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Music fans not singing blues at festival

Little girls shaking their pigtails, grandmothers shaking their tail feathers and everyone bobbing their heads and tapping their feet. This was the scene at the 2006 Old Town BluesFest on Friday. The free two-day festival was filled with plenty of music, food and blues fans. The annual event attracted about 10,000 people, many of them traveling from out of state, on Friday and Saturday nights, said Terry Terry, a founder of the blues festival and member of the nonprofit Old Town Business & Art Development Association. "It's just a great atmosphere," he said.