The 2017 Blues and Roots on Water Street festival

Tickets will no longer be available on this Eventbrite website after noon on Saturday, June 10. If tickets are still available, they will have to be purchased at the door. Call for availability at 630-406-0086.

The line up ... Saturday, June 10, 2017 ...

5:00pm Chicago Farmer Roots Stage
6:00pm Noah Gabriel Blues Stage
6:30pm The Leadfoot Band Roots Stage
7:30pm Leland Blues Stage
8:30pm Jonas Friddle & The Majority Roots Stage
9:30pm Wayne Baker Brooks Blues Stage

The 2017 Blues & Roots on Water Street festival is a one-day, two-stage, six-acts, totally indoors limited ticket, nice and intimate, festival, featuring some of the finest in Roots, Americana and Blues that the Chicago area has to offer!

This year, Chicago Blues mainstay and carrier of the family torch, Wayne Baker Brooks will headline the festival's Blues Stage while Jonas Friddle & The Majority, an eight-piece Indie Folk Rock Band out of Chicago will headline the Roots Stage. Rounding out the Blues Stage line up will be the Fox Valley's very own Noah Gabriel and the Leland, which is a band fronted by Scott Tipping and featuring Mae Koen and Mary Lou O'Brien. The Roots Stage line up will also feature The Chicago-based bluegrass Leadfoot Band, and midwest bread in folk and Americana Bloomington, Illinois native Chicago Farmer.

The festival doors will open at 4:30pm and the music will start promptly at 5 ... food, courtesy of Batavia's River's Edge Bar & Grill, and beverage, brought to you by Solemn Oath Brewing and Bright Angel Wines, will be available for purchase. This year, a "signature" festival drink has been designed and is being provided by Whiskey Acres Distilling Company and Windmill Ginger Brew. The Drink Will be available for purchase and will come in a "keepsake" logo cup for you to "keep".

Tickets for the festival are limited, and will be available here, on Eventbrite of course. Tickets may also be purchased at Kiss The Sky and Water Street Studios. Tickets purchased on line will be emailed to the purchaser of record and they will need to be printed and brought to the festival for entry. Tickets purchased in advance are $25 (plus processing fees if purchased on line).

The festival is brought to you by Water Street Studios, Batavia MainStreet, Kiss The Sky and the Fox Valley Music Foundation, with support and influence and love and advice from Batavia Enterprises, WaveForm, Music Matters, Loco Logos Graphic Design, Barco Products, K. Hollis Jewelers and Drendel & Jansons Law Group ... it's absolutely, a Family Affair!

Please note that there will be a After-Show Gathering at the River's Edge Bar & Grill, which is located on River Street in beautiful downtown Batavia! Y'all's invited!

Tickets will no longer be available on this Eventbrite website after noon on Saturday, June 10. If tickets are still available, they will have to be purchased at the door. Call for availability at 630-406-0086.