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Number 26
Wednesday • July 2, 2014
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Maceo Parker
Curtis Salgado
Maceo Parker, Curtis Salgado, Lee Fields and the Expressions, Otis Taylor, the Los Lonely Boys, and a July 4 th fireworks
spectacular will headline the Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival this holiday weekend, opening Thursday and continuing
through Sunday, July 6.
Blues
Lee Fields and the Expressions
Waterfront festival fights
hunger and its root causes
Los Lonely Boys
The July 4th holiday weekend
The 27th annual event is a pro­
begins on the downtown water­ duction of the Oregon Food Bank,
front Thursday when the Safeway a charitable nonprofit. One hun­
Waterfront Blues Festival opens dred percent of gate donations and
the largest blues festival west of ticket proceeds go directly to ben­
the Mississippi and the second larg­ efit Oregon Food Bank's work to
est blues festival in the United
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