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Article: This weekend's Boston Blues Festival is based on Trust; Hub swings to blues fest.
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- The Boston Herald
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- September 25, 1998
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Boston's Hatch Shell will bluster with blues this weekend when the annual Boston Blues Festival brings two free days of local and national acts to the Esplanade.
The festival is the work of an organization called Blues Trust Productions. And without trust, this event would never occur.
"Most of the acts are friends, and they're doing the festival on faith," said the Trust's Greg Sarni.
And they're doing it with a minuscule budget. "The octogenarians Honeyboy Edwards and Howard Armstrong are being paid first. We don't want to keep them waiting. Whatever money is left over goes to the other acts. We're all doing this to promote the local blues ...