(photo courtesy of Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival)

Pack your bags for beautiful Portland, Oregon and join blues fans from around the world at the 2008 Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival, running from July 3rd to July 6th, 2008, on the grassy banks of the Willamette River at Tom McCall Waterfront Park.

The 2008 Festival will feature more than 120 performances on five stages. Among the highlights will be performances by the legendary Isaac Hayes, Charlie Musselwhite, Phoebe Snow, Canned Heat, The Mannish Boys, Joe Bonamassa, James Hunter, and Elvin Bishop, to name just a few.

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.

Daily admission is a donation of $10 per person and two cans of food for the benefit of the Oregon Food Bank. All of the Festival’s 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