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‘City of Roses’
Volume XLV
Number 26
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Wednesday • June 29, 2016
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Former Portland vocalist Liv Warield joins members of Prince’s powerful band, the New Power Generation. Warield and members of the band will give a special tribute to
Prince during the Waterfront Blues Festival.
Power of Blues Fights Hunger
Warield to lead Prince tribute at Blues festival
by C ervante P oPe
t he P ortland o bserver
For the last 29 years, the Oregon Food
Bank has used the emotional power of
blues music to help pacify hunger.
This year, 120 artists will be performing
over the four-day July 4 holiday weekend
event, including Liv Warield, the soul
and R&B sensation and former Portland
resident, who will be giving a tribute to
Prince, her late music partner, with mem-
bers of Prince’s New Power Generation
band.
The Waterfront Blues Festival is the
Oregon Food Bank’s largest fundraising
event, having raised nearly $10 million and
1,000 tons in food for Oregon and Clark
County, Wash. since its inception in 1988,
according to the festival’s website.
Much has shifted since the festival be-
gan, the most apparent being the cost for
running the event.
“The $10 required daily admission will
help to ensure that Oregon Food Bank is
able to fulill its mission – to eliminate
hunger and its root causes…because no
one should be hungry – while sustaining a
safe, fantastic musical tradition,” said Su-
sannah Morgan, Oregon Food Bank chief
executive oficer.
Four-day passes for the fest are also
available, touting different amenities de-
pending on the level of pass purchased,
will all proceeds going back into the food
bank and into maintaining the festival. A
Basic 4-Day Pass for $40 offers priority
re-entry, while the $85 Blues Buddy pass
grants a discounted admission to the festi-
val’s after hours performances.
A $300 Benefactor Pass is already sold
out, and the limited $1,250 Patron Pass
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