The Great British R&B festival is brought to you by Pendle Leisure Trust "It seems only two minutes ago that we were arranging the first year of the festival and now its our 20th Anniversary, it is a testament to both the quality of artists and our customers that the festival continues to be a success and ongoing landmark in our events calendar.
All of us at Pendle Leisure Trust look forward to many more"
Phil Storey, Chief Executive

This exclusive friend of the festival is once again proud to support us in our 20th Year.
The East Lancashire Community Rail Partnership will be running special late train services during the festival weekend.
An exclusive anniversary, blues music train will leave Preston at 6.31pm on Friday 28th August 2009 and will feature live blues bands and a selection of drinks to get the festival atmosphere going.
www.communityraillancashire.co.uk
Barnfield Construction are delighted to continue our partnership with the Pendle Leisure Trust. We are looking forward to celebrating the festivals 20th year with all the excitement and visitors it will bring into the Borough.
www.barnfieldconstruction.co.uk
We have teamed up with Holiday Inn Express, Burnley, to provide reduced price accomodation of £59 per room per night, when you take up our full festival early booking offer.
To book a room at this promotional rate please click HERE (offer ends 27 June 09)
Selling new releases and all time favourites such as Hill Town Blues, we are proud to have the Blues CD Store as a friend.
Uncle Neil is a longstanding friend and loyal supporter of the festival, be sure to visit him over the weekend.

Since 2000 the band has built up a strong reputation in the North of England for high energy Blues and R&B shows. They have been 'Kings of the Fringe' at the Great British R&B Festival in Colne for the past four years and have established themselves as support band of choice for blues and R&B stars like Dr Feelgood visiting the North of England
It’s made a band that is supremely at home in their natural habitat - on stage, with an audience to entertain...

We have teamed up with Transdev Burnley & Pendle to get you around the area by bus during the Great British R&B Festival.
There’s no need to worry about drinking, driving or parking with frequent Mainline services linking Colne with the rest of the local area.
Services run up to every seven minutes during the day, and with last buses as late as 23.27 to Burnley and 22.47 through to Accrington, there's plenty of time to enjoy the programme of events. On Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday the last bus to Burnley is at 23.07.
For further details of times and information on the full range of tickets, log on to