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Third Annual Ken DeRouchie Band Food Drive

Please join the Ken DeRouchie Band as they seek to help feed the hungry in our region during the holiday season. For the third year collection barrels have been set up throughout the Portland metro area and they’ll be accepting your food donations…

Big Head Blues Club

Way Down Inside Big Records In 2011, Todd Park Mohr gathered a group of established blues giants alongside his own band Big Head Todd & The Monsters. Calling themselves the Big Head Blues Club,  they released the tribute album 100 Years…
AC Porter

AC Porter is a Live Wire on the Portland Blues Scene

By Laurie Morrisey AC Porter is quite the character. In addition to being a great musician, when asked where he was born and raised, he responded, “I was born under the third ring of Saturn at a planetarium in Stockholm. Wait, that’s where…
The Portland Blues Cruise

2016 Muddy Awards Winners

And the 2016 Muddy Awards Winners Are... [flagallery album=1] Photos by Tony Kutter Contemporary Blues Act - Ben Rice Band Traditional Blues Act - Ben Rice Band “Lloyd Jones” R&B Act - Andy Stokes Regional Blues Act - Hank…
Party Time With The California Honeydrops

California Honeydrops Two Night Stand at The Star Theater

The California Honeydrops don't just play music — they throw parties. Led by dynamic vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Lech Wierzynski and drawing on diverse musical influences from Bay Area R&B, funk, Southern soul, Delta blues, and…

Sista Otis Five Oregon Shows In Three Days!

Following up on her October tour that saw New Orleans-based Sista Otis making stops in Southern and Central Oregon, the talented songwriting guitarist will be making a return whirlwind three-night, five-show run through Portland, Corvalis, and…
Anders Osborne Oregon Tour

New Orleans’ Anders Osborne Coming To The Aladdin Theater

While growing up in Sweden, Anders Osborne discovered enough of a connection to American blues that he decided to move to the United States and settle in New Orleans where he’s since become a mainstay on the city’s immense musical scene.…

Blues Hall of Fame Member John Mayall Returns To Portland

There are few performers today who can be labeled truthfully as legendary, but when attached to John Mayall the title is indeed fitting. A keystone in the development of the early ‘60s British blues scene that immigrated across the Atlantic…

Acoustic Blues with Mary Flower and Thad Beckman

Mary Flower and Thad Beckman are two diverse yet overlapping talents, and they’ll team up for a double bill at The Lake Theater & Cafe, 106 N State St in Lake Oswego, on November 7. Each will perform individual sets and then will close…
The Portland Blues Cruise

You Got to Have Friends – An Evening with the Bette Midler Songbook

Four local singers known for their work in the blues, soul, and more will combine for an intimate night offering the music of Bette Midler. Rae Gordon, Julie Amici, LaRhonda Steele and Melissa Buchanan, plus a band of talented musicians, will…