Waterfront Blues Festival - Portland, OR
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dkestrel
N 45° 30.744 W 122° 40.461
10T E 525436 N 5039925
A multi-day blues festival held in Waterfront Park each 4th of July weekend
Waymark Code: WMK2PD
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 02/03/2014
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The Waterfront Blues Festival is an annual event in Portland, Oregon, United States featuring three to five days of performances by blues musicians. The festival started in 1988 and takes place in Tom McCall Waterfront Park, along the west bank of the Willamette River in downtown Portland. It is the largest blues festival on the West Coast and the second-largest blues festival in the nation, with recent events attracting 120,000 blues fans from throughout the world with more than 150 performances on four stages. The festival benefits the Oregon Food Bank, a non-profit organization which provides food to low-income persons in Oregon and SW Washington states.
Waymark Type: Annual Blues Festival
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