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 ===
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
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