For over 20 years, the festival lawn of Deer Lake Park in Burnaby played host to a wide array of veteran and emerging professional blues and roots artists originating from around the world. The Burnaby Blues + Roots Festival has featured artists such as k.d. lang, Nathaniel Rateliff, Blue Rodeo, Fleet Foxes, Colin James, Feist and more.
Past artists
Over the years we’ve had some amazing artists at the festival!
- Fleet Foxes
- Allison Russell
- The Dip
- Boy Golden
- The Trade-Offs
- Bebe Buckskin
- The War on Drugs
- Kathleen Edwards
- The Soul Rebels
- Ruby Waters
- Balkan Shmalkan
- Robert Connely Farr
- Feist
- Lord Huron
- Dan Mangan
- The War & Treaty
- William Prince
- Southern Avenue
- Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
- The Rural Alberta Advantage
- Nikki Lane
- The Suffers
- Begonia
- Amythyst Kiah
- Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
- Matt Anderson
- Sue Foley
- Leeroy Stagger
- Jesse Roper
- Murray Porter
- Little Miss Higgins
- Jesse Waldman
- Kaya Kurz
- Colin James
- Frazey Ford
- Cyril Neville and the Royal Southern Brotherhood
- Como Mamas
- Lindi Ortega
- Billy Dixon
- Dawn Pemberton
- Ben Rogers
- Wes Mackey
- Cecile Doo-Kingue
- Shred Kelly
- Rich Hope
- Sheep Dogs
- Lee Fields & The Expressions
- Ruthie Foster
- Nathan & The Zydeco Cha-Chas
- Eagle Rock Gospel Singers
- Harpdog Brown & the Travelling Blues Show
- Devin Cuddy
- Jesse Roper
- Colleen Rennison
- Jim Byrnes & Sojourners
- Terra Lightfoot
- Sibel Thrasher
- Big Sugar
- Matt Anderson
- Bettye Lavette
- Imelda May
- The Harpoonist
- Steve Kozak
- Wide Mouth Mason
- Chic Gamine
- Rich Hope
- Shakey Graves
- Blind Boy Paxton
- Miss Quincy
- Blue Rodeo
- Charles Bradley
- ZZ Ward
- Shakura S’Aida
- Ndidi Onukwulu
- David Gogo
- Jon and Roy
- The Sojourners
- John Lee Sanders
- Vince Vaccaro
- Brickhouse
- Shaun Verreault
- Indigo Girls
- Jimmie Vaughan
- Amadou & Mariam
- Meshell Ndegeocello
- Kelly Joe Phelps
- The Deep Dark Woods
- The Washboard Union
- No Sinner
- k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang
- John Mayall
- Imelda May
- Luke Doucet and The White Falcon
- Matt Andersen
- The Secret Sisters
- Current Swell
- Taj Mahal
- Kenny Wayne Shepherd
- Serena Ryder
- Lukas Nelson & The Promise of the Real
- Colin Linden
- Little Miss Higgins
- Yukon Blonde
- Zaac Pick
- Smoky Robinson
- Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
- Keb’ Mo’
- David Lindley
- JJ Grey & Mofro
- Raul Malo
- Tinsley Ellis
- Oh Susanna
- Rich Hope and His Evil Doers
- Colin James
- Jonny Lang
- Ryan Shaw
- Dirty Dozen Brass Band
- Shelby Lynne
- Tommy Castro
- Tom Taylor featuring Steve Dawson and Shari Ulrich
- Los Lonely Boys
- Allen Toussaint
- Dr. John
- James Cotton
- James Hunter
- BeauSoleil
- Otis Clay
- The Mud Bay Blues Band
- Buddy Guy
- Koko Taylor and her Blues Machine
- Susan Tedeschi
- The Be Good Tanyas
- Steve Riley and the Mamou Players
- The Holmes Brothers
- Neville Brothers
- The Wailin’ Jennys
- Johnny Clegg
- Lhasa
- Mem Shannon
- Colin James
- Rosanne Cash
- Buckwheat Zydeco
- Jaojoby Eusebe
- Jim Byrnes
- Tarbox Ramblers
- Remy Shand
- Wide Mouth Mason
- Shemika Copeland
- Big Lack Johnson and the Oilers
- Dr Z and the MDs
- The Twisters
- Ike Turner and the KIngs of Rhythm
- Eddie Cotton
- Kelly Hunt
- David Gogo
- Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne
- Sonny Rhodes
- Big Bill Morganfield
- Colin James
- Sue Foley
- The Holmes Brothers
- Duke Robillard Band
- Joe Lewis Walker
- Deborah Coleman
- Robert Cray
- Billy Branch and the Sons of Blues
- Jim Byrnes
- The Frankie Lee Show