Sad news for blues fans – this just in:
“SAN FRANCISCO (February 18, 2009) — The nation’s oldest ongoing blues festival has announced that the 2009 show has been canceled due to lack of funding. After 36 continuous years of presenting the blues by the bay, the iconic blues festival will forgo its annual September presentation this year.
“‘The combination of rising production costs and lack of sponsorship support leaves me no choice but to cancel this year’s show,’ said founder Tom Mazzolini, who has also been the show’s sole producer since the first festival in 1973. ‘I’m sad to say this, but we may well have seen the last San Francisco Blues Festival.’