The 16th Annual Pleasure Island Chamber of Commerce Seafood, Blues & Jazz Festival | Oct. 10 – 11th, 2009

The
Pleasure Island Chamber of Commerce will once again hold their world
famous Seafood, Blues and Jazz Festival on Saturday and Sunday, October
10th and 11th at the Fort Fisher Military Recreation Area in Kure
Beach, NC. This world famous two-day Festival, in its 16th year,
features two sound stages where National and International Musicians
will play the best in American Blues, Jazz and World music. Guests will
also enjoy great seafood, and regional fine artists, designers, jewel
smiths & craftsmen displaying their goods. There will also be a
“Kidz Fantasy Zone” for children to play.

Headlining the
Festival this year is quintessential Texas blues rocker Delbert
McClinton. McClinton has known few genre boundaries during his more
than five decade-spanning career with threads of country, rock, pop
soul, folk and jazz abounding. One of his notable credits is the
creation of the harmonica riff lead on Bruce Channel’s 1962 #1 hit
“Hey! Baby, ” recorded in his native Ft. Worth. The riff provided the
inspiration for the similar one heard on the Beatles’ “Love Me Do, ” as
played by John Lennon under the tutelage of Delbert McClinton.