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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.