Labor Day Weekend: The Bothell Blues Festival
March 7, 2016 In Uncategorized


Labor Day Weekend: The Bothell Blues Festival

Stay local! Labor Day weekend is crazy no matter where you go. Try heading to Seattle.. good luck finding a parking spot and fighting the crowds. Bumbershoot pulls in thousands of people and clogs the arteries of Seattle for the entire weekend. For those of us in Bothell, Mill Creek, Kenmore, Kirkland, Woodinville and Lynnwood, we have a better plan: Stay Local, Eat Local, Listen Local, Drink Local and Connect Local!

The Bothell Blues Festival was created to help connect people here in Bothell with great food, music and entertainment. When we spend our dollars locally, they pretty much stay local. So why not support the Bothell Community this year. There a ton of reasons:

  1. The Bands. Do we have bands! The Wired Band and the Chester Dennis Jones Band are both coming back and WOW did they both kill it last year! People are still talking about Chester in the beer garden, jumping from table to table while playing a guitar solo… AWESOME! And Wired, please these guys took the INTERNATIONAL BLUES CHALLENGE on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee last year and wow do they put on a show. In addition, we were able get the Stacy Jones Band who is one of the hottest blues bands here in Seattle. We are stoked. Really stoked about this year’s line-up!
  2. The Food. We have Carolina Smoke BBQ in the house again this year. They will bring shredded beef sandwiches, hot wings, hot links, pulled pork. YUM! We also have invited the Village Bean sandwich shop which has some other alternatives to BBQ in case (for some crazy reason) someone doesn’t want bbq.  Great sandwiches and other goodies.
  3. The Beer. This year we have invited Foggy Noggin Brewrey to provide the beer for the event. Foggy Noggin is an award winning local BOTHELL brewery that makes some killer beer. My words, these guys are going to go big sometime soon!
  4. The Wine. Open Road Winery has graciously accepted our request to provide the wine for the Bothell Blues Festival. Open Road is a local, family owned and operated BOTHELL winery that specializes in high end wines that are completely off the hook.
  5. Location. There is something about having a blues festival at the Country Village. It just seems to fit the music perfectly. The Country Village’s laid back, country style outdoor shopping center is a great back drop for a day of great music and food. Don’t forget: You concert bracelets get you great discounts at selected shops so feel free to wander the village and shop in between bands.