Big Muddy Blues Festival

Labor Day Weekend
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Sunday, September 2, 2012
12:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
(314) 241.5875
bigmuddybluesfestival.com

Every Labor Day weekend, close to 60,000 people make the journey to St. Louis to experience Big Muddy Blues Festival, the region’s largest Blues music event. Located here on Laclede’s Landing, just north of the Gateway Arch, the festival’s backdrop is the Big Muddy itself – the river that inspired so many Blues songs and the musicians who wrote them. Big Muddy Blues Festival showcases over 30 Blues and Blues-related bands, performing throughout the weekend on three outdoor stages. In the recent past, such nationally-known artists as Guy Forsyth, Lurrie Bell, Moreland and Arbuckle and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Booker T (of Booker T and the MGs) have taken to the main stage at Laclede’s Landing’s First Street picnic area. At secondary stages on the popular Second Street boulevard, regional and local favorites play raucous sets to intersections crowded with people ranging from the Blues-obsessed to the regular music-lover.

2012 Line-Up to be announced in the spring.

Big Muddy Blues Festival 2011 list of performers:

Vending: Laclede’s Landing merchants retain exclusive privileges to sell food and beverages both inside and out. Independent vendors selling or displaying non-competitive items and services can contact Laclede's Landing Merchants Association for further information or mail in the online Vendor Application Packet for 2011.

Getting Here: Laclede’s Landing has multiple parking lots within the district, as well as in the surrounding neighborhoods. It is also directly accessible through the Metrolink light-rail system at the Arch-Laclede’s Landing station stop.

Big Muddy Blues Festival attendees can bring folding chairs but are asked not to bring any coolers, grilling equipment, pets or outside food/drinks. Festival staff can confiscate these items at their discretion.

Thank you to our great sponsors for their support in 2011:

Additionally, Big Muddy Blues Festival receives support in the form of Community Contributions from some of the district's great businesses and neighbors. Community supporters this year include: the Laclede's Landing Redevelopment Corporation, St. Louis Parking and St. Louis Equity Fund. Laclede's Landing Merchants Association further recognizes and thanks R & R Sanitation for their sponsorship and for providing sanitary stations for Rockin' On The Landing and future Laclede's Landing events.