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TRINIDADDIO BLUES FEST with several blues acts; of which, the opening performance is funded by the nonprofit CO Blues Society. trinidaddio.com and the event and formed the Board of Directors Both trinidaddiobluesfest.com work to inform of Trinidaddio Blues Fest, Inc., a Colorado the public about each year’s event, as well as 501(c)3 Charitable Corporation. provide information about the Fest and the Heeding the call of longtime fans and Set up for the Saturday event begins on dedicated supporters, members of the board of Wednesday by laying out where all of the tents Trinidad area and serve as venue for on-line directors of the hard-working Colorado non- & booths will be located. On Thursday a crew ticket and merchandise sales. After suspending the Fest early in profit have been diligently planning details comes in to erect the large preferred seating of the day long Fest to be held on Saturday, tent(s). The remaining layout is finished and 2012, the board of directors voted to move August 27, 2016, at Central Park in Trinidad. The Trinidaddio Blues Fest is Back! The Trinidaddio Blues Fest is an annual, day long, end-of-summer (Saturday of the weekend before Labor Day), outdoor event. First held in 1999 at the “Elm Street Station” with an estimated attendance of 900, it grew to 1,500 in 2000 and the decision was made, with the co-operation of the City of Trinidad (pop. approx. 9,000) to move to its current venue at Central Park. The festival quickly became the largest single event in Trinidad, drawing as many as 6,000 visitors to the community from throughout the region, especially from along the I-25 corridor from Denver to Albuquerque. Over a three-day weekend, it brings hundreds of thou