Artists used to send promo packs to venues & festivals. With pics & printed materials. Here are some promotional photos sent to the Fort Smith Riverfront Blues Festival in the 1990s. (The artists all performed there, this stuff was intended for use in ads/promotion)
I just saw the Rick Estrin and the Nightcats yesterday at a local blues festival put on by Little Village Records. Rick is slowing down a bit but can still play the hell out of the harmonica. And Kid Anderson is, of course, a guitar wizard up there with Little Charlie himself.
