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Waterfront Blues Festival south main stage. The Waterfront Blues Festival is an annual event in Portland, Oregon, United States featuring four days of performances by blues musicians. The festival started in 1988 and takes place in Tom McCall Waterfront Park, along the west bank of the Willamette River in downtown Portland.
A typical daytime scene on the waterfront (June 2014) Governor Tom McCall Waterfront Park is a 36.59-acre (148,100 m 2) park located in downtown Portland, Oregon, along the Willamette River. After the 1974 removal of Harbor Drive, a major milestone in the freeway removal movement, the park was opened to the public in 1978.
Portland's Waterfront Pride Festival and Parade is had been done every June by Pride Northwest, until it moved to July in 2024 to avoid overlaps with other events in the city. [3] Portland's Pride Weekend is normally scheduled the third weekend following Memorial Day, or the weekend after the conclusion of the Portland Rose Festival. It is a ...
Oregon Brewers Festival (OBF) is a four-day craft beer festival held annually from 1988 to 2019 and 2022 at the Tom McCall Waterfront Park in downtown Portland, Oregon, except in 2020-21 when the COVID-19 pandemic and 2023 when low attendance and hot weather from last year caused it to be cancelled. [1]
Bite of Oregon is an annual food festival held in Portland, Oregon. Considered to be the largest in the U.S. state of Oregon , the three-day event attracts more than 50,000 attendees every year. The festival is held at Tom McCall Waterfront Park .
The Portland Rose Festival is an annual civic festival held during the month of June in Portland, Oregon.It is organized by the volunteer non-profit Portland Rose Festival Foundation (named the Portland Rose Festival Association until the 2000s) with the purpose of promoting the Portland region.
The 2017 festival was held primarily along the waterfront by the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, The Oregon Rail Heritage Museum and the Portland Spirit and across the Willamette River at Zidell Yards, and had smaller installations throughout the city. This year had the official theme of "Between the River and the Stars".
Other events have been held, including the Park Block Revels (held from 1972 to at least 1992), [92] the Oregon Historical Society's Holiday Cheer and Authors Party, [92] the Portland Poetry Festival (held from 1972 to at least 1992), [93] Shakespeare-in-the-Park by the Portland Actors Ensemble, [94] the Meier & Frank Holiday Parade (held from ...