FRIDAY JULY 19: JUMPIN HOT OUTDOOR STAGE 12-12.40pm: John Wilkins 1pm-1.40pm: Elaine Palmer 2pm- 2.40pm:
Struggle Buggy 3pm-3.40pm: Shipcote & Friends 4pm-4.40pm: The Most Ugly Child 5pm-6pm: Stan The Band SATURDAY JULY 20: JUMPIN HOT OUTDOOR STAGE 12pm-12.45pm: A Different Thread 1.30pm-2.15pm: Daniel Meade Duo 3pm-3.45pm: Hailbails 4.30pm-5.15pm: Izzie Walsh & band 6pm-7pm: Sister Suzie & The Right Band SUNDAY JULY 21: JUMPIN HOT OUTDOOR STAGE 12pm-12.45pm: Thea Hopkins 1.30pm-2.15pm: The King Bees 3pm-3.45pm: Fargo Railroad Company 4.30pm-5.15pm: Barbara Nesbitt & Band 6pm-7pm: Bennett, Wilson & Poole
Who's on and when
TONIGHT VINTAGE TROUBLE: The Empire, Middlesbrough 7pm PS18.50
STRUGGLE BUGGY: Blues at the Bay, Cleveland Bay, Eaglescliffe FOREST LIVE GUY GARVEY: Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire THE CORNSHED: Sexhow Park Farm, Hutton Rudy PS17.50 MAXWELLS CORNER: Dr Browns, Middlesbrough free?
What's On in clubs and gigs
But, as the title suggests, it's all happening at the event as revellers also enjoyed live music from Monkey Junk Blues and The Buffalo Skinners on Friday night;
Struggle Buggy, Snake Oil, Hokum Hotshots and Chris Martin on Saturday 28; and The Revolutionaries, Lomax, Michael and Scott, Richard Gardener on Sunday 29.
Wylam Brewery celebrates the opening of its new home with a bank holiday weekend extravaganza; The three-day celebration marks the brewery's move to Newcastle's Exhibition Park - from its old brew house in Heddon-on-the Wall
Finally, it is great to welcome another music venue with the newly-opened Wylam Brewery in Exhibition Park, Newcastle (the former Science & Engineering museum that once housed the Turbinia) and this weekend they have guest spots from Monkey Junk and the Buffalo Skinners (tonight),
Struggle Buggy, Snake Oil and the Hokum Hotshots (Saturday) and the Revolutionaires and more on Sunday.
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Earlier in the afternoon, there will be sets from Newcastle's King Bees (there are other bands with the same or very similar name) -- who will open the festival -- with their Chicago-style material, followed by the acoustic-blues quartet,
Struggle Buggy, who incorporate a mix of delta blues, jug-band and hokum.
The Stanley Blues Festival makes a welcome return to County Durham; Paul Lamb and the King Snakes - fronted by Blyth-born Lamb - will headline the one-day free festival at Oakies Park in the town
Earlier in the afternoon, there will be sets from Newcastle's King Bees (there are other bands with the same or very similar name) - who will open the festival with their Chicago-style material, followed by the acoustic blues quartet,
Struggle Buggy, who incorporate a mix of Delta blues, jug-band and hokum.
A great time for return of blues festival; The return of an old festival friend is welcomed