23rd Annual Carolina Blues Festival | Sat. May 9th, 2009

YES!
Weekly presents the 23rd Annual Carolina Blues Festival, Saturday, May
9th at Festival Park, next to the Cultural Arts Center in downtown
Greensboro. This event, the longest-running blues festival in the
Southeast, is produced by the Piedmont Blues Preservation Society and
is the anchor event for the 6th Annual EMFjazz&blues (formerly the
Piedmont Jazz & Blues Festival). Gates open at 1:00 pm and the
blues will begin at 2:00 pm.

The PBPS and YES! Weekly are
proud to announce Cyril Neville, of the legendary New Orleans
funk/blues group The Neville Brothers, as the headliner for the 23rd
Annual Carolina Blues Festival. Joining Neville will be Big Chief Monk
Boudreaux, bringing a generous dose of Mardi Gras showmanship to the
stage.

This year’s bill also includes one of the
fastest-rising stars of the blues world, Diunna Greenleaf, who will
perform with her band, Blue Mercy, alongside blues legend and Triad
resident Steady Rollin’ Bob Margolin.

One of the most
powerfully enduring blues quartets, The Nighthawks, returns to the
Festival stage this May. Triangle-based keyboard wizard and soulful
vocalist Adrian Duke will make his first Festival appearance.

Finally,
the two winners of the annual PBPS Blues Challenge will perform; The
Landon Spradlin Blues Band (electric band contest winners) and
Greensboro’s Bump & Logie (acoustic solo/duo contest winners).
Learn more about all of these artists on our Schedule/Bios web page.

Once
again this year, The Music Academy of North Carolina will operate the
Kids Area at the Carolina Blues Festival in partnership with the PBPS.
The Academy will bring exciting enhancements including demonstrations
of Early Childhood Music programs and the very popular instrument
petting zoo to the Kids Area. Popular activities such as face painting
and arts & crafts will continue. Information about the MANC and its
programs/faculty will be available, and faculty and staff will be on
site to answer questions.

A huge thank you to our presenting
sponsor YES! Weekly. Big thanks to Rock 92, WNAA 90.1 FM, Smith Stokes
Chrysler Dodge Jeep Chevrolet, Miller Brewing Company, The Bank of Oak
Ridge, Stonefield Cellars Winery, The Grateful Bread, and ALPZ
Printing.

Check out www.piedmontblues.org for more information on this event, or call (336) 275-4944.

EMFjazz&blues
is a collaborative effort coordinated by the Eastern Music Festival,
featuring concerts and events celebrating the diversity of the arts in
Greensboro. For more information about EMF or its programs, please
visit www.easternmusicfestival.org, or call toll-free: 1-877-833-6753.
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Greensboro Area Convention & Visitors Bureau is a non-profit,
independent, governmental authority whose mission is the promotion of
economic development through travel and tourism. Guilford County ranks
third in the state in travel and tourism expenditures with $1.083
billion generated in 2007 with over 13, 000 people employed in
travel-related jobs.