Artist Selection & Bookings for the Riverfront Blues Festival
         are by the Diamond State Blues Society,
     "Your Sure Cure for the Blues" in the Diamond State
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        DSBS would like to thank the many members of the Bucks County Blues Society whose help with artist
announcing, stage management and equipment changes makes a smooth-running event possible! THANKS Guys!!
    Thanks, too, go out to the many DSBS members and volunteers who manned the entrances, poured the brews,
                             and assisted wherever they were needed. THANKS TO YOU ALL!!

August 8–10, 2008

           Headlining the Shows were:
       Friday night - The Mannish Boys
                 Saturday - Koko Taylor
                 Sunday - Elvin Bishop

It is with great sadness that we report
on the passing of the
Queen of the Blues,
Koko Taylor,
in June 2009 from complications
after surgery in May.
Our condolences go out to her family
and legion of friends and admirers.

Koko Taylor
and her Blues Machine...
graced the Riverfront Blues Festival stage in 2008,
and they were OUTSTANDING!
The 6 1/2 minute ditty above is of her opening number,
"Let the Good Times Roll,"
and roll they did as the Queen put on a memorable show for all.
Just hit the PLAY button above to begin.

THANKS for the memories, Koko.
And they are many.

And like the lady sings above,
                 and when our mourning has eased,

"Hey everybody--let's have some fun.
    You only live once,
          . . . So Let the Good Times Roll!"

Photo by Dusty Scott at 30th Blues Music Awards in May, 2009.

But it all began on Friday evening with...

Photos below by DSBS members Connie Taylor and BluesGirl Kelli Tome
(click most pics for full size version)

                ALSO...
Friday Night, the folks from
NBC's TODAY SHOW were
on hand doing a feature on

The feature was to air sometime in Sept.!!

Then Gary Alligretto & the Delaware All-Stars hit the stage...

And closing out Friday night it was The Mannish Boys...

After some morning rains, Saturday dawned bright and sunny...and first up was
        Anson Funderburgh & the Rockets with James Harman

Next up was the incredible Michael Burks...

Followed by Sharrie Williams & the Wise Guys...

Then guitar virtuoso Larry McCray...

Next it was "King of the Slide," that incredible "Slide Slinger," the one and only
                     Lil Ed & the Blues Imperials...

Headlining the Festival Saturday was Blues legend
and Queen of the Blues
Koko Taylor
and her
Blues Machine...
and they were OUTSTANDING!

                 ---THANKS to Peg for the Video above and Ralph Giofre for the Koko pics.---

And then there was Sunday...which began with monsoon-like rain, wind and hail. The stage crew,
to their commendation, worked HARD all morning to get all of the electronics and stage dried-out
so a safe show could commence. And, only an hour later than scheduled, the party began again
under sunny skies...for a while...

Opening Sunday's festivities was Jimmy Thackery and the Drivers...

And as we continued to keep our fingers crossed that the
weather would hold, Sugar Blue took the stage...

Then,
as the skies
began to darken,
Elvin Bishop, the
festival's last artist,
took the stage...

The audio you're hearing is Elvin's "Stompin'"

It was
an Outstanding
Weekend of
the Blues...
'till next year...
when we'll all get together
and do it again!!