Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival Finalizes 2012 Lineup

With the addition of the Tedeschi Trucks Band, the lineup for the 2012 Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival is complete. A total of 20 bands will perform May 19-20 at in Annapolis.

“This might be our strongest lineup yet,” said founder Don Hooker.

to the shores of the state park in Broadneck.

The festival's 2012 lineup includes: 

• Jonny Lang
• JJ Grey and Mofro
• Big Head Todd and the Monsters
• Ruthie Foster
• Shemekia Copeland
• Philipp Fankhauser
• Honey Island Swamp Band
• Michael Williams Band
• Janiva Magness
• Lydia Pense and Cold Blood
• Albert Cummings
• Lurrie Bell
• Bernard Allison
• Michael Burks
• Patty Reese
• Gaye Adegbalola
• Tom Principato
• Ron Holloway
• Tommy Lepson

Tickets for the festival are on sale online now at www.bayblues.org or by calling 1-800-514-3849. Fans can also "like" the event on its Facebook page, and get updated when there are announcements.

From the press release:

Chesapeake Bay Events held its first festival in 1998.  It has quickly gained national notoriety as one of the premiere Blues Festivals in the world.  Outside of providing top caliber entertainment, the festival gives all proceeds to charity. 

This year the recipient charities include: John Hopkins Cleft and Cranial Facial Children’s Camp FACE, which holds a summer camp for kids with facial anomalies, We Care and Friends, which is an organization providing a wide variety of services to the needy in Annapolis, Camp Fantastic, a camp for children with cancer which is operated by Special Love, Inc., and End Hunger in Calvert County.