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MAKING TIME TO SHARE TIME

July 7, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Making time for this, for that, but we still run out of time. On the run? From a Beaverton Farmers Market morning to a Waterfront Blues Festival evening, all the different faces turned into a blur. Some faces, not all.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Army, beaverton, blues, compression, get married, good vibes, have kids, join the Army, making time, music, Oregon, Portland, portland woodstock, share time, shared time, the blues, time, Waterfront Blues Festival, writers thing

BLUE PORTLAND IN STAGES

July 6, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Blue Portland is like a blues band. You don’t start at the main stage in the Waterfront Blues Festival. You don’t always have a limousine ready to jump into after playing your set. That’s Portland carrying its guitar in a gunnysack, headed on down to the railroad tracks.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: blame, blue portland, blues, blues band, burn Portland burn, clinton street, division, Hawthorne street, inner eastside, ken bodie, lucinda williams, music, music festival, Oregon, perception, perspective, Portland, portland blue, portland problem, Purple Portland, sing, song, Waterfront Blues Festival

HOW TO BLUES FEST ON JULY 4TH

July 5, 2024 by David Gillaspie

The Blues Fest, or Waterfront Blues Festival, can be tricky. From once showing up with two cans of food for admission to now, it’s been a long strange trip. Back then you’d go in, drink beer, walk around, get something to eat, drink beer, and leave. Today it’s reservations and lobster rolls before going in. […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: beer, blues, blues fest, blues music, drink beer, drones, FLYOVER, food, improvisational parking, independence day, July Fourth, lobster rolls, looking forward, music, reservations, Waterfront Blues Festival

OREGON BLUES ON A FATHER / SON DAY

July 2, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Oregon blues are a different blues. I blame the clouds. But no clouds on Waterfront Blues Festival Saturday, which is why I wore a rash-guard hoodie instead of layers of sunscreen. It was a no cloud Saturday awash in family time:

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: beer, blues, blues music, bud light, dance, family, family time, fathers, music, Oregon, Portland, Portland Oregon, sons, Waterfront Blues Festival

PORTLAND BLUES SATURDAY

July 1, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Portland blues come in more shades than one. Dark blue for the homeless. Darker blue for the park bench addicts. Blue green for the tax paying homeowners just living their lives and doing the best they can. But what about the rest of us?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: blogger, blues, Eastside Esplanade, Hawthorne Bridge, music, Oregon, Portland, portland blues, Portland Oregon, PSU, Vera Katz, Waterfront Blues Festival, willamette

WATERFRONT BLUES FESTIVAL OR BOOT CAMP

July 3, 2017 by David Gillaspie

Five days of blues is a commitment. I signed to defend the blues by water. The Waterfront Blues Festival has nice river seating. For boats. The rest of us land locked fans see the blues flotilla as background, a tangled background combined with the Tillicum, Marquam, and Ross Island Bridges crossing their lines. When the […]

Filed Under: Buckle Up Tagged With: blues flotilla, oregon food bank, Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival, Waterfront Blues Festival

Carol Tice World Domination

July 9, 2013 by David Gillaspie

Where do most people go after the World Domination Summit? Why not take what you’ve learned from Portland, Oregon and dominate the next world? Portland baby boomers do that all the time. They dominated the blues at the Waterfront Blues Festival. Dominated the Food Bank, too. Where did Carol Tice dominate? The Original.

Filed Under: BOOMER BLOGGER Tagged With: Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Baby Boomers, boomers, Carol Tice, Chris Guillebeau, Make A Living Writing, makealivingwriting.com, PORTLAND BABY BOOMERS, recycle, reduce, reuse, The Original, The Pocket Small Business Owner's Guide to Starting Your Business on a Shoestring, Waterfront Blues Festival, World Domination Summit

Use The Portland Blues

July 8, 2013 by David Gillaspie

Portland baby boomers have more choices for a music festival. Any summer weekend you can go downtown for a free concert at Saturday Market. One weekend a year you can go to the big show by the river. If it’s good enough for Robert Plant, why not you. All that’s left is choosing your company.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: B.B. King, Baby Boomers, Led Zeppelin, PORTLAND BABY BOOMERS, Robert Plant, the blues, Waterfront Blues Festival

Boomer Blues Backlash

July 1, 2013 by David Gillaspie

Robert Plant Headlines Waterfront Blues Fest What’s the greatest fear of going to a Classic Rock concert? Baby boomers face this one all the time. Is it watching a dream weaver come undone in front of your eyes? That the singer shows up so out of shape they huff and puff through their set? That their […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Baby Boomers, Boomer blues, Boomer Blues Backlash, boomers, Bruce Springsteen, Led Zeppelin, Little Hurricane, NW Boomer, Pink Floyd, PORTLAND BABY BOOMERS, Portugal.The Man, Robert Plant, tUnE-yArDs, Waterfront Blues Festival