Phoenixville Blues Festival
Saturday, September 11, 2010
2:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
at Reeves Park, Phoenixville, PA
The Steel City Blues Society presents the Phoenixville Blues Festival. All proceeds benefit the “Give the Gift of Music Foundation,” a non-profit organization to assist underprivileged children in Phoenixville have access to music lessons and after school programs.
Artists include: Ben Arnold, Beaucoup Blue, HotLanta, Paul Michaels and The Blues Recruits, The Porkroll Project, Sister Blue, and Slim Bob and the New Electrics.
For more information: http://pvilleblues.org/about-the-festival
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Wow....this was the best event ever. Congratulations to the organizers, performers and the weather maker. An outstanding day enjoyed by a whole slew of people. I say we should do it again next week.
You beat me to it, Anonymous 10:46 p.m.!
We enjoyed the entire program and every single band gave a top-notch performance!
Kudos to the organizers of the Blues Festival. My family and I are hoping it becomes an annual event!
a great day in Phoenixville, it started out with a lite crowd, by the evening it was Packed. The best band was the kids. "A churning urn of burning funk" good work guys, Can't wait for #2 next year
Blues Festival Draws Thouands
By LEANN PETTIT
PHOENIXVILLE — Jim and Linda DiGuiseppe were hoping for a modest turn out.
3,000 people later, the first Phoenixville Blues Fest was a huge success.
"Everything having to do with size, we underestimated," said Jim. The food vendors were running out of food, there were line for the bathrooms, they ran out of t-shirts and posters, but everyone present at the event, even the bands, had a wonderful time.
Jim and Linda began thinking about the festival in November 2009. They planned on having a fun day with friends in Reeves Park with a blues band, a picnic, just something small.
Then some really dedicated people started to get involved and the small blues gathering became the Steel City Blues Society and the group decided that if they were going to host a blues festival, they were going to do it right.
So they looked into starting a charity to help underprivileged children learn top play music.
That's when the Society learned Erin Reilly, president of Rock and Roll After School had already started Give the Gift of Music Foundation for that exact reason.
So the two groups worked together, The Steel City Blues Society hosted the festival and would donate the money to Give the Gift of Music Foundation.
The Steel City Blues Society wanted to bring good, established blues bands to Phoenixville. But they also invited A Churning Urn of Burning Funk, a Rock and Roll After School band to open the show.
Before the final band came on, A Churning Urn of Burning Funk was brought back on for an encore performance, in front of nearly 3,000 people.
The entire seven hour event, held Saturday, Sept. 11 in Reeves Park, was free to the community.
To raise money, they had a Taste of Phoenixville basket raffle as well as a Martin Guitar was raffled off.
They also held a pre-party the night before at PJ Ryans in Phoenixville with Slim Bob and the New Electrics playing. They sold 150 tickets to the pre-party and brought in an additional $4,000.
In total, the Steel City Blues Society expects to donated approximately $12,000 to the Give the Gift of Music Foundation.
Jim and Linda said they plan to hold another Blues Festival the Saturday after Labor Day.
In the mean time, they may host some smaller bands and some used instrument drives for Give the Gift of Music.
"We're proud to support what their mission is," said Linda.
http://www.phoenixvillenews.com/articles/2010/09/18/news/srv0000009411611.txt
Blues Festival Draws Thouands
By LEANN PETTIT
PHOENIXVILLE — Jim and Linda DiGuiseppe were hoping for a modest turn out.
3,000 people later, the first Phoenixville Blues Fest was a huge success.
"Everything having to do with size, we underestimated," said Jim. The food vendors were running out of food, there were line for the bathrooms, they ran out of t-shirts and posters, but everyone present at the event, even the bands, had a wonderful time.
Jim and Linda began thinking about the festival in November 2009. They planned on having a fun day with friends in Reeves Park with a blues band, a picnic, just something small.
Then some really dedicated people started to get involved and the small blues gathering became the Steel City Blues Society and the group decided that if they were going to host a blues festival, they were going to do it right.
So they looked into starting a charity to help underprivileged children learn top play music.
That's when the Society learned Erin Reilly, president of Rock and Roll After School had already started Give the Gift of Music Foundation for that exact reason.
So the two groups worked together, The Steel City Blues Society hosted the festival and would donate the money to Give the Gift of Music Foundation.
The Steel City Blues Society wanted to bring good, established blues bands to Phoenixville. But they also invited A Churning Urn of Burning Funk, a Rock and Roll After School band to open the show.
Before the final band came on, A Churning Urn of Burning Funk was brought back on for an encore performance, in front of nearly 3,000 people.
The entire seven hour event, held Saturday, Sept. 11 in Reeves Park, was free to the community.
To raise money, they had a Taste of Phoenixville basket raffle as well as a Martin Guitar was raffled off.
They also held a pre-party the night before at PJ Ryans in Phoenixville with Slim Bob and the New Electrics playing. They sold 150 tickets to the pre-party and brought in an additional $4,000.
In total, the Steel City Blues Society expects to donated approximately $12,000 to the Give the Gift of Music Foundation.
Jim and Linda said they plan to hold another Blues Festival the Saturday after Labor Day.
In the mean time, they may host some smaller bands and some used instrument drives for Give the Gift of Music.
"We're proud to support what their mission is," said Linda.
http://www.phoenixvillenews.com/articles/2010/09/18/news/srv0000009411611.txt
Blues Festival Draws Thouands
By LEANN PETTIT
PHOENIXVILLE — Jim and Linda DiGuiseppe were hoping for a modest turn out.
3,000 people later, the first Phoenixville Blues Fest was a huge success.
"Everything having to do with size, we underestimated," said Jim. The food vendors were running out of food, there were line for the bathrooms, they ran out of t-shirts and posters, but everyone present at the event, even the bands, had a wonderful time.
Jim and Linda began thinking about the festival in November 2009. They planned on having a fun day with friends in Reeves Park with a blues band, a picnic, just something small.
Then some really dedicated people started to get involved and the small blues gathering became the Steel City Blues Society and the group decided that if they were going to host a blues festival, they were going to do it right.
So they looked into starting a charity to help underprivileged children learn top play music.
That's when the Society learned Erin Reilly, president of Rock and Roll After School had already started Give the Gift of Music Foundation for that exact reason.
So the two groups worked together, The Steel City Blues Society hosted the festival and would donate the money to Give the Gift of Music Foundation.
The Steel City Blues Society wanted to bring good, established blues bands to Phoenixville. But they also invited A Churning Urn of Burning Funk, a Rock and Roll After School band to open the show.
Before the final band came on, A Churning Urn of Burning Funk was brought back on for an encore performance, in front of nearly 3,000 people.
The entire seven hour event, held Saturday, Sept. 11 in Reeves Park, was free to the community.
To raise money, they had a Taste of Phoenixville basket raffle as well as a Martin Guitar was raffled off.
They also held a pre-party the night before at PJ Ryans in Phoenixville with Slim Bob and the New Electrics playing. They sold 150 tickets to the pre-party and brought in an additional $4,000.
In total, the Steel City Blues Society expects to donated approximately $12,000 to the Give the Gift of Music Foundation.
Jim and Linda said they plan to hold another Blues Festival the Saturday after Labor Day.
In the mean time, they may host some smaller bands and some used instrument drives for Give the Gift of Music.
"We're proud to support what their mission is," said Linda.
http://www.phoenixvillenews.com/articles/2010/09/18/news/srv0000009411611.txt
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