27th Annual Prairie Dog Blues Fest Dates Announced!

The 2025 Prairie Dog Blues Fest will be July 24-26, 2025. Tickets on sale online May 15, 2025

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!


2024 Blues Fest Line-Up

Thursday, July 25th

PDBF Kick-Off Party
Free Admission

Beer Tent Stage
Kris Lager BandKris Lager

Friday, July 26th

5:30pm Mud Morganfield (Muddy Water’s son)
Mud Morganfield
7:30pm Albert Castiglia
ALbert Castiglia
9:30pm Wayne Baker Brooks
Wayne Baker Brooks
Friday Beer Tent Kris Lager Band


Saturday, July 27th

1:00pm Stefan Geisinger Band
Stefan Geisinger
3:10pm Alastair Greene
Alastair Greene
5:20pm Big Ray & Chicago's Most Wanted
Big Ray
7:30pm Parker Barrow
Parker Barrow
9:30pm Eric Johanson
Eric Johanson
Saturday Beer Tent Terry Quiett Band
Terry Quiett

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.

Mud Morganfield - SAME THING Live Albert Castiglia - House of The Rising Sun Wayne Baker Brooks - Sooner or Later
Parker Barrow - Count Your Dollars Eric Johanson : The Deep And The Dirty