Sunday, July 13, 2008

North Atlantic Blues Festival 2008

T's brother founded the North Atlantic Blues Festival fifteen years ago. It's his passion. I am amazed at the breadth of this enterprise, the gumption it took to get it going, and the focus to keep it running year after year. It's a gift to thousands of people who love the blues.


Sugar Blue is a harmonica player who just doesn't quit. His playing fills you up completely with his fabulous spirit and sound and you hate it when he is through.

Ruthie Foster: What can I say? T says the show was hers, the whole show. He is already plotting where he can next listen to her live. She transports you to a world filled with nothing but soul.

The setting is perfect and this year the weather was too. The stage abuts the Atlantic Ocean with yachts in the background. Yip, that's T grinning in the foreground. Being family, we get to sit with the musicians under the tent while watching them gab and relax.

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