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National Women in Blues Festival

The National Women in Blues Festival #3 is set for Fri. & Sat., Sept. 26 - 27, 2008, at the Scottish Rite Temple Theatre, Wilmington, NC, with a free Open Jam Sun.!

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Friday & Saturday, September 26/27, 2008, with a
free Open Jam Sunday at a location soon to be announced !
This year's event will be held at the Scottish Rite Temple Theatre, 1415 So. 17th Street in historic Wilmington, North Carolina. We're moving the festival indoors this year! The theatre has fixed seating. No lawnchairs or coolers allowed.

1st Video Promo for WiB 3

"I don't know, it's just something about it... a woman can always sing the blues better than a man can." Ida Goodson

HEADLINERS!! Friday: Gaye Adegbalola http://www.adegbalola.com/; Saturday: Candye Kane http://www.candyekane.com/

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The National Women in Blues (NWiB) Festival in Wilmington, North Carolina, started as an idea in the Fall of 2006. WiB events up in Oregon gave reason to think it could work in the South. Women from all around the country came to play the 1st WiB Festival. That event went so well that it stirred up passion and fire in performers and audience alike , creating the need for more. Please take a quick tour of the site and learn more about this event and our mission, the artists and visit our sponsors sites.

"Someone once said no one wants to hear a woman sing the blues but if you look at history and the charts, they could not have been further from the truth." Michele Seidman Blues Singer, WiB CBW

This year's Friday night will only include 2 acts. Our region's Grandmother, Rose of Rose and Charlie Lucas (The South Eastern NC Regions Grandparents of the Blues) will do a short set to open the festival as she has each year and will continue to do so as long as she is able.

Before you think this will be a short night...it won't! After Rose opens Gaye Adegbalola is doing a TWO PART show!!! First we will get to see her documentary on the History of Women in Blues as she narrates, and then there will be a short intermission while she and her players get ready to bring down the house with great tunes from the past and we hope several selections from her new material too! The length of the night will be nearly what it was last year.

Saturday's show will start around noon, with acts soon to be announced.

ADDED THIS YEAR FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER is the Sunday Invitational Jam (Free and Open to the Public at a 2nd location TBA). Noon until 6ish or a tad later!

This year we have an added component. WFOS has offered to come here and BROADCAST the show LIVE via cell phones

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Contact Festival Producer Michele Seidman for a Sponsorship package for the NWiB #3 in 2008. Serious inquiries only.

Email: WilmywoodMayor@aol.com (Type "Sponsor" in subject box)
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