Win this handcrafted cigar box guitar and give back to the local community! One lucky audience member will walk away with this highly collectable instrument made by Young Customs. We ask for a $1 donation per ticket and all proceeds will go to Beyond Violence Women’s Shelter in Berwick. Tickets will be on sale Friday and Saturday and the winner will be drawn right before Moreland and Arbuckle perform Saturday night. This guitar is one of a kind and valued at $450 and can be yours with just a $1 donation.
Here’s a throwback- this is the flyer from the 1998 Briggs Farm Blues Fest-our first year in the running when we were “soon to be famous”. Big Jack Johnson headlined that year for a one-day festival. (click to enlarge).
New this year!
To commemorate 15 years of the blues, we will be offering the first ever Briggs Farm Blues Fest souvenir program complimentary to the first 3,000 guests coming through the gates on Friday and Saturday. This full-color collectable will feature a history of the festival and the long lineage of the great bands that have graced the Briggs Farm stage over the past 15 years. The centerpiece will be dedicated to this year’s fantastic lineup and will be perfect for getting signatures from your favorite artists at the festival. We’ve been having a lot of fun putting this together and looking at old photos from past years! Make sure you get here before they run out! And don’t forget you only have one month left to purchase your early discount tickets!
Big Back Johnson back stage at the 1998 Briggs Farm Blues Festival- 15 years ago
Rory Block will be returning for a long-overdue performance at Godfrey Daniels in Bethlehem PA, Saturday, April 7, at 8:00 pm. Blues Revue has called Rory “one of the greatest living acoustic blues artists… she can hold her own with legends who inspired her” and is a five-time winner of the WC Handy Blues Music Awards and up for another this year! Go out to Godfrey Daniels to get a taste of what’s coming to Briggs Farm this year!
“My son and his buddies all ages 23 – 25 will be with us for the fest. This will be there 4th year at the fest and it gets better every year, according to what they all can recall at the end of the weekend Last year was my husband and I’s first year to be blessed with the Briggs Fest. My son and his buddies kept telling us how great it was and asking us to join them. We didn’t know what to expect being that we are in the older age group (47-54 or so). We said heck ya lets go, and we also invited a couple of our friends as well. We pulled in and said holy**** this is awesome. We set up camp and smiled the whole time we were there. People and the entertainment were great!! Food was awesome; staff was very helpful as well. Anyhow to make a long story short, we had a BLAST!!! So this year we have booked the weekend for camping and we are gonna wear our tie dye for sure!! My son and his friends are flying home from Colorado for the fest as well as his birthday, which we celebrate at the fest. So as I know it today, there is at least 20 of us from Danville / Colorado planning on attending this awesome weekend!! Maybe more, not sure. We recently bought all camping gear from e-bay and plan on doing it right. See you at the fest !!!!!!”
Hang out by the Back Porch stage this year and help support our initiative to bring younger musicians to the stage. Help us develop a new audience of young blues fans and support these young, local musicians: Rare Form, Symphonic Haze, and Jesse Loewy. Check our lineup page and view all the band bios!
We now have our Friday headliner! Eddy “The Chief” Clearwater, a versatile, flamboyant Chicago blues rocker, will take the Main Stage at 9:45pm. Read more…
And warming up the stage at 8pm is Linsey Alexander, whose music has been influenced by his southern roots. Read more…
Be sure to order your tickets now for our 2012 Festival! More announcements to come soon!
Don’t forget to check out our You Tube contest and cast your vote for your favorite video from our 2011 festival!
Also, we are on Twitter!! To follow us, click the Twitter link on the right.
Briggs Farm Blues Festival is happy to announce that our Friday lineup is complete!
Getting things started Friday night is Chris Beard, who calls his guitar style “aggressive”. Beard was the winner of the 1999 Muddy Waters New Blues Artist Award and the nominee of the W.C. Handy Best New Blues Artist in 1998. Read more…
Great news for fans of Alexis P. Suter. She’s back! The Alexis P. Suter Band will take the Main Stage on Friday at 6:15pm. Read more…
The legendary Sam Lay will be giving our audience an intimate and rare performance on the Back Porch Stage. This blues icon has received many honors including inductions into The Blues Hall of Fame, Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, and the Jazz Hall of Fame. Lay has also played alongside some of the most famous musicians in blues history including Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, and Bob Dylan. Read more…
Briggs Farm will be celebrating the legacy of the Butterfield Blues Band! Our blues festival is the first in a series of shows celebrating the music of Paul Butterfield.
The line up includes Paul’s son Gabriel Butterfield, the bands original drummer the legendary Sam Lay, Steve Guyger on blues harp, and Jimmy Vivino from the Cohnan O’Brien Show.
Gabriel will also be filming a segment of his documentary right here at Briggs Farm! Read more…
"I had the best time ever! I will never miss another blues fest at the Briggs Farm. To all the musicians you were all AMAZING. I would call it listening to the GOOD STUFF. It doesnt get any better than the Briggs Farm Bules Festival. Met so many cool people and to Richard and your family Thank you Thank you Than you! See you next year and the years to follow. If you had it twice a year I would go to everyone. Loved it! See ya next year!"- from Facebook fan Sandy Smith
Win this handcrafted cigar box guitar and give back to the local community! One lucky audience member will walk away with this highly collectable instrument made by Young Customs. We ask for a $1 donation per ticket and all proceeds will go to Beyond Violence Women’s Shelter in Berwick. Tickets will be on sale Friday and Saturday and the winner will be drawn right before Moreland and Arbuckle perform Saturday night. This guitar is one of a kind and valued at $450 and can be yours with just a $1 donation.
Last year was my husband and I’s first year to be blessed with the Briggs Fest. My son and his buddies kept telling us how great it was and asking us to join them. We didn’t know what to expect being that we are in the older age group (47-54 or so). We said heck ya lets go, and we also invited a couple of our friends as well. We pulled in and said holy**** this is awesome. We set up camp and smiled the whole time we were there. People and the entertainment were great!! Food was awesome; staff was very helpful as well. Anyhow to make a long story short, we had a BLAST!!! So this year we have booked the weekend for camping and we are gonna wear our tie dye for sure!! My son and his friends are flying home from Colorado for the fest as well as his birthday, which we celebrate at the fest. So as I know it today, there is at least 20 of us from Danville / Colorado planning on attending this awesome weekend!! Maybe more, not sure. We recently bought all camping gear from e-bay and plan on doing it right. See you at the fest 
