Mahindra Blues Festival is back with its 11th Edition in Mumbai
Updated on: 29 December, 2022 04:08 PM IST | Priyak Dhar
Mahindra Blues Festival 2023, Asia’s largest blues music festival, will return to India for its eleventh native edition on February 11 and 12, 2023. The Mahindra Blues Festival venue for the 2023 edition is Mumbai’s iconic Mehboob Studio.
For the last decade, Mahindra Blues Festival has been celebrated as India’s blues mecca, attracting regular attendees from India and around the world. It is considered one of the country’s most important musical landmarks, offering a confluence of established and rising blues acts. The festival is also held twice a year in Chicago at Buddy Guys Legends club, demonstrating its worldwide appeal.
The festival has continued to hone a mix of music while staying true to major Blues act. But the Mahindra Blues Festival 2023 Mumbai is special, for it will honor the final Indian tour of one of blues music’s all time greats, Buddy Guy, whose dramatic, eye-catching smile with a polka-dot Strat still captivates many. On stage, the 85-year-old bonafide legend will perform with prominent Indian and international musicians, including Arinjoy Sarkar and the Arinjoy Trio, Ivan Singh, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, and Taj Mahal, creating soulful compositions that will keep the crowd moving well into the night. This melodic circus will be accompanied by a festive vibe across Mehboob Studio’s stages, courtyard, and garden, plus world-class food courts and malts, making it an unparalleled feast.
True to tradition, the festival has also recently opened entries for the Mahindra Blues Band Hunt, laying the foundation stone for the country’s blues melodies once more. Through this initiative, new Indian blues artists will be discovered, encouraged, and provided with a platform to showcase their talent alongside international music legends on stage and across borders digitally via the world’s largest blues community, The Mahindra Blues community, with a following of more than 2,00,000 people.
Over the years, regulars have been regaled by the performances of greats like John Mayall, Jimmie Vaughan, Taj Mahal, Charlie Musselwhite, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Billy Gibbons, Beth Hart, Johnny Lang, Matt Schofield, Ana Popovic, Shemekia Copeland and a host of others. The Mahindra Blues Festival is, in essence, all about celebrating the blues’ past, present and future – about exalting its legacy, while shining a spotlight on the genre’s contributions to soul, R&B, gospel, rock, hip hop and more.
The Mahindra Blues Festival tickets price start at INR 3,500.
