North Atlantic Blues Festival

The North Atlantic Blues Festival is an annual two-day blues music festival featuring national blues performers and considered one of the most prestigious on the East Coast. The festival is held at the Public Landing in Rockland, Maine, overlooking the picturesque Rockland Harbor. Some of the top names in blues music have been featured. In addition to all day live entertainment, the festival has vendors selling a wide array of food, drinks and crafts.  Saturday evening Main Street is closed to traffic for the NABF Club Crawl.

North Atlantic Blues Festival in Rockland, Maine is proud to announce the July 12/13/2025 line-up. We are bringing to you a group of up-and-coming artists, a few you have seen before, and eight of them will be the first time at the festival. Opening on Saturday will be 17-year-old Harrell Davenport, next up will be Cash Box Kings, then Chris O'Leary followed by Annika Chambers Paul Deslauriers, and last but not least on Saturday Kenny Neal.

Playing between acts on both days will be Street Preacher.
 

On Sunday we will open with the Mid Coast Academy Blues Camp followed by Geminii Dragon, then the 22-year-old 2023 International Blues Challenge Winner Mathias Lattin. Next up will be the band that was nominated at the 2024 Blues Music Awards for Album of the Year, Soul Blues Album of the Year, and Song of the Year The Blackburn Brothers. How about Desoto Tiger featuring Jason Ricci - Damon Fowler and Jonathan Boogie Long. And closing out the festival is a band that reached out to me and said playing at the North Atlantic Blues Festival was on their bucket list so we are honored to have the iconic Canned Heat.