Grand Lodge
Noon-6pm
Free
All ages welcome
About Hobbit Day
Hobbits might just be the most relatable folks in the entirety of Middle Earth. They have a passion for food, ale, pipeweed and, above all, living comfortably. Join us and raise a glass to Frodo, Bilbo and all the rest at our Hobbit Day celebration! We're partying all day long with food and drink specials, live music, trivia, Discovery Hunt and more.
Costumes encouraged! Random prizes will be handed out throughout the day to the best-dressed hobbits.
Food & drink specials * Ironwork Grill & Pat's Corner
Face painting * 2-4pm
Scavenger Hunt * Hosted by Forest Grove Library
Lawn games
Fun at Pat's Corner
Trivia * 12:30-1:30pm
Live music
Johnny Franco and His Real Brother Dom * 2-3:30pm
The Quick & Easy Boys * 4:30-6pm
Fun at The Cottage
Bar open noon-6pm * Drink specials and baked goods!
DIY sword & shield * 2-5pm * $5 at the bar
About The Quick & Easy Boys
Soul / funk / rock 'n' roll
Hailing from Portland, OR, The Quick & Easy Boys are a power-trio that create their own brand of rock & roll using elements from the Minutemen, the Police, and a Band of Gypsies among others...
Featuring Sean Badders (bass guitar/vocals), Jimmy Russell (lead guitar/vocals) and Tyrone Hendrix (drums/precussion), The Quick & Easy Boys are a driving force in the Portland music scene. On their latest single, "Better than Today", The Quick & Easy Boys show the band expanding their already vast catalog of music to touch on heartbreak with a sound envoking the early ‘60's' R&B/Soul while still keeping a modern sonic vibe. Contextually, lyrics plant the song firmly in the present day, lamenting lost love with a timeless yet subtly modern vernacular.
After releasing eight full-length albums since their inception in 2004, The Quick & Easy Boys have a packed slate for their 20th year as a band. Following the release of "Better than Today", the Boys will shift gears and let forth the Scary Things EP - focusing their already expansive sound on a heavy, dark album about things that go bump in the night....think Sleep meets Funkadelic!
The band adopted the phrase "Too weird to fit in since 2004" to reclaim what once was seen as a promotional nightmare: a genre-defying band that comfortably straddles many musical styles. With countless national tours under their belt the band has played on stage with an extremely diverse selection of musicians from folk troubadour Peter Yarrow (Peter Paul and Mary) to saxophonist/producer Steve Berlin (of the Grammy winning East-L.A. Chicano band Los Lobos) to NOLA funk pioneers The Funky Meters and contemporary indie darlings Deer Tick and even former Fats Domino saxophonist Reggie Houston (to name only a few). The band was always too this for that: too funky for the indie rock crowd but too rocking for the funk crowd. Too country for the dance crowd, but too disco for the country scene. Too raw and psychedelic for the jazz crowd but too musically refined for the punk crowd. The band has unapologetically leaned into their singular sound since the beginning, and now they add more layers with 60's inspired R&B and heavy stoner metal.
website:
http://www.thequickandeasyboys.com
About Johnny Franco and His Real Brother Dom
Powerful singer-songwriter
"I worked as an actor for most of my life, which got me an electric guitar and a way into the music business in Brazil. I had wrote 50 songs by the time I was 16. I wrote songs for advertisements, short films, soccer teams and highschool crushes. I sang them to friends at their apartments or home-studios, then I sang them on TV with my band. Now I sing them in the streets to make a living. I had to fall in love to understand what's real. Then I had to leave my country and follow her to Portland."
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/johnnythefranco/
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