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FOUR EVENINGS OF MUSIC, DANCING, AND ENTERTAINMENT AUGUST 1 - 4, 2019 | 6:00 PM INTERNATIONAL ROSE TEST GARDEN AMPHITHEATER DEAR FRIENDS,

Welcome to the Washington Park Summer Festival!

This year’s Festival featuresPDX , Painted Sky Northstar Native Dance Company, Portland Project, and in the Park.

Thanks to our Summer Festival Presenting Sponsor,Vacasa , and Lead Sponsors Avangrid Renewables, The Standard, and Zupan’s Markets—Washington Park Summer Festival is completely free.

The Festival is part of Summer Free For All—a series of free summer events and activities that include movies, concerts, lunch and play programs for kids, and more. Thanks to the nearly 50 civic-minded businesses, organizations, and foundations who have given their generous support.

Portland Parks & Recreation has been proud to offer free summer events for over a century. Concerts in the park began in 1901 and the Washington Park Summer Festival started in 1949. We’ve been serving free lunches since the 1970s and screening movies for the last 13 years.

Tonight, we invite you to wander through the world-class International Rose Test Garden, and to enjoy the show!

COMMISSIONER NICK FISH DIRECTOR ADENA LONG

Summer Free For All builds community through free, inclusive, and family-friendly activities that celebrate Portland’s diverse cultures and local artists. FOUR EVENINGS OF MUSIC, DANCING, AND ENTERTAINMENT

AUGUST 1 - 4, 2019 | 6:00 PM | ROSE GARDEN AMPHITHEATER

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PORTLANDPARKS.ORG THURSDAY, AUGUST 1

presents Mike Phillips with special guest Saeeda Wright; King Louie & LaRhonda Steele

PDX Jazz returns to Washington Park with a soulfully satisfying urban jazz program that will move and groove concertgoers on opening night of this year’s Washington Park Summer Festival. This concert presents two of Portland’s most dynamic singers, LaRhonda Steele and Saeeda Wright. They’ll be featured with B3 organ master King Louie, and saxophonist, Mike Phillips, respectively. PDX Jazz thanks Portland Parks & Recreation Commissioner Nick Fish for inviting PDX Jazz to program music in the park. States PDX Jazz show producer, Don Lucoff, “Nick is truly our Rose City Jazz Commissioner and the well-deserved recipient of the 2019 PDX Jazz Festival McClendon- Makarounis Award for Jazz Advocacy. His passion will reverberate throughout this highly anticipated evening.” PDX Jazz is a nonprofit cultural arts organization dedicated to curating jazz in Portland and fostering the growth of musical offerings in the Pacific Northwest. PDX Jazz inspires, educates, and develops future jazz audiences for generations to come.

2019 Washington Park Summer Festival MIKE PHILLIPS World-renowned saxophonist Mike Phillips is known as one of the most electrifying instrumentalists today. Mike is the first non-athlete signed by Michael Jordan to the Nike Jordan Brand and is the only musician in the world to have recorded and toured with the legendary “Big Three” of American soul and pop music: Michael Jackson, Prince, and Stevie Wonder. Phillips’ television performances have included the GRAMMYS® and the Soul Train Awards.

SAEEDA WRIGHT Saeeda has been seen on stages backing Prince, the Pacific Northwest’s own Liv Warfield, and is featured with the Tim Snider Trio. She is well known and respected for her work as a soloist with the Oregon and regularly performs at Portland’s Waterfront Festival. Currently, Saeeda is a lead vocalist for the emerging band Mother’s Favorite Child and is working to complete her debut self-titled album.

KING LOUIE & LaRHONDA STEELE Organist Louis “King Louie” Pain is an Oregon Music Hall of Fame inductee best known for helping other artists sound their best. Those artists have included Lloyd Jones, Mel Brown, LaRhonda Steele, the late Paul deLay, Linda Hornbuckle, and many more. The King Louie ’s debut CD, “It’s About Time”— featuring Louis’ King Louie & LaRhonda Steele bandmates Edwin Coleman III & Renato Caranto – is receiving rave reviews worldwide.

Vocalist LaRhonda Steele, dubbed “Portland’s First Lady of The Blues”, has worked with most of the area’s top blues, soul, and gospel artists. With Louis Pain, she performed in Italy in 2017 and in Colombia in 2018. She is a cancer survivor who has emerged from her battle with the disease a remarkably powerful and joyous performer. These days, LaRhonda often performs with her own Steele Family Band.

Portland Parks & Recreation | portlandparks.org FRIDAY, AUGUST 2

Painted Sky Northstar Native Dance Company with Evening Star Painted Ponies We come from Reserves, we come from Reservations, we are Urban, we are Intertribal, we are Native Americans. Native American history is an oral history. It is alive! Our stories are our songs, our songs are our music, and our music is “The Dance”.

Since 2005, Painted Sky Northstar has worked with national Native performers and touched thousands from all cultures and communities, sharing who they are through the Native American cultural performing arts and film.

KAREN THERESE Karen Therese is an accomplished soul, jazz, pop, and traditional Native American singer-songwrit- er and recording artist who Billboard Magazine describes as “the Native American Powerhouse Vocalist.” Karen has released multiple recordings over her 20-year career and has toured the Unit- ed States, Europe, Asia, and India.

2019 Washington Park Summer Festival SATURDAY, AUGUST 3

Portland Cello Project Perennial favorite Portland Cello Project comes to Washington Park with a uniquely curated program, and they’re bringing an all-star ensemble to explore traditional classics and pop music favorites woven together with exceptional variety.

The group is joined by Tyrone Hendrix (Prince, Stevie Wonder) on , Farnell Newton (Aretha Franklin, Bootsy Collins) on , and Patti King (The Shins) lending her exquisitely versatile voice to the stage. These special guests lead the classically-trained, enterprising cellists whose adventurous songs appeal to music lovers of all backgrounds.

This evening’s performance will include (and sometimes stray as far as possible from) adaptations of compositions by British rock group, Radiohead; jazz saxophonist and composer, John Coltrane; Johann Sebastian Bach; and much more.

Portland Parks & Recreation | portlandparks.org SUNDAY, AUGUST 4

Portland SummerFest presents Opera in the Park

VIVA VERDI! Giuseppe Verdi’s greatest works Portland SummerFest believes that opera is for everyone and is committed to presenting annual free operatic performances at the Washington Park Rose Garden Amphitheater as part of Summer Free For All’s Washington Park Summer Festival.

KEITH CLARK, Artistic Director and Conductor Keith Clark is internationally active as a conductor, composer, and festival director. In 2011, he was awarded the prestigious “American Prize for Artistic Excellence in Opera Conducting” for the Pacific Northwest premiere of ’s at the Astoria Music Festival. In , as Producing Director at the large Globus Theater in Novosibirsk, he led the prize-winning Russian premiere of West Side Story. In Salzburg, he led annual productions of Mozart with the Amadeus Opera Ensemble. His festival appearances also include Vienna, Bucharest, Siena, Los Angeles, and Switzerland.

2019 Washington Park Summer Festival ANGELA MEADE, Highlights of Meade’s 2019/20 season include a debut as Aïda at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del ; a debut at Teatro Official Media Sponsor di San Carlo in Naples Italy for Rossini’s Ermione and a return later in the season for Bellini’s Norma; a role debut in Coruña, Spain as Elisabetta in Don Carlo; and a The Ausplund Tooze Family Foundation return to ABAO in Bilbao for the title role of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena. On the concert stage, Meade debuts with the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro Italy for both a recital and their annual gala and a debut with the Elbphilharmonie for Verdi’s Requiem.

ALLAN GLASSMAN, Thrilling audiences throughout America and Europe for decades with his vibrant Herbert A. Templeton timbre and committed interpretations Foundation of roles, Mr. Glassman is a regular at The , triumphing as Herod in . He has appeared in as Red Whiskers; Die Frau ohne Schatten as The Hunchback Brother; Salome as the First Jew; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District as The Shabby Peasant; and in productions of , The Great Gatsby, Carmen, Elektra, Káťa Kabanová, The Ghost of Versailles, Mussorgsky’s , and Wozzeck.

RICHARD ZELLER, An Oregon native who has achieved international acclaim for his concert and opera roles, Mr. Zeller made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1989 and has appeared as Marcello in La Bohème; Ernesto in Il Pirata; Eddie in A View from the Bridge; and Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor. Other opera appearances include Germont in La Traviata with Scottish Opera, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Deutsche Opera am Rhein, Portland Opera, and San Diego Opera; productions of Boris Godunov and Andrea Chénier with the ; Athanaël in Thaïs with in London; and the title role in Verdi’s Macbeth with Opera de Bordeaux, Opera de Vichy, and Portland Opera.

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