
What’s on Tap for April’s General Membership Meeting…
Melody Ballroom, 615 SE Alder Str., Portland
Wednesday, April 5 – 7:00 pm
Members always Free – Non-members $5.00
Opening Set – Louis Creed & One Geezer
Second Set – Cary Fly Band
For our April General Membership Meeting, the Cascade…

Here’s Your Last Chance To Enter The 2017 Journey To Memphis Competition
The Journey To Memphis is the Cascade Blues Association’s regional competition to select the acts that will represent our organization and region in next year’s International Blues Challenge (IBC) in Memphis, TN, held in early 2018. This…

Band Stand – April 2017
Lloyd “Have Mercy” Jones
Winter is OVER. Everything is new again!
Before I get started though, I must continue to think good thoughts and send all our love to Curtis Salgado! After all he has given us, we gladly cheer him on to a quick…

Guitarist Doyle Bramhall II To Visit Mission Theater
Doyle Bramhall II is one of the most distinctive vocalists, guitarists, composers, and producers in contemporary music. Indeed, none other than Eric Clapton, with whom Bramhall has worked with for more than a decade, lauds him as one of the…

Registration Open For 2017 Blues In The Gorge Acoustic Blues Guitar Camp
This coming September, the fourth annual Blues In The Gorge acoustic blues guitar camp will return to the Menucha Retreat & Conference Center. Presented by Menucha and co-sponsored by the Cascade Blues Association, this year’s instructors…

Cascade Blues Association Schedules Extravaganza For Its 30th Anniversary Celebration
In December 1986, a small group of Portland area blues fans decided to form a society to help support, promote, and preserve the blues and related music. It was named the Cascade Blues Association as it was the only blues society in the Northwest…

Duff’s Garage Last Hurrah
With a great deal of sadness we witness the loss of one of Portland’s iconic blues venues as Duff’s Garage closes its doors in April. During the last fifteen years, Portland’s music community have seen much growth in the number of its…

Paris Slim Tours Oregon In April
Former Portland resident and Delta Groove recording artist, Franck Goldwasser, aka Paris Slim, will be heading back to Oregon for a spring tour that will be making stops at numerous venues and will also feature special guests along the way.…

Ramblings On My Mind – April 2017
Greg Johnson / CBA President
Things have gotten a little harsh as of late. First, Portland’s premier blues icon Curtis Salgado suffered a mild heart attack while on tour on the East Coast. Mild? Is there really anything mild about a heart…

The Aladdin Theater Welcomes Robert Randolph & The Family Band
“Robert Randolph is an American Original," says Blue Note Records’ President Don Was. "He has mastered what is, arguably, the most complex instrument in the world and developed a unique voice that is equal parts street-corner church and…