2012 Wallace Blues Festival

Ambiance

July 13th and 14th, 2012

Best 2012 Blues Festival awarded to Wallace Idaho
Even Bigger in 2013

By all accounts, this was a great success for the town, the performers and the approximately 2000 Blues Fans who attended our first annual Historic Wallace Blues Festival. The most amazing thing is that our little town of 784 individuals pulled this event off in 90 days from concept initiation! We could not have done it, of course, without the guidance, promotion and production services of Craig Heimbigner, dba Too Far North Productions. Please contact him at [email protected] or (509) 534-1187 with your impressions of the first annual Historic Wallace Blues Festival. Wallace Idaho Blues Festival 2012 Click on the poster icon to open the final annotated PDF poster in a separate window.

Personally, I had a blast, dancing my legs to exhaustion while taking 195 photos on Saturday. This is the second part of my recording of this premier Wallace festival. The first part is a reprise of the music on Saturday that highlights the nine performers that I was able to photograph and acknowledges the five blues artists for whom I do not have representative festival photos. This second page captures a timeline of the festival's ambiance showing the crowd, the dancers, the beer garden, the vendors and the volunteers.

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Greg Marsh, Ph.D.
Marsh Scientific Services


With so much going on, I couldn't see everything, but here is a series of photographs that capture Saturday's evolving ambiance. The line-up of performers follows this photographic timeline.
 

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The Fat Tones
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Del the bouncer guarded back stage
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Nick Vigarino on rain break
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Mitzi and Diane, band hospitality
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Meantown Blues
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Doghouse Boyz
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Curtis Salgado
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Greg Marsh at the 2012 Wallace Blues Festival

"Greg Marsh, our web master, photographer and best dancer, takes a break on the street at the Historic Wallace Blues Festival."

Craig Heimbigner
Too Far North Productions

See more photos taken by other festival fans on FaceBook.

 
A PDF file of the following Line Up is available.
Friday July 13th
Red Light Garage Sammy Eubanks 7 to 10 PM
The Metals Kenny James Miller Band 9 PM to closing
The Smokehouse BBQ Laffin' Bones 9 PM to closing
Saturday July 14th
THE MAIN STAGE HooDoo Udu 11:30 to 12:45 PM
Blues & Brews Patio Grant Smith 12:45 to 1:15 PM
THE MAIN STAGE Pat Coast Band 1:15 to 2:30 PM
Blues & Brews Patio Ray Roberson 2:30 to 3:00 PM
THE MAIN STAGE The Fat Tones 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Blues & Brews Patio Ray Roberson 4:30 to 5:00 PM
THE MAIN STAGE Nick Vigarino's Meantown Blues 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Blues & Brews Patio Doghouse Boyz 6:30 to 7:00 PM
THE MAIN STAGE Curtis Salgado 7:00 to 8:30 PM
Blues & Brews Patio Doghouse Boyz 8:30 to 9:00 PM
THE MAIN STAGE Too Slim & The Taildraggers 9:00 to 10:30 PM
AND AT THE SAME TIME, and only two blocks away,
there will be blues happening at these popular restaurants!
Red Light Garage Brother Music Noon to 2 PM
Anita Royce & The High Rollers featuring Forest Govedare 2:30 to 4:30 PM
Grant Smith 5 to 6:30 PM
Anita Royce & The Highrollers featuring Forest Govedare 7 to 8:30 PM
Sammy Eubanks 10 PM to midnight
The Smokehouse BBQ Doghouse Boyz Noon to 2:00 PM
Grant Smith 2:30 to 4:00 PM
Brother Music 4:30 to 6:00 PM
Ray Roberson 6:30 to 8:00 PM

 

 

 

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