The Projects We Support
Bubbaville’s main project is the annual Portland Old-Time Music Gathering. In fact, the need for a Bubbaville grew out of the Gathering’s great success! But we also help organize and fund many other events and projects that support traditional music and dance in our community. See some examples below.
Past Projects
2020-2023
- Quarantine Happy Hour
- Portland Fiddle Camp (provided scholarships)
- The first two editions of the Portland Klezmer Festival
- Zigzag Old Time Music Campout
- Old Time Jam at the NW Portland Hostel
- Kids Fiddle Jam in Portland
- The Bubba Award
2019
- Intro to Square Dance Calling CD and booklet by Paul Silveria
- Caleb Klauder’s Great Big Fais Do Do
- Visiting Artists: Ben Hunter & Joe Seamons
- POTMG Artist in Residence: Bruce Molsky
- The Bubba Award
- Portland Squares (formerly Every Sunday Square Dance)
- Kids Fiddle Jam in Portland
- Willamette Valley Old Time Social
- Portland Fiddle Camp
- Zigzag Old Time Music Campout
2018
- JT’s Fiddle Off
- Dare to Be Square – West! (sponsored event and provided financial aid for participants)
- Kentucky Showcase Artists in Residency with visiting artists Brett Ratliff and Carla Gover
- Sparky & Rhonda Rucker house concert
- Kids Fiddle Jam in Portland
- Portland Squares (formerly Every Sunday Square Dance
- Willamette Valley Old Time Social
- Portland Fiddle Camp
- Caleb Klauder’s Great Big Fais Do Do
- Zigzag Old Time Music Campout
- The Bubba Award
2017
- Dan Levenson concert and fiddle and banjo workshops
- Bruce Molsky’s Mountain Drifters workshops and jam
- Beth Harrington’s film “The Musicianer”
- The Every Sunday Square Dance
- Zigzag Old Time Music Campout
- Caleb Klauder’s Great Big Fais Do Do
- JT’s Fiddle Off
- Dare to Be Square – West!
- The Bubba Award
More Past Projects
- Dom Flemons Portland Residency
- Portland Old-Time Music Gathering CD Compilation Project
- 100th Birthday Celebration for Church of the Acoustic Redemption
- Left-Over Right Grand, a Thanksgiving weekend square dance and gathering
- The Bubba Roast, an event to honor our founder and dear friend Bill Martin
- Various square dances and dance calling workshops
- Supported a day of Appalshop films and a Carter Family jam session at the Pacific Crest School
