The festival also serves as a showcase for Portland’s homegrown music community, with performances from local legends like Curtis Salgado, Mel Brown and Norman Sylvester. Over the course of four days and four stages, the festival features a dynamic lineup of 64+ blues, soul, funk and R&B...
Over the Fourth of July weekend, crowds of more than 100,000 will attend the Waterfront Blues Festival in downtown Portland, grooving to a star-studded lineup of blues artists by the river.Known far and wide as a gay-friendly destination, Rose City is open and accepting to every kind of...
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“Me and you with the sunset blues.”“With everyone either trapped together or forced to stay apart, I think the pandemic made relationships in general feel a lot more intense for people,” says Bluhm. “That definitely came through in the music.”Though a pair of tracks here pre-date ...
He’s been part of the old-time music community in the Pacific Northwest for 20 years and has spent that time developing his repertoire of folk songs, banjo instrumentals, jug-band tunes, and country blues. More recently Paul has begun writing his own songs with topics ranging from the ...
(Donât let the kiddies play in that part.) Brewer Tomas Sluiter came aboard a decade ago and tightened up the recipes and is known to make some great festival beers like Cherried Alive, the surprise hit of last yearâs Oregon Brewers Festival. But while hopheads will ...
The analog era is alive and well at Mississippi Records, which specializes in international, blues and soul recordings. The shop has turntables, listening stations and even its own line of releases on vinyl and cassette.Portland Record Stores From vintage wax to new European imports, those rare ...
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