24th Annual Prairie Dog Blues Fest Dates Announced!

The 2022 Prairie Dog Blues Fest will be July 29 & 30, 2022.

Welcome to prairiedogblues.com! The Prairie Dog Blues Festival is held every year on historic St. Feriole Island, right on the Mississippi River and nestled between jagged cliffs and green hills untouched by the Ice Age!

Once you get that cold drink in your hand, great tunes in your ear and good, friendly people all around, you’ll realize your at one of the most beautiful venues anywhere. You’ll soon be calling yourself a Prairie Dogger! Blues and Roots music from Chicago Blues to West Coast Jump, hard-driving Mississippi Hill Country Blues, New Orleans horns and Texas Boogie, Zydeco, Gospel, Blues Rock – We’ve got it all!


2021 Blues Fest Line-Up

Friday, July 30th

 5:00pm Ally Venable Band

7:00pm Reverend Raven & The Chain Smokin’ Altar Boys Featuring Westside Andy

9:00pm Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials

11:00pm John Németh

Friday Beer Tent Hooten Hallers

Saturday, July 31st

12:30pm Roscoe Foster and The Rascal Theory

2:30pm Bell Bros. Blues Revival (Lurrie & Steve Bell)

4:30pm Amanda Fish

6:30pm Tony Holiday

8:30pm Altered Five Blues Band

10:30pm Vella

Saturday Beer Tent Avey Grouws Band

Famous Prairie Dog Beer Girls


At the Prairie Dog Fest, you don't have to get out of your chair for a beer. These friendly, beautiful ladies will fetch 'em for ya!

All Kinds of Blues!

A part of the great variety of blues music you will hear at the Prairie Dog Blues Festival.

The Hooten Hallers - Comin' Down the Mountain Altered Five Blues Band - Charmed & Dangerous
Vella - I See Red John Nemeth - Country Boy