True Blue Salute Chances are you ll be laying eyes on this installment of True Blue sometime after the last few blue notes have drifted out of Le Claire Park, rolled west for a bit and then on back south down the river towards St. Louis, Memphis and New Orleans. The officers, board and various festival committee members of the Mississippi Valley Blues Society contribute many hours throughout the year to the chores of planning and producing the annual blues mega-event. Our special thanks also go out to all of the many volunteers who work to make the festival possible and to all the sponsors for their gracious support, most notably Riverboat Development Authority and The President Riverboat Casino for making headliner Los Lobos appearance at the fest possible.
Diversity is healthy, and good music is just plain good music.
As MVBS President Karen McFarland stated in an earlier interview, This committee is open to receiving any MVBS members who want to devote at least 10 months per year of their time to evaluating potential acts for the Blues Fest lineup. Our ultimate mission is to educate even if the headliners we choose to bring in might not be the ones you would have chosen. Any way you cut it, the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival is a survivor - and let he who has never volunteered lend the first hand. Please do whatever you can to help - and, if you appreciate and enjoy the Blues, by all means do something. Chicago s Maxwell Street Earns Reprieve True Blue supports the Maxwell Street Historic Preservation Coalition s efforts to save the true blue home of the Chicago Blues from the wrecking ball, and it looks as though the powers that be in Chicago have granted a stay of execution to the crumbling district on the city s near south side.