Heritage Music BluesFest

We will be observing all state and CDC COVID guidelines during the festival.
The Heritage Music Blues Festival began in 2001 when Bruce Wheeler envisioned a Blues music festival in a newly constructed waterfront park on the bank of the Ohio River in downtown Wheeling. The fact that Wheeling had no blues scene or even a blues club, band or solo artist did not deter Wheeler from developing a festival. Promoted as “A Weekend of Award-Winning Blues”, the Festival gets raves from coast to coast. Wheeler’s festival features two stages, a Main Stage with Blues Music Award Winners and up-and-coming IBC solo/duo and band winning acts, and a Second Stage dedicated to local and regional artists, from WV, OH, PA, and MD.

During the event you can find his wife, Phyllis Sigal, daughter Amanda and her husband Chris holding down the MainGate while his son Leland, who was 12 when the event began, serves as the MainStage Manager. That Blues Family atmosphere spills over to the audience who has traveled to Wheeling, WV from 25 states and 4 countries for the last 17 years for the annual August event.

2021 Artist Lineup

MainStage​

FRIDAY AUGUST 13
5:00 to 6:00 Davy Knowles
6:30 to 7:30 Carolyn Wonderland
8:00 to 9:00 Ronnie Baker Brooks
9:30 to 10:30 Coco Montoya
10:30 to ?? Ronnie and Coco’s Tribute to Albert Collins
AfterJam HOST – Davy Knowles

SATURDAY AUGUST 14
12:00 to 1:00 IBC Winner Hector Anchondo
1:30 to 2:30 TBD
3:00 to 4:00 Nick Schnebelen
4:30 to 5:30 Indigenous
6:00 to 7:00 Hannah Wicklund
7:45 to 9:00 Jason Ricci
9:45 to 11:00 Walter Trout
AfterJam HOST – Nick Schnebelen

SUNDAY AUGUST 15
1:00 to 2:00 IBC Winner HoRoJo Trio
2:30 to 3:30 Ruf Records Blues Caravan
4:00 to 5:00 JP Soars’ Gypsy Blues Revue JP Soars, Jason Ricci and Anne Harris
5:45 to 7:00 Eric Bibb
7:45 to 9:00 Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters
AfterJam HOST – HoRoJo Trio

* Schedule subject to change
Friday: 5:00-11:00pm / Saturday: 12:00-11:00pm / Sunday: 1:00-9:00pm