Located at the Blues Ranch on the Methow River in the resort town of Winthrop, Washington, the Winthrop Rhythm & Blues Festival is a three-day event packed full of exciting national and regional entertainment for all ages. There is on site camping, food and craft vendors, portable showers, and a beer garden. The Blues Ranch is the perfect setting for one of Washington’s greatest blues festivals. The Winthrop Rhythm & Blues Festival is the largest and longest running festival in the state of Washington. Over eighty thousand people have attended this event in the past twenty-nine years.
2018 Lineup as of posting
LOS LONELY BOYS
CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS
SAMANTHA FISH
LYDIA PENSE & COLD BLOOD
PIMPS OF JOYTIME
TOO SLIM & THE TAILDRAGGERS
THE WELCH LEDBETTER CONNECTION
CURTIS SALGADO/ALAN HAGER & FRIENDS
CURLEY TAYLOR & ZYDECO TROUBLE
DIRTY REVIVAL
BRETT BENTON & GORDON TOWNSEND
‘Ridin’ with the King’ BB KING TRIBUTE
featuring Mark DuFresne, Kim Field, Tim Sherman & John Hodgkin
STEELE WHITE GOSPEL HOUR
featuring Lady “A” & LaRhonda Steele
Samantha Fish, From her chart-topping new album BELLE OF THE WEST!
“…“Blood in the Water” demonstrates Fish’s love of traditional Americana songwriting with violins and bluesy vocals, and the song’s new video, directed by Keith Hoffmann, juxtaposes Fish’s sweet, tantalizing vocals with a dark visual narrative. Fish tells Paste of the inspiration behind the song and video:
I wrote “Blood in the Water” about a suicide of someone I was close to and the fall-out of something so tragic. I was writing about the feelings that come when you are bracing for the worst, the experience of it, and life moving forward after. The main character in the video is running, he’s haunted by the ones that he’s lost. In the end he’s really alone but still running from the guilt that he has created within himself. — pastemagazine.com