Fast Facts

• Largest festival west of the Mississippi.
• Second largest blues festival in the nation.
• Every month an estimated 240,000 people eat meals from an emergency food box. Of those, 36 percent are children.
• For every dollar you donate, Oregon Food Bank can move five pounds of food through its food distribution system.
• Annually attracts more than 100,000 blues fans from throughout the world.
• More the 125 performances on five stages.
• Winner of the prestigious 2000 Keeping the Blues Alive Award from the national Blues Foundation.
• Winner of the Ovation Awards as Oregon's Best Festival, Civic Celebration or Community Event.