
Everybody from the Eighth Annual Blues Festival 1991

A Gallery of Blues Festival Posters

Famous clips from the legendary Wetband Video

Bluesfest Six in 1989:

Handle With Care

Pocahantas

Another famous clip from Bluesfest 2011

featuring Kenny and Willie performing

Losing My Religion:

The Bluesfest Audio Tapes

In 1996 and 1997 we decided to try taping an entire Blues Festival by just leaving a reel-to-reel tape recorder running without interruption. The result was a tape of the entire Blues Festival including all the talking as well as all the music made. We are now making these tapes available as sets of MP3 files, each file being about 30 minutes long. We tried to split the long file at points of silence so as not to break up any music or conversations:

Bluefest 1996 The Complete Recording

Bluesfest 1997 The Complete Recording

Burton-Webster Blues Festival
A Twenty Year Retrospective

Year	Location	Attendees	Highlights and *Recordings*
1. 1980	Ted's place on Gainsborough	Ted B, John G and Wayne W	Jethro playing guitar against the wall and John's long rambling talking blues song
2. 1982	Wayne's place on Hiley, in the living room	Wayne W, Ted B, Eric D and later Isolde and Gareth F	Woody picks up Jethro and Kenny B. at the train station and the WET Band is born. After midnight Isolde and Gareth arrive.
3. 1984	Ted's place on Gainsbourgh	Wayne W, Ted B, Eric & Sabrina D. and Wayne & Barb B	Possibly Willie B's first fest. By now this is clearly a biennial event.
4. 1986	Wayne's place on Hiley, in the basement	Wayne W, Ted B, Eric D, Chris E, Ian D	Brother Ray appears and remains. Jethro invents the beerbottleneck banjo.
5. 1988	Wayne's place on Clements, in basement	Same as above, but Ian brought a girlfriend	The first Bfest at our now famous venue. We decide that annual would be better.
6. 1989	Ted's place in Oakville	Wayne W, Ted B, Eric D, Wayne B, Jack J, Bob R, John G, Meghan B and friends	Famous video documentary made, produced by Bob R (watch closely to see Woody's legendary disappearing act). Soundtrack used to make our first Bfest album: *The Barbarians are Here*
7. 1990	Ted's place in Oakville	Wayne W, Ted B, Eric and Sabrina D, Wayne and Barb B, Jack J, Bob R, John G	Ray mumbles and sticks his neck out and the second video documentary is made, leading to the second Bfest album: *None of That Around Here*
8. 1991	Wayne's place on Clements, in basement	Wayne W and Chris E, Ted B, Eric and Sabrina D, Wayne & Barb B, Jack J, Bob R, Isolde and Gareth F.	First complete audio taping along with the Famous Group Photo. Our best attended Bfest yet. Resulted in the 2 tape collection: *A Rending Sound*
9. 1992	Wayne's place on Clements, in basement	Wayne W and Chris E, Ted B, Eric and Sabrina D, Wayne & Barb B, Jack J, Bob R	Jethro plays electric bass. Bob R makes his drumming debut? *Lost Knob Sessions*
10. 1993	Bob's basement in Oakville	Wayne W and Chris E, Ted B, Eric and Sabrina D, Wayne & Barb B, Jack J, Bob R, Yogi B, Meghan B and friends	Bob R on drums Yogi plays banjo *The Wetband and Friends: Plugged*
11. 1994	Wayne's Place	Wayne W and Chris E, Ted B, Eric and Sabrina D, Wayne & Barb B, Bob R, Steve S	Steve S makes his drumming debut *Belleuse Rootes and Nightte Songes (2 tape set)*
Year	Location	Attendees	Highlights and *Recordings*
12. 1995	Wayne's Place	Wayne W and Chris E, Ted B, Eric and Sabrina D, Wayne & Barb B, Bob R, Steve S	*Whole New Box of Matches*
13. 1996	Wayne's Place	Wayne W and Chris E, Ted and Gill B, Eric and Sabrina D, Wayne & Barb B, Bob and Dylan R, Steve S, Jack J, Tammy R, Anna W	*Wonderblue*
14. 1997	Wayne's Place	Wayne W and Chris E, Ted B, Eric and Sabrina D, Wayne & Barb B, Bob R, Steve S, Jack J, Scott B	*BlueBerry Fields*
15. 1998	Wayne's Place	Wayne W & Chris E, Ted B, Eric & Sabrina D, Wayne & Barb B, Bob & Dylan R, Steve S, Jack J, Scott B, Aaron W	Special guest star: Aaron W from south of the border.First Bfest CD's are produced by Eric & Sabrina D and Steve S: *Bluette (a 2 CD set)*
16. 1999	Wayne's Place	Wayne W and Chris E, Ted B, Eric and Sabrina D, Wayne & Barb B, Steve S, Jack J, Scott B	*Ready to Roll*
17. 2000	Wayne's Place	Wayne W and Chris E, Ted B, Eric and Sabrina D, Wayne & Barb B, Steve S, Jack J, Scott B, Gavin F, Gareth F, Isolde P-F, Anna W, Dylan R,	*Blues Fest 2000*
18. 2001	Wayne's Place	Ted B, Scott B, Wayne B, Eric D, Gavin F, Gareth F, Ryan F, Erin M, Bob R, Dylan R, Steve S, Anna W, Wayne W, Barb B, Sabrina D, Chris E, Isolde P-F	*2001: A Blues Odyssey*
19. 2002	Wayne's Place	Ted B, Scott B, Wayne B, Eric D, Bob R, Dylan R, Steve S, Wayne W, Barb B, Sabrina D, Chris E, Isolde P-F	*Blues Fest Unbound*
20. 2003	20th Anniversary at Wayne's Place	Ted B, Scott B, Wayne B, Eric D, Bob R, Dylan R, Steve S, Wayne W, Barb B, Sabrina D, Chris E, Catharine J, Isolde P-F, Ryan F, Steve B, Suze M, Meghan B, Gill B, Anna W.	Best Attended Blues Festival Ever? *Click here to see pics!*
21. 2004	Wayne's Place	Ted B, Scott B, Wayne B, Eric D, Steve S, Wayne W, Barb B, Sabrina D, Chris E, Catharine J, Steve B, Phil Chevalier, Meghan B, Gill B, Anna W.	*Click here to see pics!*