20 Jul 2019

Bright Lights at the 2019 MVBS Blues Fest on the Bend

By Michael Helke; photography by Kevin Richard Schafer

The 34th annual Mississippi Valley Blues Festival was held Friday and Saturday July 5th and 6th at Murphy Park at The Bend in East Moline, Illinois. If one went looking to a Blues festival for some sin, one would found little here that could be considered sinful, even in sentiment.

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