Vancouver Wine & Jazz Festival

Top Blues Acts Headline 20th Annual Vancouver Wine & Jazz Festival

The Vancouver Wine & Jazz Festival returns for its twentieth anniversary with a stunning cast of internationally acclaimed GRAMMY-winning jazz and blues musicians, local and regional bands, and high school groups throughout the weekend.…
13th Annual Oregon Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
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Oregon Music Hall Of Fame Announces 2017 Recipients

On Tuesday, July 11, the Oregon Music Hall of Fame held a press conference at Tony Starlight’s to announce the recipients for their 2017 induction honors. Amongst these selected were four individuals directly associated with the state’s…
Thank You To Holiday Party Volunteers
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Thank You CBA Volunteers!!

The Cascade Blues Association occasionally holds events where it is necessary for extra hands to assist in making sure everything runs smoothly. That is never more true than at the Waterfront Blues Festival where we have a merchandise booth…
New Music to Note-September 2021

New Music To Note – August 2017

Here’s a list of new music received at the CBA office, purchased personally, or listened to this past month of note: Antry – Devil Don’t Care (Tres Lobas Enterprises) Jason Buie – Driftin’ Heart (Self Produced) Jim Allchin – Decisions…
What’s on Tap for November’s General Membership Meeting

What’s on Tap for July’s General Membership Meeting …

Melody Ballroom, 615 SE Alder Street, Portland Wednesday, July 12 – 7:00 pm Members always Free – Non-members $5.00 Opening Acoustic Set – Howard Wade Second Electric Set – Gary Burford Trio Following the Waterfront Blues Festival is…

Crooked Eyed Tommy Back In The NW

Southern California-based blues band Crooked Eyed Tommy has been making quite the name for themselves since the release of their well-received 2016 album Butterflies & Snakes, which reached number fifteen on the National Roots Music charts…

Shari Puorto Band Hitting The Northwest

"Shari melds Susan Tedeschi’s self-taught soul, Bonnie Raitt's country-rock sweetness and just a touch of Melissa Ethridge's rasp." - Monterey Country Weekly The Shari Puorto Band is a blues/rock/roots outfit with a whole lotta soul that…

Jim Kweskin & Meredith Axelrod — True Folk & Blues Musicians Come Together

Jim Kweskin is probably best known as a singer and bandleader. He also created one of the bedrock guitar styles of the folk revival, adapting the ragtime-blues fingerpicking of artists like Blind Boy Fuller to the more complex chords of pop…

The Duke Robillard Band – 50 Year Celebration Tour

What do Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Jay McShann, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, John Hammond, the late Jimmy Witherspoon, Dr. John, Maria Muldaur, Roomful of Blues, and the Canadian band The Rockin’ Highliners all have in common? Answer: Duke Robillard…
ZZ Ward

ZZ Ward, Young Rising Star To Visit Revolution Hall

ZZ Ward didn’t have to look far for inspiration on her second full-length album, 2017’s The Storm. Equally evocative of blues grit and hip-hop bounce, the Los Angeles-based vocal powerhouse and multi-instrumentalist leapt forward by taking…