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. = 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 = 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 = Regina Blues Association’s Mid-Winter Blues Festival — in Regina Saskatoon Blues Festival — end of February in Saskatchewan = Great Woods Music Festival — August in Beausejour Winnipeg BBQ & Blues Festival — August in Winnipeg = 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 = 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 = 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