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First City Celebration, Presented by Stacy Spahr - COUNTRY Financialand Bret Pippett - Country Financial, returns for its ninth year on Saturday, July 14th!

This year’s event features:
– Over 100 marketplace artisans, vendors, wineries, and distilleries. 
– Live music all day on the Trails End Main Stage.
– Art, craft, and wine vendors in the marketplace
- Maker’s Row presented by Buy Local OC and White Rabbit Gifts
– PGE Kidzone with free crafts, activities, and live entertainment for kids all day.

The ninth annual First City Celebration returns with live music, food, vendors, beer & wine, and more! For 2018, this family-friendly celebration is getting a refresh as an Oregon City-centric event. It will feature beverages from local breweries and wineries, a kid zone with tons of games and activities and a street fair.

Mark your calendars for Saturday, July 14th – the 17th annual Mississippi Street Fair is happening in less than two weeks, and you definitely don’t want to miss out! 

This year’s fair is benefitting the Boise Business Youth Unity Project – fostering a stronger community through internships for teens. 

We’ll have over 200 vendors offering up all sorts of irresistible goods along with 5 live music stages, Grandfather’s Rib Off and much more. Admission is free, and this rain-or-shine fair is kid-friendly!

Get all the pertinent info you need – like directions, parking, ATMs, volunteer opportunities and maps – at our Street Fair page.

Shop over 90 curated designers, artists, and craftspeople offeringunique and beautifully crafted fine art, sculpture, jewelry, and handmade crafts. Enjoy nine live bands, a mimosa/wine/beer garden, sidewalk chalk for the kids, food concessions, a community project, and more. Make a weekend out of it! After you've walked the Redmond Arts Festival, take the shuttle bus over to the 78th Annual Redmond Derby Days at Redmond City Hall.

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Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show™ (SOQS) is internationally recognized as the world's largest outdoor quilt show and quilt sale displaying more than 1300 quilts representing fiber artists from around the world. 

More than 10,000 visitors from all 50 states and 27 foreign countries flock to Sisters on the second Saturday in July. Master quilt makers teach classes and workshops during Quilt Week and exhibit their quilts at our annual Quilt Show. In addition, hundreds of quilts are displayed in our "show-and-tell" exhibits - first time quilters, youth, quilts made by men - throughout the town of Sisters. Quilt exhibitors range in age from 10-92.

July 3 through August 5
Ginger Carter and Larey & Phyllis McDaniel
In "Double Take", Ginger Carter creates paintings and glass mosaics in pairs alive with vibrant colors and textures, as each medium offers a different feel to the same subject matter.
Larey & Phyllis McDaniel present "A Blaze of Color", focusing on floral photographs on aluminum, canvas and metallic paper fused to acrylic.

Tualatin's annual ArtSplash Art Show and Sale will be July 13-15, 2018 at the Tualatin Commons, 8325 SW Nyberg Street. Northwest artists will be showcasing their talents in watercolor, acrylics, photography, oil, jewelry, ceramics, and more. This free annual three-day arts and culture festival will be held at the beautiful Lake of the Commons. 56 invited professional visual artists, live music, kids' art activities, and food for every taste.

Show hours:

Friday, July 13............... 4:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Saturday, July 14 ........... 11:00 am - 8:00 pm
Sunday, July 15 .............. 11:00 am - 4:00 pm

Bring the whole family out for fun activities all weekend!

Christine Palmer & Associates bring more than 35 years of show management experience to the vintage marketplace.

Attending an Antique & Collectible Show can be an emotional and fun-filled journey into the past. Seeing items from your past provoke wonderful memories such as the toys your mother threw away, your grandmother's cookie jar, garden antiques, board games and memorabilia. Pricing for many of the treasures you find a the show are modest and there is nothing like coming home and unwrapping your newly found discoveries. For many, it's a second chance at owning an item that you may have thought you'd never see again in your lifetime.  Some items you'll find at the show include pop collectibles, vintage clothing, glassware, silverware, antique radios, movie memorabilia, collectible toys, porcelain dolls, Star Wars collectibles, and much more! 

This show also includes a show within a show - The 45 table Portland Custom Knife Show. Custom knives have become very popular as functional works of art. Some knife makers forge their own blades and others create handles form antlers, wood and other materials. Admission for the Antique Show admits you to the Knife Show as well.

Tunes on Tuesday is a free outdoor summer concert series held for eight weeks in the Cultural District Plaza in Newberg, OR. This concert series is an interactive experience for the people of Newberg and surrounding towns and is run and operated by the Young Professionals of Yamhill Valley. 

Each concert, we hear from individuals who have travelled from Central and Coastal Oregon, Portland, and SW Washington. (We often have visitors from all across the US!) 

This family-friendly event provides a positive atmosphere for everyone to enjoy a variety of musical genres in a safe environment. From local vendors to high profile entertainment, you won't want to miss this wonderful community event!

The Noon Tunes Summer Concert Series will return for its 27th year on Tuesdays in July and August. From noon-1:00pm enjoy music from some of Portland’s best regional and local musical talent, curated by 101.9 Kink. With eight FREE concerts July 11-August 29, some of Portland’s favorite food vendors, and activities with local sports teams and organizations, the Square is sure to be Downtown’s summer lunchtime destination.

July 11: Kathy Boyd & Phoenix Rising

Monday July 9, 2018
Sellwood Riverfront Park, SE Spokane Street and Oaks Pkwy
Concerts and entertainment begin at 6:30PM

Farnell Newton & The Othership Connection—Revitalizing funk and soul with a twist

A musical tradition over 110 years in the making, Concerts in the Park offers something for everyone. The Rose City’s best and brightest – from classical to country, rock & roll to rhythm & blues – have been entrancing audiences in parks since 1901. Today’s crowds flock to Portland parks citywide for the revelry, with over forty thousand people attending 61 concerts offered in 2016.

Saturday July 7, 2018
Dickinson Park, SW 57th Place and Huddleston Street
Concerts and entertainment begin at 6:30PM

Bottleneck Blues Band
Red-hot, funky dance blues

A musical tradition over 110 years in the making, Concerts in the Park offers something for everyone. The Rose City’s best and brightest – from classical to country, rock & roll to rhythm & blues – have been entrancing audiences in parks since 1901. Today’s crowds flock to Portland parks citywide for the revelry, with over forty thousand people attending 61 concerts offered in 2016.

Portland Oregon is the most “beer fortified” city in the world. Portland has more breweries than any other city, regardless of size. At last count there were 57 breweries in Portland, with several more scheduled to open.
The Portland Craft Beer Festival (PCBF) will be an annual opportunity for the legal-drinking-aged public to taste a substantial representation of beers originating from Portland, Oregon breweries. Only beers brewed within the city limits of Portland will be featured at the PCBF, which makes it unique and different from other beer festivals.
We look forward to a weekend of celebrating Portland craft beer in July 2018.