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Silver Spring Blues Festival Annual Free Festival at Downtown Silver Spring plus SSBF Blues Week at local venues. Burnside, Fred McDowell and others.
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Some recaps of Previous Years

June 10-15, 2013
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4th Annual Silver Spring Blues Festival June 16, 2012
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Electric Blues - On the Fountain Stage
Warner Williams
School of Rock
Wammie Winner Nate Foley and FLLD
Moonshine Society
Fast Eddie & the Slowpokes
Unruly Blues Band
DC Blues Society Band featuring Ayaba Bey
Clarence "The Blues Man" Turner

On the Market Stage - Acoustic Blues
Archie Edwards Blues Ensemble
The Sheryl Sears Trio
Cooking with Gas
Gina DeSimone & the Moaners


3rd Annual Silver Spring Blues Festival June 18, 2011
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The Kinsey Report
Big Boy Little Band
Jonny Grave & the Tombstones
DC Blues Society Band with Stacy Brooks
Ida Campbell & the Blues Nation
Gina DeSimone and the Moaners
School of Rock Doin' the Blues


2010 - 2nd Annual Silver Spring Blues Festival May 22, 2010

Choo Choo Charlie Williams and Baltimore Red Jones – acoustic Delta, Piedmont, Ragtime, and Texas style blues featuring harmonica and guitar

Jonny Grave - acoustic blues from the Heartland, steeped in the traditions of R.L. Andy Poxon Band – get up and go with this 15-year-old who's writing his own blues songs and has a blues groove of his own! Daryl Davis Band – a Montgomery County local performing nationally with legendary greats such as Chuck Berry – featuring festival MC / WPFW89.3fm "Don't Forget the Blues" Friday host, Ida Campbell. DC Blues Society Band - DCBS brings you Clarence "The Bluesman" Turner and more entertainment coming from the local blues scene! Mary Shaver and the Smokin' Polecats – Muddy Waters style with a female touch – featuring Pete Ragusa (Nighthawks drummer for 35 years). The Nighthawks – world renowned and legendary blues group – WAMMIE winners of Washington Area Music Association (WAMA) best duo/group and best recording for 2009's "American Landscape," in the Blues/Traditional R&B category. Get your signed award-winning CD at the festival!



2009 - 1st Annual Silver Spring Blues Festival May 9, 2009
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Three Chords and the Truth - Students Celebrating America's Music from the Delta and Beyond

Jonny Grave -- acoustic blues from the Heartland, steeped in the traditions of R.L. Capital Blues Ensemble - winners of the DCBS Festival Competition -- they take the blues, some R&B, and add a bit of a swing jazz finesse for a foot-stomping, blues-based dance show! DC Blues Society Band - DCBS brings you one of the area’s hottest, funkiest, most entertaining bands to grow out of the local blues scene! Memphis Gold - deep Memphis blues -- currently featured on the cover of Living Blues Magazine , America 's oldest and most authoritative blues magazine.

Silver Spring Blues Festival Co-Founder Alan Bowser with Muddy Waters oldest son Mud Morganfield - the Headliner at The ...
06/23/2026

Silver Spring Blues Festival Co-Founder Alan Bowser with Muddy Waters oldest son Mud Morganfield - the Headliner at The 17th Annual Silver Spring Blues Festival & Silver Spring Blues Week at Downtown Silver Spring - photos by Co-Founder Jazs Web of BluesinMD & Blues Fans Travel

06/22/2026

The 17th Annual Silver Spring Blues Festival & Silver Spring Blues Week on 6/20/2026 was a Reunion when Mark Wenner of The Nighthawks was able to sit in with Mud Morganfield at the 17th Silver Spring Blues Festival (they last performed together in 2017)

Daryl Davis on the Keys, Dan Hovey on guitar, ElTorro Gamble on drums, and Johnny Castle on Bass (who also performed with Mud in 2017)

BluesinMD with Blues Fans Travel and Silver Spring Town Center Inc. Dancing at Downtown Silver Spring at 920 Ellsworth Drive

The 17th Annual Silver Spring Blues Festival & Silver Spring Blues Week continues Fri, June 19, NOON: WPFW Don't Forget ...
06/19/2026

The 17th Annual Silver Spring Blues Festival & Silver Spring Blues Week continues

Fri, June 19, NOON:

WPFW Don't Forget the Blues Hour with Ida M. Campbell - Mud Morganfield Interview.

Tune in on WPFW 89.3fm or listen online wpfwfm.org

See Mud Morganfield at the Silver Spring Blues Festival on Saturday June 20

Celebrate Juneteenth! Tune into WPFW/FM 89.3 for this special Blues Week interview with host Ida M. Campbell & the son of Muddy Waters and headliner of the The 17th Annual Silver Spring Blues Festival & Silver Spring Blues Week Mud Morganfield! Not to be missed!

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Monday 6pm - 8pm
Tuesday 6pm - 8pm
Wednesday 6pm - 8pm
Thursday 6pm - 8pm
Friday 6pm - 8pm
Saturday 10am - 9pm
Sunday 10am - 10pm

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