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Earlybird tickets are called that for two reasons — you must buy them early to get a discounted price, and these tickets have the added advantage of starting earlier than the “official” start of the Chicago Blues Tour. The Winter 2010 tour, January 16, 2010, includes 10 live blues bands playing at 8 clubs, with shuttle bus transportation and all admissions included in your ticket. You will need money to pay for drinks — you don’t have to drink alcohol, but the venues require a one-drink minimum purchase per set.
You will receive a map of the shuttle-bus routes which connect all the venues, as well as a schedule which will let you know when the buses depart at each club. Between 1 a.m. and 1:30 a.m., all shuttles gather up passengers and return downtown. The “Earlybird” departures take people to the smaller venues, which start earlier in order to ease overcapacity issues later in the evening when the tour is in full swing, so it’s a big advantage to get in to one of the small venues early when you essentially “have it to yourself”. We discount these tickets in return for people helping us distribute the crowd before the tour starts so that shuttle capacity matches the capacity required at the various venues. (If everyone started at the same place and time, the logistics would be difficult to impossible).
