okay - more ideas to prevent you having to crawl away from, what could be, an essentially no win situation, and turn it to your advantage as much as possible.

burn some cds of your most radio friendly song. send e-mails to radio station (with mp3 if you want warning of the arrival of the cd, and your need and your fans need to have the clarification sorted. say you are available for phone interviews.

e-mail the 'story' with a picture of yourself clutching guitar to all the local hicksville papers. they always need a story.

phone an agent and fix up a gig at a local pub for expenses.

if the alleged blues festival oganiser contacts you. tell whichever one of them you fancy to go screw 'emselves.

send out the newspaper stroies again - this time as last minute change of venue story.

the important thing is, empower yourself - don't take this shit lying down!