Artists
- Rick Estrin & the Nightcats
- Blood Brothers
- The Temperance Movement
- Elles Bailey
- EDEN BRENT
- Jontavious Willis
- Kaare Virud Band
- Women in Blues and Gospel featuring Rita Engedalen, Margit Bakken, Eden Brent & Kim Fairchild
- Rita Engedalen & Band
- TORA DAA
- Bjørn Berge
- Notodden Bluesband
- SPOONFUL OF BLUES FAMILY REVIVAL
- Good Time Charlie
- JT Lauritsen & The Buckshot Hunters
- SPOONFUL OF BLUES
- The Norwegian Soulband
- Daniel Eriksen Trio
- Adama Janlo
- E-76
- Anita Nordheim Blues n' Groove Company
- RELOADED NORWAY
- LADY J AND HER BADA BING BAND feat. TOMMY LARSEN
- Byting
- Norske Menn i Hus og Hytte
- Guy Collins & The Groove Machine
- The Lowdown Saints
- Terry Lehns
- Blue Benders
- DEAL
- Otto Junior feat Ella Mandt
News
Stave Church Concert, Blues Cruise and known names are added to the rooster!
It is not a Notodden Blues Festival without new exciting musical encounters.
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Blood Brothers and Good Time Charlie added to the line up for 2026!
Two wonderful reunions added to the line up for Notodden Blues Festival 2026!
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New major artist release for Notodden 2026
On Friday, December 5th, Notodden Blues Festival offers a new big artist lineup.
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Thirteen artists ready for NBFs first release for 2026!
It is with pride and enthusiasm that we at Notodden Blues Festival can launch the first artists for next year's festival.
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The soul-singer Rag 'n' Bone Man is coming back!
It is now clear that it will be last year's mega success, Rag 'n' Bone Man, which will top Blues Saturday at Notodden on August 2nd.
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Legendary band back to Notodden for the first time in 17 years!
Legendary American band Little Feat return to Notodden Blues Festival for first time In 17 years, to perform an exclusive Scandinavian show on Saturday August 2nd 2025.
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Listen to the official playlist from Notodden!
Get to know one of Europes biggest blues festivals!
Notodden Blues Festival, abbreviated NBF, is a blues festival that takes place at Notodden in Telemark county, and is one of Northern Europe's largest blues festivals.
The festival was organized for the first time in 1988 and then sold approx. 2,000 tickets with a turnover of approx. NOK 200,000. In 2011, 18,000 people bought tickets and it is estimated that approx. 31,400 people visited the festival's official events.
The festival received Telemark county's cultural award in 1998. Notodden Blues Festival was voted the world's best blues festival in 2010, and received the Keeping The Blues Alive Award from the American blues organization Blues Foundation as visible proof of that.
Notodden Blues Festival has a close collaboration with LO and many of LO's confederations, which have been main sponsors for several years. Among other things, the "LO family" is behind a large solidarity concert on the festival's closing day..
