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Feb 19, 2009 12:04 am US/Pacific

Founder Pulls Plug On 2009 SF Blues Festival

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) ― Lack of funding and rising costs are being blamed for the cancellation of this year's San Francisco Blues Festival.

The event has been running every year since 1973 and the organizer and founder of the event said they're having an almost impossible time getting corporate and business sponsorships and production costs have become stratespheric.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the founder Tom Mazzolini said he may have to pull the plug on the San Francisco Blues Festival for good with the worsening economic picture ahead and the fact that attendance to the festival has been dropping for years.

In year's past they were able to attract as many as 15-to-18,000 people a day and host great musicians like John Lee Hooker, Stevie Ray Vaughan and many others.

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