The Byron Bay Bluesfest, formerly the East Coast International Blues & Roots Music Festival, is an annual Australian music festival that has been held over the Easter long weekend in the Byron Bay, New South Wales, area since 1990.

Bluesfest has partnered with Moshtix for its ticketing services, ensuring fans have a reliable and secure method to purchase their passes to the festival.

Recognizing the need for flexibility and the unpredictable nature of attendees' plans.

Attendees looking to resell their tickets can easily do so by listing their passes on the platform.

[1] This partnership reflects Bluesfest's commitment to enhancing attendee experience and combatting the issues associated with ticket scalping and fraud.

The festival began in 1990 at the Arts Factory in Byron Bay as a four-day blues music event over the Easter weekend.

Patrons range from locals to international visitors from a wide age range, including celebrities such as Matt Damon, Jason Momoa and Chris Hemsworth.

[2] In December 2004, Keven Oxford, a director and founder of the event, left the festival and sold his 50% share of the company to a consortium comprising Michael Chugg (managing director of Sydney-based Michael Chugg Entertainment), Daryl Herbert (CEO of Melbourne-based Definitive Events) and Glenn Wheatley (CEO of Melbourne-based Talentworks), who ran the festival with co-founder Peter Noble.

[3] In 2010 Bluesfest moved to its permanent home at the 120-hectare Tyagarah Tea Tree farm.

This is an event within the festival dedicated to Indigenous Australian performance, art and culture.

[7][8] The 2021 event, scheduled for 1–5 April,[9] was cancelled one day before it was to commence after a COVID-19 case was detected in Byron Bay.

[10] As of 17 February the festival was still going ahead as the NSW Government had approved its COVID safety plan.

Eddie Brook of the Cape Byron Distillery said that Bluesfest was worth A$100 million to the local economy.

This resulted in Melbourne band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and rapper Sampa the Great withdrawing from the festival in protest.

[16][17] Bluesfest director, Peter Noble, defended the decision to include the band stating that the lead singer of Sticky Fingers had apologised for his past actions and called for the artists to stop living in the past.

[18] After weeks of backlash, it was announced that Sticky Fingers would no longer be on the lineup.

Artists in 2008 included Buddy Guy, Eskimo Joe, The John Butler Trio, Gotye, The Beautiful Girls, Newton Faulkner, Seasick Steve, Charlie Musselwhite, Mavis Staples, John P. Hammond, John Hiatt, Ray Davies, Maceo Parker, Loudon Wainwright III, Ozomatli, Ruthie Foster, Jake Shimabukuro, Keith Urban, Amali Ward, Lior, MOFRO, Dan Sultan, Jeff Lang, The Cat Empire, Clare Bowditch, Raul Midon and Xavier Rudd.

Bluesfest 2021 was cancelled on 31 March 2021 by order of the Minister for Health and Medical Research, due to the discovery of a positive COVID-19 case in Byron Bay the previous day.

The majority of the announced lineup has been confirmed for Bluesfest 2022, which took place over its original Easter weekend scheduling.

The 2023 Byron Bay Bluesfest ran from the 6th to the 10th of April and the line-up included the following artists.

[28] The 2024 Byron Bay Bluesfest ran from the 28th of March to the 1st of April and the line-up included the following artists.