I was last to be considered for the free tickets to the Elkhart Annual Island of Blues Festival that we received from a local shrink wrap vendor that happened to be sponsoring the event pretty largely. No one else was interested or available. I lucked out. When I heard what the tickets were for I immediately thought of my parents. My dad loves the blues and my mom loves festivals.
This is going to be brief but since there is so little information about the festival online I thought I would highlight the main points.
The music started at 4pm. There was a thirty minute break between each band. It was roughly 8 hours of music.
They had four food vendors two fair food regulars, a BBQ place and Coldstone. Prices were fair, but selection was duplicated between the places.
Beer and Wine were available for $3.00 a drink. They had an elaborate system of tickets where for 20 bucks you get 7 tickets. One ticket buys a drink. The secret is that you also buy the $6.00 light up pint glass that holds twice as much as the
The bathrooms were on a trailer. They were the best festival bathrooms I’ve ever seen with fully functioning plumbing and fully enclosed not to mention air conditioned facilities. I was blown away.
The island is small and the crowd wasn’t very big. It was generally nice. I had a good time, even though I’d been up since two thirty am and was crashing hard by the fourth act.
The fourth act sounded more country than blues and we bailed. The heat was miserable and when we got to my parents house to get our car the rain just downpoured. We had left in just the right time.
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