2016 see's the fifth annual Bowness Bay Blues Festival which takes place in Bowness Bay in Cumbria.

Each and every year the festival boasts a brilliant line up of blues musicians which light up the Lake District. The festival takes place before Easter each year and is a feel good event in so many ways. Each year money is raised for charity with 2015 seeing £6000 being raised for charity which included the Alzheimer's Society and the Multiple Sclerosis Society.