In 2010, the Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival raised $50,000 for local charities. Due to the success of last year’s festival, and the dire need of local charities, the Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival will produce a 10th blues festival. The 2011 Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival will be held on May 21st and 22nd at Sandy Point State Park in Annapolis, Maryland. The lineup will be announced as soon as we have received confirmations from the artists.

Chesapeake Bay Events (CBE) held its first festival in 1998.  It has quickly gained national notoriety as one of the premier Blues Festivals in the world.  Outside of providing top caliber entertainment, the festival also gives ALL net proceeds to charity. To date the CBE has raised $800,000 for charities.

Prior year’s recipients included Make A Wish of the Mid-Atlantic and the USO.  This year the recipient charities will be: Special Olympics of Maryland, John Hopkins Cleft and Cranial Facial Children’s CAMP FACE, We Care and Friends, which is an organization providing a wide variety of services to the needy of Annapolis, and Camp Fantastic, a camp for children with cancer which is operated by Special Love, Inc.