Jacksonville Blues Festival started singing at Cafeteria, a local dive bar. The bassist use to listen to tapes constantly as a child. The guitarist used to annoy his uncle by playing his favorite record nonstop. The members of Jacksonville Blues Festival met in 1976. The group harassed the local radio station to play their first single.

Jacksonville Blues Festival's members hope this tour and the new release attracts another audience. The band is in the midst of the tour accompanying for their new project.

After the single hit the airwaves and became incredibly popular, Jacksonville Blues Festival knew they’d made it big and were not willing to be just another one hit wonder. The group really enjoys performing and is playing almost nightly before fans. got X90.9 to start playing their single and had their friends call in to request the song. A record executive heard it one day and immediately signed the band. The group group played festivals, parties, bars, really just about anywhere that would take them.

Jacksonville Blues Festival knew that they were truly working musicians after the band’s first fan club was started in 1988 by Maria Kostner. The fan club may have just started out with a few members that followed the band when the played in small clubs, but it quickly grew to thousands after the group released its first album and started touring nationally.

Orlando has always been receptive to the band, even when they were small time, so the group schedules a show there every year, even if they are not touring. Jacksonville Blues Festival appreciaites their fans and wants to give them a good show, so they play previous hits along with the newest singles. The group’s tour schedule and concert information is outlined on TheSeats.com, along with the latest Jacksonville Blues Festival tickets and seating charts available.