Pacific Northwest Music News & Events
Since 1988, the Waterfront Blues Festival has served as downtown Portland’s signature Fourth of July celebration. With four stages and more than 125 musical acts pulling capacity crowds to Tom McCall Waterfront Park, the festival provides a platform to keep blues music alive and add cultural, arts and entertainment value to the City of Portland and region.
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The team behind Upstream Music Fest + Summit has been working hard on Upstream 2018 and they’re excited to share some exciting news, especially around the Upstream Summit, presented by Amazon Web Services.
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After the eclipse, the rest of the day was filled with more music including second shows from CocoRosie and the String Cheese Incident, but at that point it hardly mattered. We had just collectively witnessed a rare cosmic event and not even Jimi Hendrix reincarnated could have topped such an experience.
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After the dust had settled (literally), it’s hard to imagine the folks at Symbiosis won’t put together another event on these grounds despite no solar eclipse coming through in the near future.
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We’ll see first-hand what happens when you send an aging journalist to a six day party where activities such as mind expansion and exploration are not only allowed, they’re encouraged. This is an event that puts more thought into their yoga instructions than most festivals put into their headliners. In planer words is going to be so special I know attendees who are skipping Burning Man.
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It’s no secret that Sasquatch has been struggling with attendance in the last few years, reportedly having roughly half the
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Easily one of the best things about Upstream was the amount of people that were wandering around going to see bands they’d never heard of. Many times over the weekend a person would see a camera strapped around my neck and a media pass and ask me if I had any suggestions.
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The story of the humble inaugural year of any given music festival and eventual rise to the top of the
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More than 100 additional artists will perform throughout the weekend on more than a dozen indoor and outdoor stages spread throughout the 74-acre festival grounds, which includes both Memorial Stadium and KeyArena.
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One of the most anticipated music events to come to the northwest in recent history, Upstream Music Fest + Summit has announced the full lineup for its inaugural outing
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After four solid days of Treefort, my smile was ear to ear. Of all the music concerts and festivals I attend, Treefort Music Fest is one of my favorites and of course, I’ll be back next year. Thanks to all the staff, bands, artists and the citizens of Boise for making Treefort such a success.
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With music festivals being at their peak of popularity – and their peak of homogenization – the search for a
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When thinking of bands and individual scenes local to the Pacific Northwest, most people tend to think of Seattle’s and
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At Northwest Music Scene when we daydream about nice sunny days it almost always leads us directly to salivating about festival season and easily one of our favorites is Capitol Hill Block Party.
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Kick off the New Year in the best way possible with the third annual Girl Fest, held at McMenamin’s Historic
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