8th Annual Oxford Blues Fest Is Coming Up

The Oxford Blues Festival is just days away and we’ve got the full schedule from Friday to Sunday for you to plan out every last minute of your blues-filled weekend. You don’t want to miss out on the classic sounds of R.L. Boyce Band, Hill Country Stomp, and the big headliner Cedric Burnside Project. Saturday at the Grove stage you also have the chance to be drawn as the winner of the guitar raffle.

Check out the full schedule below and head to the Oxford Blues Festival Website for more details.

Friday, July 14

Tallahatchie Gourmet

BEN WILEY PAYTON

“THE GREAT” EFFIE BURT (6–10 pm)

Saturday, July 15 (Free)

J.D. Williams Library in the Blues Archive

Free Blues Panel Discussion with BEVERLY “GUITAR” WATKINS, one of the greatest blues guitarist of all time (11 am–noon)

Discover the interesting artifact in the Ole Miss Blues Archives with GREG JOHNSON (12:15–1 pm)

Grove Stage

HILL COUNTRY STOMP (1:15–2:30 pm)

SEVEN MILE MUSHROOM (2:45–4 pm)

R.L. BOYCE BAND (4:15–5:30 pm)

THE KING BEES (5:45–6:05 pm)

BEVERLY “GUITAR” WATKINS & THE KING BEES (6:05–6:55 pm)

Guitar Raffle (7:15 pm)

CEDRIC BURNSIDE PROJECT (7:30–8:45 pm)

Sunday, July 16 (Admission Charged)

Gospel Brunch with A FAMILY AFFAIR GOSPEL SINGERS at The Mesquite Chop House (11 am–1 pm)

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Brittain Thompson Brittain was an associate editor of The Local Voice from 2015-2018, ex-journalism student, and bad noise maker from the highway town of Brandon, Mississippi.