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Portland Horror Film Festival – Best USA Festivals

editor — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 21:16:00 +0000

Portland Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard Early June www.portlandhorrorfilmfestival.com Did you grow up mesmerized by Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney, Boris Karloff, and the ubiquitous Vincent Price? Did you revel in the blockbuster horror films of the ’70s and ’80s—The Omen, The Exorcist, Halloween? Do you remember the cult classics of the ’80s, such as The Evil Dead, Lifeforce, and Night of the Comet? Do the horror spoofs—Scream, Scary Movie, Shaun of the Dead—tickle your funny bone? Or maybe your nightmares are spawned by the millennial masterpieces, movies such as The Ring, Paranormal Activity, and 30 Days of Night. No

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Gresham Arts Festival – Best USA Festivals

editor — Sat, 22 Jun 2019 21:20:00 +0000

Gresham Historic Downtown District Mid-July www.greshamoregon.gov/ArtsFestival Heading through Gresham on busy Division Street or Powell Boulevard, it’s easy to miss the city’s beautifully refurbished historic downtown district that is sandwiched between the two main arteries leading to and from nearby Portland to the west. But Gresham’s eclectic downtown area offers myriad excellent options for dining, shopping, and imbibing, and also hosts a variety of special events throughout the year, including the longstanding Gresham Arts Festival, an engaging celebration featuring events for all ages. The festival kicks off on Friday evening at 5 pm with the Art Under the Stars, where

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Carlton Crush Harvest Festival – Top USA Festivals

editor — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 21:24:00 +0000

Carlton Crush Harvest Festival – Top USA Festivals Carlton Wennerberg Park Early September www.carltoncrush.com Oregon’s burgeoning viticulture industry totals more than 700 wineries, more than 500 of them in the Willamette Valley. In such a winecentric region, festivals and other events celebrating wines and wineries are regnant, some of them massively attended and others sometimes attended by an air of hubris. But others are welcoming, relaxed, incredibly fun community celebrations, such as the wonderfully cheery Carlton Crush Harvest Festival, which perfectly epitomizes the congenial, small-town esprit of one of the prettiest and most pleasant places in Oregon’s Willamette Valley wine

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Northwest Cherry Festival – USA Festivals

editor — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 21:26:00 +0000

The Dalles Downtown area Late April thedalleschamber.com/northwest-cherry-festival/ Showcasing the agricultural and Western heritage of The Dalles—an historic Oregon community on the banks of the Columbia River—the Northwest Cherry Festival was launched in 1979, though its roots date back to 1940, when a local woman, Helen Spickerman, was chosen as Cherry Queen to represent the city and one of its most important products at the Rose Parade in Portland. World War II interrupted the idea thereafter until 1960 when the Wasco County Fruit and Produce League and the Washington Fruit Commission, in conjunction with The Dalles Area Chamber of Commerce, created

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Juniper Jam Enterprise – USA Festivals

editor — Sun, 16 Jun 2019 21:32:00 +0000

Wallowa County Fairgrounds Saturday of Labor Day weekend www.juniperjam.com If you dig music and love remote wonders, Juniper Jam in Enterprise is a must-do event—it truly is the sweetest little music festival in Eastern Oregon, as the organizers bill this one-day party. In fact, considering the gorgeous venue—the high ramparts of the Wallowa Mountains looming as a splendid backdrop— Juniper Jam is one of the sweetest music festivals in the entire state. Juniper Jam annually delivers a superb lineup of professional musicians. Genres run the gamut: rock, Americana, blues, bluegrass, folk, acoustic, country, swing, jazz, R&B, and more—and plenty of

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Ladd Marsh Bird Festival La Grande – USA Festivals

editor — Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:34:00 +0000

Ladd Marsh Wildlife Area Weekend after Mother’s Day www.friendsofladdmarsh.org/bird-festival-2 The annual family-friendly Ladd Marsh Bird Festival celebrates birdwatching activities, the diversity of birds, and the excellent wildlife habitat at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s 6,000-acre Ladd Marsh Wildlife Area a few miles southeast of La Grande. Scheduled to coincide with the peak of spring migration, the event provides a terrific opportunity for birders both novice and expert to view copious numbers of birds that stop at the marsh and surrounding areas—and during the weekend festival, participants enjoy access to portions of the wildlife area normally closed to the

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America’S Global Village Festival

editor — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 21:38:00 +0000

African, Basque, German, Hawaiian, Irish, Japanese, Mexican, Native American, pioneer, and Scottish. At each village, attendees can sample and purchase traditional foods, study and purchase arts and crafts native to that culture, and talk with village members dressed in traditional attire; each village also produces cultural demonstrations and free youth activities. And all the villages offer copious information about their culture, making this a wonderful all-ages educational opportunity. Many of these cultures continue to thrive in the region today and most left indelible proverbial footprints through the history of the Pacific Northwest. The America’s Global Village Festival provides a unique

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Festival Of Balloons – Best USA Festivals

editor — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 21:40:00 +0000

Tigard Cook Park, 17005 SW 92nd Avenue Late June www.tigardballoon.org For a weekend each June, a blue summer sky brims with colorful hot-air balloons in morning’s limpid air, painting a serene and indelible panorama over Oregon’s verdant Willamette Valley—this is the Festival of Balloons in Tigard. Balloon pilots from throughout the region converge on expansive Cook Park, on the banks of the Tualatin River, to put on a kaleidoscopic aerial show that can be seen for miles. But the up-close view is by far the best, and attendees soon discover that the Festival of Balloons offers much more than the

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Portland Slavic Festival – Best USA Festivals

editor — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 21:42:00 +0000

Portland Ventura Park, 460 SE 113th Avenue Midsummer www.slavicfestivalportland.org v Woodburn Legion Park, 1385 Park Avenue Early August www.woodburnfiestamexicana.com Oregon has a rich and vibrant Mexican cultural heritage, and much of the state’s Mexican history is intertwined with its rich agrarian roots. The synergy of Mexican culture and Oregon agricultural development has reached its zenith in the Willamette Valley, to the point that Western Oregon—and beyond—is now a vibrant multicultural community. For more than fifty years, the small town of Woodburn has honored Hispanic cultural heritage with the Woodburn Fiesta Mexicana, an enthralling, entertaining, and culinary-rich three-day celebration that features

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Clay Fest Eugene – Top USA Festivals

editor — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 21:44:00 +0000

Lane Events Center, 796 W 13th Avenue Early October www.clayfest.org Clay is an amazingly versatile medium, equally adaptable to purely functional creations and wildly imaginative works of art. Adept artists who work with clay are bound only by their imaginations, as this long-popular form of expression can render so many different objects: tiles, jewelry, whimsical little animal forms, wall hangings, pots for plants, vases for flowers, and sculptures ranging from imitative to caricature to genres defying description. And of course clay artists produce an unlimited array of tableware—plates, bowls, platters, cups, mugs, and more. In short, clay crafts run the

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