The Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival is a week-long, total-immersion experience that passes down the skills, sounds, stories, laughter, and heartache of the authentic bearers of the blues tradition. For many, it’s a pilgrimage. For others, it’s an intensive week of deeply satisfying music-making. For all, it’s a chance to learn new tunes and styles, and to take playing and performing to a new level. The 2012 Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival will happen July 29-August 5. Early bird tuition is $535 until June 29 - after this date tuition goes up $100. There is a deposit required to register for this workshop - $100, or if you're applying for a scholarship $50.