(PORTLAND, OR) – The Waterfront Blues
Festival is the largest celebration of blues, soul, funk, and rhythm &
blues west of the Mississippi. Join us for a long weekend filled with amazing
performances across four stages, food, vendors, river boat cruises, and more!
Highlights include Grammy-winning
bluesman Robert Cray, up-and-coming Hawaiian blues guitarist Ron
Artis II & the Truth, the explosive MarchFourth marching
band, and San Francisco Bay Area soul/funk pioneers Lydia Pense & Cold
Blood are among more than 100 acts at the award winning 32nd Annual
Waterfront Blues Festival July 4-7, 2019 at Tom McCall Waterfront Park (SW
Naito Pkwy Portland, Oregon). Gates open at 11 am and music begins at noon. The
festival is all ages.
This year’s festival will feature more than
100 performances on four stages, after-hours concerts, workshops and blues
cruises on the Willamette River. Lineup highlights include: Trombone
Shorty & Orleans Avenue • The Robert Cray Band • Karl Denson’s Tiny
Universe • Vintage Trouble • MarchFourth • St. Paul & The Broken Bones •
The California Honeydrops • Larkin Poe • Cyril Neville • Shemekia Copeland •
Chubby Carrier & Bayou Swamp Band • Curtis Salgado • Sugaray Rayford •
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram • Southern Avenue.
Get tickets here. Blues Fan get $5 Off with code PipeBlues and Blues Buddy get $10 Off with code PipeBuddy.