Celebrating the Blues
in Champaign-Urbana
Illinois

2026 Blues Fest

Mark your calendars for the 8th Annual Prairie Crossroads Blues Fest to be held on August 7-8, 2026!

Volunteer For Us

We're always looking for additional volunteers who'd like to get more involved with Prairie Crossroads Blues Society. If you love the Blues and want to contribute in any way, send us an email. We could use help on our Marketing and Educational Committees. If you're interested in volunteering, please send us an email: prairiecrossroadsblues@gmail.com

PAST PCBS Blues events

Prairie Crossroads Blues Society has been producing our annual weekend blowouts since 2018. Revisit all the good times below:

• 2025 Blues Fest
• 2024 Blues Fest
• 2023 Blues Fest
• 2022 Blues Fest
• 2021 Blues Fest
• 2020 Blues Fest
• 2019 Blues Fest
• 2018 Blues Fest

BEFORE 2018

Prior to 2018, two other series of Blues Festivals were annual events in Champaign-Urbana: 

• In the late 1980s, the Urbana Park District produced an annual BLUES AND BLUEGRASS weekend in which they featured national Blues acts on one night, and featured Bluegrass music on the other night. These events took place on Cannonball Hill in Crystal Lake Park.
• Later, in the early 2000s, several blues festivals were produced by Fluid Events in downtown Urbana and downtown Champaign before they eventually went bankrupt. There were no blues festivals in 2016 or 2017, and that's when Prairie Crossroads Blues Society decided to start up our own annual Blues Fest... and the rest is history!

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