Giving Hunger The Blues

STAR STUDDED LINE-UP AT THIS YEARS GIVING HUNGER THE BLUES

Entertainers and performers confirmed for this years Sarasota festival

Sunday March 25, from 12 noon to 8pm. 

GHTB is an all day family event featuring local musicians and bands, area restaurants, beverage vendors, children’s games and activities. Live bands on two stages, one just for youth bands.

 Headlining at this year’s event will be from Miami. Their style of music is known as “Sacred steel", a type of music described as an inspired, unique form of Gospel music with a hard-driving, blues-based beat. The musical genre is rooted in Gospel, but infused with rhythm and blues, jazz, rock, funk, hip-hop, country and ideas from other nations. The Lee Boys have performed live on the Conan O’Brien show.

Also performing throughout the day will be The Strangeways ● Ben Hammond ● Fogt’s All Stars ● Nick Miller & The Gathering ● The Boneshakers ● Jazz Juvenocracy ● Shoebox Monsters ● Drum Studio All Stars ● Blue Daze ● Boom Goes the Dynamite ● American Camel ● Colors in the Dark ● The Garbage Men ● Lee’s Tae Kwon Do ● Capoeira Volta ao Mundo ● SMA Mighty Drumline

Admission $5, Children under 12 free. Hillview Street, Southside Village, Sarasota. Free parking in the Sarasota Memorial Health Care Systems south garage. 941-366-5555.  www.givinghungertheblues.org

With the combined efforts of local area restaurants, musicians, entertainers, sponsors and hundreds of volunteers, Giving Hunger The Blues this year will reach the benchmark of over one million dollars raised for the Sarasota Community.

Co-Sponsors: Macrae Family Foundation, Gold Coast Eagle Distributing. 

Since 1995 Giving Hunger The Blues, a local non-profit organization, has been dedicated to raising funds for children in the Sarasota community, and has become the All Faiths Food Bank's biggest one day fundraiser. Giving Hunger The Blues is a green event.

www.givinghungertheblues.org