A round up of what’s going on in Portland this week including festivals, concerts, comedy, trivia, happy hours, movies, & more!
Win Tickets ($59): Cory Wong: Power Station Tour @ Revolution Hall | Featuring Sierra Hull and Robbie Wulfohn (of Ripe)
November 9 @ Revolution Hall – Cory Wong fashions himself “a hype man,” first and foremost.
Win Tickets ($54): Craig Finn & The Uptown Controllers @ The Old Church Concert Hall | w/Bridget Kearney & Benjamin Lazar Davis
November 9 @ The Old Church Concert Hall – American singer-songwriter and musician Craig Finn, is best known as the frontman of the American indie rock band The Hold Steady.
Win Tickets ($64): Guster @ Revolution Hall | Alternative Rock, w/ Ratboys
American alternative rock band Guster is at Revolution Hall on November 8.
Win Tickets ($60): Glen Phillips (of Toad The Wet Sprocket) @ The Old Church Concert Hall | Rock, Folk
November 6 @ The Old Church Concert Hall – Since starting his solo career, Phillips has pared his music down to its emotional core, concentrating on the simple truths of love and relationships, with a profound spiritual understanding.
Win Tickets ($40): An Evening with My Siamese Twin @ Mission Theater | New Wave 80’s Tribute
December 2 @ Mission Theater – My Siamese Twin is a Portland based band that plays songs by your favorite alternative bands of the 80s.
Win Tickets ($50): An Evening with Lucy Kaplansky @ The Old Church Concert Hall | Folk, Rock, Bluegrass
November 4 @ The Old Church Concert Hall – Celebrated singer-songwriter Lucy Kaplansky is thrilled to announce the release of her ninth solo album, Last Days of Summer on Lucyricky Records.
Win Tickets ($44): Battle Trance (feat. Travis Laplante) + Blue Cranes @ The Old Church Concert Hall | Saxophonist, Composer
November 3 @ The Old Church Concert Hall – Travis Laplante is a saxophonist, composer, and qigong practitioner living in Brooklyn, New York and southern Vermont. Laplante leads Battle Trance, the acclaimed tenor saxophone quartet as well as Subtle Degrees, his newest project with drummer Gerald Cleaver.
Win Tickets ($50): Hermanos Gutiérrez El Bueno y El Malo Tour 2022 @ Mission Theater | Latin
November 13 @ Mission Theater – “When Alejandro and I play together, it’s like we are driving a car,” says Estevan Gutiérrez, one half of the guitar duo Hermanos Gutiérrez. “It’s like we are taking a road trip. Sometimes we’re driving through a desert. Sometimes we’re traveling up the coast.
Gather, Preserve, Share: 15 Year Celebration Gala for of The Hellenic-American Cultural Center & Museum | Tours, Dinner, Auction
November 12 @ Father Elias Stephanopoulos Center – Join The Hellenic-American Cultural Center & Museum for an unforgettable evening at their 15th anniversary gala that includes delicious food, a live auction, Greek dancing, and more!
Win Tickets ($44): Holy Fawn @ Mission Theater | w/ SOM, Grivo
November 9 @ Mission Theater – Through an otherworldly conjuration of heavy guitars, soothing dissonance, and textural space, HOLY FAWN invoke music from seen and unseen corners and crevices of the wilderness.
Win Tickets ($30): Object Heavy @ Mission Theater | w/ The Graduating Class, Progressive Soul, Funk, R&B
November 4 @ Mission Theater – Object Heavy is Northern California’s hardest hitting Soul sensation.
Queens & Screams: Halloween Drag Performance @ The Pharmacy in NW Portland | Hosted by Devlin Lynn Phoenixx
October 31 @ The Pharmacy – Join The Pharmacy for a spooktacular night of drag performances on Halloween Night!
A-WOL Dance After Hours: Trapped, Bound, Possessed @ Alberta Rose Theatre | Untamed Experience of Live, Sensual Artistry, Portland 2022 Halloween
October 21-22 @ Alberta Rose Theatre – After Hours is an untamed experience of live, sensual artistry that will make your eyes wide.
Murderboat & Code Name: Project Wonky Present Cosmic Circus 2-Night Halloween Party in NE Portland | DJs, Aerial Performances, Contortionists, Karaoke & More!
October 28-29 @ Alberta Abbey – Step right up! Come one! Come all! To the Greatest Show in the Universe…. if you dare.
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.
THIS WEEK in Portland: Festivals, Music, Comedy, Trivia, Theater, Happy Hours, & More!
| Today
2026 Swan Island Dahlia Festival | 50 Acres of Blooms, Food Carts, Live Music
| All Ages, events, Food & Drink, music
7 Deadly Sins Pants On Fire Family Friendly Show @ White Eagle Saloon | Seven True Tales, One Lie
| All Ages, Comedy, north portland, theater
Win Tickets ($130): Portland Weird Fest @ Oaks Park | 60+ Vendors, Rides, Live Bands, Costume Contest & More
| All Ages, Food & Drink, music, SE Portland, Shopping
Win Tickets ($136): Dogstar w/ The Backfires @ Crystal Ballroom | Keanu Reeves, Alt-Rock
| All Ages, downtown, events, music
Win Tickets ($92): Marc Price @ Mission Theater | Comedy, Star of ‘Trick or Treat’, ‘Family Ties’
| Comedy, NW Portland
Win Tickets ($22): Decadent 80s w/ DJ NoN @ Crystal Ballroom | Portland’s Longest Running 80s Night
| downtown, events, music
2026 Cannon Beach Cottage Tour | Self-Guided Walking Tour of Beautiful Homes, Opening Night Bash
| All Ages, events, Visual Art
2026 Time-Based Art Festival @ Portland Institute for Contemporary Art | Experimental Performances, Live Music, Dance & More
| Dance, events, Film, Food & Drink, music, NE Portland, theater, Visual Art
Lake Oswego Clean Energy and EV Fair @ Lake Oswego United Methodist Church | Test Drive EVs, Learn About Solar, Batteries & More
| All Ages, events, Home Show, Services, Shopping
Win Tickets ($42): Valkerie w/ Withholden, Laughing About Nothing, Fawkes Glove @ Mission Theater | Alternative Rock
| All Ages, music, NW Portland
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