Red, White, Blues Festival salutes american art form

From: Oakland Tribune | Date: July 5, 2006| Author: Jim Harrington, STAFF WRITER | Copyright information

The Red, White and Blues Festival is the hidden gem of the Alameda County Fair's concert series.

The annual Fourth of July concert is often overlooked, both by the public and the media, in favor of other supposedly bigger shows on the fair's schedule. A blues festival featuring a bunch of local musicians, no matter how good they might be, just doesn't carry the same pizzazz as a concert by KC and the Sunshine Band, Smash Mouth or any of the other former chart-toppers making the fair r...

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