Announcing the 2015 Coyote Kings Invitational Walla Walla Guitar Festival: Mar 13-14th

For two days, March 13 & 14, 2015, Walla Walla becomes the Pacific Northwest Blues Capital, when we present 15 top Northwest Blues & Roots acts in five venues in Beautiful Downtown Walla Walla. It’s a great big party, people, and you’re invited! 2015 marks our fourth festival and we’re celebrating in a LARGE way.

This year the fest is preceded on Thursday night by the WWGF edition of The Thursday Jam at Sapolil Cellars, hosted by Robin Barrett and Big Monti Amundson! If you’re in town a day early, this is always a great show and there’s no cover!

If you can’t make it to Walla Walla on Thursday, The Friday Night WWGF Kick-off begins the festival proper & it’s always great to get into town early on Friday to explore Downtown Walla Walla and get warmed up for a great party Friday Night & very full day (and night) on Saturday. The Friday music starts at 8 pm with Junkyard Jane at Sapolil Cellars & The Randy Oxford Band featuring Lady A at Charles Smith Wines tasting room, followed at 10 pm by Dan Faller & The Working Poor at Charles Smith & Rock Blyth & Two Faced Johnny at Sapolil.

Saturday runs from noon until 2 am, (so be sure and take your vitamins!), with the Acoustic Showcase at 12 pm at Sapolil Cellars, featuring Billy Stoops, Big Monti Amundson, & Gary Winston!

From 2 pm until 7 pm The Elks Lodge is home to The LARGE Show, with Robin Barrett & Coyote Kings w/Big Monti, The Rafael Tranquilino Band, & The Strange Tones!

From 7 to 8 is the “dinner/regroup for the night” break (trust us, you’ll be glad), because at 8 pm The Guitar Crawl begins, running from 8 to midnight and featuring; The Rae Gordon band and Chris Lord & Cheatin’ River at Sapolil Cellars, The Jesse Weston Band and The Wasteland Kings at The VFW, and Kevin Selfe & The Tornadoes and The Campbell Davis Band at Main Street Studios.

At Midnight at Sapolil Cellars is The Allstar Jam, hosted by Vaughn Jensen and Tuck Foster, running until close.

Add to this the famous WWGF drawing, featuring a Front Porch Guitars’ cigar box, A sweet little Fender From Music Machine, a gorgeous 20” by 30”’ framed print of Scott Barnett’s Sunset on Downtown Walla Walla, along with food, travel, and a boat-load of Walla Walla wines! Every person who buys a ticket to the fest also receives a ticket in the drawing, with more available for sale.

If you’ve read this far we know you want to come, so just sweeten the pot, we’re going to make it special just for you. Tickets are $20 for Friday and $40 for Saturday, but as a member of the Washington Blues Society, we want to give you 5% off the cost of tickets and motel/fest packages! Just go to http://wallawallaguitarfestival.com and type “member” in the promo box under the tickets. BAM, 5% off! For you!

The Walla Walla Guitar Festival is the “shake off your cabin fever” party of the year, folks. We’ll see you there!