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‘Tfte Waterfront piues Festival
features' the largest. luly..4th
fireworks display in Oregon.
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c o n t i n u e d f r o m front
Z eppelin vocalist and songw riter
Robert Plant, presenting the Sen­
sational Space Shifters. A festival
pass is required for Sensational
Sunday.
O ther perform ers for the festi­
val include Joe Louis W alker, in­
ducted in M ay into the Blues Hall
o f F am e; T oo S lim and the
Taildraggers with their first O r­
egon appearance since relocating
to N ashville; Portland horn band
Soul V accination w ith special
guest C hester Thom pson,(form er
Santana and T ow er of Pow er or­
ganist, presented by Soul Sister
Productions; Tad Robinson, "one
o f the finest living singers o f soul
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blues"; and Ray Bonneville, 2012
In tern atio n al B lues C hallenge
Solo/D uo winner.
The Waterfront Blues Festival
Independence Day Fireworks Show
starts at 10 p .m ., following the Na­
tional A nthem , p erfo rm ed by
Portland’s Linda Hombuckle.
Entry to the 2013 Safeway Water­
front Blues Festival on July 4,5 and
6 - including the fireworks show - is
a suggested donation of $10 (or
more) plus two cans (or more) of
nonperishable food. One hundred
percent of the donations benefit
Oregon Food Bank's mission to
eliminate hunger and its root causes.
For a complete lineup and more
inform ation about tickets, visit
waterfrontbluesfest.com.
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photo courtesy the
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Robert Plant presents the Sensational Space Shifters, one of the headline and closing acts for
the 2013 Waterfront Blues Festival at Tom McCall Waterfront Park, July 3-7.
Charles Washington
Past Publisher of the Portland Observer
In znenion of an outstanding and dedicated
member of Portland's Longest Standing
Minority Publication.
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