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Tinner Hill Blues Festival

Tinner Hill Blues Festival! All Blues, All Weekend, All Over Town.

Blues music all over town all weekend, special events and activities.  A full day of live music at Cherry Hill Park, admission only $10 for general seating.  Beginning the week prior to the festival a original theatrical production, Tinner Hill; Portraits in Black and White will be performed at Creative Cauldron and throughout the blues festival, catch the blues bus at the park and head over to the play.  The production is based on the true early civil rights history of Falls Church woven together with original live blues music! On Friday at the State Theatre, Down Home Blues, Saturday morning with Early Bird Blues at the farmers market.  A panel discussion on the History of Women in the Blues in the Big Red Tent.  Beginning at noon at Cherry Hill Park "Ladies Singing the Blues", with four of the finest diva's in the business, Deanna Bogart, Nadine Rae, Patty Reese & Gaye Adegbalola (founder of Saffire, Uppity Blues Women)  Also featuring Tom Principato, Curtis Blues, Jr. Bynum & the Groove Masters & the Pluckerland Band with Paul Cleague.  Plus food, vendors, the Big Red Tent with free kid and family activities, Choo Choo Charlie with Harmonica workshops, make your own instruments, Mary Riley Styles, Book reading "One Shoe Blues" and puppet workshop.  Plus films, fun and more, more, more!! Ends on Sunday with a Blues Brunch, Jam and Tribute at Bangkok Blues.  Local businesses participate all weekend, stop and get some BB King Catfish Fingers at Dogwood Tavern, or hear live blues at Clair and Don's beach shack. . or enjoy a beer created and named after Tinner Hill at the Mad Fox Brewery, pick up a kids blues book at Doodlehoppers.  There are many other options to keep you busy and happy with music all weekend. 

The Little City rocks all weekend.

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