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Blues to Rattle Downtown Waterfront
Shooting Forum Fills
Mt. Olivet Church
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Roots-music icon Taj Mahal will kick o ff
a high-wattage opening night. Photo by
Lisa Law
co n tin u ed
Legendary Chicago guitarist Jody Williams is one o f
the many talented musicians who will draw big
crowds to the Portland waterfront this Fourth o f July
holiday weekend. Photo by Dan Machnik
Legendary R&B diva Etta James will
be a star attraction at this year's
blues festival. Photo by Kwaku Alson
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acclaim ed young blues-rockers the
Louisiana/Texas G u lf Coast. The
p erform vintage blues, w hile rock
food w as raised to directly benefit
N orth M ississippi A llstars, legend­
A&E Front Porch stage again will
leg en d S tev e M iller w ill m ake a
the O regon Food B an k 's w ork to
ary C hicago guitarist Jody W ill­
host its popular Zydeco Party, co­
ra re , ’u n p lu g g e d ’ a p p e a ra n c e
e lim in a te h u n g e r and its ro o t
ia m s
and
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Foster.
sands o f volun­
teers and gen­
erous sponsors
m ake this festi­
The A & E Front Porch Stage will
headlined by Little M alcolm and the
serve up after hours, vintage blues
Zydeco Houserockers from Lake
R ogers and harm onica-ace Norton
films w hile the Portland Spirit heads
C h a rle s , L o u is ia n a , an d
Buffalo.
d ow n the W illam ette R iver on a
Francisco’s popular Zydeco Flames.
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w ith s lid e - g u ita r m a s te r R oy
val possible.
F or tic k e ts and m ore in fo rm a­
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late-night B lues C ruise.
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rounding Jam es' death, affirm ed
that the shooting should not be a
“black issue.”
“ My goal is to prevent som e­
thing like this from ever happen­
ing again,” he said.
Francesconi, w ho talked to m in­
isters and police, says his inter­
ests lie in narrowing rules for deadly
force.
He said he w as “very troubled”
to learn from the report that Jam es
w as left unattended and hand­
cuffed after she w as shot.
A frican A m erican sen ato rs
M argaret C arter and A vel G ordly
have found fault w ith the police
departm ent's deadly force proce­
dure and are w orking to change
the policy at the state level.
R o b ert L arry , p re s id e n t o f
Portland’s N A A C P said h e ’s m ak­
ing headw ay on its long-term in­
dependent investigation o f the
police bureau. The investigation,
he said, began before the shoot­
ing and does not focus on Jam es
specifically.
The key issue, according to
Larry, is not m issing the opportu­
nity to get involved w ith the police
review team , assem bled by A ssis­
tant Police C h ief Lynnae Berg,
w hich w ill not m eet until after the
com m unity forum.
He called the review team a “w in­
dow o f opportunity that has not
been opened to us in the last 20
years.” A ccording to Larry, if offi­
cials do not reconsider their selec­
tion o f team m em bers, he and many
other active m inority rights leaders
will be locked out o f the review team
and the policy change.
"T he panel has already been
formed and no one from the N AAC P,
the Latino N etw ork, C opw atch, the
A lbina M inisterial A lliance or any­
one w ho has been actively involved
in this has been invited. T h ey ’re
handpicking civilians w ho histori­
cally rubberstam p decisions,” said
L an y , referring to city em ployees
on the team.
Robert King, president o f the
Portland Police A ssociation issued
a statem en t ex p ressin g “d is a p ­
pointm ent" w ith the c h ie f s d eci­
sion to suspend the officer.
The FBI is continuing a civil
rights investigation to determ ine if
there is evidence o f a federal crim e.
A report on the investigation will
be forw arded to the U.S. D epart­
m ent o f Justice.
A question proposed at the fo­
rum by the m inisterial alliance w as
m et w ith a boom ing audience re­
sponse: “ If n o th in g w as d o n e
w rong in the shooting o f K endra
Jam es can we expect m ore o f the
sam e in the future?”
O n F riday, the festival w ill
celebrate the N orthw est’s su ­
perb blues men and women with
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his Pow erhouse while the A & E
Front Porch Stage will host Bill
R hoades’ annual H arm onica
Blow-Off.
V eteran blues m an Phillip
W alker, backed by the Texas
Young blues-belter Susan Tedeschi
will help celebrate “Women in
Blues ’ during the annual Water­
front Blues Festival.
The North M ississippi Allstars are acclaimed young blues-
rockers schedule to perform opening night during the Waterfront
Blues Festival.
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Licensed
H om s (the resident horn sec-
tion w ill lend its firepow er to sev­
M ardi G ras voodoo w ill prevail
eral acts this year), w ill bring his
on the fe s tiv a l’s tw o alte rn a tin g
lined by G ram m y -n o m in ated S u ­
roadhouse blues to the M iller Blues
m ain stag es— the C o -o p N etw ork
san T ed esch i and Etta Jam es, w ill
Bonded
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ebration o f W om en in Blues, head­
S ta g e . C h ic a g o g u ita ris t Phil
B lu es S tag e and M iller S tag e—
include an all-star revue o f N o rth ­
U pchurch w ill team up w ith Port­
w hen N ew O rlean s slid e -g u ita r
w est B lues W o m en , a g o sp el set
land drum m er Mel B row n and o r­
p h e n o m e n o n A n d e rs O sb o rn e
h o sted by L in d a H o m b u ck le and
ganist Louis Pain for a ja z z ie r p er­
team s u p w ith B ig C h ie f M onk
Janice S croggins, C h icag o ’s hard-
spective on the blues. B oogie-
B oudreaux and the G olden Eagles.
r o c k in ’ s lid e -g u ita r is t J o a n n a
C o n n o r and m ore.
w oogie pianist Pinetop Perkins will
T h e L o u isian a th em e co n tin u es
celebrate his 90th birthday, and
w ith C rescen t C ity piano v irtuoso
The festival annually attracts
Detroit guitarist Eddie K irkland will
H en ry B u tler; th e b lin d , b lu es-
m ore than 120,000 blues fans from
dish out a set o f urban blues.
ro ck g u ita rist B ry an L ee; and
throughout the w orld. Last year,
On Saturday, the festival will spot­
h ard -g ro o v in g P ap aG ro w s Funk.
m ore than S 3 10,000 in donations
light blues from the bayous o f the
Y oung guitarist Sean C ostello will
and m ore than 1 15,000 pounds o f
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Join us for the 1st Annual Wellness Within
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REACH Walk Sat. Septeinfcnr A, 20011
W alk the LS or 4-mllo course.
Start and finish at Dawson Park, located at
N. Vancouver and Stanton in Portland, OR.
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Other event activities begin at 1 :0 0 a.m.
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For more information about participation or to
volunteer contact
the African American Health Coalition, Inc. at
SO3-413-1ISO, whoamor@aahc-porHand.org or
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The purpose of the walk Is to celebrate our
community's health and sustain ongoing free
physical activity classes for African Americans
In the Portland metro area.
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