The August Blues Festival (originally called Augustibluus) is a blues music festival in Haapsalu, Estonia. The festival takes place inside the walls of Haapsalu Castle and since its inception in 1993 has become the biggest blues festival in Estonia.
Besides hosting Estonian blues musicians, there have been guests from Finland, Sweden and the United States of America, including Jimmie "Bluesman" Lawson from Oklahoma.
In 1998, the festival introduced the first American car convention in Estonia.
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