We didn't really plan out to put up the Internet's leading blues music festival resource site. In fact, that was the furthest thing from my right. We just wanted to figure out which blues musicians were coming to our neck of the woods. That's pretty much the extent of our interest in anything related to blues music festivals. Well, fast forward a couple of years and we now have festiblues.com. This website really is a work of love because there is no other website like it.

For the life of us, we still can't understand why people have not put together a great compilation of all the blues music festivals found throughout the United States. It's not like there is a shortage of stable music festival. In fact, they happen all the time whether it is sponsored in coordination with a jazz festival like the Playboy Jazz or it is coordinated by the House of Blues chain of restaurants and bars.

The truth of the matter is there's not enough attention paid to blues music festivals as well as itinerant musicians. Maybe this has something to do with the fact that a lot of people are under the impression that the Blues are somehow some way dying.

Well, there are no signs of that. That's just an impression. But if you are going to measure the health of this musical form in terms of how many people play it at festivals and how many people are learning it, it looks as healthy as ever. Maybe this has something to do more with the perceived commercial value of blues music.

But even if we were to look at the situation from this perspective it still doesn't hold water. Why? All sorts of blues music compilations are selling like hotcakes on the Internet.

In fact, when it comes to making the transition to digital downloads, it can be said that blues music made the transition easily. It's as if it didn't break a sweat. It didn't suffer all that much. I mean just like with every other musical genre, it did go through a downturn.

Nobody's denying that. But in the big scheme of things compared to other musical forms, blues music actually made the transition to a purely digital download environment or a purely digital streaming format relatively smoothly. So it’s probably not that. Regardless we can't quite put our finger on it but there seems to be an impression that blues music somehow someway is dying.

That this is a less popular form of music. I don't know what would explain such a thinking but you can see it. The most obvious evidence for this, of course, is the fact that there are almost no other websites out there listing out blues music festivals.

Again these new music festivals take place all over the country. In fact, they are organized pretty much every year and in many parts of our nation that local blues music festival is actually the biggest musical attraction for the calendar year. Think about that for a second. So there seems to be quite a disconnect between some sort of official promotion and acknowledgment of the National blues music scene and the actual music circuit and its fans on the other end.

Whatever the case may be, this website seeks to provide a valuable service to American blues fans everywhere by listing out these events. Hopefully, we'll see you at one of these concerts and festivals.