PORTLAND LOCAL FESTIVALS

Rose Festival This year, the Rose Festival celebrated its 100th year tradition of innovation and celebration in the Portland community. Each June, the Rose city celebrates with the Rose Parade (where the queen still is coronated using the crown from 1907!), waterfront festivities with food vendors and carnival rides, fireworks and even dragon boat races! There is also a fleet of Navy ships that sail into Portland's waterfront and some even offer tours from well pressed sailors dressed in white!
www.rosefestival.org

Bite of Oregon During the second weekend of August, the Portland Waterfront hosts over 100 restaurants as they show off their finest local cuisine. From Mo's Clam Chowder, to Bugerville's Walla Walla onion rings to North 45's NW Mussles and ginger limeade. Complete with music performances and lots of activities for the entire family- it's a great place to discover Oregonian cuisine.
www.biteoforegon.com

Oregon Brewers Festival The Oregon Brewers Festival has become one of the nation's longest-running and most prestigious craft beer festivals in the nation. Located on the west banks of the Willamette River, the Oregon Brewers Festival is the quintessential venue to relax with friends and sips some suds. With over 73 craft breweries participating from around the country, there is a draft for every beer lover- from Amber to Wit! Cheers!
www.oregonbrewfest.com

Waterfront Blues Festival A one-of-a-kind, four day fundraiser for The Oregon Food Bank, The Portland Waterfront Blues Festival is the place to be on the Fourth of July weekend. For over 20 years this festival has brought the best blues talent to Portland for what is the biggest blues festival on the West Coast and second biggest in the nation. In 2007 blues fans donated 103,500 pounds of food and $545,000 at the gate! Multiple stages with great musical artists, great food, beautiful weather and fireworks are all part of the scene.

Jazz Festival The Portland Jazz Festival's mission is to promote jazz in the Pacific Northwest. The Portland Jazz Festival is an annual, multi-venue series of jazz events presented each February within the downtown area of Portland, Oregon. The Festival is dedicated to furthering jazz as America's most indigenous art form by presenting contemporary jazz masters in a concert setting; nurturing local jazz musicians presented within intimate, free performances; and celebrating February as Black History Month with a series of jazz education and outreach programs that extend into Portland's schools and community centers. The Portland Jazz Festival is a celebration of jazz, Black History Month and the City of Portland.
www.pdxjazz.org