Waterfront Blues Festival 2011

2011
The four-day festival offered more than 120 blues performances on four stages, featuring six-time Grammy Award winner Buddy Guy, three-time Grammy Award winner Lucinda Williams, Maceo Parker, Robert Cray, Chubby Carrier & the Bayou Swamp Band, Rebirth Brass Band, Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, Orgone, Bobby Radcliff, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, Preston Shannon, Honey Island Swamp Band, Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys, Chris Cain, Nathan James, James Harman, Bruce Conte, Grady Champion, Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble, Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns and many more.

The festival attracted more than 120,000 people, who contributed 110,454 pounds of food and $748,000 through donations at the gate as well as advance purchases of special passes, exceeding the festival’s donation goal of 100,000 pounds of food and $650,000. The Oregon Potters Association also broke a record, contributing $20,760 to Oregon Food Bank through sales of hand-made pottery and glass at its Empty Bowls booth. The festival also added a giant screen in the middle of the bowl to help blues fans see all of the action on the festival's two main stages.

2010
The 23rd annual festival ran for four days with 120 performances on four stages, featuring Taj Mahal, Little Feat, John Mayall, Booker T., Bobby Rush, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, Galactic with Cyril Neville, JJ Grey and Mofro, Chris Thomas King, Curtis Salgado, Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue, Walter Trout, Michael Burks Band with Lucky Peterson, Baskery, Cedric Burnside & Lightnin' Malcolm, Moreland & Arbuckle, Super Chikan & the Fighting Cocks, Mingo Fish Trap, porterdavis, Janiva Magness, Norton Buffalo's Knockouts, Paul Cebar, Kara Grainger, a Zydeco Swamp Romp with Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble, Donna Angelle & Zydeco Posse, Corey Ledet & his Zydeco Band, Andre Thierry & Zydeco Magic and many more, plues blues cruises,

Blues fans set a new record, donating about $650,000 and exceeding this year's $600,000 goal. Blues fans also exceeded this year's food goal of 100,000 pounds, donating 100,662 pounds of food. In addition, the Oregon Potters Association's Empty Bowls sales contributed $17,800 to support Oregon Food Bank's mission.

2009
The festival's 22nd year featured a stellar line-up with more than 100 performances, including triple Grammy Award-winning bluesman Keb' Mo', presented by First Tech Credit Union; Grammy-nominated Robben Ford; Texas blues-rock legend Johnny Winter, presented by iQ Credit Union; slide-guitar wizard Sonny Landreth; Karl Denson's Tiny Universe; the Lee Boys; Rick Estrin and the Nightcats; Candye Kane; Terry Evans; Bonerama; Kevin Gordon, presented by the Boeing Company; Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings; Ryan Shaw; Magic Slim and the Teardrops; Big Sam's Funky Nation; Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real, presented by Karolyn H. March, attorney at law; and more.

Blues fans donated more than $479,343 at the gate. This year, the festival also offered blues fans new ways to increase their donations by buying special passes. Special passes purchased online added $65,295 to festival coffers, enabling the Oregon Food Bank to exceed its $500,000 goal with total donations of $544,638. In addition, blues fans contributed more than 76,363 pounds of food. Festival entry was $10 and two cans of food per person, per day.