The 18^th Annual Pocono Blues Festival is coming to Big Boulder, located in the upper Lehigh River Gorge Region of the Pocono Mountains, the weekend of July 24-26.  This award winning three day Blues Festival will showcase 20 of the finest blues artists in the world on three different stages.  

Big Boulder has two-, three- and four-bedroom Mountain Resort Villas for rent throughout the summer that start at $200 per night for some of the two bedroom units, which sleep up to six people.  A two-night minimum stay is required during the Blues Festival, but there's so much to do in the area you may want to spend an extra night or two anyway.

This year's Festival lineup includes Shemekia Copeland, Bernard Allison, the James Cotton Band with Eddy Clearwater, Cedric Burnside and Lightnin' Malcom, Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials, Buckwheat Zydeco, Harrison Kennedy and Fruteland Jackson, Melvin Taylor, Terry Evans, and Saffire - The Uppity Blues Woman; to name just a few. Thousands of music fans from 30 different states and 10 countries have attended past festivals.  

Originally discovered in the late 1700s for its plentiful anthracite coal, the region developed as an industrial center.  Today it offers clear lakes, wide-open countryside and rugged mountains, perfect for outdoor activity.  During the summer visitors enjoy whitewater rafting, hiking, picnicking, swimming, fishing, and especially biking the uninterrupted 25-mile trail that travels downhill along the beautiful, swift flowing Lehigh River from White Haven to Jim Thorpe; nearby to Big Boulder.  The 4,548-acre Lehigh Gorge State Park is well known for its steep walled deep gorge, thick vegetation, rock formations, and many waterfalls.

More information. Mountain Resort Villas Pocono Blues Festival. Or call 570-722-0124.