Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival - Portland, Oregon

Photo by Valerie K. Davis

Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival
Portland, Oregon
July 4-8, 2007

20 years of blues, community
and fighting hunger

The Neville Brothers * Koko Taylor * Joan Armatrading * The Blind Boys of Alabama * Pinetop Perkins * Marcia Ball* James Cotton Band with special guest Hubert Sumlin * Mavis Staples * The Dirty Dozen Brass Band * Voice of the Wetlands Allstars (Tab Benoit, Cyril Neville, Anders Osborne, Johnny Sansone) * Eric Burdon and the Animals * Savoy Brown * Steve Lucky and the Rhumba Bums * JJ Grey and Mofro * Watermelon Slim ... Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks ... and much more!

Celebrate 20 glorious years of blues, community and fighting hunger at the 2007 Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival, presented by First Tech Credit Union. The five-day festival will kick off with a special, 20th anniversary, pre-festival DME Blues Cruise on Tuesday, July 3. The festival opens at noon Wednesday, July 4, and run through Sunday, July 8, 2007, at Tom McCall Waterfront Park on the grassy banks of the Willamette River in downtown Portland.

Since its modest beginnings in 1988, the award-winning festival has grown to be the largest blues festival west of the Mississippi, annually attracting more than 120,000 blues fans from throughout the world.

The musical feast includes four stages and 125 stellar artist performances from throughout the world, including The Neville Brothers, Koko Taylor, Joan Armatrading, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Mavis Staples, Marcia Ball, Pinetop Perkins, Watermelon Slim, James Cotton Band with special guest Hubert Sumlin, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Voice of the Wetlands Allstars (Tab Benoit, Cyril Neville, Anders Osborne, Johnny Sansone), Savoy Brown, Lurrie Bell, Steve Lucky and the Rhumba Bums, J.J. Grey and Mofro, J.W. Jones, Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks and more.

For even more info, visit the official website: www.waterfrontbluesfest.com