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The Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival draws thousands downtown to Tom McCall
Waterfront Park.
S ummer
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ENTERTAINMENT
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O pinion
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C alendar
C lassifieds
Blues giant and Grammy Award-winner James
Cotton is part of an amazing Waterfront Blues
Festival lineup.
m usical en tertain m en t that lasts through S unday,
Ju ly 8, at T om M cC all W aterfront Park.
S ponsored by S afew ay and presented by First
T ech Federal C redit U nion, the festival is not only
the biggest blues bash w est o f the M ississippi, it's
also O reg o n F ood B ank's largest fundraiser,
attracti ng m ore than 100,000people from through
out the nation.
This is a not-to-m iss festival," declared Peter
D am m ann, the festival's long-tim e artistic director.
"The lineup's am azing. From Charlie M usselw hite
to Steve M iller, from El vin B ishop to Portland's own
Curtis Salgado, from B ooker T. to Louisiana's
G alactic, from Bettye LaV ette to Bobby Rush,
from Toots and the M aytals to Roy Rogers & the
Delta R hythm Kings ... there's som ething for ev
eryone."
W hat m ak es this festival so special? Picture
y o u rse lf relax in g on the banks o f the beautiful
W illam ette R iver, listening to the best b lues in the
w orld, v iew in g the glacial peaks o f M t. H ood to
the east an d the P o rtlan d sk y lin e to the w est, all
the w hile sm iling at the th o u g h t that you are
h elp in g O reg o n Food B ank fight hunger.
T his am azin g festival is o w n ed and pro d u ced
by O regon Food B ank, a non p ro fit ch aritab le
organization, w ith the m ission to elim inate hunger
an d its ro o t cau ses ... b ecau se no one sh o u ld be
hungry.
T he festival featu res m ore than 150 stellar
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