Under the warm Boise sun, Boise blues fans enjoyed a full day of music, food and fun at the Boise Blues Festival 2017, held at Reid Merrill Park in Eagle.
Local favorites the Blues Addicts started the day off with some toe-tapping music, including great covers of Cream’s Crossroad and the Allman Brother’s Whipping Post. Next, Leo “Bud” Welch, who had come all the way from Mississippi for the Festival, treated fans to some authentic Mississippi Delta Blues.
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Following up, Smooth Avenue played some nice R&B flavored music. After a few tunes, blues/R&B singer Johnny Rawls came onstage with them, performing a set that had the whole crowd dancing.
With the crowd ready to dance, Lisa Mann and Her Really Good Band came onstage top perform music from her albums, including the most recent, Hard Times, Bad Decisions. Lisa was pumped up for the performance, having just been awarded the Album of the Year by the Oregon Music Hall of Fame.
Finally, headliner Curtis Salgado, no stranger to previous Boise Blues Festivals, treated guests to a dynamite live performance. Really firing up the crowd, he made the 2017 Boise Blues Festival a day to remember.
