Page 8 August 2, 2017 Arts & ENTERTAINMENT Dwayne Washington Love, Your Family The smooth jazz quartet “Fourplay’ will join a lineup of top names in contemporary jazz to highlight performances at Satur- day’s first annual Vanport Jazz Festival, Saturday, Aug. 5, from noon to 9 p.m. at Portland Meadows in north Portland. First Vanport Jazz Festival Saturday concert at Portland Meadows The first annual Vanport Jazz Festival will be held Saturday at Portland Meadows bringing in some of the top names in contem- porary jazz while honoring the city’s great jazz legacy and the history of Vanport, a city rooted in Portland’s African American history. Taking place on the actual site of the historic 1948 Vanport Flood, Portland Meadows will be transformed into a cultural re- vival, welcoming nationally re- nowned artists and breathing new life into Portland jazz. You’ll hear Boney James, Fourplay, Jazz flut- ist Althea Rene Culbertson, Mike Philips and Portland’s own Patrick Lamb. Vanport Jazz Festival organizer James Taylor said it was because of Vanport that Portland has its jazz legacy and he wanted to con- tinue that legacy with the concert. Vanport was built for workers at the Kaiser Shipyards during World War II and it was the larg- est public housing project in the nation. Many shipyard workers were African-Americans from the south. It was the largest in- flux of black people in Oregon history. The festival will run Saturday, Aug. 5 from noon to 9 p.m. with doors opening at 10:30 a.m. There will be food and beverage garden where you’ll be able to order food from 15 of Portland’s best food carts along with featured Oregon wines, microbrews and spirits. General Admission is $75 with festival seating making it pre- ferred that you to bring a lawn chair and or blanket. Visit vanportjazzfestival.com for more information.