Waterfront Blues Festival 2012



== The festival's 25th anniversary was a rousing success! Festival attendees contributed $902,000 through donations at the gate as well as advance purchases of special passes and DME blues cruise tickets, just shy of the festival’s goal of $945,000. In addition, the festival raised an estimated 116,584 pounds of food, exceeding its goal of 100,000 pounds. More than 120,000 people thrilled to five jam-packed days of the best blues in the world including Steve Miller Band, Elvin Bishop Band with James Cotton, Booker T., Charlie Musselwhite, Toots and the Maytals, Bobby Rush, Otis Taylor, JJ Grey & Mofro, Galactic, The Mannish Boys with Sugaray Rayford, Roy Rogers, Lionel Young, Cedric Burnside Project, James Hunter and more. Perfect weather, committed sponsors and more than 2,300 enthusiastic volunteers also contributed to the festival's success. The festival re-vamped the workshop stage, renaming it the FedEx Crossroads Stage, where artists delivered interviews, workshops and stripped-down sets. ==