28th Annual Prairie Dog Blues Fest Dates Announced!

The 2026 Prairie Dog Blues Fest will be July 23-25, 2026. Tickets on sale online May 15, 2026

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!


2025 Blues Fest Line-Up

Thursday, July 24th

PDBF Kick-Off Party
Free Admission

Beer Tent Stage
Kris Lager Band


Friday, July 25th

5:30pm Mamas Worry


7:30pm Joanne Shaw Taylor


9:30pm Kings of Blues


Friday Beer Tent Kris Lager Band



Saturday, July 26th

1:00pm Dave Orr & The Providers


3:10pm Yates McKendree


5:20pm Russ Green


7:30pm The Jimmys


9:30pm Albert Cummings


Saturday Beer Tent The Other Brothers

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.

Sugaray Rayford-Grits Ain't Groceries Mike Zito – "Life Is Hard" live Parker Barrow - Make It
INDIGENOUS Josh Hoyer (2025 Intermational Blues Challenge 1st Place Band)