American Folk Blues Festival (AFBF)

American Folk Blues Festival ( AFBF ) From 1962 to 1972, the American Folk Blues Festival, featuring no less than eighty different artists, popularized blues music all over Europe. The project initiated by German jazz critic Joachim-Ernst Berendt came to life thanks to Willie Dixon who recruited most of the musicians and mentored them for the first three years. The tour was produced by two blues enthusiasts from Hamburg, Horst Lippman and Fritz Rau. The show met with instant success, and in…