
It’s time to start marking your calendars and saving your change because Deep Blues Festival ’09 is happening and the dates have been set. Here is the info from the Deep Blues Official Site:
The dates will be Wednesday July 15th through Sunday July 19th. The festival will be in Minneapolis MN. The Wednesday show will be at the 331 Club and the rest of the festival will be at the Cabooze..
After some email exchanges with festival organizer, Chris, I got further clarification on how the days are breaking down:
Weds – KFAI radio in studio appearance by one or two bands and a free show at the 331 Club in Minneapolis that evening.
Thursday – A private indoor party at the Cabooze for all the festival bands and the advance sponsor ticket buyers. We’ll have six bands perform; three chosen by the festival bands and three by the fans.
Friday and Saturday – Indoor and outdoor multistage fest.
Sunday – Gospel brunch. I’m thinking this will be a chance for festival bands to mix it up a bit. This is likely to be free and open to the public.
So there you go. One day shorter than last year and in a bar environment instead of in a field. All of this is great news, not to mention that’s it’s actually in Minneapolis this year. Nothing but good news. Fuck SxSW, Fuck PitchforkFest, Fuck ACL…this is the festival for the people.
I’ll be there with the wife. Anyone else planning on making the trip?
Here is a song from ninebullets.net faves, Left Lane Cruiser. I chose this song cause it’s written about the Deep Blues Festival founder and organizer, Chris Johnson.
Left Lane Cruiser – Mr. Johnson
As a side note: If you add The Deep Blues Festival to your myspace friends list they’re currently sending out bulletins with possible DBF’09 bands and soliciting your opinion.