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Waterfront Blues Festival

The Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival is the largest blues festival on the West Coast and the second largest blues festival in the nation. The festival not only brings the best blues artists to Portland, it benefits Oregon Food Bank’s work to eliminate hunger and its root causes … because no one should be hungry.

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May 23, 2012 @ 7:57 pm
The Mannish Boys, featuring Sugaray Blues Rayford, hit the main stage Friday July 5, followed by a set on the... http://t.co/5vD4kL0Q

May 23, 2012 @ 1:16 pm
Sure to be one of the surprise hits at this year's Festival: the monophonics , who hit the main stage Thurs, July... http://t.co/XMiglbMy

May 23, 2012 @ 10:35 am
Sure to be one of the sleeper acts at this year's Festival: The Monophonics, who hit the stage Thurs, July 5; and... http://t.co/EwZ8jHQY

May 22, 2012 @ 10:25 pm
New Addition, Friday July 6: kickin off the Front Porch Stage, L.A.-based Americana/blues/roots rockers The 44s... http://t.co/Q1Xw57K3

May 22, 2012 @ 6:08 pm
Support the Oregon Food Bank and SAVE $5 on adult tickets for "It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues" by using the... http://t.co/VCIKRbAB

May 21, 2012 @ 5:45 pm
We're trying to increase our Facebook audience and you can help! To sweeten the deal, we are giving away two pairs... http://t.co/f1MXR4pt

May 20, 2012 @ 7:10 pm
New Orleans' hip, up and coming Stooges Brass Band hits the WBF main stage, Thursday, July 5, followed by an... http://t.co/OmXKGclj

May 20, 2012 @ 12:37 pm
James Cotton playing some nice riffs for a drizzly Sunday morning. James hits the Festival stage with Elvin... http://t.co/VB5ULafo

May 18, 2012 @ 5:26 pm
The Pimps of Joytime hit the main stage 8 pm, then head over to the Marriott Ballroom with The Monophonics for a... http://t.co/UEd8Bsuw

May 17, 2012 @ 7:42 pm
Check out more than 50 sound clips by this year's WBF artists—headliners as well as many of the locals, from Otis... http://t.co/w283WWEC

May 16, 2012 @ 10:52 am
RIP Duck Dunn, bassist with one of the great ensembles in modern music history, Booker T & the MGs. Dunn played... http://t.co/D35iFyHb

May 16, 2012 @ 10:42 am
Promo code for Early Bird discount on festival Buddy Pass is 'twentyfive' - one word, all lower case. http://t.co/6Se9Exml

May 15, 2012 @ 7:12 pm
The Blues Foundation last week awarded blues master Charlie Musselwhite with two coveted Blues Music Awards.... http://t.co/UaaPje1j

May 10, 2012 @ 9:16 pm
Tim "Too Slim" Langford, up for a Blues Music Award for Blues Rock Album of the Year, hanging in Memphis with... http://t.co/7cgQjh2d

May 10, 2012 @ 11:45 am
"What we gonna do at a damn workshop?" Tune in and watch in entirety "Blues Guitar 101", with Michael Burks and... http://t.co/z3ONpzR6

May 09, 2012 @ 5:58 pm
Slide guitar ace Roy Rogers returns to the main stage, Sunday, July 8 with his band, and then later joins the... http://t.co/xLY5pgTD

May 07, 2012 @ 10:19 am
I posted 6 photos on Facebook in the album "" http://t.co/3LxIni6N

May 06, 2012 @ 7:05 pm
We report with a heavy heart that the blues world today lost, much too early, one of its great up-and-coming... http://t.co/5eg4LGP1

May 06, 2012 @ 3:56 pm
Bonnie Raitt now streaming live.... http://t.co/h9TXoInn

May 06, 2012 @ 11:27 am
Booker T Jones returns to Waterfront Thurs, July 5, a night of Soul: Memphis to Modego Bay featuring JJ Grey &... http://t.co/HnxfpG0I