FESTIVAL FAQ'S
What? A fabulous weekend of authentic, live, true blues music
Who? Programme available here
Where? Nambour Showgrounds >> Google Map
When? The second weekend in September each year
Times? Friday 6pm-12mn, Saturday 9am-12mn, Sunday 9am-5pm
How Much? only $70 for W/E Pass, including onsite camping! Members $60!
Day Passes: Friday $20; Saturday $35; Sunday $20
Camping: $10 per person per night.
Tickets will be available at the gate. Info on pre-purchased tickets coming soon.

If you would like to volunteer at the festival (and earn your entry) please fill in the volunteer application form.

Performer applications have closed for the 2009 festival. Applications for 2010 will be accepted from October '09 and will close April '10.

STALLHOLDERS: Arts and Crafts stallholders (preferably in keeping with our policy of promoting and supporting the arts on the Sunshine Coast) are encouraged to contact us for details about having a stall at the Sunshine Coast Blues Festival.

FINE ARTISTS: will once again be invited to exhibit works in any media on a 'Blues' theme at Artsun's Sunshine Coast Blues Festival. Check sunshinecoastblues.info for forthcoming details.

RENT PARTY
Rent Parties are fundraisers for the Sunshine Coast Blues Festival. They are called after the practice, particularly in depression times, of blues musicians gathering fellow musicians and hosting a party, charging people to come in and literally raising money to pay their rent. We're looking to pay our rent too! Our rent parties are always good fun and great music - the bands are doing it for love - and it shows! Whether you want to kick back and cruise or get down and dirty on the dance floor - even If you don't know anything about blues - come along to a rent party and you'll be hooked. And we like to look after our members, so they get a discount.:) Thank you to:

*BLIND LEMON* *MAMA VOODOO* *TRIPLE SHOT* & *JIMI BEAVIS and the 385s*

so much for making the Coolum Blues Rent Party happen. It was a great gig and you all were magnificent. Despite there being 3 major events on as well as ours plus a few smaller ones I heard about, you pulled a good crowd for us and everyone was rapt in the music. People were saying to me "Hey Al, how did you do this? these guys are great!". I just said "That's the blues community, we all get to know each other, you just call 'em up and if they're available they always help each other out". It's a good feeling being associated with you all and it's great getting together.
Al Hensley, Music Coordinator

BLUES CLUBS
Artsun host two regular Blues Clubs on the Sunshine Coast - one at the Royal George Hotel in Nambour on the first Thursday of every month. The second is in the Noosa area, on the third Wednesday of each month at the Noosa Yacht and Rowing Club, Gympie Terrace, Noosaville. Find more details at http://www.myspace.com/sunshinecoastbluesclub

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