Pressroom - July Releases
Acoustic Blues Takes Port Townsend by Storm

MEDIA CONTACT:
Keven Elliff
Director of Marketing
CENTRUM
Fort Worden State Park
PO Box 1158
Port Townsend, WA 98368
t: 360-385-3102 X103 f: 360-385-2470
www.centrum.org

ACOUSTIC BLUES TAKES PORT TOWNSEND BY STORM Largest Acoustic Blues Festival West of Mississippi Port Townsend Blues & Heritage Festival: August 5 & 6

PORT TOWNSEND, WA- Detroit blues legend Uncle Jessie White, Chicago stars Carey and Lurrie Bell, Mississippi's Terry "Harmonica" Bean and dozens more of the most interesting players in blues music are set to turn the Victorian seaport and arts community of Port Townsend into a western blues outpost August 5 & 6 during Centrum's Port Townsend Blues & Heritage Festival. The largest gathering of its kind west of the Mississippi, the Festival is led by artistic director Phil Wiggins, and features mainstage concerts at Fort Worden State Park, as well as blues in historic Port Townsend club venues.

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