A round up of what’s going on in Portland this week including festivals, concerts, comedy, trivia, happy hours, movies, & more!
Win Tickets ($59): Dirty Honey – California Dreamin Tour @ Revolution Hall | w/ Dorothy & Mac Saturn
September 7 @ Revolution Hall – Some musicians take a while to build an audience and connect with fans. For the Los Angeles-based quartet Dirty Honey, success came right out of the gate. Released in March 2019, the band’s debut single, “When I’m Gone,” became the first song by an unsigned artist to reach No. 1 on Billboard’sMainstream Rock chart.
Win Ticket ($50): An Evening with Harp Twins @ The Old Church Concert Hall | Rock, Metal, Celtic, Renaissance & Soundtrack Classics
September 2 @ The Old Church Concert Hall – Identical twin harpists Camille and Kennerly Kitt, known as the HARP TWINS, have achieved extraordinary success by taking Electric Harps and Concert Grand Harps to unprecedented levels and smashing boundaries between different genres of music.
CCS Skateboarding Invitational: Lil Carwash Pro Skate Contest in NE Portland | Free Beer & Pizza, Giveaway, Games & More!
August 21 @ CCS Headquarters – It’s CCS’ 4th Annual (not including the pandemic) Invitational Skateboarding contest and demo. Free and open to the public, come and see the world’s top skaters.
Win Tickets ($90): Father John Misty w/ Suki Waterhouse @ Pioneer Courthouse Square | Indie Rock, Folk
August 27 @ Pioneer Courthouse Square – Father John Misty returns with Chloë and The Next 20th Century, his fifth album and first new material since the release of God’s Favorite Customer in 2018.
2022 Free Geek Block Party | Soul Food, DJ, Small Business Vendors, Artists, Raffle & More!
August 21 @ Free Geek – Free Geek Hosts Annual Block Party to Raise Funds to Provide Traditionally Underserved Communities Access to Technology.
2022 Sisters Folk Festival | 7 Venues, 31 Artists, Folk, Jazz, Bluegrass, Blues
September 30-October 2 – Sisters Folk Festival features 31 diverse performing artists from around the world representing many genres of roots music including folk, jazz, bluegrass, and blues.
2022 St. Johns Comedy Fest | Featuring National & Local Comedians
August 25-27 – St. Johns Comedy Fest features Portland’s finest comedians as well as nationally touring headliners.
PDXWIT Presents August Virtual Happy Hour | Tips For Landing Your Next Job, Hosted by Matrix Networks
August 23 – Level up your tech career! Join PDXWIT and host Matrix Networks for our monthly happy hour where we will learn some tips and tricks.
Club Privata Presents Luscious Lemonade | Pacific Northwest’s Premier Lifestyle Club
August 26 @ Club Privata – Nothing beats the heat like a tall, cold lemonade. Wear your best yellow as we cool off and celebrate lemonade lusciousness at this party!
2022 Dundee Lodge Campout in Gaston, Oregon | Music, Camping, Swimming, Art Installations, DJs, Food Trucks & More!
August 19-20 @ Dundee Lodge – Dundee Lodge Campout is an annual outdoor music and art festival celebrating our rich, diverse, and creative communities.
MANY Portland Weekend Events & Giveaways ($1,650+): Oregon Zoo Nights, Beaverton Night Market, Sip & Shop, Flamenco Friday & More! | August 11-14, 2022
The weekend is back, Portland! See the sunflowers along the Hood River Fruit Loop. Browse local vendors at Hip Chicks Do Wine’s Sip & Shop. And Friday is the last Oregon Zoo Nights, featuring music w/Jujuba!
Portland in the News: Goonies House Reopens to Foot Traffic; Fish Tacos, Fishing Holes & More! | August 11, 2022
The owners of the Goonies House have loosened some of the restrictions they’ve had in place for visitors to the famous house, now asking visitors to walk up to the house for a view.
An Oregon couple who shares their concerted Airstream home with their pet goats will be featured on a new Discovery+ Series.
And eager to get a line in the water? Check out Travel Oregon’s new first-timer’s guide on fishing in Oregon.
Packer Orchards Farm Place Sunflower Fields Open in Hood River | U-Cut Sunflowers, 15 Unique Photo Opportunities, Golden Hour
August 5-21 @ Packer Farm Plae – Visit during sunflower harvest and enjoy the beauty of thousands and thousands of sunflowers to walk through!
Pix Pâtisserie’s Outdoor Patio Only Open a Few More Dates in August! | Raffle, Award Winning Wine List, Champagne, Sherry Flights, Beer, Desserts & Tapas
August 13-14, 20 @ Pix Patisserie – This will be the last chance to order and imbibe from our award winning wine list. The sherry and champagne selections are like no other in its field.
Win Tickets ($99): Grammy Winner Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers @ Revolution Hall | w/ CARM, Rock, Bluegrass, Blues
August 25 @ Revolution Hall – Based out of Williamsburg, VA, Hornsby first rose to national prominence with The Way It Is, his 1986 Grammy-winning debut album with The Range.
Win Tickets ($90): Shakey Graves w/ Jade Bird @ Pioneer Courthouse Square | Blues, Folk, Country, Rock
August 26 @ Pioneer Courthouse Square – Shakey Graves is coming to Portland’s living room on August 26 w/ Jade Bird.
Win Tickets ($50): Lido Pimienta / Helado Negro @ Revolution Hall | Synth Pop, Latin, Art Pop, Electronic
August 26 @ Revolution Hall – Lido’s ecstatic musical hybridity of electronic meets cumbia, and is at once defiant and delicate, exploratory and confrontational.
Win Tickets ($90): An Evening with Goose @ Pioneer Courthouse Square | Indie Groove
August 25 @ Pioneer Courthouse Square – Fluidly traverse genres with head-spinning hooks, technical fireworks, and the kind of chemistry only possible among small town and longtime friends.
Win Tickets ($30): AMP (Asebroek, McLean, Prescott) @ The Goodfoot Pub & Lounge | Featuring Members of Fruition, G. Love & Special Sauce, and World’s Finest
August 20 @ The Goodfoot Pub & Lounge – A pandemic-era revelation, AMP draws from the original music of these three members’ main projects.
Lan Su Chinese Garden Presents This is She | Featuring Stories of Local Women of Color Leaders, Performers & Entrepreneurs
August 13, 20 @ Lan Su Chinese Garden – This is She features the stories of local women of color by inviting notable Portland leaders, entrepreneurs, musicians, actresses and more to share their craft as well as their perspectives.
Win Tickets ($40): FULL STURGEON MOON: Animal Feelings, Chris Dingman @ The Old Church Concert Hall | Ambient Soundscapes, Electronic, Indie
August 12 @ The Old Church Concert Hall – ANIMAL FEELINGS is the musical love child of producer and pianist Oli Chang. From introspective piano pieces to sprawling indy anthems, Animal Feelings ranges from ambient soundscapes to unexpected electronic drops.
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.
Placebo @ Crystal Ballroom | Pop Rock, Industrial, Britpop
May 16 @ Crystal Ballroom – Called ‘Never Let Me Go’, Placebo’s 8th studio album channels all their skill as songwriters and sound-makers into music that satisfies their near-brutal appetite for self-expression.
Win Tickets ($34): BackFence PDX Russian Roulette Live Storytelling @ Alberta House | True, Spur of the Moment 5-Minute Stories
August 20 @ Alberta House – RUSSIAN ROULETTE is our high stakes, high-risk live storytelling show where five seasoned performers spin a giant game show wheel filled with mystery prompts.
2022 Oregon Zoo Nights | Portland Outdoor Summer Music Featuring Afrobeat/Juju w/ Jujuba
August 12 @ Oregon Zoo – We’re keeping the zoo open late on select Fridays this summer, and enhancing the already-spectacular experience with additional food carts, beer & wine sales, live music, keeper talks and educational fun for kids and adults alike.
August Sip & Shop @ Hip Chicks Do Wine | Flights, Bites, Vendors
August 12 @ Hip Chicks Do Wine – Join us for a fun evening of wine, shopping and light bites!
Portland in the News: New Murals, Portland Winemakers, Best Comic Shop in the World & More | August 3, 2022
Portland’s Books With Pictures has earned the title of ‘Best Comic Shop in the World’! A Vancouver coffee shop is raising money to build a women’s health clinic in Tanzania.
MANY Portland Weekend Events & Giveaways ($1,600): Festivals, Block Parties, Sand Castles, Concerts, & More | August 4-7, 2022
We’re in for another busy Summer weekend, Portland! The St. Helens 2022 Sand Island Sand Castle Competition and Pirate Encampment takes place all weekend, First Thursday and First Friday events including Freeya’s “The Art of Free”, Unique Markets big shopping event at Veterans Memorial, Clark County Fair Summer Concerts are back, A-WOL Dance Collective Presents ART…
Win Tickets ($100): Echo & The Bunnymen @ Roseland Theater | Celebrating 40 Years of Magical Songs
Echo and the Bunnymen will celebrate their 40th anniversary by embarking on a North American tour in Summer 2022.
Freeya Presents The Art of Free @ First Thursday | Free, All Ages, Art Show
New app FREEYA! Welcomes you to The Art of the Free, a First Thursday installation showcasing the art of salvaging free goods. In an unexpected twist, we encourage you to take home the art — for free!
Win Tickets ($36): Mdou Moctar @ Revolution Hall | Rock, w/ Lithics
August 24 @ Revolution Hall – Prodigious Tuareg guitarist and songwriter Mdou Moctar boldly reforges contemporary Saharan music and “rock music.”
Win Tickets ($90): The Tubes @ Aladdin Theater | Featuring Fee Waybill, Rock
August 21 @ Aladdin Theater – The Tubes formed in 1972 in San Francisco from two bands that moved there from Phoenix, The Beans along with the Red, White and Blues Band.
Win Tickets ($90): Modest Mouse @ Pioneer Courthouse Square | Rock, w/ Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever (Saturday)
August 19-20 @ Pioneer Courthouse Square – Over the past quarter century, Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock has served as indie rock’s resident backwoods philosopher, pondering his infinitesimal place in the world at large and seeking balance in a universe governed by polar opposites.
Win Tickets ($79): Grammy Nominated Crash Test Dummies @ Aladdin Theater | w/ Carleton Stone, Rock
August 19 @ Aladdin Theater – The Crash Test Dummies first album garnered them their first big hit, Superman’s Song, and a Juno Award for Group of the Year.
Win Tickets ($90): Steve Earle & The Dukes with Special Guests The Whitmore Sisters @ Revolution Hall | Rock, Folk, Country
August 18 @ Revolution Hall – JERRY JEFF is Earle’s 22nd album. He’s released nearly an album a year since getting sober in the mid 1990s, LPs ranging from bluegrass to blues to folk to country.
Win Tickets ($20): Rhododendron @ Mission Theater | Prog Rock, w/ Twistur, Growing Pains
August 20 @ Mission Theater – Rhododendron are a difficult band to pin down. Hailing from Portland, OR, their music takes influence from post-hardcore, noise rock and math rock, while also dabbling in screamo, jazz fusion and sludge metal.
THIS WEEK in Portland: Festivals, Music, Comedy, Trivia, Theater, Happy Hours, & More!
| Today
Radical Harvest Craft Faire & Community Center @ SymbiOp Garden Shop | 40+ Local Makers, Giveaways, Food Pantry
| All Ages, events, Food & Drink, Food Drive, Free, SE Portland, Services, Shopping
2026 McMenamins Oktoberfest | Beer, German-Inspired Fare, Live Music, Golf Tournament & More
| downtown, events, Food & Drink, music, NE Portland, SW Portland
Slabtown Tours presents A Night with Ghosts in Northwest Portland | 90 Minute Walking Tour, Local Paranormal History
| All Ages, events, Halloween, Lectures, NW Portland
Win Tickets ($110): 2026 Easyfolk Festival @ Portland’5 Winningstad Theatre | Essie & The Hum, Rebecca McDade, Kenzy Peach & More
| All Ages, downtown, events, music, SW Portland
Win Tickets ($76): Everyone Orchestra Conducted by Matt Butler @ Mission Theater | Danceable Grooves Created on the Fly
| All Ages, events, music, NW Portland
The Haunting @ The Social Spoon | Halloween Cocktail Pop-Up, Part Haunted House, Part Neighborhood Bar,
| downtown, events, Food & Drink, Halloween
End of Summer Pearl Party @ Pearl District | Live Music, Local Food, Artisans, Activities, & More
| All Ages, events, Food & Drink, Free, music
2026 Zootoberfest @ Oregon Zoo | Beer & Cider, Live Music, Keeper Chats, Animal Activities & More
| events, Food & Drink, music, SW Portland
7 Deadly Sins Pants on Fire Freaky/Filthy Late Show @ The White Eagle Saloon | 7 True Tales, One Lie
| Comedy, events, north portland, theater
Win Tickets ($22): 2026 Corn Maze ‘5 Kind Acts’ + Pumpkin Patch @ Bella Organic Farm on Sauvie Island | Apple Cider, Trains, Petting Zoo & More
| All Ages, events, Food & Drink, Halloween, NW Portland, Visual Art
Win Tickets ($80): Haunted Corn Maze @ Bella Organic Farm on Sauvie Island | Ghouls, Zombies, Costume Party
| All Ages, events, Food & Drink, Halloween, NW Portland, theater
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