Get down to Cook Park EARLY (5:45 am - 6:15 am) each morning to experience the spectacular hot air balloons as they launch (weather permitting) and dot the morning sky. Spend the afternoon shopping at the craft and business vendor booths. Visit the kid's Fun Zone on Friday and Saturday afternoons for kids of all ages. The Rogue Ales Beer Garden, live music on the main stage Presented By Grocery Outlet; Funtastic carnival fun center, clowns, cotton candy, and a whole lot more! It’s MORE than just balloons!
New Avenues for Youth (A.M.P) is hosting an event to raise awareness about the positive influences and lifelong benefits hip-hop culture has had on our homeless youth and the community.
Dance battles, solo-battle sign-up, Live performances from various artists, live graffiti wall, food vendors, prizes, giveaways, raffles, freestyle battles/DJ Battles.
Live performances by:
- Theory Hazit
- Jesse Sponberg
- Kinectic MC's
- Ra Scion
- Ancient sol
- New Avenues Youth
Everyone is invited to this free event from A.M.P. which provides youth the opportunity to learn, play, explore, heal, and find new meaning and success through music and arts. The A.M.P team is made up of dedicated volunteer mentors who encourage youth to learn instruments, art techniques, songwriting skills, and to express themselves creatively.
Get down to Cook Park EARLY (5:45 am - 6:15 am) each morning to experience the spectacular hot air balloons as they launch (weather permitting) and dot the morning sky. Spend the afternoon shopping at the craft and business vendor booths. Visit the kid's Fun Zone on Friday and Saturday afternoons for kids of all ages. The Rogue Ales Beer Garden, live music on the main stage Presented By Grocery Outlet; Funtastic carnival fun center, clowns, cotton candy, and a whole lot more! It’s MORE than just balloons!
The Funk has returned in the form of The DooDoo! Hailing from the planet DookieOn, the All-Stars were sent here to fling the pooh across the GLOBE! The Congress of DookieOn chose the hottest musicians from their planet and sent them to earth to continue to spread the FUNK. Alongside the DooDoo Funk King (Tony Ozier) they traveled the light years to this planet and have now made Portland their home base.
What awaits you when the needle drops on Dereconstructed, the new album by Lee Bains lll & the Glory Fires? Nothing less than pure fucking heaven, that’s what.
Consider the record’s opener, “The Company Man.” It revs up with a riff sleazy enough to clog Rod Stewart’s stomach pump as an incantation that only a Yellowhammer can truly understand is bellowed and then screamed. Before you know it, the joint is hotter than a Birmingham soaking pit while you, the listener, are reminded, lest you forget, don’t ever trust the company man.
No shit.
Dereconstructed is a careening, road raging, all night party of a record. Informed by a distinctly southern hoodoo, it is a master class in authentic Gulf Coast choogle. Having cut his teeth in the Dexateens, Lee Bains lll has been properly schooled in how to throw down, so much so that even his hyper literate musings are no match for the blown out distortion that gives this record its blistering urgency.
Songs like “The Kudzu and the Concrete,” “Dirt Track” and the roaring, blissfully shambolic title track could be anthems looking for a stadium, but they’re also reminders as to why Lee Bains lll & the Glory Fires are such a formidable party machine. If your hometown is graced with a scuzzy dive and a few warm bodies to populate it, you’d best believe that the Glory Fires have been there, or are on their way back.
Dereconstructed is Lee Bains lll & the Glory Fires’ debut for Sub Pop Records. It is preceded by the band’s actual debut, There Is a Bomb in Gilead, on Alive Natural-Sound Records (2012).
Dereconstructed was produced by Tim Kerr, and engineered by Jeremy Ferguson at Battle Tapes, Nashville, TN.
Lee Bains lll & the Glory Fires will be featured performers at the 14th annual NONCOMMvention, hosted by WXPN in Philadelphia, PA, May 14 - 16, 2014. This performance will be followed by extensive touring, radio sessions, and in-stores throughout North America. A late-summer European tour will be announced shortly.
Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires are:
Lee Bains lll: Guitar and Vox
Eric Wallace: Guitar
Adam Williamson: Bass
The band resides in Atlanta, GA and Birmingham, AL.
- by Jonathan Poneman
The 23-year old from Kent, Ohio first performed with her family band One Way Rider at the age of 8. At age 15, she recorded her first album White Lies in her brother’s bedroom, printing only 100 copies. One of those copies fell into the hands of Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys). After an introduction, Mayfield and Auerbach hit the studio, laying the foundation for her debut album With Blasphemy So Heartfelt. Says Auerbach of the recording experience, “I think she’s dark and moody in a mysterious way.” He adds, “I’m just always really excited to make music with her.”
Mayfield’s second and most recent album, Tell Me, is a stunningly forthright 11-song set that addresses late night longing, serial heartbreak, and intoxicatingly dangerous liaisons conducted in dimly lit barrooms or roadside motels. By the end, the only heart intact is Mayfield’s own. It’s as if she’d stripped the sentimentality and ruefulness from a bunch of classic country songs, leaving only stark emotion. Auerbach also produced and engineered Tell Me at his Easy Eye Sound System studio in Akron, Ohio, matching Mayfield’s candor with eerily minimal, brilliantly constructed tracks that keep her mesmerizing, unadorned voice front and center.
The New York Times hailed the album a Critics’ Pick, while the Associated Press calls Tell Me “the portrait of a precocious girl growing into self-assured womanhood and a producer reaching the peak of his powers. It is a dark and moody album, full of delights throughout, and if it doesn’t make Mayfield a star, that too will be heartbreaking.”
7pm | $8.00 advance
6:45pm - Doors for Premium tickets/ 7pm Doors for GA tickets/ 8pm Stories begin
$16 Premium tickets and $8 general admission tickets will be available a week before the event at www.themoth.org
*Reminder that seating is first come, first serve, and it is recommended to arrive early.
Media Sponsors: OPB, Literary Arts and Back Fence PDX
One night, three rising talents in the Portland music scene, zero dollars. Hear what's next right now.
XRAY's own DJ AM GOLD will be spinning old timey country, honky tonk, and western swing all night long.
And hear AM GOLD on XRAY.fm's Hoot n' Howl Wednesday's at 3pm.
http://xray.fm/programs/hoot-n-howl-with-dj-am-gold
Portland Pride Festival is another fun way to spend a weekend while supporting the LGBTQ community! Tour the different booths that range from food and souvenirs to face painting and roller coasters. They have live music and fun for all ages! Free admissions!
The third annual Portland Beer & Cheese Festival takes place at Burnside Brewing for 2014 and features a stunning cheese selection by champion cheesemonger Steve Jones of Cheese Bar fame and beers from the best regional brewers and light snacks from Chop Butchery and Charcuterie. Tickets are $35 and include a tasting glass and punch card that gets you 11 different specifically chosen craft beer and cheese pairings.
The Portland Jewish Film Festival explores themes of spirituality and Jewish identity throughout all parts of the world, especially how American Jews perceive themselves in a larger social context. The films, in their abundance, touch on tragedy, embrace humor, and recount the emotional and tangible gains and losses of a people.
Portland Pride Festival is another fun way to spend a weekend while supporting the LGBTQ community! Tour the different booths that range from food and souvenirs to face painting and roller coasters. They have live music and fun for all ages! Free admissions!
The Scandinavian Heritage Foundation is a non-profit organization focused on the five Nordic nations -- Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. SHF is the catalyst in the Northwest for preserving authentic traditions and culture while celebrating modern Scandinavian life, culture and business. It is the "go to" regional resource for all things Scandinavian.
The Montavilla Food Co-op is holding its 4th Annual Pancake Brunch fundraiser on Saturday, June 14 from 9am-12pm! The Brunch will be held at the Montavilla United Methodist Church on 232 SE 80th Avenue.
In previous years this event has helped the co-op raise funds for the co-op’s development as well as attract new member/owners and raise awareness of our mission and values. This is the kickoff for our yearly fundraising and one of many planned fundraisers for the coming calendar year. This year we are offering a new brunch menu with the help of a group of young local culinary professionals as well as music and an exciting raffle/silent auction.
Blouse
6pm | $7.00 day of show
Come celebrate the ELEVEN MAG Volume 4 release, with two of our favorite local bands. Plus visual art galore from artists featured in the mag!
EARLY SHOW - Doors and artists' reception at 6pm, music starts at 7pm.
All of the plants and flowers utilized in this year's Festival of Flowers will be available for purchase beginning on June 11th at 8:00am
XRAY.fm would like to thank The Portland Growler Co. for hosting a happy hour event on Thursday June 12th at The Growlery to benefit the station! Sasquatch Brewing will also be there, bringing you an evening of beer in celebration of Father's Day. The happy hour event, "Tastes Better than a New Tie" will include XRAY DJs, a Fathers Day raffle, and more. Proceeds from the event will be donated to XRAY.fm.
More info:
http://thegrowlerie.com/events/tastes-better-new-tie/
All of the plants and flowers utilized in this year's Festival of Flowers will be available for purchase beginning on June 11th at 8:00am
Register Today!
An exciting day of cycling around beautiful Mt. Angel, Oregon. Get registered today for one of our five awesome routes! Registration fees are $35 for adults and $15 for participants 17 and under through July 11th. Day-of Registration will be $45 and $20, respectively.
Questions? Please email Rebecca Pace at ride@alsa-or.org or call 800.681.9851 x106.