Sonoma County Blues Festival gets new home

<p>Bill Bowker's Blues Fest has a new home and that's good news.</p><p>The 30th Sonoma County Blues Festival will happen Saturday, July 31, on the lawns of the Earle Baum Center of the Blind on Occidental Road.</p><p>KRSH DJ Bowker staged the last 19 blues shows during the Sonoma County Fair but went looking for another venue when fair officials eliminated the fest to cut costs.</p><p>A big hand, please, for Earle Baum Center director Allan Brenner, a music lover happy to add a companion show to Earlefest, an Americana festival that rocks the center in September.</p><p>And to Bowker's boss at Wine Country Radio, Bob Sinclair, who agreed to keep the Blues Festival alive by becoming its producer.</p>