A full day and night of Music On the River, Saturday July 31st! PDX Bridge Festival present an historic, outdoor free concert and performance featuring Portland’s best musical and performance acts. Join us on the Eastside of the Hawthorne Bridge at Water and Salmon Streets for MORSound.
Activities—besides five hours of stellar music on three stages—include street performance, live art, local shops, art installations, info booths, and a kids area. Willamette Jetboat Tours will be running every 30 minutes between 7-9pm departing from the Fire House boat dock..
And don’t miss a special two-hour media and music spectacular on the Hawthorne Bridge! This event has something for everyone…even an official theme song by AFTERPARTY band Sweet Snacks!!
BRIDGING CULTURES – 4-9pm (Doors Open at 3:30pm)
All Ages/Free (suggested $5 donation)
A sampling of Portland’s diverse communities, MC’d by Tres Shannon of Voodoo Doughnuts. This afternoon, open-air concert includes Music all day on 3 Stages. Kids’ Pavilion with Sound Roots School of Music, the Right Brain Initiative, crafts, and Battle of the Band Camp. Sustainability and Ambiance by City Repair, Friends of Trees, Bamboo Temples and Todji Kurtzman. Food by some of Portland’s great vendors. Beer & Wine Garden by Lagunitas Brewing Company and Barefoot Wine & Bubbly.
DOME STAGE
4:30-5:15pm – NIAYH
5:30-6:15pm – Chervona
6:30-7:15pm – Philly’s Phunkestra
7:30-8:15pm – Sneakin’ Out
8:30-9:30pm – March Fourth Marching Band (Parade to the Hawthorne Bridge Centennial Party!)
10:00-10:45pm – Buoy LaRue
SOLAR STAGE
4:00-4:45pm – Manimalhouse
5:00-5:30 – Boka Marimba
6:00-6:45pm – Venerable Showers of Beauty Gamelan
7:00-7:45pm – Dusu Mali Band
8:00-8:45pm – Nuestro + Medicine for the People
9:15-10:00pm – Reggie Houston
10:30-11:00pm – Reva Devito
SOUND ROOTS KID’S STAGE
4:45-5:00pm – Mo Phillips
5:35-6:00pm – World Tour: winner of the Battle of the Bands
6:45-7:00pm – Us, The Band
7:45-8:00pm – The Funk Dover Project
8:45-9:00pm – Steve Hall Quintet
THE HAWTHORNE BRIDGE CENTENNIAL PARTY – 9 – 11pm
All Ages/Free – On the Hawthorne Bridge!
The crescendo of the event at 9:30pm is LIFT 100 the Hawthorne Bridge Centennial Party. Join us on the nation’s oldest working vertical lift bridge as we celebrate its centennial in style with an enormous interactive media display on the lift span of the Hawthorne Bridge with music by some of your favorite Portland bands.
MOBILE GROOVE BOMB
9:00-9:30pm – a Parade to the bridge with MarchFourth Marching Band
9:30-10:15pm – Solovox
10:15-11:00pm – DJ GlobalRuckus
AND DON’T FORGET THE AFTERPARTY…..! – 11pm – 3am
All Ages/$10
Come down off the Hawthorne Bridge and keep the party going late into the night with the MORSound Afterparty.
DOME STAGE
11:00-11:45pm – Vokab Kompany
12MIDNIGHT – Wanderlust Circus
12:45-1:45am – Sweet Snacks
1:45-3:00am – Sidecar Tommy (of Beats Antique)
SOLAR STAGE
11:30pm-12:15am – Manhandel
12:30-1:15am – Trio Subtonic
LISTEN LIFE ON KBOO 90.7 FM, OR AT KBOO.FM/LISTEN – all day broadcast of the event!
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