List of blues festivals in Canada

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Canadian blues festivals range from small, community-based festivals that feature mostly local performers to major corporate-sponsored festivals that draw nationally and internationally prominent blues bands and huge crowds. Some of the large festivals include the Ottawa Bluesfest, Bluesfest Windsor, the Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Tremblant International Blues Festival in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec and the Edmonton's Labatt Blues Festival. These festivals, which are usually organized by volunteer-based blues societies, are an important part of the Canadian blues scene.

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British Columbia[]

Matt Andersen entertaining the Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival

• Burnaby Blues + Roots Festival - August in Burnaby^[1]
• Hornby Island Blues Workshop - May in Hornby Island
• Pender Harbour Blues Festival - early June in Pender Harbour
• Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival - August in Salmon Arm, in British Columbia's interior
• Summertime Blues Festival - August in Nanaimo
• Vancouver Island Blues Bash - Labour Day Weekend in Victoria, British Columbia

Alberta[]

• Beaumont Blues & Roots Festival - June (previously Labour Day long weekend) in Beaumont
• Calgary International Blues Festival - August
• Calgary Midwinter Bluesfest - February
• Edmonton's Labatt Blues Festival - August in Edmonton

Saskatchewan[]

• Saskatoon Blues Festival - End of February in Saskatchewan

Manitoba[]

• Great Woods Music Festival - August in Beausejour, Manitoba

Ontario[]

• Atomic Blues Fest - Lindsay
• Barrie Jazz and Blues Festival - second weekend in June in Barrie
• Bluesfest International - July in Windsor and London
• Boon's House Blues & Roots Festival - July in Hamilton
• Burlington Jazz & Blues Festival - July in Burlington
• Calabogie Blues & Ribfest - August in Calabogie
• Canal Bank Shuffle - October in Thorold
• Coal Flats Blues Festival - September in Port Burwell
• Escarpment Blues Festival - mid-July in Milton
• Georgetown - Festival on Main - Father's Day Weekend, third weekend in June in Georgetown
• House Full of Blues Festival - North Bay
• Kitchener Blues Festival - August in Kitchener
• Limestone City Blues Festival - late August in Kingston
• London Blues Festival - August in London, Ontario
• Mudcat Blues Fest - August in Dunnville
• Orangeville Blues and Jazz Festival - first weekend of June in Orangeville
• Orillia Spring Blues Festival - Orillia
• Oshawa Jazz and Blues Festival - August in Oshawa
• Ottawa Bluesfest - July in Ottawa
• Paisley Blues Fest, first weekend of june in Paisley, Ontario
• Porquis Blues Festival - early July in Porquis
• Port Credit Blues and Jazz Festival (also called the "Southside Shuffle") - early September in Port Credit, Mississauga
• Stratford Blues and Ribfest - June in Stratford
• Thunder Bay Blues Festival - July in Thunder Bay
• Twisted Pines Blues Festival - May in the Midland/Penetanguishene area
• Wasaga Beach Blues - September 13–15, 2013, at Stonebridge Town Centre in Wasaga Beach
• Women in the Wilds Blues Festival - September in Atikokan, Northwestern Ontario
• Bluesfest Windsor - July 10–12, 2015 in Windsor, Ontario

Quebec[]

• Festival de Jazz et Blues de Saguenay - April in Chicoutimi
• West Island Blues Festival - June in Pierrefonds/Roxboro, Island of Montreal
• Montreal International Jazz Festival - June in Montreal (Blues Stage)
• Tremblant International Blues Festival - July in Mont-Tremblant
• Sherblues & Folk - July in Sherbrooke
• l'Ile en Blues - August in Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans
• Les Nuits Blues Laurentides - August in Saint-Sauveur
• Festival de Blues de Donnacona - August in Donnacona
• Trois-Rivières en Blues - August in Trois-Rivières
• Festival de Blues de Joliette - October in Joliette

East coast[]

• Dutch Mason Blues Festival - August in Truro, Nova Scotia^[2]
• Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival - September in Fredericton, New Brunswick
• Wreckhouse International Jazz & Blues Festival - early July in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador^[3]

Blues d'la Baie Petit Rocher, Nouveau Brunswick 3rd weekend of July. www.bluesdlabaie.com

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