25 YEARS! by C3 Events

CENTRAL OREGON, the EVENTS MECCA

BEND CELEBRATES 25 YEARS OF FREE EVENTS

Thanks to the tremendous community support across Bend, Oregon, local concerts and arts & crafts festivals are an important fabric of the Bend lifestyle and have gained notoriety across the country.

This year will mark the 25th anniversaries of the Bend Memorial Clinic Munch & Music Free Concert Series and the Bank Of The Cascades Bend Summer Festival. Take a look back and remember 25 years of free events!

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CELEBRATING 25 YEARS BMC MUNCH & MUSIC FREE CONCERTS Bank of the Cascades Bend SUmmer Festival Photo by Ben Salmon

SIR MIX A LOT The OG of hip hop joins a celebrity-laden list of iconic musicians who have performed up on the Peak 104.1 MainStage…and that’s no lie.

JULY 11 • 9:30 PM

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MUNCH ON WHAT? You’ve been sampling delicious eats and treats for more JULY 11 than 25 years now at the BMC Munch & Music Free Concerts. No exception in 2015. More than 20 food vendors on site (and delicious Deschutes Brews).

JUL 9 - Aug 13

Kicks off the 25th Annual BMC Munch & Music free Thursday night concerts in Drake Park.

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BEND MEMORIAL CLINIC 25th annual

MUNCH & MUSIC

FUN FACTS After season one, the City of Bend, in 1992, required the event to be marketed as “drug and alcohol free” and prohibited “rock music.” (The event, with the city’s blessings, now enjoys Deschutes Brews and great, original, rock music!)

Crazy 8’s

The “Do Munch and Music” jingle, is sung by Eugene’s Mark Alan, and features additional vocals by (then) Seattle’s Marna Larsen (who would later lead C3 Events). The event once turned down unknown (at the time) Big Head Todd to open up for Jerry Joseph, due to budget constraints. Stanley Jordan refused to perform until his food rider requirements were met. As a middle school leadership volunteer, the event’s current super-producer, Shannon Smartt Talbo,(of Sionna Productions) started assisting Munch and Music in 1992.

Sitting on the hilly grass outside, while staring at the white tent walls in Drake Park, among 150 or so deeply committed folks fit with picnics and bottles of wine, it was the lovely and humble summer of 1990. You could hear the exquisite sounds of the Cascade Festival of Music coming from the other side of the vinyl. It was clear, back then, if such a clan would gather to enjoy the music, sight unseen, what would they do if the music was world-class, without a tent, and entirely free? Would this part of the world come together, would “community” be built? Would Bend be infused with culture, color, international and iconic performers, culinary delights , and an inclusive appeal to all different kinds of central oregonians (young and old alike). Support was needed. Seven restaurants said “yes.” Mike Hollern of Brooks Resources said “yes.” The local classic rock station said, “yes.” Carrie Whitaker and the entire team of the Bend Metro Parks and Recreation District said, “yes” (they donated the park and provided financial help as the host sponsor). There were no staff (just the founder, Cameron Clark, and his dear friend, Angie Colburn). There was an amazing group of volunteer security members provided by Gary from The Body Shoppe. It took an Chris Botti entire town to put it all together. Thousands would show up that first summer of 1991. Thousands. Munch & Music was born into a town full of hope and possibilities, and traditions began with canoes lining the river, future brides and grooms meeting for the first time, teen-agers enjoying first rites of emancipation passages (parent-free, public time), little boys and girls dancing, twirling, amazing bites and (eventually) brews, and music aficionados listening attentively! This free Thursday night concert series in Drake Park has been the ecstatic recipient of this area’s brilliant corporate generosity (most significantly from Bend Memorial Clinic for more than two decades)- kicking and scratching to remain the “people’s concert series,” presenting 6 marquis performances a summer for 25 years now. It is part of the fiber. It is Bend. Won’t you? Denny Mihami

Stanley Jordan

Shadowfax

Musical highlights include: Shadowfax, Stanley Jordan, The Carmen Marimba Band, Curtis Salgado, Paul Delay, Chris Botti, The Fixx, Modern English, The Daddies, and more!

FUN FACTS

Curtis Salgado

OF FREE EVENTS

BEND SUMMER FESTIVAL The Samples

The “Come on and Live It” jingle features Johnny Koonce on lead vocals, and a “borrowed” drum track from studio/Steely Dan drummer, extraordinaire’, Steve Gadd. Setting up all night, overnight, the Summer Festival crew has witnessed some crazy events and zany folks downtown…

Bank of the Cascades employees have logged thousands of hours volunteering to create this great festival year in and year out.

25 YEARS

BANK OF THE CASCADES 25th annual

In 1997, the Bend Summer Festival lept from 30 some artists to 130+ with the help the Bellevue Arts and Crafts fair.

The Bend Summer Festival has been included in publications and books touting the top festivals in the country.

Vieux Farka Touré

CELEBRATING

A sudden and bizarre, golf ball-size hail storm at the beginning of a Big Bad Voodoo Daddy set sent thousands darting for cover.

BEND SUMMER FESTIVAL

FREE CONCERTS IN DRAKE PARK

Robert Cray

Ottmar Liebert

DOWN TOWN BEND

It was the summer of 1990, and a group of well-intended bend leaders and visionaries came together to discuss launching an event that could breathe life into downtown Bend. This group included folks from the Park District, Downtowner’s Association, City of Bend, marketing execs, media, and several merchants. Michelle Liberty was tapped to lead that first Bend Summer Festival. It took place in Mirror Pond Parking Lot. Curtis Salgado performed that night, in front of thousands of appreciative Bend festival attendees. Carolyn Tillia and a group of outstanding volunteers ran the event for a number of years, thereafter, increasing it’s footprint to include Wall Street from Greenwood to Franklin, and parts of Minnesota and Oregon Avenues. From there, with the tremendous generosity of Bank of the Cascades, and under the leadership of C3 Events, the event simply grew and grew and grew- into one of the Northwest’s largest and most respected street festivals. While the music of Jimmy Messina, The Samples, Robert Cray, Gene Harris, Ozomatli, Ottmar Liebert, Craig Chaquico, Ricki Lee Jones, The Daddies, and many more, helped the event garner attention, The Bend Summer Festival has centrally been an art festival, boasting more than 200 fine artist and crafters at it’s peak. Today it features nearly 300 assorted vendors, including fine artists, crafters, importers, food carts, merchants of conscious living, non profits, sponsors, jazz, wine, and gourmet food vendors, brews and spirits and ales and ciders, family fun vendors, and 3 formal stages of live music and informal busking locations, presenting more than 35 local, regional, and national musicians. The Bend Summer Festival is currently led by outstanding festival director Michelle Roats. At 25 years, it’s still free, and it’s known as a patchwork of color, and a visual feast for all the senses. It’s a fixture of downtown Bend. And, if you haven’t, you must come-on-and-live- it! Helma Weeks

Ozomatli

Toad The Wet Sprocket

Gene and Nikki Harris

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25 BEND SUMMER FESTIVAL WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND A THOUSAND ROUNDS OF APPLAUSE TO

FOR THEIR DEEP COMMITMENT TO COMMUNITY AND THE ARTS AS WE CELEBRATE 25 FESTIVAL YEARS IN 2015 CELEBRATING

25 YEARS

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25 MUNCH & MUSIC FREE CONCERTS IN DRAKE PARK

WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND A THOUSAND ROUNDS OF APPLAUSE TO

FOR THEIR DEEP COMMITMENT TO COMMUNITY AND THE ARTS AS WE CELEBRATE 25 YEARS OF FREE CONCERTS IN 2015 SIONNA

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CELEBRATING

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THURSDAY NIGHTS, JULY 9 TO AUGUST 13, 2015 CRACKER • JONATHA BROOKE • HIGH AND MIGHTY BRASS BAND • KATT AND THE ROOTS REVOLUTION • JELLY BREAD • LIV WARFIELD July 9 July 16 July 23 July 30 August 6 August 13