The Portland Mercury and XRAY.FM Present an end of summer celebration with Wild Ones on 9/1, Blitzen Trapper on 9/2 and Orquestra Pacifico Tropical on 9/3!
It makes sense that in order to hear local jazz musicians pushing the envelope, you have to venture to the edge of the city's envelope, as the Portland Metro Arts Center hosts artists such as Essiet Okon Essiet Quartet, David Friesen Quartet, Blue Cranes, Ezra Weiss Sextet, Trio Subtonic, and more for two days of improvisational adventure.
It makes sense that in order to hear local jazz musicians pushing the envelope, you have to venture to the edge of the city's envelope, as the Portland Metro Arts Center hosts artists such as Essiet Okon Essiet Quartet, David Friesen Quartet, Blue Cranes, Ezra Weiss Sextet, Trio Subtonic, and more for two days of improvisational adventure.
Vortex Music Magazine & XRAY.FM Present
The 3rd annual
Portland PsychFest
Schedule:
12:25 Dead Meadow
11:05 The Warlocks
10:05 The Prids
9:00 Matt Hollywood & the Bad Feelings
8:15 Daydream Machine
7:30 Pastilla
6:45 Cellar Doors
6:00 Souvenir Driver
5:15 Super 78
4:30 Firefriend
3:45 Plastic Nudes
3:00 Burning Palms
2:15 Kingdom of the Holy Sun
1:30 La Cerca
12:45 Pets
12:00 Nodding Tree Remedies
11:30am DOORS (DJ Major Sean)
Shed the skin of your chameleonic ear drums and Fear Not the Death of Liberty, Wanderlust and Love. All is well if you're tuned to the frequency that comes from within and rises up in the brain blood. Music is a drug. The power of Rock n Roll is real it destroys men and womans minds and compels all ages and walks to take their clothes off, as in the sunny meadow. As below, so above. You know what you came for -- Sexual Release in the face of a Volcanic God! Lighten up, Dance, move, be as one. We're all Brothers and Sisters sprung from the same bacteria at the beginning of the explosion and after the flood. Space rocks formed into moons, bars, caves, beaches, rings around planets both hotter and colder than earth mud. The sound you hear is the Evolution of your Senses through the secret passageways into Other Universes. Faster and faster, hotter and denser, tighter and brighter, until finally -- twitching and multiplying -- the crowd forms, the bands disappear into the music of the bareheaded stars.
Writen by: Michael W. Roberts
This years lineup includes.
Dead Meadow (Official)
The Warlocks
Matt Hollywood and the Bad Feelings
Pastilla
Souvenir Driver
Daydream Machine
The Prids
Super 78
La Cerca
KINGDOM OF THE HOLY SUN
Firefriend
Cellar Doors
Burning Palms
Plastic Nudes
Pets (the band)
Nodding Tree Remedies
DJ's
Sean Cavanaugh
DJ Hippie Joe
DJ Andy Maximum
John Mason IV
Rachel Good
Jason Edmonds (Magic Castles)
Bacline provided by Benson Amps
& Kirsch Drums
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Top Down Rooftop Cinema is an annual outdoor film series. Classic, campy, and always entertaining, films screen every Thursday night in August amid Portland’s ideal summer weather.
Thursday August 17 -- ARMY OF DARKNESS 1992
Happy-go-lucky S-Mart employee Ash is ripped from his 1990s existence and transported back to medieval times, where he must struggle against warring factions of men and an army of the dead that threatens all existence. The third film in Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead trilogy puts the pedal to the metal with an endless array of sight gags, one-liners, and demon busting action sequences. Can Ash retrieve the ancient tome known as the Necronomicon and banish the evil forces it summons from the face of the earth? Or do we even care about plot with a film as wickedly fun and frenetic as Army of Darkness? “Sam Raimi’s “Army of Darkness” is a goofy, hyperventilated send-up of horror films and medieval warfare, so action-packed it sometimes seems less like a movie than like a cardiovascular workout for its stars.” – Roger Ebert
Join us atop the Hotel deLuxe’s parking structure at SW 15th and Yamhill for our 13th annual program of cinema under the stars. Doors open at 7 pm with food and beverages available for purchase from Aladdin’s Café, Brass Tacks Sandwiches, and Sierra Nevada Brewing Company. Music begins at 8 pm and films begin around dusk. Entry for advance ticket holders is guaranteed until 8:30 pm. Advance tickets ensure that you will not have to wait in the ticket purchase line but do not guarantee entry after 8:30 pm. A limited number of chairs are available on a first-come, first-served basis, so feel free to bring a chair, pillow, or blanket, along with a light sweater or jacket. Advance ticket holders who arrive after 8:30 pm but are not admitted to the screening (in the case of a sell-out) may exchange their tickets for another Top Down screening. There are no refunds or exchanges for arrivals after the film begins (c. 9 pm) or for entirely missed screenings. Please, no pets or outside food or drink.
Each film will be preceded by a short film by a Northwest filmmaker.
Advance tickets are available at nwfilm.org: $10 general; $9 student/senior/PAM member; $7 Silver Screen Club Friend. Tickets at the door are $12 general; $11 student/senior/PAM member; $9 Silver Screen Club Friend.
XRAY FM is throwing a big, free "bazaar style" party with some of your favorite XRAY radio show's broadcasted LIVE from the White Owl patio, also featuring performances by musical acts like Cool Nuts, Surfer Rosie, Motrik, Anjali and the Kid, AND THAT'S NOT ALL. Over 40 vendors and pop up shops selling art, vintage, books, records, jewelry, free samples, and so much more out on the patio and adjacent street. Join us at the White Owl on August 12th from 2pm on for a summer event to remember.
FB RSVP HERE!
Enjoy our street fair and patio full of pop-up shops, jewelry, vintage, food/drink samples and more. Shop for zines, books and records inside the bar. Street fair is all ages, inside the bar and patio is 21+.
VENDORS/POP UP SHOPS: 2pm-8pm
MUSIC + PARTY: 2pm-1am
2-3pm DJs Jené and Shira of Everyday Mixtrapes (Live Broadcast)
3-5pm DJ Honest John of Savage Beat (Live Broadcast)
5:15-6pm Surfer Rosie
6-7pm Serious Moonlight and Palm Dat of Intuitive Navigation (Live Broadcast)
7:15-8pm Cool Nutz & DJ Fatboy
8:00-9:30 Anjali and the Incredible Kid (of XRAY's Chor Bazaar)
9:30-10:20 Motrik
10:20-1am Heavy Metal Sewing Circle Afterparty with DJs Nate Carson and Triple M
This party is made possible by our friends at Stumptown Coffee Roasters,New Deal Distillery, Hifi Farms, and Secret Aardvark Trading Company. Poster by Tony Cohen. Thank you!
**** Interested in becoming a vendor? Email events@xray.fm *****
White Owl Social Club, Pickathon and XRAY FM Present:
KHUN NARIN'S ELECTRIC PHIN BAND & 1939 ENSEMBLE (a journey into Thai psychedlia) on August 10th, part of White Owl Social Club's outdoor summer concert series.
Doors @ 8 // Music @ 9 // $12 ADV // $15 DOS
KHUN NARIN'S ELECTRIC PHIN BAND:
"It all started over a year ago with the caption “MINDBLOWING PSYCHE- DELIA FROM THAILAND”—the Youtube video that accompanied this head- line on the Dangerous Minds Blog was exactly that. Here was a group of Thai musicians being filmed parading through a remote village hundreds of miles away from Bangkok playing some of the heaviest Psych known to mankind out of a crazy homemade soundsystem. Who were these men and how on earth was this not some unearthed archived footage from the ‘60s or ‘70s?! The Youtube clip quickly made its rounds amongst music enthusiasts leaving many in the Western hemisphere to question who this group of contemporary Thai villagers (loosely named Khun Narin’s Electric Phin Band) was.
Six months after that first encounter with Khun Narin’s Electric Phin Band, a Los Angeles music producer named Josh Marcy used Facebook and some un- likely interpreters at his local Thai restaurant to get in contact with the band and inquire whether they’d be interested in having him travel to their town to record their music for a global audience. At first the band was naturally suspicious, but through subsequent interactions the group’s leader and namesake Khun Narin (also known simply as “Rin”) warmed to the idea of having Marcy come visit. And so began the journey of uncovering who these mysterious men from an obscure blog post actually were.
Khun Narin’s Electric Phin Band’s membership is always in rotation and spans several generations, from high school kids to men well into their 60s. A standard engagement has the band setting up at the hosting household during the morn- ing rituals, playing several low-key sets from the comfort of plastic lawn chairs occasionally working in a cover version of a foreign classic (The Cranberries ‘Zombie’ is a recent favorite) while the beer and whiskey flow freely. After a mid-day banquet, they start up the generator and lead a parade through the com- munity to the local temple, picking up more and more partiers along the way.
The music they play is called phin prayuk. The first word refers to the lead instrument, a 3-stringed lute known as the phin. Beer, the phin player, uses a string of Boss effects pedals, including a phaser, distortion and digital delay to get his sound. He also builds his own instruments, installing Fender pickups into hand-carved hardwood bodies, with elaborate mythical serpents adorning the headstock. The band takes pride in their custom PA system, as well as an imposing tower of 8 loudspeaker horns atop a huge bass cabinet. To capture the essence of the group and their sound, Marcy recorded th em in their natural environment by doing a proper field recording, literally in a field outside the city of Lom Sak, in the valley of mountains that form a rough border between Thai- land’s North and Northeast. The result was 40 minutes of hypnotizing psyche- delia filled with heavy drum breaks that sounds like something RZA would sample for a Quentin Tarantino film." - Innovative Leasure
https://khunnarin.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-R3xKy_wmo
1939 ENSEMBLE:
"1939 Ensemble’s experimental sound is drawn from the contrasts of textures and noise. Originally a duo of drummers, Jose Medeles and David Coniglio played drum kit and vibes interchangeably, and the essential snap of the drums and and crackling noise through effects pedals made an unsettling and strangely beautiful bed for the vibes’ warm, bell-like sound. The brief songs might unwrap a melody only to erupt into ecstatic or forboding waves before receding as abruptly as they started.
Now a quartet with Josh Thomas and Knate Carter, the group’s expanded sonic palate includes trumpet and electric guitar. They still take turns playing the vibes. We met up with the group at Revival Drum Shop in S.E. Portland, to hear them play from their upcoming release New Cinema, in a showroom full of vintage drum kits and percussion." - David Christensen, OPB
https://1939ensemble.bandcamp.com/
Top Down Rooftop Cinema is an annual outdoor film series. Classic, campy, and always entertaining, films screen every Thursday night in August amid Portland’s ideal summer weather.
Thursday August 10th -- 1971's SHAFT
In 1971, famed photographer Gordon Parks followed up his quiet, semi-autobiographical film The Learning Tree with what is arguably the commercial and critical peak of blaxploitation genre filmmaking. Powered by Isaac Hayes’s Grammy Award-winning soundtrack, Shaft catapulted star Richard Roundtree into the zeitgeist as John Shaft, a New York City private dick who finds himself precariously positioned between rival Italian and Black gangsters while investigating a missing persons case. The film’s unexpected success spawned two sequels with Parks remaining on board for 1972’s Shaft’s Big Score! “Shaft’s brilliance is in the way its title figure’s confidence became contagious—both in the urban theaters where it was a hit and the dozens of blaxploitation films that would follow.”—Josh Larsen, Larsen on Film.
Join us atop the Hotel deLuxe’s parking structure at SW 15th and Yamhill for our 13th annual program of cinema under the stars. Doors open at 7 pm with food and beverages available for purchase from Aladdin’s Café, Brass Tacks Sandwiches, and Sierra Nevada Brewing Company. Music begins at 8 pm and films begin around dusk. Entry for advance ticket holders is guaranteed until 8:30 pm. Advance tickets ensure that you will not have to wait in the ticket purchase line but do not guarantee entry after 8:30 pm. A limited number of chairs are available on a first-come, first-served basis, so feel free to bring a chair, pillow, or blanket, along with a light sweater or jacket. Advance ticket holders who arrive after 8:30 pm but are not admitted to the screening (in the case of a sell-out) may exchange their tickets for another Top Down screening. There are no refunds or exchanges for arrivals after the film begins (c. 9 pm) or for entirely missed screenings. Please, no pets or outside food or drink.
Each film will be preceded by a short film by a Northwest filmmaker.
Advance tickets are available at nwfilm.org: $10 general; $9 student/senior/PAM member; $7 Silver Screen Club Friend. Tickets at the door are $12 general; $11 student/senior/PAM member; $9 Silver Screen Club Friend.
Here is a quick rundown of what to expect at Pickathon 2016.
We first suggest pulling up a copy of the Pickathon 2016 Map, as this will help you familiarize with what the Pendarvis Farm layout looks like. This will also give you an idea of what amenities we have to offer at the festival including showers, wellness & medical locations, food carts, beverage gardens, free drinking water spigots, dish return & washing stations, ADA camping, camp host and camp host gear drop off locations, port-o-potties, ATM, artist & festival merchandise, and locations of available camping options.
Whether you drive, shuttle or bike to Pickathon the first step is always the same; you will temporarily park in our front gate lot (which is across the street from the festival site) and present your physical or print at home ticket to one of our lovely front gate volunteers. Once scanned they will provide you with a weekend or day wristband (or wristbands depending on how many you purchased). They will also provide you with a parking “cling” (if you purchased parking) which magically sticks to the inside of your front windshield.
With wristbands and a parking sticker in hand you will be directed to our parking lot where you will either park for the day or the weekend.
When you arrive on site and intend on tent camping in the woods, you will first want to check in with our Camp Host to get info on prospective campsite locations as well as your spot in the gear shuttle line.
Once you have an idea of the general area where you want to camp, we suggest having one person scout and the other manage the gear drop off & pick up (if coming solo, well, you’re on your own for that one…).
The terrain is generally sloped and often it takes a bit of exploration to find the perfect site, especially as it gets later into the weekend. Generally speaking, those with smaller tents have an easier time finding adequate nooks, so maybe if you are a larger group or family, think about tent size and options that could help you best fit.
It is no secret that not all campsites at Pickathon are created equal, but we do work very hard to make sure that everyone with a weekend ticket can find a decent place to pitch their tent. Being neighborly and mindful of your footprint goes a very long way. Arriving on Thursday is always going to provide the most ideal camping locations.
Once you’re settled Pickathon is your oyster! Music and activities start Thursday evening and continue on through Sunday night. We have some hand picked craft vendors and a veritable cornucopia of the finest food and adult beverage vendors in Oregon. Choose your own adventure!
8/3 Weed w/ Young Hunter...FREE
8/10 Pickathon Presents: Khun Narin's Electric Phin Band w/ 1939 Ensemble...$12 ADV.
8/16 Tracy Bryant (Corners . LA) w/ Lavender Flu...FREE
8/17 Wyatt Blair w/ Nick Normal...FREE
8/24 Secret Drum Band (Record Release) w/ Notel...FREE
8/31 Adult Books w/ Woolen Men...FREE
21+
"The Stumptown Improv Festival’s first three years have been bonkers (or, as Jed likes to say, “bonkerz”). We’ve sold out shows and forced audience members to sign up for obscenely long waiting lists. We’ve attracted some of the most well-regarded improv groups performing today from LA, NYC, San Francisco, Vancouver, BC, Minneapolis, and, of course, Portland. Performers who are vets on the festival scene have raved that “this is one of the best festivals we’ve ever been a part of”. We’ve offered huge gift bags to our comedians and gave people leather coasters embossed with our logo. We are OUT OF CONTROL." -Stumptown Improv Festival
Top Down Rooftop Cinema is an annual outdoor film series. Classic, campy, and always entertaining, films screen every Thursday night in August amid Portland’s ideal summer weather.
Thursday August 3rd -- 1937's The Awful TruthProduced in the same year that McCarey directed Make Way for Tomorrow, The Awful Truth is the opposite of that tearjerker, throwing Cary Grant and Irene Dunne into a delightful, screwball scenario as a husband and wife headed towards splitsville, despite the fact that neither one of them really wants out of their marriage. While The Awful Truth scored McCarey his first of two Best Director Oscars, he maintained that the other film he made in 1937 was the more deserving work. Regardless, The Awful Truth remains one of the most popular, enduring, and clever romantic comedies of the silver screen era. “What elevates McCarey’s masterpiece—what makes it arguably the greatest of its genre—is its unobtrusive depth of feeling. Never sappy, the movie is at once light on its feet and grounded at heart.”—Elbert Ventura, Popmatters.
Join us atop the Hotel deLuxe’s parking structure at SW 15th and Yamhill for our 13th annual program of cinema under the stars. Doors open at 7 pm with food and beverages available for purchase. Music by XRAY.fm DJ's begins at 8 pm and films begin around dusk. Entry for advance ticket holders is guaranteed until 8:30 pm. Advance tickets ensure that you will not have to wait in the ticket purchase line but do not guarantee entry after 8:30 pm. A limited number of chairs are available on a first-come, first-served basis, so feel free to bring a chair, pillow, or blanket, along with a light sweater or jacket. Advance ticket holders who arrive after 8:30 pm but are not admitted to the screening (in the case of a sell-out) may exchange their tickets for another Top Down screening. There are no refunds or exchanges for arrivals after the film begins (c. 9 pm) or for entirely missed screenings. Please, no pets or outside food or drink.
Each film will be preceded by a short film by a Northwest filmmaker.
Advance tickets are available at nwfilm.org: $10 general; $9 student/senior/PAM member; $7 Silver Screen Club Friend. Tickets at the door are $12 general; $11 student/senior/PAM member; $9 Silver Screen Club Friend.
Marika Hackman
Marika Hackman; an artist who is more likely to quote proto-feminist ghost stories such as the Yellow Wallpaper than align with audience expectations of a woman prepared to "sing a few nice songs with a pretty voice and then forget about it".
Clearly she's made of more substance than her contemporaries.
A captivating vocalist and incredibly attractive individual who is more interested in challenging perceptions of what songwriting can or should be in modern times, to bring us a greater sense of truth and understanding of current issues, from the forms of the past.
"All mainstream music is written in such a lazy way. It's all a formula of where to put each chorus and hook, its robotic in its creation. People don't really have to listen because they know they'll be able to hum the chorus back after one minute, I think the clever placement of hooks and big chorus' con people into thinking they're actually enjoying it rather than being aware that it's just running along a well beaten track in their brains."
She expresses, asserting that her own frustration with this situation has coloured her approach to bring something better to the masses.
This approach links back to her approach to production, initially working with mentor Johnny Flynn and Adam Beach in a scenario in which inventive ideas were encouraged in a familial and confidence building scenario, before working with Charlie Andrew who had recently completed work on the Mercury Award Winning Alt-J album.
"We took each song and stripped it back to the basic guitar part and vocal and then played around on different instruments to build up the layers. On retina television we decided to not use any instruments at all and try and build up the song only using sounds from my body, so as well as singing and humming I was doing stuff like tapping my teeth and jumping. We drew the line at burping though..."
This inventiveness is sprung from Marika herself as much as her production collaborators though, testified by her unique interpretations on her online covers EP which disclosed a raft of influences from Warpaint and The Knife to Nico (who she also shares a striking visual resemblance to) and Nirvana, and translated into the arrangement of her own material on the new extended play:
"When I've got an idea for a song I make a really rough demo on Garageband so I can try building up vocals and different instruments." She explains in relation to standout track 'Plans': "The layered vocals in the verse was an idea that hit me as soon as I started recording the demo. Once I'd tried it out and decided I liked it, I was spurred on to finish the song. The harmonies in the chorus I developed by singing as many lines as I could over the original melody and then choosing my favourites."
This approach is always an extension of the lyrical substance behind each song – always confrontational, with shades of Gothicism that reveal themselves beneath an accessible aesthetic like the hidden grotesque and mysteriously hellish details that can be decoded in a Hieronymus Bosch painting.
On Cannibal, an outwardly accessible, and eminently listenable song there are some deep ruminations about the conflicts between human evolution and personal greed.
"It's taking the idea of cutting off your nose to spite your face to a new level" she asserts "as you're cutting off your nose to consume it. It's realising that what you're doing is wrong on many levels but being too afraid to confront it and therefore just carrying on. A fear of change I suppose, and a general level of disgust at where our 'evolution' has taken us."
Through taking previously clichéd metaphors and imbuing them with the full horror of their original meaning, she asserts a fresh perspective that both shocks and provides comfort with the tools for the listener to deal with the situation of modern living.
The Big Moon
London four-piece The Big Moon formed in the way that any great band should. “I didn’t just want to start a band, I really, genuinely needed to,” says singer Juliette Jackson. “I was working in a fancy cocktail bar in North London where they made stupid drinks flavoured with soil and tomato skins. I had to get out of there. So I started writing songs about love and hangovers, robots and the fourth dimension, ran around London asking everyone I knew if they knew anyone who wanted to be in a band with me.”
Word soon got round and, via a network of friends of friends, Jules began to find some like-minded spirits. “I'd blind-date people in a pub in Islington and suss them out,” she says. Drummer Fern Ford (and organist, she plays the two instruments simultaneously) – who at the time had a series of jobs “serving food out of trucks” – was the first to join, and guitarist Soph Nathan, who was studying in Brighton, was next . “Celia [Archer] joined last,” says Juliette. “It was just us three for a while and then one afternoon she came to our practice room. I answered the door and immediately said, ‘I love you’”. She joined us the next day.
“The first time we all played properly together, I actually had a little cry,” laughs Juliette. “We barely knew each other, but it just instantly made sense. I'd always had a four-piece band in mind and now these songs suddenly sounded so huge. I wanted us to sound like a garage rock band, but with hooks. It’s what I’ve always listened to – White Stripes, Pixies, Kid Congo Powers, but also a lot of really gorgeous melodic stuff like Elvis and Roy Orbison and The Kinks. Stuff that sounds scuzzy, but that you can still sing along to.”
The first track they shared with the world in January 2015 was Eureka Moment – a tangle of twisted rhythms and lush harmonies that scuttles through the corners of the mind. It was picked up by blogs immediately. “We put it online, and people actually listened to it” says Celia. “And then we started getting loads of emails from people. We got shows. It was crazy..” They’ve since played a 12-month run of gigs alongside bands including The Vaccines, The Maccabees, Mac Demarco, and Ezra Furman.
“Playing to young girls feels so good,” laments Juliette. “We’ve supported a lot of big indie boy bands who have a lot of female fans and it’s great to go on stage and by being there, showing them that they can do it as well. People have come up to us after shows and said, ‘We want to start a band now!’. That’s great because we were those kids once too.”
Working with long-standing producer Catherine Marks on their scintillating debut album, ‘Love In The 4th Dimension (released 7th April on Fiction Records), The Big Moon have made a joyful record that bursts with energy, confidence and a reticent self-belief. The almost laissez-faire delivery of Jules’ vocal is blasted in on a rocket of hooks and melodies. It’s smart, assured, and primed for the big stage.
“I don't really think of an album as a thing that has to be listened to all at once. I’m a big believer in songs by themselves. I want every song to be a journey in itself rather than it having to rely on the thing before or after it,” says Juliette. “So we want to make sure every single song on the album is the best possible version of the song that could ever exist. I don't want to feel like anything on the album could be improved upon.” For the moment, though, they just want their music to reach as many people as possible. “I can’t wait for people to hear all the songs and to get to know every lyric and every intricacy,” says Celia.
Ask them what their plans are for the future and they all scream “World domination!” before cracking up at the idea. But with their determination and drive, it feels like nothing is out of the grasps of The Big Moon.
Rigsketball Musicfest 2017! Share this event with your bubble :)
July 27th: FREE
The Woolen Men - 11:00 PM
Kyle Craft - 10:00 PM
Boone Howard - 9:00 PM
Kulululu - 8:00 PM
Rigsketball Round of Eight Games - 6:00 PM
July 28th: FREE
Cat Hoch - 11:00 PM
The Lavendar Flu - 10:00 PM
Ghost Frog - 9:00 PM
Bleach Blonde Dudes - 8:00 PM
Rigsketball Semifinals - 6:00 PM
July 29th: FREE
Chanti Darling - 12:00 AM
MELT (EP Release!) - 11:00 PM
Donte Thomas - 10:00 PM
Candace - 9:00 PM
Tribe Mars - 8:00 PM
Malt Lizard - 7:00 PM
Rigsketball Finals! - 6:00 PM
Hey Portland! We’re making our way back to Rejuvenation with an outdoor summer weekend celebration of all things handmade! Featuring a curated roster of local maker and artisan talent, festivities will include food trucks, craft libations, vintage treasures, DJ sets, photo ops, and all-around good times to provide a truly one-of-a-kind shopping experience.
Explore an exceptional selection of modern indie design, including jewelry and accessories, art, fashion, ceramics, candles, illustration, stationery, home decor, cookware, apothecary, and more.
Renegade is a celebration of creative spirit and for each Fair gathers emergent and seasoned independent makers alike. Check out our Roster leading up to the Fair to preview our line-up.
2017 will mark our 4th year in Portland!
The fair will be held outdoors rain or shine, and the Fair is free to attend.
Rigsketball Musicfest 2017! Share this event with your bubble :)
July 27th: FREE
The Woolen Men - 11:00 PM
Kyle Craft - 10:00 PM
Boone Howard - 9:00 PM
Kulululu - 8:00 PM
Rigsketball Round of Eight Games - 6:00 PM
July 28th: FREE
Cat Hoch - 11:00 PM
The Lavendar Flu - 10:00 PM
Ghost Frog - 9:00 PM
Bleach Blonde Dudes - 8:00 PM
Rigsketball Semifinals - 6:00 PM
July 29th: FREE
Chanti Darling - 12:00 AM
MELT (EP Release!) - 11:00 PM
Donte Thomas - 10:00 PM
Candace - 9:00 PM
Tribe Mars - 8:00 PM
Malt Lizard - 7:00 PM
Rigsketball Finals! - 6:00 PM
XRAY.FM and The White Owl Social Club present their new summer concert series with different musicians every Thursday in July. The event is free and 21+. Doors open at 8pm.
July 6th: Briana Marela & Mini Blinds
July 13th: Shadowhouse & Starclub
July 20th: Everything In The Universe & Heavii Mello
July 27th: Dimwit & Weezy Ford
Rigsketball Musicfest 2017! Share this event with your bubble :)
July 27th: FREE
The Woolen Men - 11:00 PM
Kyle Craft - 10:00 PM
Boone Howard - 9:00 PM
Kulululu - 8:00 PM
Rigsketball Round of Eight Games - 6:00 PM
July 28th: FREE
Cat Hoch - 11:00 PM
The Lavendar Flu - 10:00 PM
Ghost Frog - 9:00 PM
Bleach Blonde Dudes - 8:00 PM
Rigsketball Semifinals - 6:00 PM
July 29th: FREE
Chanti Darling - 12:00 AM
MELT (EP Release!) - 11:00 PM
Donte Thomas - 10:00 PM
Candace - 9:00 PM
Tribe Mars - 8:00 PM
Malt Lizard - 7:00 PM
Rigsketball Finals! - 6:00 PM
Rigsketball Musicfest 2017! Share this event with your bubble :)
July 27th: FREE
The Woolen Men - 11:00 PM
Kyle Craft - 10:00 PM
Boone Howard - 9:00 PM
Kulululu - 8:00 PM
Rigsketball Round of Eight Games - 6:00 PM
July 28th: FREE
Cat Hoch - 11:00 PM
The Lavendar Flu - 10:00 PM
Ghost Frog - 9:00 PM
Bleach Blonde Dudes - 8:00 PM
Rigsketball Semifinals - 6:00 PM
July 29th: FREE
Chanti Darling - 12:00 AM
MELT (EP Release!) - 11:00 PM
Donte Thomas - 10:00 PM
Candace - 9:00 PM
Tribe Mars - 8:00 PM
Malt Lizard - 7:00 PM
Rigsketball Finals! - 6:00 PM