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Food Bank thanks community for successful Safeway Waterfront
Blues Festival
PORTLAND, Ore. (July 7, 2005) The annual Safeway Waterfront
Blues Festival, presented by First Tech Credit Union, not
only attracts the finest blues artists from throughout the
world, it's also a major fund-raiser to sukpport OFB and its
work to elimiante hunger and its root causes.
Buddy
Guy, Mavis Staples, Shemekia Copela, Oliver Mtukudzi, the
subdudes to highlight 2005 Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival,
July 1-4, 2005
The 2005 Safeway Waterfront Blues
Festival, presented by First Tech Credit Union, includes some
of the finest blues artists in the nation.
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Find out
who's performing on six different Blues Cruises
Cruise the Willamette River on
the Portland Spirit with Charlie Musselwhite, Kenny Neal Band,
Mark Lemhouse, Dufy Bishop, Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster
Gentlemen, Guitar Shorty, the Campbell Brothers, Doyle Brahmhall,
the Vipers and many, many more. Read
more
HSBC Workshop
Stage highlights The Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival
offers a full line-up of educational workshops, performances
and children’s programming. Read
more.
Northwest
Film Center invites blues fans to two special outdoor screenings
on the Oregonian A&E Front Porch Stage at the 2005 Safeway
Waterfront Blues Festival.
Read more.
Handy Award
Winners to perform at Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival Mavis
Staples, Charlie Musselwhite, Shemekia Copeland
and Kenny Neal & Billy
Branch all won 2005 Handy Awards at the prestigious
26th annual W.C. Handy Ceremony in May. And they all will
perform at the 2005 Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival in Portland
in July. Read more.
Oregon Potters
to create thousands of Empty Bowls
Blues fans will find more than music
at the 18th annual Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival, July
1 to 4. They'll also find thousands of beautiful, handcrafted
bowls. read more >>
May
25, 2004--Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival 2004 announces
performance schedule
May 25, 2004--2004 Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival today
announced the performance schedule for each of the four fabulous
festival days. Headliners include Keb' Mo, Jonny Lang,
Canned Heat and The Holmes Brothers and more.
Festival
talent coordinator receives national Keeping the Blues Alive
Award
The national Blues Foundation honored Peter Dammann, talent
coordinator for the Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival, with
the prestigious 2001 Keeping the blues Alive Award for Promoter
of the Year. read
more >>
June
21, 2004 --Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival to celebrate
Howlin' Wolf
June
21, 2004 --Household Workshop Stage to offer more workshops
for children, novices and experts
June
3, 2004 -- Northwest Film Center to present two late-night
screenings: 'Hubert Sumlin: Living the Blues' and 'The Howlin'
March
10, 2004 -- Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival 2004 celebrates
the blues, July 2 to July 5, 2004.
Safeway
Waterfront Blues Festival and Portland Spirit to present five
fabulous Blues Cruises
May
25, 2004 --Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival 2004 announces
performance schedule
Portland's
Genuine Blues to benefit Oregon Food Bank
June
21, 2004 --Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival to celebrate
Howlin' Wolf
June
21, 2004 - Household Workshop Stage to offer more workshops
for children, novices and experts
June
3, 2004 Northwest Film Center to present two late-night screenings:
'Hubert Sumlin: Living the Blues' and 'The Howlin'
Safeway
Waterfront Blues Festival 2004 to feature Keb Mo and Jonny
Lang
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