List of blues festivals in Canada

This is a list of blues festivals in Canada. These festivals—which celebrate Canadian blues music, and often times roots music as well—range from small, community-based festivals that feature mostly local performers, to major corporate-sponsored festivals that draw nationally and internationally-prominent blues musicians.

Some of the larger festivals in Canada include the Ottawa Bluesfest, Bluesfest Windsor, the Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival in Fredericton, Tremblant International Blues Festival in Mont-Tremblant, and the Edmonton's Labatt Blues Festival. These festivals, which are usually organized by volunteer-based blues societies, are an important part of the Canadian blues scene.

British Columbia

 * Burnaby Blues + Roots Festival — August in Burnaby
 * Harbour Blues 'N Roots Festival (formerly Vancouver Island Blues Bash) — Labour Day weekend in Victoria
 * Hornby Island Blues Workshop — May in Hornby Island
 * Pender Harbour Blues Festival — early June in Pender Harbour
 * Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival — August in Salmon Arm, in B.C. Interior
 * Summertime Blues Festival — August in Nanaimo

Alberta

 * Beaumont Blues & Roots Festival — June (previously Labour Day weekend) in Beaumont
 * Calgary International Blues Festival — summer in Calgary
 * Calgary Midwinter Bluesfest — February in Calgary
 * Edmonton Blues Festival — August in Edmonton

Saskatchewan

 * Regina Blues Association’s Mid-Winter Blues Festival — in Regina
 * Saskatoon Blues Festival — end of February in Saskatchewan

Manitoba

 * Great Woods Music Festival — August in Beausejour
 * Winnipeg BBQ & Blues Festival — August in Winnipeg

Ontario

 * Aurora Winter Blues Festival — in Aurora
 * Barrie Jazz and Blues Festival — June (2nd weekend) in Barrie
 * The February Blues — February in Barrie
 * Bluesfest International — July in Windsor and London
 * Bluesfest Windsor — July in Windsor
 * Boon's House Blues & Roots Festival — July in Hamilton
 * Burlington Jazz & Blues Festival — July in Burlington
 * Canal Bank Shuffle — October in Thorold
 * Capitol Centre's Bluesfest — in North Bay
 * Coal Flats Blues Festival — September in Port Burwell
 * Escarpment Blues Festival — mid-July in Milton
 * Kitchener Blues Festival — August in Kitchener
 * Limestone City Blues Festival — late August in Kingston
 * London Blues Festival — August in London
 * Mudcat Blues Fest — August in Dunnville
 * Orangeville Blues and Jazz Festival — first weekend of June in Orangeville
 * Orillia Spring Blues Festival — Orillia
 * Oshawa Jazz and Blues Festival — August in Oshawa
 * Ottawa Bluesfest — July in Ottawa
 * Paisley Blues Fest — June (1st weekend) in Paisley, Ontario
 * Porquis Blues Festival — early July in Porquis
 * Port Credit Blues and Jazz Festival (also called the "Southside Shuffle") — early September in Port Credit, Mississauga
 * Stratford Blues and Ribfest — June in Stratford
 * Thunder Bay Blues Festival — July in Thunder Bay
 * Toronto BluesFest — June in Toronto
 * Twisted Pines Blues Festival — May in the Midland/Penetanguishene area
 * Wasaga Beach Blues — September in Wasaga Beach
 * Winterfolk Blues & Roots Festival — in Toronto
 * Women in the Wilds Blues Festival — September in Atikokan, Northwestern Ontario

Quebec

 * Festival de Jazz et Blues de Saguenay — April in Chicoutimi
 * West Island Blues Festival — June in Pierrefonds/Roxboro, Island of Montreal
 * Montreal International Jazz Festival (Blues Stage) — June in Montreal
 * Tremblant International Blues Festival — July in Mont-Tremblant
 * Sherblues & Folk — July in Sherbrooke
 * l'Ile en Blues — August in Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans
 * Les Nuits Blues Laurentides — August in Saint-Sauveur
 * Festival de Blues de Donnacona — August in Donnacona
 * Trois-Rivières en Blues — August in Trois-Rivières
 * Festival de Blues de Joliette — October in Joliette

Atlantic Canada

 * Dutch Mason Blues Festival — August in Truro, Nova Scotia
 * Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival — September in Fredericton, New Brunswick
 * Wreckhouse International Jazz & Blues Festival — early July in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
 * Blues d'la Baie — July (3rd weekend) in Petit-Rocher, New Brunswick