27th Annual Prairie Dog Blues Fest Dates Announced!

The 2025 Prairie Dog Blues Fest will be July 24-26, 2025. Tickets on sale online May 15, 2025

Welcome to prairiedogblues.com! The Prairie Dog Blues Festival is held every year on historic St. Feriole Island, right on the Mississippi River and nestled between jagged cliffs and green hills untouched by the Ice Age!

Once you get that cold drink in your hand, great tunes in your ear and good, friendly people all around, you’ll realize your at one of the most beautiful venues anywhere. You’ll soon be calling yourself a Prairie Dogger! Blues and Roots music from Chicago Blues to West Coast Jump, hard-driving Mississippi Hill Country Blues, New Orleans horns and Texas Boogie, Zydeco, Gospel, Blues Rock – We’ve got it all!


2025 Blues Fest Line-Up

Thursday, July 24th

PDBF Kick-Off Party
Free Admission

Beer Tent Stage
Julian Primeaux
Julian Primeaux

Friday, July 25th

5:30pm McKinley James
Mike Zito

7:30pm Josh Hoyer & Soul Colossal
Mike Zito

9:30pm Sugaray Rayford
Mike Zito

Friday Beer Tent Julian Primeaux
Julian Primeaux


Saturday, July 26th

1:00pm Rush Cleveland Trio

3:10pm Madtown Mannish Boys
Madtown Mannish Boys
5:20pm Indigenous
Mike Zito
7:30pm Parker Barrow
Mike Zito
9:30pm Mike Zito
Mike Zito
Saturday Beer Tent Travis Ried Band

Famous Prairie Dog Beer Girls


At the Prairie Dog Fest, you don't have to get out of your chair for a beer. These friendly, beautiful ladies will fetch 'em for ya!

All Kinds of Blues!

A part of the great variety of blues music you will hear at the Prairie Dog Blues Festival.

Sugaray Rayford-Grits Ain't Groceries Mike Zito – "Life Is Hard" live Parker Barrow - Make It
INDIGENOUS Josh Hoyer (2025 Intermational Blues Challenge 1st Place Band)