5 Reasons why the Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival is a friend to the concertgoer…
1. All children 12 years and under will be admitted to the festival free of charge.
NOTE TO ALL YOU YOUNG PARENTS, OR PARENTS OF SOME YOUNG ONES.. Not only does the CBB Festival help children by donating to both the Saving Tiny Hearts Society and Prevent Child Abuse America, we treat them to free music as well! That’s one less excuse for you concert-hungry caregivers not to come. Some please come bring your young ones and expose them to some wonderful, kid-friendly, tunes at CBB Festival.
2. Pickin’ and Playin’ from above. When the curtain goes down on the big stage at the end of each set, the spotlight goes up on the balcony. Check out Van Ghost, Tangleweed, Majors Junction, and Environmental Encroachment from the Congress’ main stage balcony. Not only will this expose you to a number of bands you’ll want to hear (trust us..), but also this guarantees that you will not have to deal with annoying set breaks on the main stage. The music will never stop! We thought you would like that.
3. Re-Entry Like You’ve Never Seen it Before: Why, yes, you can come and go freely to and from the theater until 6pm. AFTER 6PM YOU CAN STILL ARRIVE. All that this means is that once you’ve left the building after 6pm, you can’t come back in. As in, if you leave at 5:59 you can still get stamped and come back any time throughout the night. However a minute later that would not be an option. We know you may want to step out of the festival, for whatever reason, and we are not going to take that option away from you. We are music goers as well, and know how to treat our guests.
4. Two Things Everyone Should Bring: A Chair & An Instarument. It’s a long day, so bring your camping chairs or lawn chairs or couches to pop a squat on when your dogs are barkin’, and there’ll be an open jam session and picking circle from the second the doors open. Musicians are all invited to bring their instruments and participate. There’ll be an “instrument check” along with the coat check so that you don’t have to lug your noisemaker around with you all day. How many festivals let you do this?
5. You can smoke. Indoors, Sorta. There’ll be a smoking lounge that does not require you to leave the building. It’s covered and at least 75% indoors. See what we’ve done here? A huge favor for you, and a huge necessity in making this as close to the true summer festivals we all know and love. Tricky, yes, but awesome and necessary in the harsh Chicago winter. I told you we were on your side!
