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Wed, 07/02/2025 - 5:30am to 7:00am
Waterfront Blues Festival Special: Portland Blues Greats
Join me on Pastures of Plenty on July 2, 2025 to celebrate music from the best of Portland’s incredible blues musicians to get you in the mood for the Waterfront Blues festival July 4 & 5.
Featured artists include Kelly Joe Phelps, Back Porch Blues, Lauren Sheehan, virtuoso guitarists Terry Robb and Mary Flower, Lloyd “Have Mercy” Jones, and blues harmonica masters Bill Rhoades, Curtis Salgado, and the incomparable Paul deLay.
You’ll hear great vintage performances from past Blues Festivals, including some from the very first event in 1987, called the Rose City Blues Festival until the name was changed to Waterfront Blues Festival in 1991, and more fantastic Portland blues.
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July Folk Concert Calendar
Here is the July Portland Folk Concert Calendar, with a Focus on local blues:
July 2025 Folk Calendar
Let’s start with some music taking place all summer:
• Blue Mondays with Portland blues great Lloyd Jones at Muddy Rudder Pub at 8 pm
• The Americana Harvest Fest at Topaz Farm on Sauvie Island all summer
• Portland Parks & Recreation has free concerts in parks, find the schedule at Summer Free for All
Here is the folk calendar for July:
JULY 4 & 5: WATERFRONT BLUES FESTIVAL
July 4:
• Main Stage
o Son Little
o The Main Squeeze
• Stay and Sway Stage
o Norman Sylvester
o LaRhonda Steele & Bonnie Wright with the PDX Soul Collective
• BLUES CRUISE ON PORTLAND SPIRIT FROM 1 to 10 PM: Sail on Sister with Mary Flower & Lauren Sheehan, Northwest Women Rhythm & Blues, and more
July 5:
• Main Stage
o ZZ Ward
o Southern Avenue
• Stay and Sway Stage
o Lloyd Jones & Mark Shark with the Bayou Boyz
o Ben Rice & the PDX Hustle
July 11-13 OREGON COUNTRY FAIR
• Veneta, OR: no tickets on site!
• Jim Page: Fri & Sat
• T Sisters: Sat
• Ashley Flynn & the Riveters: Sat
• Brian QTN: Sun
TOPAZ FARMS AMERICANA HARVEST FEST
• Sauvie Island
• The Steel Drivers July 10
• Milk Carton Kids July 22
• Blind Pilot & John Craigie July 27 & 28
• More shows in August
ARTICHOKE MUSIC
• July 12 2 to 4 pm Final River City Folk show with Tom May: since 1985!
• July 17 1-230 pm Artichoke Afternoons with Tom May
• July 25 7 pm Avery Hill & Jasper Lepak
• July 27 7 pm Mary Flower with special guest Carla Sciaky
Norman Sylvester plays Fri July 11 at 630 pm at Jamison Square Park at NW 10th & Johnson as part of Portland Parks Summer Free for All
Leo Kottke is coming to the Aladdin Theater on Fri July 11
Curtis Salgado plays the Vancouver, WA Sunday Sounds Concert Series on Sun July 13 at 6 pm at Columbia Tech Center at SE 172nd and Mill Plain in SE Vancouver and Curtis plays the Town Club in Portland on Thu July 17
Mary Flower plays a noontime concert Fri July 18 at the Eastside Jewish Commons at NE 24th & Glisan
Alison Krauss & Union Station play Edgefield Sat July 20
You can contact me at pasturesofplenty@kboo.org to say hi or get more concert information..