2012 Entertainment: Throughout the weekend, some of the northwest's top musicians will be playing on our professional stage. An antique car show is set up on the show perimeter and a quilt show lines the entrance to the park. (Antique cars are selected by invitation only. All spaces are currently filled for this year's event.)
| MUSICIANS | 2012 |
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| Isa and Cuba Ache 11am - 1pm |
 An authentic Cuban band playing original compositions by the Cuban singer songwriter Isahelles Perez and Ivan Alamo, Cuban guitar player, Cristobal Azort, piano, Brett White,trumpet and Jaime Jonhson, percussion. Es un grupo de música cubana auténtico con ritmo y sabor a Cuba. Ven a bailar y a gozar con Isa y Cuba Ache! Salsa, Merengue, Guajiras, Cumbia, Boleros, Chachacha, Bachata and Guaguanco. |
| Joni Harms 1 - 3pm |
 Harms has been praised for her pure country voice since she signed her first record deal with the famed producer Jimmy Bowen for Capitol in the early 1990s. After that Harms moved to on to her celebrated Cowgirl Dreams (1999 / Warner Western). That release was followed by last year’s After All.
In 2003, Harms was named Female Vocalist of the Year and accepted the award for Song of the Year from the Western Music Association. She is also a multiple winner of Academy of Western Artists Awards, including the top honor of Entertainer of the Year for 2002, and she continues building audiences through appearances on the famed Grand Ole Opry and a recent stint at New York City’s Carnegie Hall. |
| Leaves Russell 4 - 6pm |
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| Mike Sanchez 6 - 8pm |
 Photo: © Shea Oakes
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| Sunday | |
| Rio Con Brio 11am - 1pm |
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| Curtis Salgado 2 - 4pm |
 Winner of the 2010 Blues Music Award for Soul Blues Artist Of The Year, Salgado effortlessly mixes blues, funk and R&B with a delivery that is raw and heartfelt. He moves with ease from the tenderest ballads to the most full-throated stompers. Blues Revue says, “Salgado is one of the most down-to-earth, soulful, honest singers ever, and his harmonica work is smoking and thoroughly invigorating...rollicking, funky and electrifying.”http://www.curtissalgado.com |
| Aaron Meyer 4 - 6pm |
 Concert rock violinist Aaron Meyer has successfully bridged the worlds of classical and popular music, performing a unique blend of the two that has now become the Grammy® recognized category Classical Crossover. He has performed with orchestras and ballet companies, as well as artists such as Smokey Robinson, Aaron Neville and Everclear.
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Portland Tribune’s Rob Cullivan writes that “Leaves Russell bill themselves as ‘Portland’s masters of space and time.’ If that’s truly the case, then the space is inside our city’s many dreamy artistic heads. And the time lies somewhere between Harry Nilsson’s and Tori Amos’ first makeout session in a parallel universe and Radiohead’s in-studio jam sessions while getting loose to lay down a money track.”
Formed in 2005 in Portland, Oregon, Rio Con Brio has established itself as one of the Northwest’s premiere performers of choro, the early 20th century street music of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Influenced by Afro-Brazilian rhythms and the café music of Italy, France, and Portugal, choro is both exotic and familiar, evoking in turn the carnival of Rio and the cafes of Paris.