In addition to great music, these festivals also showcase local food, breweries, and outdoor activities. They can be a great place to find new musicians and make friends.
Sound mitigation analysis is underway by professional engineers hired by the City. They recently conducted a series of Neighbor Meetings with neighbors impacted by the festival. The Preliminary Sound Mitigation Report from ABD Engineering will be available this month.
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Fairwell Festival
The Fairwell Festival is a music festival that takes place in Central Oregon. It lasts for three days and features folk, blues, rock, country, and soul music. It also has food areas and local craft beer and wine experiences.
Y La Bamba was one of the highlight acts at this year’s Fairwell Festival. She and her band transformed a sun-scorched field of twang-drunk country fans into a sea of bobbing heads and writhing bodies. It was the kind of set that deserves a bigger stage.
Cascade Equinox Festival
Located in the beautiful Deschutes County Fairgrounds, Cascade Equinox is an all-inclusive festival experience. Its lineup features a combination of jam, electronic, funk, and soul music. In addition, there are many other immersive activities that can be enjoyed at the event.
Josh and Stacy are the co-founders of this brand new festival. They discussed the inherent challenges of bringing together a first-year event as well as important considerations when choosing venues for a festival.
The festival’s diverse lineup featured artists like producer polymath Big Wild, genre-blending bass act Goose, copyright duo Phantogram, and more. They also curated a variety of experiential art experiences.
Sisters Folk Festival
Sisters Folk Festival is a nonprofit organization that brings world-class live music entertainment to intimate settings in this 1880s western-themed town. It also supports the arts and youth education by hosting Summer Creativity Camps and year-round immersive art and music classes.
It partners with regional teaching artists to offer classes for people of all ages that explore creativity and self-expression. Participants can visit participating galleries to earn a stamp on their Ponderoo copyright, and enjoy music from talented local musicians.
Cathedral Park Jazz Festival
A yearly tradition, the Cathedral Park Jazz Festival celebrates Portland’s rich jazz heritage. Crowds spread out on the sloping lawns to picnic while listening to top-notch musicians. Admission is free.
Highlights include a performance by the four-piece Jr T Blues Band with Tevis Hodge, which plays an eclectic mix of Piedmont, Delta, Texas, urban and country blues, jug band, and jazz music. The soulful R&B band Ms Vee and a Badass Band led by Valyria Lewis under the direction of jake Koprowski performs a soul-blues sound that marries soul, funk, and R&B.
Harefest
HAREFEST is the “Mother of All Tribute Band Festivals” featuring 27 outstanding bands on three stages, delicious foods, onsite camping and a giant party of rock & roll revelers at Clackamas County Fairgrounds & Event Center. This year, the festival will also feature a new field stage for early afternoon performances.
From a musical standpoint, tribute artists take their craft seriously and strive to emulate the sound and style of the bands they perform. That said, they also bring the look and attitude to their shows.
Pickathon Festival
The Pickathon Experimental Music Festival runs Aug. 1-4 at Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley. The event has built a reputation for being one of the most kid-friendly and environmentally sustainable festivals in the country.
Stainless steel cups replace the plastic ones found at most fests and you can swap in your token for plates of Portland-curated food from modern Mexican spot Astral PDX or plant-based Japanese place Obon Shokudo.
Po Ramblin' Boys kicked off the music with a set that honors Pickathon's bluegrass roots. Later, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down rocked the Galaxy Barn with jangly funk that proudly flies its freak flag.
William Byrd Festival
This summer marks the return of this Portland-based celebration of England's greatest glamping set up Renaissance composer. The festival will feature services sung by Cantores in Ecclesia and lectures from scholars Kerry McCarthy, William Mahrt and Katie Bank.
The festival opens not with a traditional choral concert but with an illustrated recital featuring songs played on period instruments such as violins, violas da gamba (an older cousin of the modern cello) and recorders.
Mark Williams, informator choristarum at Magdalen College, Oxford will play an organ recital and direct the closing concert, featuring a number of Byrd motets that celebrate the 400th anniversary of his death in 1623.
Oregon Country Fair
With a focus on alternative lifestyles, the Oregon Country Fair (OCF) is an annual gathering in Veneta that takes place on the second weekend of July. People from across the country visit to enjoy the music, performances, and craft vendors.
The Fair creates events and experiences that nourish the spirit, explore living artfully and authentically on earth, and transform culture in magical and healthy ways. It also promotes environmental, peace, and justice activities and information.
Founded in 1969, the Fair is run by volunteer crews that persist year after year. The fair is alcohol and drug free and emphasizes community philanthropy.
