Party: Crystal Ballroom's 101st Birthday Free-For-All

Party: Crystal Ballroom's 101st Birthday Free-For-All

Cooper and The Jam (8:30 p.m.)

"You Who," Children's Rock Variety Show featuring Sallie Ford, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Thomas Lauderdale and China Forbes and much more! (1 p.m.)

Satin Chaps (6:30 p.m.)

'80s Video Dance Attack (6 p.m.)

Dirty Revival (5 p.m.)

Bloco Alegria (4 p.m.)

Comedy with Danny Felts

Bird Courage (7 p.m.)

Joe Mishkin “The Balloon Guy" (2 p.m.)

Amanda “The Face Painter” (2 p.m.)

History presentation and tours, brewery tours, tastings of McMenamins ales, liquors & wines, drink and food specials, passport stamps, birthday beer... and much more!

1 p.m. 'til late
All ages welcome
Free

Crystal Ballroom's 101st Birthday Free-For-All
Back by popular demand! It's been four years since we last flung open our doors and invited the Portland community to this all-day, no-cover all-ages birthday wing-ding. Now, with the Crystal Hotel open, the fun covers two city blocks: Music in four different rooms; comedy in Al's Den; property tours; kids fun; food and drink specials; tastings of our spirits, wine and beer; and of course a special birthday brew will pour throughout the properties.

Make it a long weekend and get yourself a room at the Crystal Hotel! Our special package (link) includes lodging, dinner and breakfast in Zeus, with a special birthday cocktail in Zeus thrown in.

And heads up, you Passport holders: We'll be offering special stamps for each of the participating venues (Crystal Ballroom, Lola's Room, Ringlers Pub, Al's Den and Zeus Cafe).

The party starts in the afternoon and will parade long into the night…

In the Ballroom
1 p.m. - 4 p.m. "You Who," Children's Rock Variety Show
2 p.m. - 5 p.m. Joe Mishkin the Balloon Guy, and Amanda the tattoo'd facepainter
4 p.m. Bloco Alegria (samba band)
5 p.m. Dirty Revival
6:30 p.m. Satin Chaps
8:30 p.m. Cooper and the Jam

Lola's Room (2nd floor)
2 p.m. History Tour meets for tour of Crystal and Lola's Room, led by McMenamins historian Tim Hills
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. History presentation: “Psychedelic History of the Crystal Ballroom”
6 p.m. 80's Video Dance Attack

Ringlers Pub (ground level)
3 p.m. - 6 p.m. Reverb Brothers

Brewery (second floor)
Ale tastings 2 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Second floor landing
Gift shop 2 p.m. - 8 p.m. (Crystal and McMenamins merch for sale. 20% discount for Cosmic Tripsters)

Al's Den (Crystal Hotel, below ground level)
7 p.m. Bird Courage
At break in the music: comedy

Zeus Cafe (Crystal Hotel, ground level east side)
4 p.m. - 7 p.m. Distillery tasting and specialty cocktails

Ringlers Annex (Crystal Hotel, ground level west side)
3 p.m. - 6 p.m. Edgefield Winery tasting in the balcony

About “Psychedelic History of the Crystal Ballroom”-
Tim Hills is McMenamins’ longtime historian and wrote the history of the property entitled The Many Lives of the Crystal Ballroom (1997). Keith Cook worked at the Crystal in 1967-68 and is currently co-authoring a book on that time period in the Crystal’s history.

Cooper and The Jam

Cooper brings her rippin' soul act to the Crystal on the heels of her video debut of "Cut The Body Loose," the first single from her greatly anticipated EP release.


Fresh on the scene, Cooper brings a fiery spirit and a massive voice to the turn table. She performs with a power and tenacity that is difficult for most young women to muster. Backed by her extraordinary 11-piece soul band, this firecracker knows how to put on a show.



In March 2011, Cooper packed up her VW van in Portland, Oregon, and made the quest to Nashville, Tennessee. The flame haired songstress had paid dues playing in bands, acting in local productions, and bar-tending at a seedy rock’n’roll strip club. It was time to take a shot at her life time dream of recording her songs and forming a road band in music city. After months of knocking on doors, typical hard luck, and sleeping on an air mattress in an old ’60s hotel room, Cooper finally got someone to pay attention to her music and her talent. She began working with a producer and started writing the record she has always wanted to make, a soulful assortment of Motown style ballads and funky upbeat dance tunes sprinkled with rock-and-roll guitars and rich harmonies



She saved her pennies flipping cheeseburgers and popping beer caps at a popular honky tonk bar and formed two bands on each side of the country. The Jam, complete with horn sections, and back up singer/dancers is a collective of over 20 musicians that back her touring adventures. Her music is as big and bold as her ambition, and her performances rock the house.

Cooper played her first show in Nashville opening for the Queen of Rock and Roll herself, Wanda Jackson, at a birthday bash held for fashion icon Manuel. Her music caught the ear of music industry notables and she recorded her full length album, Motown Suite, at The Tracking Room (as seen on ABC's new hit drama Nashville), one of Nashville's top recording studios

On Record Store Day 2013, Cooper performed on both sides of the country in one day. She Pulled a cross-country stunt that included 21 musicians, 2 planes, 2 record stores, and a lot of balls. Most recently Cooper and The Jam opened for Legends Mavis Staples and Robert Plant at the Waterfront Blues Festival in Portland, Oregon.

Cooper's 7-inch single, “Cooper Live at the Historic Star Theater,” was selected as an official Record Store Day release, and the buzz has begun to spread as far as Japan, that this indie artist has something special. Cooper is a bright new talent that draws from the past and paints the future with a fresh and unique style.

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/cooperandjam

Website:
http://www.cooperjam.com/
Dirty Revival

Dirty Revival is becoming notorious for their unique ability to excite and entertain their audience with everything from catchy original tunes to danceable ‘90s hip-hop and R&B to unforgettable ‘60s and ‘70s funk and soul. Dirty Revival delivers this diverse mix of genres with their own distinct style that's dynamic, gritty and...well...dirty. The group performs with eight or more Portland musicians, complete with keys, horns and choreographed back-up singers. As the heart and soul of the group, Sarah Clarke, The Lady of DRC drives the dirty with arresting and passionate vocals that evoke the attitude and versatility of the timeless altos of yesterday's soul. The members of Dirty Revival fused in a flurry of shows and rehearsals, and they kept growing until the recipe was just right.

"Where the hell did all these people come from? In about fifteen minutes, the room went from nearly-empty to standing-room-only. Turns out, the funk/soul/groove band Dirty Revival...had taken over."
- Saidah Ali Wilson We Out Here Magazine



Dirty Revival has recently shared a stage with Nappy Roots, Masta Ace, and Chicharones and they performed at the 2013 NW Hip-Hop Festival and the Lardo East First Anniversary Party. In spring of 2014, they will launch their first EP, featuring four original songs, and announce a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to record a full album later in the year. Let's get dirty!





Website:
http://dirtyrevivalpdx.com/
'80s Video Dance Attack - featuring VJ Kittyrox

Before it mutated into a weaponized haze of reality shows, MTV aired a novelty known as the music video. These bite-sized works of art, which married pop songs to striking imagery, revolutionized the entertainment industry and ushered in an era of music known as "new wave." For the task of curating and introducing these fresh sounds and flamboyant sights to audiences, MTV even created its own version of the disc jockey-the VJ.

Though MTV has sent its stable of video jockeys out to pasture, VJ Kittyrox carries the pastel, shoulder-padded torch of Adam Curry and Nina Blackwood as she masterminds the 80s Video Dance Attack. For the last eight years, this popular shindig has united generations of Portlandians with its five-hour feast of '80s-centric sensation.

Across 10-foot screens, VJ Kittyrox projects classic videos from artists such as Duran Duran and Michael Jackson as audiences of Breakfast Clubbers and Pretty in Pinkers perfect their cabbage patch, running man, and Pat Benatar shimmies. A bombastic, thumping sound system and a dazzling light show accentuate the time warp as audiences deck themselves in '80s garb and shake away memories of unsolved rubik's cubes.

Website:
http://www.80svideodanceattack.com

Facebook:
www.facebook.com/80svideodanceattack
Bloco Alegria

Bloco Alegria is Portland's newest Rio style samba band. Playing the heart-pumping rhythms of Rio's carnaval parades is what gives this band its unique sound and vibrancy. Composed of people who love samba, Bloco Alegria celebrates the music, dance, and culture of Brasil.

Samba is the most popular dance from Rio de Janeiro. It has deep African ancestral roots with respect to the drums used, the rhythms, and the structure of the music itself. Many of the members of Bloco Alegria have studied and played samba in the US or have gone to Brazil to learn more. Several speak Portuguese.

The word "Alegria" means "Happiness" in Portuguese. The word "Bloco" refers to a "City Block". Historically, people in different neighborhoods of Rio would get together and play samba in the streets, drawing their neighbors out to celebrate. Different neighborhood blocks would form different samba groups with creative and fun names. As time passed, these groups became more formalized and well-known throughout the city and the word "Bloco" took on the meaning of "group" or "band". Currently in Rio, samba groups that play in the streets include groups like "Bloco Suvaco do Cristo", "Bloco Simpatia e Quase Amor", and larger more internationally known groups like "Monobloco".

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/BlocoAlegria

About Danny Felts

Danny Felts

Danny Felts is a spry up-and-comer in the Portland, OR comedy scene. His comedic style contains elements of storytelling, and surrealism; all in the name of shedding light on the hidden absurdities the universe chooses to dump on him. Felts has been featured on IFC’s Portlandia, Oregon Public Broadcasting’s “Art Beat”, and was a finalist in the 2011 National College Comedy Competition. He has also performed in both the 2012 and 2013 Bridgetown Comedy Festivals, the 2012 Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival, and is slated to perform in the 2nd Annual Arcata Comedy Festival. When he is not performing, he can be found editing the wildly popular/masochistic web series Spicy News, which he is also a contributing writer to.

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/dannyfelts
Joe Mishkin “The Balloon Guy," facepainting and other kids fun

With his incredible balloons, his awesome juggling, his spirited music playing and his daring unicycling and fire juggling, Joe is sure to please your friends, your neighbors, your co-workers, your boss, and you, too!!

Invited: Cary Clarke, Tevvy Hernandez, Coral Barreto-Costa, Elise Freeman, Tomas Alfredo Valladares, Jess Lange, Kira Atwood-Youngstrom, Amy Abero, Scottie Hand, Alyssa Carter, Elana Chernobelsky, Laci Daze, Karl Ludwigsen, Micah Kourafas, Michael Galen, Randi Murray, Ariana Velociraptor Collins, Julie B., Jeni Wren Stottrup, Cheryl Curry, Michael Broschart, Elia Unverzagt, Kimberly Pfaltzgraff, Tracey Johnson, Jennifer Whited, Erin Cathcart, Nick Hogle, Kassie Barone, Vaughn Kimmons, Emily, Paul S. Neumann, John Neumann, Ophelia Yan, Natasha Peter, Wiley Post, Sarah Nielsen Haverly, Patty McNearney, Bradford DeLuca, Jake Atchley, Carla Moya, Josh Oppenheim, Sage Hilbush, Alex Wideman, Lara Faye, Alix Lefler, Julia Sanders, Vanessa Meyer, Erika Ranna, Tim Lohman, Richard Clucas, Edward Vaught, Ben Kubany, Brian Matzat, Cameron Ousley, Sean Lindsay, Megan Farley, Anne Muehleck, Laurel Crafton, Juleen Johnson, Matthew Reinstadler, Claire Palermo, Cayce Arnett, Cecilia Tran, Stephen Yates, Rachael Klaus, Nicole Oliver, Willowbee Samiel, Sam Goodman, Phuz Nutz, Craig Adams, Gus Cole-Kroll, Julie Treadway, Tyler Berg, Anthony Wayne, Destiny Chau, Katie Smith, Mira Moore, Tiffany Andrews, Danielle Westbrook, James Bowen, Kent Moffat, Christopher Kary, Miriam Sytsma, Jayme Crawford, Heather Blackwell, Jen Cole, Heidi Janine Lewis, Charlie Cavallo, Amy Chan, Jean O'Shea, Kevin Koch, Amy Shearer, Pam Baer, Chelsea Wiens, Christiana Mayer, Kristin Boden, Nathan Howard, Angel Sakhalkar, Heather Dittmore Kalowsky, Irene Vipperman show more »