News from the Maryport Festival Here’s the latest Maryport newsletter pasted below Booker T, Paul Carrack, Canned Heat, Mica Paris complete line-up The festival programme is complete and we have another superb line-up for you. One of Britain’s most enduringly successful singer, songwriter musicians, Paul Carrack, and former frontman of Ace, Squeeze and Mike & [...]

Maryport Blues Festival 23-25 July 2010 The Maryport committee continue to confirm headliners and festival trail acts. See the website for full details. http://www.maryportblues.com/

Legendary Grammy Award winning blues guitarist Robert Cray to play Maryport Maryport Blues Festival is proud to announce that the Robert Cray Band will headline the main marquee stage on Sunday 25th July.

APRIL 10th – Telford’s Warehouse, Chester, UK (Jon Amor Band) 11th – The Wave, Maryport, UK (Jon Amor Band) TBC

Nov 3 Newcastle-under-Lyme Nov 13 Buxton SOLO Nov 15 Carlisle Nov 20 Warrington Nov 22 Maryport

The legendary Eric Burdon will headline Sunday July 26th at the Maryport Blues Festival, performing with  The Animals. Eric replaces Taj Mahal, who was forced to cancel his European tour, including the Maryport date, for personal reasons. Eric Burdon’s scorchingly powerful blues-rock voice was the hallmark of Sixties group The Animals. Best known for their [...]

The Maryport full line up has been announced.  Please see the press release as pasted below. MARYPORT  FULL LINE-UP We are delighted to announce the full festival line-up. As usual we have tried to include all blues genres performed by established artists we all know and love plus the new and up and coming. We [...]

Follow the link to read more.  http://bit.ly/PVhbi MARYPORT Blues Festival is to be broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in what organisers have called a breakthrough in national recognition. A two-hour special will be featured on the Paul Jones R&B Show on August Bank Holiday Monday. Festival spokeswoman Eleanor Carr said it was a coup for [...]

Tickets are on sale, on line from Ticketline, from The Carnegie Theatre, Workington or our Festival Office in Maryport. For the first time the Festival Office can accept credit cards. Also, we are delighted to announce that we have been able to hold the ticket prices at last year’s level. Check the website for details [...]

MARYPORT BLUES FESTIVAL www.maryportblues.com Friday July 24th to Sunday July 26th 2008 Music Legends Mayall, Mahal & Tull to headline the 11th Maryport Blues Festival The 11th Maryport Blues Festival will be co-headlined by three legendary artists: John Mayall, the godfather of British blues; Taj Mahal, one of the most prominent figures in late 20th [...]

New York City based bluesman Jake Walker will be in the bluesinthenorthwest.com region this autumn.  At the moment Jake has three gigs confirmed for our area, I’ll keep you updated when more are added. Oct 31 2008  - Barrow R&B Club @ The King’s Arms,  Barrow in Furness Nov 1 2008 – Bounty Inn  Maryport, [...]

Sunday 17th August – Crosscut Saw Free 5-7pm – Fletcher Christian Tavern, 55 Main Street, Cockermouth CA13 9JS Tel. 01900 825856 Award winning blues band; get along to hear something special Crosscut Saw are an established, three piece, award winning blues band from Leeds. In addition to their own authentically crafted material, Crosscut Saw pay [...]

Ace scottish photographer Paul Webster has uploaded some of his pics from Maryport.  Go to his Flickr site to see them. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigoax-blues/sets/72157606508499653/ Great work Paul.

A great day yesterday.  Great atmosphere, great music, great food and great weather.  The highlight for me was Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen Band.  They were absolutely incredible, one of the best bands that I have ever seen. Photos are starting to trickle into Flickr.  Here’s one from marra121. http://www.flickr.com/photos/7568142@N06/2705689047/ Unfortunately I cannot [...]

MARYPORT BLUES FESTIVAL www.maryportblues.com Friday July 25th to Sunday July 27th 2008 WORKSHOPS  AT MARYPORT BLUES FESTIVAL This year, there will be drumming workshops run by the great British drummer Sam Kelly, who was British Blues Connection Drummer of the Year for five consecutive years and guitar workshops run by Robin Bibi  one of the [...]

I’m only going for the Saturday so this does not really affect me. MARYPORT BLUES FESTIVAL www.maryportblues.com Friday July 25th to Sunday July 27th 2008 Alvin Youngblood Hart’s Muscle Theory will perform at the Maryport Blues Festival on Friday July 25th, supporting Chuck Berry and replacing the previously billed Shemekia Copeland. Internationally, Alvin is a [...]