Blues Caller: Gladstone BluesFest, open jam at Crosstown
Blues fans have reason to be glad this weekend — and, to carry the pun further, cause to get stoned. The (mostly free) Gladstone BluesFest kicks off on Friday at Oak Grove Park in North Kansas City (76th and North Troost).
On Friday night starting at 6 p.m., see locals King King, northeast Missouri’s B.J. Allen & Blue Voodoo and, all the way from Atlanta, the Chris Duarte Group. 
Starting at 2 p.m. on Saturday afternoon, hear locals Mark Montgomery & Max Berry and J.P. Soars and the Red Hots, Wichitans Moreland & Arbuckle, Louisiana’s Rosie Ledet & the Zydeco Playboys and Chicago bluesman Guitar Shorty.
It’s free to enter the gates but parking is $5. Coolers are welcome, but dogs and alcohol are not.
