(photo courtesy of Porland Blues Festival)

Pack your bags for beautiful Portland, Oregon this July and celebrate 20 glorious years of blues, community and fighting hunger at the 2007 Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival, presented by First Tech Credit Union. The five-day festival will run Wednesday, July 4, to Sunday, July 8, 2007, on the grassy banks of the Willamette River in downtown Portland.

Since its grass-roots beginnings in 1988, the award-winning festival has grown to be the largest blues festival west of the Mississippi and the second-largest blues festival in the nation, attracting more than 120,000 blues fans.

The festival’s four stages will feature more than 125 stellar artist performances from throughout the world, including the Neville Brothers, Koko Taylor, Pinetop Perkins, Marcia Ball, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Carey and Lurrie Bell, Steve Lucky and the Rhumba Bums, Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks and many, many more.

Daily admission is a donation of $8 per person per day and two cans of food. All festival proceeds benefit Oregon Food Bank’s work to eliminate hunger and its root causes in Oregon and southwest Washington.

To get info for visitors and the most wanted foods visit the Festival's web site: Portland Blues Festival