Enjoy the holiday with your friends and family at the Bend Park & Recreation District’s Old Fashioned July 4th Festival, brought to you by Zolo. It’s a day filled with old-fashioned fun & games, food and festivities – you won’t want to miss out! Make a day of it: Begin at 8:00 am … Continue reading
Come celebrate our country’s independence on July 4th with Bend Park & Recreation! Start out your day’s festivities with the Pet Parade through downtown Bend then follow up with the Old Fashioned July 4th Festival in Drake Park from 11:00 am – 4:00 pm. Parade Participants: Kids of all ages are invited … Continue reading
The Deschutes Historical Museum celebrates its anniversary on the 4th of July with free admission and free ice cream cups while they last. The Deschutes Historical Museum will be open from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. This year, visitors can see the museum’s latest exhibit, Winter Comes: Oregon’s Nordic Ski … Continue reading
The annual Freedom Ride usually takes place starting at Pioneer Park around 2pm. If you participate, dress up in your red, white, and blues and bring your bike!
The annual fireworks show from the top of Pilot Butte starts at 10pm and lasts about 20 minutes. Get a good vantage point to watch!
The Lowest Pair is a quirky, old-time roots influenced duet, featuring the high lonesome harmonies of banjo pickin' songsters Kendl Winter and Palmer T. Lee. They perform both traditional and original music, often nestling-in somewhere between. With their city folk front and back porch sentiment, this new, sweet, and powerful … Continue reading
The evening will include an opening band and a headlining band, time in between acts to get some delicious grub from one of the many vendors, a Deschutes Brewery Libation station to quench your summer time thirst, and great kids activities like bouncy houses! Visiting local artists and craftspeople featured … Continue reading
Friday, July 8th (5pm - 11pm) Saturday, July 9th (11am - 11pm) Sunday, July 10th (11am - 5pm) Enjoying 26 years of kicking off the summer season, the Bank of Cascades Bend Summer Festival draws 75,000 visitors for a weekend like no other. Festival features fine artists and craftspeople, artisans … Continue reading
Free Summer Sunday Concerts! Award winning Cascade Blues Association Hall of Fame Inductees and three time winners of the Best Traditional Act, Kinzel and Hyde will take listeners on a tour of blues and roots music that will blow you away! Kinzel & Hyde are a multi-award winning Roots & … Continue reading
Any flannel-clad Bon Iver disciple can pick up an acoustic guitar and throw together a few bleeding-heart tunes dealing with well-worn folk tropes like love, loss and atonement. But only a select few can dig deep enough to transform cliche into palpable, gut-wrenching feeling. Enter Brennan Mackey, brainchild behind Denver-based … Continue reading