The festival also has food vendors, an artisan market, beer gardens, workshops, a children's area, and camping.
[4] audiences steadily growing in subsequent years, in 2001 Roots and Blues moved to its current location and became an outdoor festival.
Past festival performers include: Buddy Guy, Downchild Blues Band, Buckwheat Zydeco, Angelique Kidjo, Natalie MacMaster, Jeff Healey, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Bruce Cockburn, Great Big Sea, Tegan & Sara, Mick Taylor, Lee Harvey Osmond, Blue Rodeo, Colin James, Buddy Guy, Feist, Bedouin Soundclash, Corb Lund, Pointer Sisters, Xavier Rudd, Neville Brothers, Spirit of the West, Sam Roberts Band, the John Butler Trio, Joan Armatrading, K'Naan, Taj Mahal, Trombone Shorty, Kid Koala, Adham Shaikh, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, The Shuffle Demons, Serena Ryder, Broken Social Scene, Current Swell, Raleigh, Johnny Winter, Super Chikan, Hollerado, Hazmat Modine, Five Alarm Funk, and City and Colour.
[8] The Balconies, The Belle Game, Ben Waters, BerlinskiBeat, The Bright Light Social Hour, Bruce Cockburn, Cam Penner, City and Colour, Corvus Corax, The Crooked Brothers, Daniel Lanois, Devon Coyote, Expression World Music Collective, Fatoumata Diawara, Felix Zenger, The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer, Harry Manx, Horse Feathers, Jacky Essombe, Jason Collett, Kelley Hunt, Ky-Mani Marley, Malcolm Holcombe, Mighty Mo Rodgers, Mississippi Heat, Oh!
Ogopogo!, Richard Perso, Rita Chiarelli, Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside, Santa Lucia LFR, Selah Sue, Shakura S'Aida, Skratch Bastid, Steve Strongman, Tommy Castro and the Painkillers, Treble Spot Jams, A Tribe Called Red, Vazzy, Watasun.