Waterfront Blues Festival

The Waterfront Blues Festival (July 1-4 at Portland’s Tom McCall Park) was founded by a Jewish boy from Buffalo, NY, who learned firsthand how much a mitzvah can mean to a hungry person after he was robbed when he arrived in New York City to pursue a music career. Delmark Goldfarb produced the first five festivals, which have benefitted the Oregon Food Bank since the second year. It was Del’s idea to create a family-friendly music event in a Portland park in 1987. Last year the 28th annual festival raised $869,214, providing about 2.6 million meals for Oregonians facing hunger.

Oregon Food Bank’s Waterfront Blues Festival celebrates the Fourth of July each year with a spectacular display of fireworks … the largest July 4 fireworks display in Oregon.

This year’s festival features:

TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND
DR. JOHN & THE NITE TRIPPERS
JJ GREY & MOFRO
JIMMIE VAUGHAN & THE TILT-A-WHIRL BAND featuring LOU ANN BARTON
LIV WARFIELD & THE SPECIAL HORNZ
MACEO PARKER
ZZ WARD
FEMI KUTI & THE POSITIVE FORCE
CURTIS SALGADO BAND
The SOUL REBELS
SAMANTHA FISH
CHUBBY CARRIER & THE BAYOU SWAMP BAND

California Honeydrops
Indigenous
The Record Company
Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys
Liz Vice
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram
Leo Bud Welch
Polyrhythmics
Los Straitjackets
AYRON JONES & THE WAY
Grace Love & the True Loves
and many more TBA!

Volunteer Program
Oregon Food Bank
503-282-0555 Ext. 272

Oregon Food Bank
7900 NE 33rd Dr.
Portland, OR 97211-1918
503-282-0555
www.oregonfoodbank.org