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Healthcare Bluesfest is back!- The Inner City Blues Fest returns for the third year

Posted on March 11, 2014 by tomdwyer

For the past two years, the hottest ticket in April has been the Inner City Blues Festival, “Healing the Healthcare Blues”, supporting single payer healthcare in Oregon and beyond. The Melody Ballroom has rocked late into the night to the … Continue reading →

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Inner City Blues Festival- Getting “In The Groove Of Love” supports single payer health care!

Posted on April 3, 2013 by tomdwyer

Update 4/15/13– We brought back a few pix from the show this weekend. Apologies for the poor quality of the cellphone used to take them! Do you have better pictures? Please send them to us; we’d love to share them! … Continue reading →

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Inner City Blues Festival- “Healing The Health Care Blues” Benefit

Posted on March 29, 2012 by tomdwyer

The Oregon Single Payer Campaign is putting on a benefit to help establish a Single Payer system that would cover all Oregonians for all medically necessary services, including doctor, hospital, preventative care, and more, paid for by a dedicated Medicare-like … Continue reading →

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Report back from the 2024 Blues Carnaval

Posted on May 21, 2024 by tomdwyer

Supporting Single Payer Healthcare in Oregon What do you say about an evening with some of the best blazing blues in Portland? It rocked. Of course it rocked! It rocks every year, and we should know… we’ve been going since … Continue reading →

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The Blues are back in town!

Posted on April 11, 2019 by tomdwyer

Don’t miss out on Portland’s REAL Blues Festival People die without health care. 70% of Americans support a Single Payer healthcare system but the politicians don’t listen and people keep dying. We’re being done wrong, but who cares and who’ll … Continue reading →

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We sang the Healthcare Blues… AND LOVED IT!

Posted on April 25, 2017 by tomdwyer

Report back from the 6th Annual Inner City Blues Fest! We spent the weekend in an intimate club filled with around 800 of our closest friends, all dressed to kill, listening to the rumbling growl of Norman Sylvester, the glistening … Continue reading →

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Don’t just sing the Healthcare Blues… FIX THEM!

Posted on April 13, 2017 by tomdwyer

The Inner City Blues Fest is back for its 6th dynamite year! Imagine yourself enjoying an excellent dinner in an intimate club filled with around 800 of your closest friends… all dressed to kill. The stage lights flare as the … Continue reading →

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Shop Talk- Talkin’ bout 2016, Votin’ for our Yearly Winner!

Posted on January 11, 2017 by tomdwyer

Referral Reward Program- Vote for our $500 Yearly Winner! We need YOUR vote to determine our 2016 Yearly Winner and recipient of $500! We used to pick quarterly and yearly winners ourselves, but because we wanted to include our … Continue reading →

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It’s Time To VOTE! Not for President, for our Referral Reward quarterly winner!

Posted on September 29, 2016 by tomdwyer

The big news this month is all about YOU, and who you want to help in the world. We’re in Year 3 of our Referral Reward program, which, just in case you haven’t heard, is where we make a donation … Continue reading →

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Shop Talk- Summer Concerts AND our Referral Reward Quarterly winner

Posted on June 30, 2016 by tomdwyer

The Sellwood Summer Concerts are back! We look forward to the Sellwood Riverfront Park Concerts all year. They’re part of a fantastic city-wide program by Portland Parks and Recreation that brings free movies, concerts, and more to parks around Portland. … Continue reading →

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