title: List of blues festivals in Canada
text: # List of blues festivals in Canada
  
  This is a list of blues festivals in Canada. These festivals—which celebrate Canadian blues music, and often times roots music as well—range from small, community-based festivals that feature mostly local performers, to major corporate-sponsored festivals that draw nationally and internationally-prominent blues musicians.
  
  Some of the larger festivals in Canada include the Ottawa Bluesfest, Bluesfest Windsor, the Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival in Fredericton, Tremblant International Blues Festival in Mont-Tremblant, and the Edmonton's Labatt Blues Festival. These festivals, which are usually organized by volunteer-based blues societies, are an important part of the Canadian blues scene.
  
  ## List
  
  ### British Columbia
  
  * Burnaby Blues + Roots Festival — August in Burnaby
  * Harbour Blues 'N Roots Festival (formerly Vancouver Island Blues Bash) — Labour Day weekend in Victoria
  * Hornby Island Blues Workshop — May in Hornby Island
  * Pender Harbour Blues Festival — early June in Pender Harbour
  * Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival — August in Salmon Arm, in B.C. Interior
  * Summertime Blues Festival — August in Nanaimo
  
  ### Alberta
  
  * Beaumont Blues & Roots Festival — June (previously Labour Day weekend) in Beaumont
  * Calgary International Blues Festival — summer in Calgary
     * Calgary Midwinter Bluesfest — February in Calgary
  * Edmonton Blues Festival — August in Edmonton
  
  ### Saskatchewan
  
  * Regina Blues Association’s Mid-Winter Blues Festival — in Regina
  * Saskatoon Blues Festival — end of February in Saskatchewan
  
  ### Manitoba
  
  * Great Woods Music Festival — August in Beausejour
  * Winnipeg BBQ & Blues Festival — August in Winnipeg
  
  ### Ontario
  
  * Atomic Blues Fest — in Lindsay
  * Aurora Winter Blues Festival — in Aurora
  * Barrie Jazz and Blues Festival — June (2nd weekend) in Barrie
     * The February Blues — February in Barrie
  * Bluesfest International — July in Windsor and London
  * Bluesfest Windsor — July in Windsor
  * Boon's House Blues & Roots Festival — July in Hamilton
  * Burlington Jazz & Blues Festival — July in Burlington
  * Calabogie Blues & Ribfest — August in Calabogie
  * Canal Bank Shuffle — October in Thorold
  * Capitol Centre's Bluesfest — in North Bay
  * Coal Flats Blues Festival — September in Port Burwell
  * Escarpment Blues Festival — mid-July in Milton
  * Kitchener Blues Festival — August in Kitchener
  * Limestone City Blues Festival — late August in Kingston
  * London Blues Festival — August in London
  * Mudcat Blues Fest — August in Dunnville
  * Orangeville Blues and Jazz Festival — first weekend of June in Orangeville
  * Orillia Spring Blues Festival — Orillia
  * Oshawa Jazz and Blues Festival — August in Oshawa
  * Ottawa Bluesfest — July in Ottawa
  * Paisley Blues Fest — June (1st weekend) in Paisley, Ontario
  * Porquis Blues Festival — early July in Porquis
  * Port Credit Blues and Jazz Festival (also called the "Southside Shuffle") — early September in Port Credit, Mississauga
  * Stratford Blues and Ribfest — June in Stratford
  * Thunder Bay Blues Festival — July in Thunder Bay
  * Toronto BluesFest — June in Toronto
  * Twisted Pines Blues Festival — May in the Midland/Penetanguishene area
  * Wasaga Beach Blues — September in Wasaga Beach
  * Winterfolk Blues & Roots Festival — in Toronto
  * Women in the Wilds Blues Festival — September in Atikokan, Northwestern Ontario
  
  ### Quebec
  
  * Festival de Jazz et Blues de Saguenay — April in Chicoutimi
  * West Island Blues Festival — June in Pierrefonds/Roxboro, Island of Montreal
  * Montreal International Jazz Festival (Blues Stage) — June in Montreal
  * Tremblant International Blues Festival — July in Mont-Tremblant
  * Sherblues & Folk — July in Sherbrooke
  * l'Ile en Blues — August in Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans
  * Les Nuits Blues Laurentides — August in Saint-Sauveur
  * Festival de Blues de Donnacona — August in Donnacona
  * Trois-Rivières en Blues — August in Trois-Rivières
  * Festival de Blues de Joliette — October in Joliette
  
  ### Atlantic Canada
  
  * Dutch Mason Blues Festival — August in Truro, Nova Scotia
  * Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival — September in Fredericton, New Brunswick
  * Wreckhouse International Jazz & Blues Festival — early July in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
  * Blues d'la Baie — July (3rd weekend) in Petit-Rocher, New Brunswick
  