I’ve personally been having trouble keeping up with everything going on surrounding the Deep Blues Fest, so I’m sure plenty of you have, too. Some of the out-of-town artists are already in town and playing free “cameo” gigs around town to hype the event.

The action today (Monday) includes Little Rock’s Bluesboy JAG and Finland’s Black River Bluesman at Big V’s in St. Paul from 7-9 p.m., and Bluesboy JAG will also be at the Minneapolis Eagles Club about 8 p.m. On Tuesday, the Kirk Special One-Man Band plays Tatters Clothing in Uptown at 7 p.m., while Italy’s Dirty Trainload and New Mexico’s C. W. Ayon perform at Eclipse Records in St. Paul starting at 7 p.m. All those acts and more will be on Harold’s House Party on KFAI from 3-6 p.m. on Wednesday, after which they head to the 331 Club for the official festival kickoff. Yeah, this is only the start! It goes through Sunday. Click here for the rest of the lineup.

This entry was posted on Monday, July 13th, 2009 at 3:10 pm and is filed under Local, Main. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.