The 2018 Blues & Roots on Water Street Festival will be 6 p.m. to midnight Saturday in Batavia. The event will take place at the Kiss the Sky and Water Street Studios complex, 160 S. Water Street, Batavia. The festival is a one-day, two-stage, five-act, indoor, limited-ticket intimate festival, featuring some of the finest in Roots, Americana, and Blues, that the Chicago area, and Austin, Texas have to offer!
The headliner on the Blues Stage will be Alligator recording artist, The Cash Box Kings. Immediately prior to the Kings, Delmark Records recording artist Dave Specter, just coming from his Chicago Blues Festival performance, will set the mood and tone on the Blues Stage which is within the friendly confines of Kiss the Sky.
Multi-genre three-piece virtuoso musicians, Anderlik, Otto & Church will start things off in the Roots Lounge in the Dock Room of Water Street Studios. Austin, Texas roots band Beth Lee and the Breakups will follow while Chicago’s Devil in a Woodpile will close the evening in hoedown fashion in the Roots Lounge.
The doors will open at 6 p.m. with performances at 7 p.m., 8 p.m., 8:45 p.m., 9:45 p.m., and 10:30 p.m..
Tickets for the festival are limited to 300 and are available online at Eventbrite at bit.ly/2Js9naA. Tickets may be purchased at Kiss the Sky and Water Street Studios. Tickets purchased in advance are $25. and $30. at the door.
— Dave Glynn
