Bonita Springs Annual Blues Festival

The 6th Annual Bonita Blues Festival will be held on -
March 9th and March 10, 2012 at Riverside Park in Bonita Springs ...

Children's Hospital of Southwest Florida - Music Therapy Program

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Gallery - We are gathering together photos and clippings of this years (and last years) festivals.
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SW Florida Blues Society

Hey Blues fans there is a new source for keeping updated on local live blues music. The Southwest Florida Blues Society has been formed it is a non-profit corporation dedicated to local music.

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Please join us as we raise funds to support our mission.

Donation can now be made directly from our Website.

Note - you do not need a PayPal account to use the donate button, you will be given the option to use your regular credit card instead.

Alternatively, you can fill out the form on this page and mail your donation.

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Background

The Bonita Blues Charitable Foundation was founded to present high-quality Blues music to our community while raising funds to support local charities.

Over the past four years we have donated approximately $30,000 to charities including, The Liberty Youth Ranch, The Shelter for Abused Women and Children, Healthy Start, The Bonita Springs Assistance Office, the Immokalee Friendship House and Music For Minors. For 2011 we have once again selected the Bonita Springs Assistance Office and Music For Minors as our benefactors for our fifth festival.

The Bonita Springs Assistance Office lends financial and other support to anyone in the community that needs help. Music For Minors provides musical instruments to children that cannot afford them and encourages them to perform well in school so they can keep the instruments. In 2010 the proceeds from the festival provided fourteen instruments to children in Lee County.

As founders, we are so grateful for all of the support we receive from the community to make the Bonita Blues Festival a success. From the beginning the City of Bonita Springs has encouraged and supported our efforts. We are very fortunate that the City of Bonita Springs has the finest outdoor venue is southwest Florida. Of course, none of this would have been possible without our sponsors, advertisers and the many volunteers that donate their time throughout the year and at the event.

We are so excited to present the milestone, fifth-annual Bonita Blues Festival on March 11 & 12, 2011. Please join us for a stellar line-up of musicians as we support our local charities.

Bonita Blues Charitable Foundation
P.O. Box 367385,
Bonita Springs
FL, 34136.
Tax exempt number 26-1094480

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2012 Festival Fast Facts

When
Friday March 9th,
Saturday, March 10th

Time
Friday, ~ 2pm-9:15pm
Sat., ~ 11:30am-9:30pm

Where
Riverside Park - Bonita
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2012 - Friday Line Up

Mudbone
2:00pm - 2:45pm

Deb & the Dynamics
3:15pm - 4:00pm

Damon Fowler
4:30pm - 5:45pm

Karen Lovely
6:15pm - 7:30pm

Tinsley Ellis
8:00pm - 9:15pm

2012 - Saturday Line Up

Gator Nate
11:30am - 12:15pm

Kim Page Band
12:45pm - 1:30pm

Stringtown
2:00pm - 2:45pm

Skyla Burrell
3:15pm - 4:15pm

Mel Melton
4:45pm - 6:00pm

Trampled Under Foot
6:30pm - 7:45pm

Magic Slim & the Teardrops
8:15pm - 9:30pm

2012 Event Sponsors

BB&T

Gulf Coast Town Center

Knonwal Vision Center

Trinity Chiropratic

The Encompass Group

Nick Bobzien

Gleason

Law Offices of John D Spear.

The Naked Grape

The Hyatt at Coconut Point

ValleyCrest Landscape Companies

Konowal Vision, Inc.

Survey Cafe

Blues Cruise

Orion Home Inspections Inc.

T-Squared

iconDo, Inc.

Celt Media Web Design

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Sponsor the Event

Please join us to celebrate the Blues on Friday March 9th and Saturday, March 10th, 2012 – your community needs your help! Your generous sponsorship will help the homeless, victims of domestic violence, and mothers and babies.

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Vendor Application

Vendors are welcome, but space is limited. Consideration wll be made in accordance to goods and crafts sold. Care will be taken to avoid duplication in vendors. Vendors should contact us for pre-approval before sending in their application and check.

The 2012 Vendors Application form can be downloaded here.

Blues Festival Accommodations

A special thanks goes out to the Hampton Inn Bonita Springs/Naples-North for all their help and their generous donation of rooms for the artists. The Hampton Inn is located at 27900 Crown Lake Boulevard, Bonita Springs, FL, 34135 Tel: (239) 947-9393.

Also, special thanks to Holiday Inn Express of Bonita Springs, for also donating rooms for the bands for the Festival this year. Located at 27891 Crown Lake Blvd., Bonita Springs, FL 34134, discounted rooms can be booked here at a rate of $95 per night. That's an even better rate than last year! Reservations can be made by calling 239-948-0699 and asking for the "Bonita Blues Rate."

Also thanks to the Comfort Inn of Bonita Springs for donating rooms for the bands. The Hotel also has reserved a block of discounted rooms for the festival weekend for $95.99 per room, per night plus taxes. Make reservations by calling 239-992-5001 and ask for The Bonita Blues Festival rate. The hotel is located at 9800 Bonita Beach Road.

And finally the Trianon has offered a special rate of $145 plus tax for a block of rooms. Reservations can be made by calling 800-859-3939 and asking for the Bonita Blues Rate.

And there's more ... The Bonita Springs Lodge & Suites, located at 28600 Trails Edge Boulevard Bonita Springs, FL 34134, is offering a “Bonita Blues Festival” rate of $85.00 per room, per night single or double occupancy over the festival dates, by calling (239) 495-9255.

Festival Background

Area businessmen Mike Pfeffer and Kevin Barry founded the event to raise money to help the homeless, abused women and children, and babies in our community
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2012 Press Clippings

The reviews are coming in and they're all grrreat. But you knew they would be. First hers's one from:

Blues Blast Magazine

Even though our Michigan winter was pretty mild by most standards, I was ready for some sun and warmer temps. So my wife and I set out for the land of orange juice and snow birds. The Bonita Blues Festival is not a huge festival by any stretch and that’s exactly what we were looking for. The one thing that really impresses me is that the festival is run by a non-profit and all funds (after expenses) are donated to various local charities. The Bonita Springs Charitable Foundation is host and organizer and this year’s profits were going to Music for Minors, the Wounded Warrior Project, The Bonita Springs Assistance Office and new for this year is the Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida Music Therapy. I mean how cool is it when the foundation putting on the festival starts their own blues society, the Southwest Florida Blues Society. Very cool! I think its called dedication to the blues.

"... If your suffering for the winter blues and want to go where the breeze is warm, the people friendly and the music great…….this is the place...."

For more of the review and some cool photos (scroooollll down)

Contact Us

Address: P.O. Box 367385,
Bonita Springs, FL 34136
Email us:info@bonitablues.com