A round up of what’s going on in Portland this week including festivals, concerts, comedy, trivia, happy hours, movies, & more!
Win Tickets ($40): Keep Portland Country @ Ponderosa Lounge & Grill | Featuring 4 Country Artists
August 26 @ Ponderosa Lounge & Grill – This quartet of country artists are lighting up the stage with country music like you’ve never seen before!
Win Tickets ($75): Bridge City Block Party in SE Portland | Featuring Get Real, Nala, Freak On, Luxo, Food Trucks, Vendors & More!
Bridge City Block Party, coming in hot! Featuring international touring artists Get Real (Green Velvet + Claude VonStroke), Nala, Freak On + Luxo on Sunday, September 25.
2022 Oregon Brewers Festival @ Downtown Portland’s Waterfront Park | Featuring 40 Beers, 2 Ciders, Food
July 28-30 @ Portland Watefront Park – Oregon Brewers Festival is listed among the world’s top beer festivals, with 40 beers and 2 ciders from across the state, plus great food, vendor booths and more.
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.
Canceled: Bodhi Mojo @ The Goodfoot Pub & Lounge | Psychedelic 4-Piece Jambad
August 4 @ The Goodfoot Pub & Lounge – Bodhi Mojo is a psychedelic 4-piece jamband rooted in the good feels. Characterized by heartfelt songwriting and mind-bending jams, BM never plays the same show twice!
2022 Oregon Zoo Nights | Portland Outdoor Summer Music Featuring the Caleb Klauder and Reeb Willms Country Band
July 29 @ 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.
Win Tickets ($34): Surf Curse, Toner @ Crystal Ballroom | Rock, Indie Pop
November 12 @ Crystal Ballroom – Surf Curse’s Nick Rattigan and Jacob Rubeck have been crafting sounds spanning from punk to psych rock for nearly a decade with a rabid and dedicated international fanbase and no end in sight.
Win Tickets ($40): THICK, Skating Polly, VIAL @ Mission Theater | Punk, Pop
September 25 @ Mission Theater – Since first forming in 2014, New York trio THICK have triumphed at turning the harshest truths into wildly exhilarating punk songs.
2022 Portlandia Mermaid Parade @ Downtown Portland’s Waterfront Park | Rainbow Waters Theme, A Shellabration of Queer Merfolk
July 30 @ Waterfront Park – Portlandia Mermaid Parade is FREE grassroots artistic event aimed at celebrating our community connection to water mythology, merfolk, artists, our rivers and port.
MANY Portland Weekend Events & Giveaways ($1,300): Beaverton Night Market, Roadhouse Brewfest, Skatemobile Roller Disco!, Vintage and Collectible Market & More | July 21-24, 2022
We’re in for another lovely Portland weekend! Beaverton Night Market is back! Find vintage treasures at Maizee Mae’s Vintage and Collectible Market. And see who’s unmasked at The Masked Singer National Tour.
Portland in the News: Congrats to Blazers; Too Many Mosquitos: Birthplace of the Corn Dog & More! | July 21, 2022
Congrats to the Portland Trail Blazers, who won the Summer League Championship.
The corn dog was invented on the Oregon Coast in 1939.
And prepare your exposed skin this summer; Portland is facing its largest mosquito outbreak in a decade.
NW Marine Art Works Open Studio in NW Portland | Featuring 75+ Studios, 100+ Artists, Live Demos
July 30 @ Northwest Art Marine Works – With more than 75 studios and 100+ local artists and artisans participating, art lovers will find works from jewelry and apparel to paintings and printmaking, fine art, ceramics, photography, sculpture, mixed media and glass—all in one location.
A-WOL Dance Collective Presents ART in the DARK 2022: Glass Shadows | Aerial Artists Suspended from Old Growth Trees
July 29-31 & August 3-6 @ Mary S Young Park – A-WOL’s Art in the Dark annual performance is a fantastical, illuminated, full-length, evening production set in a unique and rare outdoor theater style setting.
PCC Community Ed Presents “What’s Real, What’s Fake: How to Decipher News Media” @ PCC CLIMB Center | Learn to Detect News Credibility
Thursdays August – September 8 @ PCC CLIMB Center – Have fun building essential skills to detect news credibility & to also see the big picture.
Win Tickets: House Special w/ Group Sound @ The Goodfoot Pub & Lounge | DJ Collective
July 30 @ The Goodfoot Pub & Lounge – Group Sound is a Portland-based collective of DJs that channel an eclectic palette of dance genres.
Win Tickets ($70): 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 ($80): Comedian Neal Brennan: Unacceptable @ Revolution Hall | Emmy-Nominated Writer, The Daily Show
August 6 @ Revolution Hall – Three-time Emmy nominated writer, director, producer, and standup comedian Neal Brennan has become a force in the comedy world.
Win Tickets ($40): Mimi Webb @ Mission Theater | Singer/Songwriter, Pop
September 24 @ Mission Theater – The loudest ones light up the room the brightest. Mimi Webb projects a voice as magnetic, massive, and magical as her personality.
Blue’s Clues & You! Live On Stage @ Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall | Broadway Style Song & Dance
November 11 @ Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall – Blue’s Clues & You! Live on Stage is an epic new adventure! Josh is conjuring up a magical theater show, but he needs YOUR help!
2022 Portland Sketch Comedy Festival @ Siren Theater | 3 Nights Featuring Performers From Across North America
July 21-23 @ Siren Theater -The Portland Sketch Comedy Festival brings the smartest and freshest sketch comedy performances to Portland!
Win Tickets: Far Out West @ The Goodfoot Pub & Lounge | Funk Infused Rock
July 20 @ The Goodfoot Pub & Lounge – Portland-based Far Out West strikes a relentlessly engaging balance between funk-infused rock and a jazz-informed collaboration.
WasabiCon 2022 @ Downtown Portland Hilton | Portland’s Anime, Cosplay & Gaming Convention
July 30-31 @ Hilton Portland – WasabiCon PDX focuses on three key facets of fandom: anime, cosplay and gaming!
Gregory Alan Isakov @ Topaz Farm on Sauvie Island | Surprise Monday Show w/ Guest Daniel Rodriguez
Gregory Alan Isakov and special guest, Daniel Rodriguez, will play a surprise performance this Monday, July 18th, under the 500 year-old massive, Historic Topaz Farm Oak Tree.
MANY Portland Weekend Events & Giveaways ($1,350+): Wild Hare Music Festival, Love Oregon Festival, US Air Guitar National Finals, Tea Fest PDX & more! | July 14-17, 2022
The weekend is back, Portland! Sample a huge variety of brewed beverages at TeaFest PDX. Enjoy two summer favorites at Corks & Cones. And rock out at US Air Guitar Nationals!
Portland in the News: New Blazers Players; Nature Piano; Funding for Firefighters | July 14, 2022
Two former Beavers teammates, Gary Payton II and Drew Eubanks, are again playing together after joining the Portland Trail Blazers.
The Portland City Council is backing a plan to build new I-5 Bridge over the Columbia River.
And a member of Pink Martini is putting a grand piano in grand places.
Win Tickets ($100): OrpheusPDX’s Inaugural Season Features L’Orfeo & The Fall of the House of Usher | Where Opera Gets Intimate
August 4-7 & 25-28 @ Lincoln Hall – Portland’s new opera company, OrpheusPDX, aspire to touch the soul of the community through the power of great music and theater.
Tiny Moving Parts @ Mission Theater | w/ This Wild Life & In Her Own Words, Rock, Acoustic
Tiny Moving Parts with special guests This Wild Life and In Her Own Words perform live at Mission Theater on July 16.
Win Tickets ($30): Rosie Darling @ Mission Theater | w/ Caleb Hearn, Indie Pop
September 29 @ Mission Theater – You couldn’t mistake Rosie for anybody else. She’s quietly confident, exuberantly passionate, and creatively inclined to infinity. She’s highly aware of herself and the world around her, and she speaks her mind with clarity and focus.
Oregon Ciders of the World Festival @ Stone Circle Cider in Estacada | Featuring 5 Oregon Cideries, Food Cart
July 16 @ Stone Circle Cider – Enjoy an array of ciders from 5 Oregon cideries who specialize in styles of cider from around the world!
Win Tickets ($40): I Draw Slow @ The Old Church Concert Hall | Folk, Irish
July 30 @ The Old Church Concert Hall – Dublin, Ireland’s I Draw Slow has already won the adoration of fans in their home country and North America by combining American folk and Irish storytelling traditions with close-harmony vocals, intriguing instrumentation and compelling subject matter.
Win Tickets ($70): Zero @ Aladdin Theater | Jazz, Rock and Blues
July 29 @ Aladdin Theater – As bands will, Zero came and went—and always came back, to the extent of 1,300 shows and eight albums.
Win Tickets ($100): American Acoustic: Punch Brothers and Watchhouse Featuring Sarah Jarosz @ Pioneer Courthouse Square | Progressive Bluegrass
July 31 @ Pioneer Courthouse Square – Punch Brothers’ accolades include a Grammy® for Best Folk Album for their 2018 release, All Ashore, and praise from the media, including The Washington Post, which said, “With enthusiasm and experimentation, Punch Brothers take bluegrass to its next evolutionary stage, drawing equal inspiration from the brain and the heart.”
Win Tickets ($80): Sal Vulcano @ Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall | truTV’s “Impractical Jokers”
July 20 @ Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall – Staten Island native Sal Vulcano is best known for creating and starring in truTV’s long-running hit “Impractical Jokers,” and for “The Misery Index” on TBS.
Win Tickets ($60): Red Fang, Big Business, & Tacos! @ Crystal Ballroom | Rock, Heavy Metal Punk
July 29 @ Crystal Ballroom – Portland rockers Red Fang have announced their long-awaited North America Summer 2022 tour dates, in support of their acclaimed 2021 full-length Arrows.
Win Tickets ($64): Rising Appalachia @ Crystal Ballroom | w/ Jeffrey Martin, Folk, Roots Music
August 2 @ Crystal Ballroom – As world travelers for nearly two decades, Rising Appalachia have merged multiple global music influences with their own southern roots on their new album.
Win Tickets ($36): The Lagoons @ Mission Theater | Synth-pop, Jazz, Soul, Electronic
September 9 @ Mission Theater – The Lagoons are the musical project of Los Angeles-raised multi-instrumentalist brothers Ryan and Joey Selan.
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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