A round up of what’s going on in Portland this weekend including live music, concerts, comedy, trivia, happy hours, movies & more!
MANY Portland Weekend Events & Giveaways ($2,000+): Haunted Corn Maze, Legends of the Otherworld, Haunted House, Spooky Escape Room & More! | October 13-16, 2022
The weekend is back, Portland! Cinema of Horrors continues w/ Beetlejuice, A Nightmare on Elm Street & More! Shop locally made goods from area artists and crafters at PDX Moon Market. And Halloween is coming up fast, get your party tickets soon!
Portland in the News: WNBA; Downtown Dining; Loretta Lynn’s Oregon Affair & More | October 13, 2022
Portland rapper Cool Nutz has been inducted into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame.
Loretta Lynn’s song Portland, Oregon is about a time she pretended to have an affair with her guitarist while in Portland.
And Portland is on the short list of cities the WNBA is considering for expansion.
2022 HOWL Awesome Halloween Dance Party @ The Den in SE Portland | Live Music, DJs, Benefit for City Repair Project
Huge Halloween dance party Howl is October 28-29 in SE Portland’s The Den. This 19th Annual Halloween Celebration is a benefit for the City Repair Project
I WANT CANDY 2022 Halloween Party @ Spare Room Restaurant & Lounge in NE Portland | 80s New Wave Costume Dance Party w/ DJs Cooky Parker and Disarray
October 29 @ Spare Room Restaurant & Lounge – Put yur Halloween costume & come to Spare Room for the 80s dance party you want, that you love, that you need!
Win Tickets ($55): The Milk Carton Kids & Katie Pruitt @ Revolution Hall | Indie Folk
October 20 @ Revolution Hall – Listening to The Milk Carton Kids — Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale — talk about their creative process, it’s easy to imagine them running in opposite directions even while yoked together.
Win Tickets ($60): Grateful Shred @ Aladdin Theater | Grateful Dead Tribute
October 20-21 @ Aladdin Theater – The thing is, Los Angeles-based Grateful Shred manage to channel that elusive Dead vibe: wide-open guitar tones, effortless three-part vocal harmonies, choogling beats, and yes, plenty of tripped out, Shredded solos.
Win Tickets ($90): An Evening with SIMRIT @ The Old Church Concert Hall | Punk Rock
October 21 @ The Old Church Concert Hall – “Imagine that the Aurora Borealis could sing: that’s Simrit’s voice. Timeless, Strong, and Ethereal as a whale’s song.”
Cancelled: The Island Tour with Etu @ Mission Theater | Featuring CRSB & Mo Musiq
November 11 @ Mission Theater – The Island Summer Tour featuring ETU, CRSB, & MO MUSIQ makes its stop in Portland.
Win Tickets ($50): Young Dubliners @ Mission Theater | Celtic Rock
December 4 @ Mission Theater – After thirty years as one of the world’s leading Celtic Rock bands, the Young Dubliners have begun work on their tenth studio album.
Win Tickets ($24): Trio Subtonic Featuring D’Vonne Lewis @ The Goodfoot Pub & Lounge | Genre-bending Funk, Soul Jazz
October 22 @ The Goodfoot Pub & Lounge – Trio Subtonic is a groove heavy power trio that blends genre bending funk with slow burning underground soul jazz.
Win Tickets ($50): Marc Broussard @ Revolution Hall | R&B, Soul, Rock, w/ Walden
November 1 @ Revolution Hall -Marc Broussard is an artist with a unique gift of channeling the spirits of classic R&B, rock and soul into contemporary terms.
Win Tickets ($30): Rock and Roll Playhouse Presents Music of Grateful Dead for Kids @ Mission Theater | Halloween Spooktacular ft. Foolish Hearts Band
October 30 @ Mission Theater – The Rock and Roll Playhouse, a family concert series hosted at historic music venues across the country, allows kids to “move, play and sing while listening to works from the classic-rock canon” (NY Times).
Win Tickets ($40): Miz Kitty’s Parlour Vaudeville Variety Show @ The Old Church Concert Hall | 21st Anniversary + Halloween Fall Flight of Fancy!
October 29 @ The Old Church Concert Hall – Meow Meow Kittens~ We have missed seeing you and are ready to romp and play!! Join us for our 21st SEASON KICKOFF!!
Win Tickets ($50): Lee Fields Presents The Sentimental Fool Tour @ Aladdin Theater | Soul
October 29 @ The Old Church Concert Hall -Lee Fields is arguably the greatest soul singer alive today. In an age when the shelf life of an artist largely depends on posturing and trends, he has proven to be an unassailable force of nature.
Win Tickets ($36): Hayley Lynn Album Release w/ Jacob Westfall & Amy Evans @ The Old Church Concert Hall | Indie Pop
October 28 @ The Old Church Concert Hall – Hayley Lynn is a Portland Oregon based songwriter with influences ranging from the effortless indie pop of Lykke Li and swagger of Sharon Van Etten to the organic tones of Maggie Rogers and tenderness of Imogen Heap.
Win Tickets ($36): Bill and the Belles @ The Old Church Concert Hall | American Stringband, Folk
October 27 @ The Old Church Concert Hall – Happy Again isn’t exactly happy. But the delightfully deadpan new album from roots mainstays Bill and the Belles is full of life, humor, and tongue-in-cheek explorations of love and loss.
Win Tickets ($70): Megan Stalter @ Aladdin Theater | Comedy, Hacks, Church Girls on HBO Max
October 27 @ Aladdin Theater – Originally from the Chicago comedy scene, Megan has been called “an oasis of invigorating silliness in feeds dominated by wearying tragedy” by the New York Times and “a soothing comedy balm for a scathing grease fire of a year” by Harper’s Bazaar. Her breakout role is in the HBO Max series HACKS.
Win Tickets ($70): Animals As Leaders @ Crystal Ballroom | w/ Car Bomb, Alluvial, Instrumental Progressive Metal
November 1 @ Crystal Ballroom – Armed with palette-expanding eight-string guitars, rich synths, and pummeling percussive grooves, Animals as Leaders is beloved by metalheads, aspiring virtuosos, jazz fanatics, and casual listeners alike.
PDX Vendor Collective Presents Fall Festival & Market @ Taborspace | 35+ Vendors, Kids Craft Table, Trick or Treat, Costumes
October 22 @ Taborspace – The Fall Festival & Market will feature over 35 vendors who create a variety of art, goods and food.
Blueprint Choral Ensembles Presents FREE Above All Odds Concert in NE Portland | Songs for Overcoming, Striving & Rising, Free Dessert
October 22 in NE Portland – Blueprint’s fall show places focus on just that: overcoming the odds!
Standing up to obstacles, and finding that they haven’t half the strength you think they have!
Win 2-Day Passes ($214+): Freaky Deaky PDX 2022 Halloween Party @ Portland Expo Center | 2-Days, Svdden Death, CloZee, LSDream & More!
October 28-29 @ Portland Expo Center – Find your freakiest costume and come join Svdden Death, CloZee, LSDream, and many more frighteningly good sets that you won’t want to miss.
MANY Portland Weekend Events & Giveaways ($1,800+): Pearl Dive Live, Hood River Harvest Festival, H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival, Win a Car w/ Freeya & More! | October 6-9, 2022
The weekend is back, Portland! Cooper Mountain Ale Works is hosting an Oktoberfest themed Brewer’s Dinner. Learn all about fungi at Radical Mycology Convergence. And this is your last weekend to see The Hombres by Artists Repertory Theatre.
Portland in the News: Best City for Vegans; Fall Colors; Spooky Tours & More! | October 6, 2022
Wallethub has named Portland the best city in the U.S. for vegans and vegetarians.
Oregon’s Medicaid program is set to be the first in the nation to cover expenses related to climate change such as air conditioners and air filters.
And no surprise, the filmed-in-Oregon Halloweentown is Oregon’s favorite Halloween movie for kids.
2 for 1 Ticket Promo Code: ANTIfest with ANTI-FLAG @ Crystal Ballroom | Good Riddance, Bad Cop/Bad Cop, The Last Gang, The Black Tones, & The Macks
October 8 @ Crystal Ballroom – Punk rock renegades Anti-Flag have been packaging their subversive political messages in hardcore hooks for over two decades.
Win Tickets ($50): SunSquabi @ The Get Down | w/ The Bad Table, Hydro Funk, EDM Funk
October 7 @ The Get Down – There’s a place, deep in the cosmos, where jam bands and electronic dance music intersect with rhythm-driven funk.
2022 H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival @ Hollywood Theatre | w/Guests Jeffrey Combs, Kelli Maroney, 60+ Short & Feature Films
The 27th Annual H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival® of Cosmic Horror returns to all 3 screens of the Hollywood Theatre October 7-9 with Guest of Honor JEFFREY COMBS in attendance all weekend!
Beep Beep! Win a Free Car When You Use Freeya! | App Connects Users to Give & Collect Free Stuff
Freeya is a new App that helps Portlanders give and get free stuff and we want to give you a free car.
Win Tickets ($30): Tylor and the Train Robbers @ Ponderosa Lounge & Grill | Roots Country & Modern Americana
October 20 @ Ponderosa Lounge – Tylor and the Train Robbers deliver a perfect, lyric-driven blend of Roots Country and modern Americana music.
Win Tickets ($46): John Splithoff: All In – The Solo Tour @ The Old Church Concert Hall | R&B, Throwback Soul
October 24 @ The Old Church Concert Hall – Recorded in both New York and Los Angeles, ‘All In,’ Splithoff’s invigorating debut, has indeed been brewing for quite some time now, and its release this year marks the culmination of nearly a decade of highs and lows, victories and defeats, breakthroughs and setbacks.
Win Tickets ($46): Chloe Moriondo @ Aladdin Theater | w/ Dreamer Isioma, Indie Pop
October 23 @ Aladdin Theater – The third full-length from Moriondo, SUCKERPUNCH marks a bold leap forward from the understated indie-pop and jittery pop-punk of Blood Bunny, often echoing the sheer unpredictability suggested in its title.
Radical Mycology Convergence in Mulino, Oregon | 4-Day Celebration of Mushrooms, 40+ Workshops, 30+ Teachers
October 6-9 @ Brown Bottle Farm – The Radical Mycology Convergence is a 4-day art- and education-based gathering revolving around the fascinating world of mushrooms, lichens, and other fungi.
Win Tickets ($50): Joep Beving @ The Old Church Concert Hall | Dutch Composer & Pianist
October 23 @ The Old Church Concert Hall – Joep Beving, a sensation of the contemporary classical streaming world, returns to his solo piano roots with Hermetism.
Win Tickets ($40): David Torn + Corzi și Arcuri @ The Old Church | “Tall Tales (direct translations from the lost tongue)”, Guitar, Sound Sorcerer
October 22 @ The Old Church Concert Hall – As a part of the Improvisation Summit of Portland 2022, Creative Music Guild presents critically acclaimed guitarist and sound sorcerer from New York City, David Torn.
Win Tickets ($56): Plains @ Revolution Hall | w/ MJ Lenderman, Indie Rock, Country
October 22 @ Revolution Hall – Hitting play on the debut album from Plains we’re immediately teleported into a world of Southern sunsets, wide open spaces, and the unapologetic nature of Country music.
Win Tickets ($30): SeepeopleS @ Mission Theater | w/ Kid Ferris, Caragold
October 20 @ Crystal Ballroom – The anti-genre indie pranksters SeepeopleS have been a band for 22 years.
Cancelled: Klangstof @ Mission Theater | Synth-Pop, Post-Rock
Indie Rock band Klangstof is coming to Mission Theater on October 21.