Article: Quincy blues fest picks up the beat

QUINCY -- Joe Hajjar has attended some of the legendary rock shows on the South Shore. He saw Janis Joplin at Ridge Arena in Braintree. He saw Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue in Plymouth. And that doesn't include catching Led Zeppelin, Jeff Beck and a host of others at the Boston Tea Party back in the '60s.

These days, Hajjar is creating his own concerts. He runs the only all-blues club on the South Shore in the Yardock Cafe (also known as Joe's Pub), right across from the old Quincy shipyard. And he's about to produce his third City of Presidents Blues Festival, slated for Veterans Memorial Stadium next Sunday.

The lineup for the blues fest reads like a Yardrock Who's Who. In order, ...

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