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Article: The rhythm and the ride ; The Bikes and Blues Festival offers two days of live music this weekend
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- St. Joseph News-Press
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- September 11, 2009
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There needs to be a bit of explanation behind the upcoming third
annual Bikes and Blues Festival.
While it's taking place the same weekend the Tour of Missouri
rolls through St. Joseph, there isn't a direct correlation or
cooperation between the City of St. Joseph and the Bikes and Blues
Festival, but Coleman Hawkins Jazz Society president Mark Sheehan
insists the theme should stick.
"We want to keep it a bikes and blues thing," he says. "There may
be a time they don't have a bicycle race in St. Joe. (But) we'll
still be around."
That's because the "bikes" in Bikes and Blues are the motorized
kind and part of the reason the festival started in the first place.
The first Bikes and Blues ...