Mar 2, 2026 9:58 PM
In Memoriam: John Hammond Jr., 1942–2026
John P. Hammond (aka John Hammond Jr.), a blues guitarist and singer who was one of the first white American…
Portland, Ore., will celebrate two decades of blues, community and fighting hunger at the 2007 Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival, which will take place July 4–8 along the grassy banks of the Willamette River.
The festival boasts four stages and more than 125 artists, including the Neville Brothers, Koko Taylor, Marcia Ball, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Savoy Brown, Carey and Lurrie Bell, Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, Willie King and the Liberators, and more.
Along with the performances, the festival will feature a fireworks show on July 4, after-concert dances, educational workshops and interviews with festival artists.
Daily admission is $8 per person and two cans of food.
For more information, visit: www.oregonfoodbank.org
Hammond came to the blues through the folk boom of the late 1950s and early 1960s, which he experienced firsthand in New York’s Greenwich Village.
Mar 2, 2026 9:58 PM
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