Woodystock Blues — A Hand Up Foundation
Our signature fundraiser

The Woodystock Blues Festival

A separate event with its own lineup and tickets — and, since 2013, the engine that funds every grant on this site. Here is how a ticket becomes a scholarship.

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Twelve years of blues, funding one thing.

The festival is a separate event with its own lineup, its own crew and its own tickets. What connects it to this foundation is simple: since 2013 its proceeds have funded our grants.

Buying a ticket is one of the most direct ways to support the work described on this site — and it is a very good night of blues.

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Best of Woodystock Blues Festival, circa 2013–2025, Volume 1

Where the money goes

Festival proceeds become scholarships, tickets and support groups — the four programs on our programs page.

In loving memory

The festival remembers Rock~N~Rick Patterson, Mark St John and Virginia “Ginny” Zalud.

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Musicians, vendors and crew are booked by the festival; foundation volunteers work our tent and outreach table.

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