The San Francisco Blues Festival 1983

San Francisco Blues Festival,Location: Great Meadow, Fort Mason. Featuring a number of blues and zydeco legends. Among the headliners are Grammy Award-winner Clarence Brown, and the undisputed king of zydeco, Clifton Chenier, along with his Red Hot Louisiana Band. Albert King; Willie Dixon & the Chicago Blues Allstars; Irma Thomas; Joe Liggins and the Honey Drippers, featuring Little Ceasar and Diane Carlton ; Brownie McGhee; Duke Robillard; Anson Funderburgh & the Rockets; Beverly Stovall; Monica Dupont; The Right Kind; Buddy Ace; Troyce Key Blues Band; Ron Thompson & the Resistors; Maurice McKinnies; J.C. Burris; Maxine Howard. They play before an enthusiastic live audience that has gathered to celebrated an authentic American music idiom.


San Francisco Blues Festival is the longest running blues festival in the United States. Tom Mazzolini, the event's producer, founded the blues festival to educate the public about the history and evolution of the blues. Many of the performers at the early concerts were the pioneers and originators of the West Coast blues sound.