Located at the Blues Ranch on the Methow River in the resort town of Winthrop, Washington, the Winthrop Rhythm & Blues Festival is a three-day event packed full of exciting national and regional entertainment for all ages.

This year’s lineup             

Friday, July 19 – Beer Garden (21 and over)

This show benefits the Cove Food Bank and other local non profits

7:30 PM           The Greyhounds

9:30 PM           Billy Joe & the Dusty 45s

11:30 PM         JP Soars Gypsy Blue Revue w/Anne Harris & Jason Ricci

Saturday, July 20

11 AM       David Jacobs-Strain+WORTH

12:30PM  JP Soars Gypsy Blue Revue w/Anne Harris & Jason Ricci

2 PM         Billy Joe & the Dusty 45s

4 PM         Ural Thomas & the Pain

6 PM         Larkin Poe

8 PM         The Proven Ones

10 PM       LOS LOBOS

11:30 PM  Beer Garden (21 and over)

Methow Juke Joint All Stars featuring Peter Dammann, Jimi Bott & Willie Campbell

Sunday, July 21

11 AM        David Jacobs-Strain+WORTH

12:30 PM  Polly O’Keary & the Rhythm Method

2 PM          Too Loose Cajun Zydeco Band

3:30 PM    Christone “Kingfish” Ingram

5:30 PM    Shemekia Copeland

7:30 PM    Too Slim & the Taildraggers

9:30 PM    Beer Garden (21 and over)

Methow Juke Joint Allstars featuring Polly O’Keary & the Rhythm Method

The Blues Ranch is the perfect setting for one of Washington’s greatest blues festivals. The Winthrop Rhythm & Blues Festival is the largest and longest running festival in the state of Washington. Over eighty thousand people have attended this event in the past twenty-nine years. Past festivals have featured such national artists as Robert Randolph & the Family Band, Johnny Winter, Royal Southern Brotherhood featuring Cyril Neville and Devon Allman, Allen Stone, The Holmes Brothers, Roy Rogers, Janiva Magness, Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, Too Slim & the Taildraggers, Jimmie Vaughan, Booker T., Commander Cody, Little Feat, Mavis Staples, Bo Diddley, JJ Cale with Christine Lakeland, Bobby Rush, Susan Tedeschi, Koko Taylor, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Tower of Power, Delbert McClinton, Elvin Bishop, Little Milton, Tommy Castro, Eric Burdon, Chubby Carrier, Charlie Musselwhite, The Blasters, Buckwheat Zydeco, James Harman and many others. The festival has rightfully become a destination event with fans traveling from all over the world to enjoy and celebrate the Blues.

There is on site camping, food and craft vendors, portable showers, and a beer garden.

DATES: July 19-21 LOCATION: The Blues Ranch, just North of Winthrop, WA.
CONTACT and TICKETS: http://winthropbluesfestival.com/tickets-2/