2015 Longfellow Roots, Rock & Deep-Blues Festival takes shape

The 2015 Roots, Rock & Deep-Blues Festival, presented by Patrick’s Cabaret, has been renamed The Longfellow Roots, Rock & Deep-Blues Festival.

The 2014 ‘Best of Twin Cities’ (City Pages) and 2014 ‘Best of Minnesota’ (StarTribune) summer music, arts and cultural event is back on Sat., July 18, from noon to 10pm. The most ambitious and accessible neighborhood celebration of the arts and culture of the Twin Cities is also the annual fundraiser for the non-profit community theater Patrick’s Cabaret.

In addition to adding the neighborhood name (Longfellow) to its already laborious acronym, 2015 will see the festival expand into Minnehaha Ave. with the addition of numerous neighborhood restaurants, including Gandhi Mahal, Midori’s, Le Town Talk, El Nuevo Rodeo, African Paradise, Merlin’s Rest and many more, representing an astonishing mix of offerings in the festival’s new International Food Court.’

Patrick’s will present a variety of interactive activities, including; live performance art, an exhibition of visual artists, and the very best local craft sodas, beers, and distilled spirits.

The 2015 festival will feature five music stages, with live entertainment throughout the day and into the night. The festival will include perennial festival favorites like Kent Burnside & The New Generation, Minneapolis’ own ‘Spider’ John Koerner and Duluth’s Charlie Parr, as well as intermittently returning acts like Indiana’s gut-bucket power trio Left Lane Cruiser, local Afro-funksters Black Market Brass and award winning Iowa blues artists Joe & Vicky Price.

As always, there will be exciting fresh faces and sounds this year, including the last living Bentonian-style blues player, Mr. Jimmy ‘Duck’ Holmes, from Bentonia, MS, the Toronto-based punk-blues duo CATL, acclaimed composer, producer (and former Squirrel Nut Zipper leader) Jimbo Mathus and The Tri-State Coalition from Oxford, MS, Minneapolis West-Bank musical legend Willie Murphy & His Angel Headed Hipsters, and local folk-grass trio Last Revel.

Other booked performers include Miss Tess & The Talkbacks, Flood Brothers, Fury Things, Fattening Frogs, Frog Leg, Jeff Ray & The Stakes, Bernie King & The Guilty Pleasures, Mike Munson, Eleganza, Savage Aural Hotbed, and Poverty Hash.

Tickets are $20 for this fully immersive city-central festival experience, with all proceeds going towards continuing the year-round community programming offered at Patrick’s Cabaret. You can purchase tickets online at http://rootsrockdeepblues.com.

While the outdoor festival activities conclude at 10pm, the RRDB Festival party will continue just two blocks away with some very special indoor performances in the ballroom at The Eagles Post 34!