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The 2010 Festival is over and was a geat musical success! We will be back with reviews and pictures shortly. Stay tuned... 

WE are extremely proud and happy to present to you that just in time for the 2010 PIBRF, The Blues Foundation has announced the inductees for the Blues Hall of Fame in 2010, including Louisiana-born, Chicago-based bluesman Lonnie Brooks, blues singer and harpist Charlie Musselwhite and singer, songwriter, guitarist and social activist Bonnie Raitt.

The induction ceremony will be held on May 5 in Memphis, Tennessee, the night before the 31st Blues Music Awards, where each of the inductees will be honored individually. 

Come out to Hilton Arcadia Saturday 27 and enjoy the music of one of the world’s top performers, now rightfully acknowledged as such by The Blues Foundation!

It is with great pleasure and pride we present as main headliner for 2010: The legendary blues artist Charlie Musselwhite and his great band. From the tiniest blues clubs to the world’s biggest festivals, Charlie has played them all. Now he comes to Thailand for the first time, and Saturday February 27 he will play an exclusive concert closing the 2010 show at the Hilton Arcadia.

Featured along with everybody who’s who in the blues world in Dan Aykroyd’s hit movie ‘Blues Brothers 2000’, Charlie is a 40+ year veteran with more than 20 albums, 24 W.C. Handy Awards and 7 Grammy Nominations to his name. The blues music event of the year awaits us, folks!    

Richard Clapton is one of Australia's foremost musicians who emerged in the early 1970s as a talented and ambitious singer-songwriter in the "troubadour" style of artists such as Neil Young and Jackson Browne and who paved the way for three generations of songwriters to write about the experience of being Australian.
While not widely known outside of Australia, he has been a household name in that part of the world since 1975, when his title song from “Girls On The Avenue” soared on the Australian charts.

35 years later he is a popular as ever, and Friday February 26 he comes to Thailand exclusively to perform at the Festival. Let there be hordes of Girls on the Hilton Arcadia Avenue to welcome one of Australia’s top rock'n'roll musicians and his band!   

Rich Harper returns to the Festival by popular demand. Click HERE to listen to a track from his next CD as well as the legendary ballad from his current CD, both written for film.

The festival is a charity event with funds donated to organisations dedicated to local children's education. For 2010 the Festival will support the Rotary Club of Patong, Phuket, and its local education program; and the Phuket Has Been Good To Us foundation, providing high quality English education for local children.