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The 8th Annual Bonita Blues Festival will be held on -
March 14th and March 15th, 2014 at Riverside Park in Bonita Springs ...

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SW Florida Blues Society

SW Florida Blues Society

Hey Blues fans there is a new source for keeping updated on local live blues music. The Southwest Florida Blues Society has been formed it is a non-profit corporation dedicated to local music.

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2013 Poster

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Thank You!!

Thank You Blues Fans

The Bonita Blues Charitable Foundation would like to thank all of the sponsors, committee members, volunteers and festival attendees that helped the 2013 Bonita Blues Festival be the most successful Festival of our short 7 year existence. We had record attendance and we were able to give away the most money to our charities to date.

$21,000 Raised

Over the past 7 years we have given away $76,000 dollars with last years total being the highest single year donation at $21,000 to our three charities. The Bonita Springs Assistance Office, The Music for Minors Program, and The Golisano Children's Hospital Music Therapy program each received $7000 dollars.

Next Year

We look forward to the 2014 Bonita Blues Festival which will be March 14th and 15th so please save the date and please join us again and lets see if we can raise the bar on our charitable donations and we can't do it without you!! We will be announcing our line up shortly so stay tuned.

Thank you again and keep it Bluzy,
Kevin Barry, Jennifer Barry and Len Eckert
Bonita Blues Charitable Foundation

 
2013 Check Presentation

Wednesday June 12th,
5-7pm

We wanted to invite you all to come out to our charity check presentation.

We really appreciate all that you do for the Festival. Without you, the Bonita Blues Festival would not be able to give so much back to our local charities.

Thanks and we hope to see you there!

IIWII Beach Bar & Grille

13510 Tamiami Trail N.
Naples Florida 34110
(239) 325-8108
 

2014 Festival Fast Facts

imageWhen
Friday March 14th,
Saturday, March 15th

imageTime
Friday, ~ 2pm-9:15pm
Sat., ~ 11:30am-9:30pm

imageWhere
Riverside Park - Bonita
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2013 - Friday Line Up

Certified Band
2:00pm - 2:45pm
Big Buck & the Biscuit Boys
3:15pm - 4:00pm
Reba Russell Band
4:30pm - 5:45pm
Southern Hospitality
6:15pm - 7:30pm
Jimmy Thackery
8:15pm - 9:45pm

2013 - Saturday Line Up

Cracker Blues Band
11:30am - 12:15pm
Deb & the Dynamics
12:45pm - 1:30pm
The Juice
2:00pm - 2:45pm
Skyla Burrell
3:15pm - 4:15pm
Biscuit Miller & the Mix
4:45pm - 6:00pm
Lil Ronnie & the Grand Dukes
6:30pm - 7:45pm
Lil’ Ed and the Blues Imperials
8:15pm - 9:30pm

Blues Festival Accommodations

A special thanks goes out to the Hampton Inn Bonita Springs/Naples-North for all their help and their generous donation of rooms for the artists. The Hampton Inn is located at 27900 Crown Lake Boulevard, Bonita Springs, FL, 34135 Tel: (239) 947-9393, for rates and availability.

holiday Inn ExpressAlso, special thanks to Holiday Inn Express of Bonita Springs, for also donating rooms for the bands for the Festival this year.  Located at 27891 Crown Lake Blvd., Bonita Springs, FL 34134, discounted rooms can be booked here at a rate of $99 per night. That's an even better rate than last year! Reservations can be made by calling 239-948-0699 and asking for the "Bonita Blues Rate."

Contact Us

Address: P.O. Box 367385,
Bonita Springs, FL 34136
Email us:[email protected]

2012 Press Clippings

The reviews are coming in and they're all grrreat. But you knew they would be. First hers's one from:

Blues Blast Magazine

Even though our Michigan winter was pretty mild by most standards, I was ready for some sun and warmer temps. So my wife and I set out for the land of orange juice and snow birds. The Bonita Blues Festival is not a huge festival by any stretch and that’s exactly what we were looking for. The one thing that really impresses me is that the festival is run by a non-profit and all funds (after expenses) are donated to various local charities. The Bonita Springs Charitable Foundation is host and organizer and this year’s profits were going to Music for Minors, the Wounded Warrior Project, The Bonita Springs Assistance Office and new for this year is the Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida Music Therapy. I mean how cool is it when the foundation putting on the festival starts their own blues society, the Southwest Florida Blues Society. Very cool! I think its called dedication to the blues.

"... If your suffering for the winter blues and want to go where the breeze is warm, the people friendly and the music great…….this is the place...."

For more of the review and some cool photos (scroooollll down)