Musical Events in Oregon
- Oregon Bach Festival
- Oregon Festival of American Music
- Britt Festival, outdoor summer music performances in Jacksonville
- Shanghaied In Astoria is a musical melodrama performed from July–August since 1984 written and performed by local talent
- The Eugene Celebration
- The Oregon Country Fair, although not primarily billed as a music festival, has several stages where musicians perform regularly during the three-day event.
- The Ernest Bloch Music Festival, an annual composers' symposium and showcase for progressive and contemporary music, is held in Newport. Ernest Bloch was a composer who lived in Agate Beach, and has a memorial located in Newport. The festival is regarded country-wide and is a cultural high-point every year for musicians classically or otherwise trained. Traditionally, performers from the Oregon Symphony and other local performance groups attend specifically to play pieces written by the guest composers.
- Vortex I, a 1970 music festival near Estacada
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