If the music you like to listen to sounds more “Mississippi Delta” than “New York City,” you may want to make your way down to the Willamette for this year’s Waterfront Blues Festival.

Each year, this outdoor festival draws thousands of people to watch five days of blues in a benefit for the Oregon Food Bank. Last year, the festival raised $545,000 and 103,500 lbs of food.

Notable Portland jazz/blues artists that are performing this year include Reggie Houston, LaRhonda Steele, and Linda Hornbuckle. There will also be a memorial concert for Portland-based blues-man Paul Delay, who passed away earlier this year.

Admission is (suggested) $8 and two cans of nonperishable food.

The entire schedule can be viewed at the festival website.

(Image via waterfrontbluesfest.com)