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Hello festival-goers,Festival Preview has recently gone through a major site upgrade and will now be posting festival news for all genres on the new beta version of FestivalPreview.com. The R&B section of the new site can be found here. Come sign up at the new site and join in on the fun!Jessica BailiffPublishing AssociateFestival Preview

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In association with the Beale Street Merchants' Association, the Beale Street Development Corporation and the Memphis Convention & Visitors' Bureau, the Jus' Blues Music Foundation will host the Jus' Blues Music Awards Week in downtown Memphis.The event runs from August 6th through August 9th, and features the Beale Street Blues Crawl and the Big Chitlin' Cook-Off and Blues Fest. Other parts

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The Renegade Reggae Festival takes place at the Truckee Ampitheater on July 26th, with doors at 4:00 and music starting at 4:30. Featuring such artists as Prezident Brown, Mystic Roots, Pato Banton, Salvador Santana and Del Castillo, the festival should be quite a feast of enjoyable vibes.Tickets for the festival are $25 in advance, simple as that. Fore more info and to buy tickets, go to the

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Contrary to what most of you are probably thinking with regards to the 1000+ wildfires that have been ravaging the forests and inland region of California, the California Worldfest, which takes place in the Sierra Foothills is still on.Festival organizers confirmed that the festival will go on as planned on July 17th through the 20th at the Grass Valley Fairgrounds, and attributed the festival's

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The gates will open for the Mohawk Valley Blues Festival at noon on August 22 at the Herkimer County Fairgrounds in Utica, IN. A longtime fundraiser for various causes including aid for Hurricane Katrina victims and the Humane Society, the festival this year will donate some of its proceeds to Operation Sunshine, a coalition of various local branches of organizations such as the Salvation Army,

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The Northwest World Reggae Festival will go down on the 8th, 9th and 10th of August in Marcola, OR, returning to Bob Russell's Ranch. The festival, whose organizers cannot stress the "no dogs" rule enough, features headliners Midnite, NOMO and Macka B, with supports Queen Omega, Warrior King and Fareed Haque.Besides the mainstage live performances, there will be Dancehall Dome in operation

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The Budweiser Reggae Summer Fest will start at 1 pm on September 7 in Washington D.C.'s RFK Stadium and will run through 10 pm. Headliners include Beres Hammond & the Harmony House Singers, Kymani Marley, I-Wayne, Turbulance and many more.In between live sets, tunes will be spun by selektors Half Krazy, Amplex with Glamour G and DJ Chick and Rasta Punch/Teacha from local radio station

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The Tremblant Internaitonal Blues Festival, held at the Mont-Tremblant Resort in Quebec, is off and running today. The festival really gets going tommorrow, with Johnny Winter headlining, and then just takes off from there.On Monday, the festival will hold an acoustic mini-festival of sorts, the Acoustic Summit, which will feature Ryan Leblanc, Steve Marriner, Hot Toddy, Dawn Tyler & Paul

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The 19th annual BBQ & Blues is set to kick off at 1:00 p.m. on July 12 at the Gold Country Fairgrounds in Auburn, CA. Headliners of the festival are Koko Taylor and her Blues Machine, as well as Coco Montoya and Cole Fonseca and the Rattlers. Besides the awesome lineup, the festival has another thing going for it-- it helps fund the Placer County SPCA, which in turn helps homeless companion

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The Mississippi Valley Blues Society has decided to move the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival from its former LeClaire Park location to downtown Davenport, IA. Because of its being right on the banks of the Mississippi River, the Park has been deemed too dangerous a venue to hold the festival in the midst of the massive flooding that has gripped Iowa in recent weeks.The festival, which brings an

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By Dan RubyContinuing its busy summer of producing new, expanded and reprogrammed festivals, Festival Network announced plans for a more ambitious but still single-day Martha's Vineyard Festival on August 10. Unlike last year when the program was a Boston Pops concert with special guests, this year supplements a Pops program featuring Gladys Knight with individual performances by The Neville

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Announcement by Future of Music CoaltionOn Thursday, July 17, an important piece of hip-hop history gets its due. Future of Music Coalition is teaming up with the Pitchfork Music Festival to host a discussion about Public Enemy's seminal album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. The free event – which features members of PE's production team and music media experts – will take place

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Photo Credit: Monterey Bay ReggaefestThough the lineup is TBA, the Monterey Bay Reggaefest's 13th annual edition is shaping up to be as excellent as all that came before. Peripheral enjoyments include a 3-on-3 basketball tournament, beer garden and an entire Rastafarian Arts & Culture Museum onsite. The festival's also ideal for bringing the kids, as there will be an "fun zone" including face

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The Bear Creek Blues Festival will run through its 5th edition in Slater, Missouri on June 28th, according to the festival's official website. Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials are the main headliners, with other outfits including Lew Jetton & 61 South, Doghouse Daddies, Mr. Fletcher & Scott McCullough.One relative bonus of Bear Creek over most blues festivals is that free camping will be

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Ringmaster Delbert McClinton will once again assemble some of the best in reggae, zydeco, blues, southern rock and Americana for his 15th Sandy Beaches Cruise, set to push off from San Diego on January 17, 2009. Clinton's boat of choice, Holland America's luxurious ms Oosterdam, will take fans on an eight-day journey, stopping at the scenic and (indeed) very sandy beaches of Zihuatanejo and

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The 22nd annual Long Beach Bayou Festival has been set to run from June 21st to 22nd at Rainbow Lagoon Park in Long Beach, CA. Festival programming puts a heavy emphasis on zydeco this year, including a couple Grammy nominees within that element's ranks, while maintaining a sizeable helping of blues performances to complement the zydeco sets during the two days.One of the Grammy nom's, accordion

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The dates and lineup for the Northwest Reggae Festival's 2008 edition have been released by the festival's organizers. Headliners include The Mighty Diamonds, Macka B and Sister Carol. Other notables include Midnite, Katchafire and Queen Omega.Organizers have also announced that the festival has moved to a new site, located 20 miles north of Eugene, Oregon and providing camping adjacent to the

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The Midwest Reggaefest has announced its line-up and dates for its 17th year. The festival is to be held at Nelson Ledges Quarry Park in Garrettsville, Ohio from August 8 through the 10th. 2008 will be the second year at the Nelson Ledges venue Billed as "3 days of roots reggae, camping, swimming, nature and more," the event will be headlined by Beres Hammond, Midnite and Culture, with Yellowman,

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The New York hip-hop radio station Hot 97 has just compiled a remarkable list of videos by main stage performers, amateur MCs battling it out and a montage of the most beautiful people seen at Summer Jam 2008. Numbering 9 in total, the official videos can be seen here.

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The initial list of performers for this year's Russian River Blues Festival, set to take place on Johnson's Beach in Guerneville, CA on June 13th and 14th, has been announced. As always, there are some deviations from what the "blues" part of the title may lead one to expect as far as the festival's programming goes, but it only leads to some nice surprises. Case in point: Los Lonely Boys and Dan

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Those upstarts down at UCLA have managed to pull together the likes of The Roots, the Doors' John Densmore, Stephen Marley, and Capleton, among others, for their 22nd edition of the JazzReggaeFest. The student-run festival will use biodiesel to power its mainstage, among other aspects of a general green initiative that will pervade the festival this year, which may unfortunately explain the fact

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                                                         Photo Credit: Manchester Evening NewsThe first annual Antigua and Barbuda Romantic Rhythms Festival is set to get off to a pretty darn good start, what with the kinds of people they have on the lineup the first year. A diverse lineup includes Lionel Riche, Kenny Rodgers and Shaggy, among others, and the event will be held in a $60 million

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                                                           Photo Credit: Guy Peters ReviewsOk. This festival is indeed held at Carnegie Hall (except for one performance, a free street dance which takes place at another venue called The Terrace), but the Carnegie Hall in Lewisburg VA. Running from June 26th to June 28th, the lineup as announced features its share of heavyweights, such as Herbert

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The folks at Omega Events have just announced the complete lineup for the 11th annual Doheny Blues Festival, set to take place on May 17th and 18th at Doheny State Park in Dana Point, California. Saturday, the 17th will be headlined by former guitar prodigy, current funk virtuoso Johnny Lang and the venerable Bonnie Raitt will headline the 18th. Other notables include the Robert Cray Band and

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                                  Photo Credit: Urban Music (Word Press)The country's foremost mainstream hip-hop festival has announced its lineup and put tickets on sale. SummerJam, which has packed 60,000 people into Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. every year since 2003 and is put on by New York radio station Hot 97, has in store what seems to me to be two can't-miss sets. The first is

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