First Friday Art Walk

Downtown Bend Bend, OR, United States

Sensational local & national art at dozens of businesses on the first Friday of every month. Shops are matched with artists, musicians, and performers. Many businesses stay open late and will serve food and wine as they welcome you in to enjoy their space and this wonderful evening.

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The Silver Moon Stage Gets Wierd with Bravey Don

Silver Moon Brewing 24 NW Greendwood Ave., Bend, OR, United States

Bravey Don produces an alternative rock sound featuring heavy guitar riffs, intricate bass lines, and selectively syncopated drum beats that stubbornly seclude themselves from the established norm. Siphoning energy from lead singer David Gillespie’s frantic antics, this band sings booze-soaked tales of love-lives ruined and resiliently resentful anthems against the … Continue reading

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High Desert Museum Natural History Pub: The Environmental History of the Palouse Prairie

McMenamins - Father Luke's Room 700 NW Bond St., Bend, OR, United States

5:30 p.m. doors, 7 p.m. event | Free | Minor with parent or guardian Environmental Historian, Professor and Author Andrew Duffin traces the transformation of the Palouse region of Washington and Idaho from land once thought unusable and unproductive, to a wealth-generating agricultural paradise. Duffin, author of Plowed Under: Agriculture … Continue reading

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The Blackberry Bushes @ McMenamins

McMenamins - Father Luke's Room 700 NW Bond St., Bend, OR, United States

7 p.m. til 10 p.m. | Free | All ages welcome The Blackberry Bushes are a Northwest Alt-folk String Band. The Bushes' innovative acoustic sound draws from the deep roots of American traditional music to create a rich patchwork that shares threads with artists like Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, … Continue reading

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Corner Gospel Explosion @ McMenamins

McMenamins - Father Luke's Room 700 NW Bond St., Bend, OR, United States

7 p.m. til 10 p.m. | Free | All ages welcome

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Westside Wassail CIDER & MUSIC Festival @ Broken Top Bottle Shop

Broken Top Bottle Shop 1740 NW Pence Ln. Suite #1, Bend, OR, United States

3 days of CIDER TASTINGS & LIVE MUSIC with no tasting fee & no cover _____Schedule_____ FRIDAY *Cider Tasting @ 3 - 7 pm with Swift Cider, ATLAS Cider Company & 2 Towns Ciderhouse *Live Music with TBA @ 7 - 9 pm SATURDAY *Cider Tasting @ 3 - 7 … Continue reading

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Freak Mountain Ramblers @ McMenamins

McMenamins - Father Luke's Room 700 NW Bond St., Bend, OR, United States

7 p.m. | Free | All ages welcome We're proud to mark the  tenth anniversary of the Great Northwest Music Tour, a McMenamins tradition that brings the finest regional and national talent through several of our historic hotels, open to all ages for no admission charge! This year we celebrate … Continue reading

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Old St. Francis School Birthday Celebration

McMenamins Old St. Francis School 700 NW Bond St., Bend, OR, United States

Live music 4 p.m. ‘til 6:30 p.m. | All ages welcome Come celebrate our birthday, marking the anniversary of the reopening of this landmark in 2004 as the Old St. Francis School. Live Music Honey Don't 4 p.m. ‘til 6:30 p.m. Freak Mountain Ramblers 7:30 p.m. 'til 10 p.m. Passport … Continue reading

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Westside Wassail CIDER & MUSIC Festival @ Broken Top Bottle Shop

Broken Top Bottle Shop 1740 NW Pence Ln. Suite #1, Bend, OR, United States

3 days of CIDER TASTINGS & LIVE MUSIC with no tasting fee & no cover _____Schedule_____ FRIDAY *Cider Tasting @ 3 - 7 pm with Swift Cider, ATLAS Cider Company & 2 Towns Ciderhouse *Live Music with TBA @ 7 - 9 pm SATURDAY *Cider Tasting @ 3 - 7 … Continue reading

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Honey Don’t @ McMenamins

McMenamins - Father Luke's Room 700 NW Bond St., Bend, OR, United States

4 p.m. til 6:30 p.m. | Free | All ages welcome Honey Don't is the musical union of Bill Powers and Shelley Gray, perhaps better known as one half of the Paonia, Colorado based old time-bluegrass band, Sweet Sunny South. Their music is acoustic and based in the folk tradition. … Continue reading

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