Piazza Blues Festival

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The Piazza Blues Festival is a music festival that takes place every July in the Swiss city ​​of Bellinzona in the canton of Ticino .

The three-day open - air concert event is dedicated exclusively to the blues and includes various concerts with, among others, well-known international musicians. Piazza Blues first took place in 1989 on the initiative of blues lovers and developed into a major European blues festival. The event has around 30,000 visitors annually. In 2010 the festival received the Keeping the Blues Alive Award from the Blues Foundation (Category: International).

Over the years, the Piazza Blues Festival has featured most of the world's most famous blues musicians including Luther Allison , Chuck Berry , Joe Bonamassa , RL Burnside , Popa Chubby , Guy Davis , Bo Diddley , David Honeyboy Edwards , Marla Glen , Corey Harris , BB King , Bettye LaVette , Little Willie Littlefield , Robert Lockwood Junior , Little Milton , Gary Moore , Sam Myers , Lucky Peterson , Louisiana Red , Otis Rush , Ike Turner , Willy DeVille , Joe Louis Walker , Geno Washington , Buddy Guy , Robert Cray and Jimmie Vaughan .

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