Blues Fest 2019 - is this happening?

I was at the Fogerty/SMB show in Dublin and it looked pretty full. Would imagined the Vam M/Percy P show would have been the same. Doing a third night with Counting Cs and Alison K seemed to be pushing it a bit though. Not sure how sales for all three gigs would have gone down in London and Glasgow

Maybe they should take a step back, book some "smaller" acts and host the gigs in more intimate venues like Vicar S, The Academy, the Olympia or Whelans.

They certainly didn't seem to give them away to people who'd gone on other nights and in previous years - not this particular gig-goer, anyway.

It's beginning to sound as though they got greedy (expanding from two nights to three) and over-stretched themselves. Alison Krause make great music but she's hardly what I'd call blues. Nor is she the sort of artist I'd care to see in a venue as big as the 3 Arena. All of which is not to criticise the 3 Arena which is a splendid place when compared to enormodomes like London's O2.

Also, how many Irish music fans who've seen fat old Van the Man phoning in his greatest hits at festivals for the nth time going to fork out to see him repeating the feat.