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Topanga Canyon Blues Festival
Genre
Blues
Location(s)
Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, Topanga Canyon, California
Years active
1982–2019, 2021–
Website
scbsevents.org
The Topanga Canyon Blues Festival is an annual event held in California, attracting blues acts from across the United States. It began in 1982.[1][2] Like the Orange County Blues Festival, it attracts some of the major blues artists in the United States.[3] Over the years the festival has been running, it has seen major blues acts such as Etta James, Willie Dixon, Otis Rush, Big Joe Turner, Lowell Fulson, Junior Wells, Pee Wee Crayton,[4] Phil Gates and Jimmy "Preacher" Ellis.[5][6] Other acts such as Paul Butterfield, William Clarke, Linda Hopkins, Philip Sayce and Roy Gaines have appeared there.[7][8]
The COVID-19 pandemic caused the 2020 event to be cancelled and deferred to 2021.
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