The Portland Tribune presents the Oregon Brewers Festival Stage, showcasing the best high-energy talent the Northwest has to offer

Thursday, July 24th
1 pm LaRhonda Steel Band
2:30 pm Crush UK
4 pm Amadan
5:30 pm Outpost
7 pm Badfish Band

Friday, July 25th
2 pm Intervision
4 pm Flowmotion
6 pm Jujuba

Saturday, July 26th
12:30 pm Rolling Boil Blues Band
2:30 pm Excellent Gentlemen
4:30 pm Sauce Policy
6:30 pm Eleven Eyes

Sunday, July 27th
12:30 pm Black Lodge
2:30 pm The Power of County
4:15 pm Matt Butlers S.E.E.

Band Bios

LaRhonda Steel Band - www.larhondasteele.com
Regarded as one of Portland's most powerful front women, LaRhonda Steele, the fabulous former vocalist for Ocean 503 and for 'Boogie Cat' Norman Sylvester, hits the stage with her jazz and blues band.

Crush UK - www.crushuk.com
Hailing from London, this band has developed a powerful, eclectic and lively mix of original and classic power rock-pop. Its versatility, excellent songs, charisma and sheer energy have earned the group a worldwide reputation as a not-to-miss live act.

Amadan – www.myspace.com/amadan
This group presents a mix of traditional Irish music infused with punk and rock, in the vein of the Pogues and Dropkick Murphys. It’s good drinking music!

Outpost – www.myspace.com/outpostreggae
Outpost is a five-piece band out of Portland, OR that blends funk-hop and reggae to generate high-energy organic dance music.

Badfish Band – www.myspace.com/johnnydandhisbadfish
This band, which hails from Corvallis, Oregon, united for the sole purpose of spreading a love of funk, reggae, ska, and rock.

Intervision – www.intervisionmusic.com
This soul, rock, jazz and pop quintet is one of the premier up-and-coming bands on the West Coast.

Flowmotion – www.flowmotion.net
Flowmotion's live performances are renowned for stellar musicianship, contagious energy, packed dance floors and, courtesy of its two lead guitarists, smoking guitar riffs. Flowmotion's expertly controlled grooves harness the power of its funky, percussion-driven rock and roll.

Jujuba – www.jujuba.org
With a massive percussion section, led by talking-drum conductor Nojeem Lasisi, and a well-rounded selection of horns, Jujuba is a Nigerian dynamo, bringing funk with the kind of authority that would make Fela proud. This 11-piece band is a real treat to have at the brewfest.

Rolling Boil Blues Band - www.celebrator.com/rb3
The rolling Boil Bludes Band is a group of beer industry veteran drinkers with a music problem who occasionally get together at beer festivals and events to play their brand of irreverent cheeky beer songs to popular rock and blues standards with an eye toward humor (if not an ear toward music). Obviously, rehearsing is out of the question....

Excellent Gentlemen - www.myspace.com/excellentgentlemen
Excellent Gentlemen plays danceable, vocal Soul, Funk and R&B music. Think...70's block parties and golden-age hip-hop records. Yeah, there's a whole lot of groove, and hells yeah people get down and dance.

Sauce Policy – www.saucepolicytheband.com
Drawing from influences too numerous to name, the music - which at its heart is rock n roll – weaves its way in and out of many styles of music and reflects the different musical backgrounds of the band's members. It is truly an East Coast meets West Coast musical experience.

Eleven Eyes – www.eleveneyes.org
Proclaiming "Our jazz is not standard," this band submits an expertise in jazz, funk, drum n’ bass, electronica, hip-hop, Latin, dub, and improvisation, bringing original sounds to the music scene.

Black Lodge
A fun bluegrass-folk infusion spearheaded by local brewmaster Ron Gansberg (Raccoon Lodge/Cascade Brewing) and his band of brothers.

The Power of County – www.myspace.com/thepowerofcounty
The Power of County brings the success and failures of turn of the century boomtowns into the forefront of its music. Highly-reminiscent of days gone by, with lyrics that reflect chaos, excess, lust and murder, mixed with hard hitting rock ‘n roll that is guaranteed to make any spectator want to buy a horse and start brandishing a six shooter.

Matt Butlers S.E.E. (small ensemble experiment) – www.mattbutlermusic.com
Drummer Matt Butler of The Everyone Orchestra will be bringing some of the finest Northwest musicians through a sonic journey on stage.