River City Bluegrass Festival: Oregon Convention Center | January 9-11
January 8, 2009 — PDXPIPELINEStill looking for something interesting to do this weekend? How about getting down to the River city bluegrass bonanza?
From River City Bluegrass Festival:
Now in its 5th year, The River City Bluegrass Festival is a rare chance to see the ‘best of the best' in acoustic and bluegrass music. Most of the artists are coming from the Nashville area. RiverCity is an interactive, move-around-and-make-friends music event.
The festival, which is the largest winter bluegrass/acoustic music festival ever held in Portland, features two and a half days of non-stop music and workshops. The festival offers music on two stages, and, as at any good bluegrass festival worthy of its name, there will be plenty of jamming, both at the convention center and at the headquarters hotel.
This year the RiverCity Festival was nominated for Best Bluegrass Event of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association, which, given the relatively young age of the festival and its location (the Pacific Northwest vs. the south), was a tremendous honor and demonstrates the progress RiverCity has made in such a short time. Read the rest of this entry »
