Garvin Gate Blues Festival, Oct. 12, Moves to Central Park for 2024

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Jul 31

Louisville’s largest free street music festival, Garvin Gate Blues Festival, returns for its 29th annual festival on Saturday, Oct. 12, noon-10 p.m. Due to MSD roadwork on Oak Street, this year's festival will take place in Central Park in the heart of Old Louisville. Central Park will offer expanded space for the expected crowds, as well as better viewing for attendees.

The 29th annual festival will feature 8 national and local blues artists, including headlining artists and bands Cameron Webb’s Soul and Blues Revue, GA-20, and Louisville's own Tanita Gaines. Gaines will perform her new debut record ‘Tanita Gaines and the Gospel Blues Rescue’ featuring Gaines and a host of the city’s best blues players.

The full lineup and schedule will be released on a later date.

In addition to a full day of blues music, Garvin Gate Blues Festival will feature more than 20 vendors, local food trucks, and children's activities.

Proceeds benefit the Garvin Gate and Old Louisville neighborhoods and A Recipe to End Hunger, a charitable cookbook started by WAVE-3 television personality, Dawne Gee. Proceeds help schools raise the funds needed to feed every child in need. Garvin Gate Blues Festival will be sponsored by Facility Management Services (FMS), Buzzard's Roost Bourbon, Mercurio’s Lounge, and Restobar.

For more information, visit garvingatebluesfestival.com or follow on Facebook and Twitter.

About Garvin Gate Blues Festival

The Garvin Gate Blues Festival began in 1988 in the Rudyard Kipling parking lot as a blues jam in Old Louisville that quickly outgrew the parking lot. At that time the Garvin Place Association was expanding its boundaries to become the Garvin Place Neighborhood Association and offered to host the growing event. Some of the legendary blues musicians that have performed at the Garvin Gate Blues Festival throughout the years include Bob Margolin-Muddy Waters’ guitar player and Big Bill Morganfield, Muddy’s son, Billy Flynn’s Chicago Blues Party featuring Elmo James, Jr. and Milwaukee Slim, Lil’ Ed and the Blues Imperials, Nora Jean Wallace, Grady Champion, Karen Lovely, Sugar Blue, Lurrie Bell and Eddy Clearwater. Proceeds benefit The Garvin Gate Neighborhood Association and the Old Louisville neighborhood.