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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 .
MarchFourth Marching Band (now known as MarchFourth, or M4 for short) is an American musical and performance group based in Portland, Oregon.Costumed as a "psychedelic punk rock marching band circus troupe [1]," M4’s show features electric bass, guitar, a 4-piece percussion corps, a 7-part horn section, dancers, acrobatics, stilt-walkers, a live visual artist, and a diverse musical repertoire.
The Candlelight Cafe & Bar, also known as the Candlelight Room, [1] [2] was a blues bar and restaurant located at Southwest 5th and Lincoln in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. [ 3 ] Description and history
Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B. B. King, was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending, shimmering vibrato, and staccato picking that influenced many later electric guitar blues players.
Holland International Blues Festival 2016 Grolloo, Netherlands [28] National Jazz and Blues Festival: 1961: London, England Focsani Blues Festival 2016 Focșani, Romania: Blues Peer (Belgium Rythmn 'n' Blues) 1986: Peer, Belgium: American Folk Blues Festival: 1962: Europe: Bath Festival of Blues 1969: 1969: Bath, England Bath Festival of Blues ...
MusicfestNW (MFNW) was a multi-venue music festival that took place every fall in Portland, Oregon from 2001 to 2018. In 2014 the format of the festival changed to a two-day waterfront music festival. The festival was organized by the alternative weekly Willamette Week. Its sister festival, TechfestNW (TFNW), ran from 2012 to 2021.
PDX Pop Now! is a local annual music festival held in Portland, Oregon, and a 100% volunteer-run registered 501(c)(3) non-profit [1] [2] organization that organizes and promotes the festival event. It consists of a two-disc compilation released in spring; a multi-day, free, all-ages music festival in the summer; and school and community ...
B. B. King (1925–2015) was an American blues musician whose recording career spanned 1949–2008. As with other blues contemporaries, King's material was primarily released on singles until the late 1950s–early 1960s, when long playing record albums became more popular.