The Beaumont Blues & Roots Festival 2018
The Beaumont Blues & Roots Festival have begun a new initiative for 2018, and are using the hashtage #ForAGirl in support of it!
#ForAGirl is about women who work hard to hone their craft, learn their instruments, train their voices and perfect their art.
Women who have to work harder, bust the stereotypes and shatter stigmas to achieve the same respect as their male counterparts.
Women who step off the stage and are complimented, commended and judged not by the quality of their song, their musicianship and performance – but by their appearance, what they wore on stage and how they presented themselves.
Women who walk into a venue carrying their own guitar case to be asked by the sound tech “when is your guitar player arriving”.
Women who are asked if they are “buying a gift for their boyfriend” when they are looking at instruments in a music store.
The Beaumont Blues and Roots Festival is donating $1 from every pass sold to the Sexual Assault Centre Edmonton, and guitar pictured below will be available to be won by one of the patrons at this year's Beaumont Blues, with half of the funds raised being donated to the SACE.
Win this autographed guitar!
Guitar donated courtesy of Live Music for Charity to The Beaumont Blues & Roots Festival (BBRF) Society
Autographed by members of the bands who played for the Edmonton Christmas BOW with proceeds
donated to the Edmonton Food Bank
Autographs include members of Front Porch Roots Review, Blues Puppy, Guitarface, Dan Shinnan and Abusin the Blues, Rita McDade & The Fusion Blues Band, Cold Feet, Dirt Road Angels, Rusty Reed Band, Big Daddy, Powerhouze, plus MC Tim Koslo!
THE BEAUMONT BLUES & ROOTS FESTIVAL (BBRF) IS ORGANIZED
BY THE VOLUNTEER RUN BBRF SOCIETY.
