring back Ironman) on & on..Add Essex and Rockport Events, Manchester Arts Festival… Now Gloucester Blues Festival!!! Several of these events are of true National Interest. Congrats to those intimately involved. And guess what. I bet there are more events on the horizon. To the Hospitality segments, GET READY NOW!