Waterfront Blues Fest: That’s a wrap
July 9, 2024
Portland’s four-day blues bash at Tom McCall Waterfront Park beats the heat — and photographer Joe Cantrell catches the sights and sounds and free-flowing joy of it all.
Portland’s four-day blues bash at Tom McCall Waterfront Park beats the heat — and photographer Joe Cantrell catches the sights and sounds and free-flowing joy of it all.
On the opening day of the Waterfront Blues Festival, photographer Joe Cantrell captures the sights and sounds from the stages to the crowd to the fireworks.
The chamber musicians wind up their movable feast of a spring season with a pair of concerts featuring a bass quartet, flute, steel pan drums, and composers from Haydn to Andy Akiho.
The classical group’s spring season of free pop-up and full-length shows gets out of the concert halls and into book stores, cafes, churches, and other places where people gather.
Some of Portland’s finest classical musicians warm up for a new season of free and accessible small-scale concerts with a “Thursdays @ 3” broadcast on All Classical Radio.
During the day, a family fun event featuring crayons, dance, music, and a noon ball drop. The evening before, PCO and Ortiz performed music from 19th-century Vienna.
The Sempoashochitl Festival, in honor and celebration of Día de los Muertos and the glories of the marigold, brings a whirl of traditional dance, art, music and remembrance.
On a balmy July evening on a Beaverton farm, The Concerts at the Barn kicked off their summer season. For audience and musicians alike, the sights and sounds were delicious.
Life is a cabaret: Poison Waters and a bevy of drag stars dress up, feel their Pride, light the lights, and put on a show.
After a four-day feast of music and partying, the 2023 Waterfront Blues Festival winds up with a bang of Fourth of July fireworks over the river.
The skeleton celebrants of Mysti Krewe of Nimbus bring a sweet New Orleans flavor to Portland’s annual outdoor bash of the blues.
The blues festival, a downtown summer highlight since 1988, lays down its groove through July Fourth. Photographer Joe Cantrell captures Saturday’s opening-day action.
Who needs a giant concert hall to make the music zing? Classical Up Close brings great music to a small and happy audience in the cozy confines of a Tigard church.
From Fez to Spain to Oregon, a “transcendent” evening of Moroccan and flamenco music at The Reser: A photo essay.
The Reser hosted a nearly sold-out multimedia Valentine’s Day presentation with scientist Larry Sherman, singer Naomi LaViolette, and Portland Chamber Orchestra.
Powers and band performed their eclectic holiday concert for the first time since 2019.
As Portland Baroque Orchestra and the choir Cappella Romana bring Handel’s “Messiah” to vivid life, photographer Joe Cantrell captures the energy and beauty of it all.
Photographer Joe Cantrell roams the plazas and parks and barns of town and country, discovering a feast of music and dance.
The Oregon Symphony’s Zach Galatis and friends raise the roof in the kickoff show of this summer’s Concerts in the Barn.
… and as a bright and shiny Saturday fades into evening, food and art and crafts and celebrations of the many cultures of Washington County, too.
On a warm day in Beaverton, all sorts of dancers stepped out to perform on the Tiny Stage – and the effect was big. A photo essay by Joe Cantrell.
The 2022 Waterfront Blues Festival goes out with a fireworks bang on the Fourth of July. Photographer Joe Cantrell catches the action on the festival’s fourth and final day.
On Sunday at the Waterfront Blues Festival, Mysti Krewe’s bones rattle, Taj Mahal headlines, LaRhonda Steele soars, and much more. Photographer Joe Cantrell captures the spirit of it all.
As the music plays on the second day of Portland’s big blues bash on the waterfront, the feet start moving to the beat – and photographer Joe Cantrell captures the action.
The Waterfront Blues Festival, back full force after Covid slowdowns, brings back the beat through the Fourth of July. Photographer Joe Cantrell snaps highlights from Day One.
On the 65th anniversary of the flooding of Celilo Falls by The Dalles Dam, the River People gather to remember, revisit, and look ahead.
A company of elite musicians closes its festival of outdoor concerts on a high note – and in the rain.
Pianist Cary Lewis has a “critical heart incident” in mid-concert, and undergoes emergency surgery.
As the festival enters the home stretch, the brasses come out to play and the tango music does an encore.
The festival soars past its halfway point with a pair of shows – and violist Charles Noble’s in the middle of the mix.
Saturday concerts draw the committed and curious with brass in the park and woodwinds in Beaverton.
An open-air concert lifts spirits with the sounds of Brahms and Strauss and contemporary percussionist Andy Akiho.
The series of free outdoor concerts spotlights Black and contemporary woman composers, and tango, too.
In a free outdoor show, classical bassist Colin Corner and friends have young fans dancing in a parking lot.
As the world opens up, a group of elite Oregon musicians kicks off a series of intimate outdoor concerts.
Steph Littlebird’s series “Indigenous Resilience in Oregon” continues with a feature on the Chachalu Museum and Cultural Center.
Concert hall? Who needs a concert hall? A classical combo rocks out in a Portland neighborhood.
Joe Cantrell and his camera pierce time and geology to discover secrets of the shape of things.
Minus the big crowds and the riverside, the Blues Festival rethinks itself – and the beat goes on.
As the Oregon Symphony faces a stark financial crisis, musicians create mini-concerts from their homes.
At a North Portland school, a music lover and BRAVO music students meet and learn in the circle of life.
With a storm of Shakespeare’s words and Sibelius’s music, The Oregon Symphony pairs two twilight artists for a last hurrah.
As white supremacists swarmed downtown Portland, Beaverton’s Night Market celebrated global cultures instead.
Beaverton’s Chalk Art Festival draws evanescent images and crowds to a place where the people are.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOE CANTRELL On a clear warm Saturday evening at The Round in Beaverton, the joint was jumpin’. The propulsive sounds of drums and dancing feet were rising to the sky, and a big crowd was milling about the curved concrete
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOE CANTRELL When the extraordinary young guitarist Christone “Kingfish” Ingram waded into the crowd at the Waterfront Blues Festival on Sunday and started picking the strings with his teeth, you knew the whole darned party was gettin’ down. Musicians, fans,
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOE CANTRELL A lot of Louisiana took the stage on Saturday in Day Three of the Waterfront Blues Festival – groups as redolent of New Orleans and bayou country as Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble, Lil’ Pookie & the Zydeco
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOE CANTRELL Day Two of the Waterfront Blues Festival dug deep into the spirit of music and life with an extraordinary set by the Spiritual Brothers and their sounds of Northern Ghana and Burkina Faso. Unlike the four-day festival’s first
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOE CANTRELL It was a bang-up day on the Fourth of July in Portland’s Tom McCall Waterfront Park, where this year’s Waterfront Blues Festival got off to a high-flying start and, come night time, a rainbow of fireworks lit up
Photographs by JOE CANTRELL Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 18 years old when his opera La Finta Giardiniera (The Pretend, or Fake, Gardener) debuted at the Salvatortheater in Munich in 1775. When it opens Friday evening at Lincoln Performance Hall in Portland it’ll
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