Saturday Afternoon
Percussion Workshop
Harmonica Workshop
Rock Painting
Tickets $20 per night.
Our festival is located at Victory Park in Keokuk, Iowa.
Victory Park is located on North Water St under the Mississippi bridge. Make sure to bring lawn chairs. Due to park regulations, pets are not allowed. No coolers allowed. Beverages will be available on site.
Please bring non-perishable food items & household supplies of all kinds; laundry supplies, baby food & supplies, pasta, ready meals, canned fruit & veggies,
bathroom supplies, hygiene & home cleaning supplies.
Please give, not because you have to, because someone needs you to.
Baymont Inn 325 Main St., Keokuk, IA 319-313-9000
Hampton Inn-3201 Main St. Keokuk, IA
Keokuk Area Convention and Tourism will once again be providing Shuttle service from local hotels.
Local taxi's are available through 319-524-5555
FREE SHUTTLE SERVICE TO & FROM KEOKUK HOTELS &
HICKORY HAVEN CAMPGROUND
ROLLIN’ ON THE RIVER BLUES FESTIVAL
BROUGHT TO YOU BY:
AUGUST 19TH & AUGUST 21ST
5:00 - 7:30 & 9:30 - CLOSE
The first Rollin on the River Festival in 1989 featured Buddy Holly's
Crickets. In the second year, the festival moved downriver to Keokuk's
Hubinger Landing and featured a reunion of hometown bands. The third
year, the festival received a grant from the Iowa Department of Cultural
Affairs, which gave organizers a much-needed financial boost and the
blues was chosen as the primary music format. The festival was moved to
historic Victory Park, where it remains today.
The event is the longest running blues festival and the only one of
its kind in the Tri-State area. Through the years, Rollin' on the River
has presented some of the finest blues musicians around, including Magic
Slim, Jimmy Thackery, Studebaker John, Joanna Conner, Lonnie Brooks,
Bernard Allison, Buckwheat Zydeco, and Doyle Bramhall, just to name a
few.
In addition to stage performers, ROR presents musical workshops and
young people's activities on Saturday afternoons, along with offering
scholarships and a used instrument lending program for local students.
ROR 2021 SPONSORS
US CELLULAR
CITY OF KEOKUK
CONNECTION BANK
PILOT GROVE SAVINGS BANK
WGEM TV
KRICHEL ANIMAL HOSPITAL
KEOKUK COMMUNITY FINE ARTS COUNCIL
BLESSING HEALTH SYSTEMS KEOKUK
ALLIED BLENDING
ROBERT WOODBURN & JANET SMITH
AMERICAN EYECARE
GOLDEN EAGLE DISTRIBUTING
DAILY GATE CITY
RADIO KEOKUK
ANN ENDERLE
HYVEE KEOKUK
KEOKUK CONTRACTORS
GRIFFIN WHEEL
BOB & JULIE O’NEILL
STEVE SWAN
SUSIE MESSER