Projects

PORTLAND OLD-TIME MUSIC GATHERING

Bubbaville, Inc.is the primary sponsor of the annual Gathering. In fact, the need for a Bubbaville grew out of the Gathering’s great success. The Gathering’s influence on traditional music and dance on the West Coast is incalculable, comparable to the effect of the annual Stickerville gathering during the Weiser, Idaho, fiddle contest. The Gathering is our flagship project.

QUARANTINE HAPPY HOUR

Bubbaville is a sponsor of the nightly Quarantine Happy Hour concert series on Facebook, providing a $100 tip for every performance.

Quarantine Happy Hour was founded by The Horsenecks (Gabrielle Macrae & Barry Southern) in April 2020 and has provided daily live happy hour music from a different person or musical household every day to keep us connected and supported during the quarantine. The scheduled performer plays an hour of live music for you starting at 5:30PM Pacific Time. 100% of the tips go to the performer of the day.

DARE TO BE SQUARE – WEST

Bubbaville is proud to be a sponsor for the 2017 Dare To Be Square (a weekend of traditional square dancing including workshops for dancers, callers, musicians and community organizers.) which will be held in Portland. (We were the main sponsor for the 2007 and 2008 Portland editions of Dare To Be Square. We also contributed to the 2009, 2010, 2016 Dare To Be Square workshops in Seattle.) These weekend sessions have given the Northwest a large repository of skills and knowledge about rural American square dancing, skills that are being used today in communities throughout the West.

PORTLAND SQUARES 

Throughout the 2000s Portland was the epicenter of a West Coast traditional square dance revival. The exciting square dancing at the Gathering inspired folks up and down the coast to initiate new dances or energize lagging dances in their own communities. But due to a series of unavoidable logistical setbacks, the Portland square dance scene spiraled down to just one very small dance a month. In late 2011 a few callers and musicians came up with an amazing plan to launch four new monthly dances simultaneously!

Bubbaville stepped up with critical support that enabled the project to begin and today it is a real success, adding depth to Portland’s cultural and community experience.

BUBBAVILLE IS ALSO THE PROUD SUPPORTER OF:

2020 Projects

  • Quarantine Happy Hour ($100 tip for every performance)
  • Covid Relief Stipends for Traditional Music Performers/Teachers
  • Portland Klezmer Fest (postponed)
  • Portland Squares (formerly Every Sunday Square Dance) – rent support for the dance hall
  • Kids Fiddle Jam
  • Portland Fiddle Camp – scholarships for kiddos

2019 Projects

  • 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
  • Portland Squares (formerly Every Sunday Square Dance) – rent support for the dance hall
  • Kids Fiddle Jam
  • Willamette Valley Old Time Social
  • Portland Fiddle Camp – scholarships for kiddos
  • Zigzag Old Time Music Camp Out – Sponsor of visiting and local artists – featuring The Canote Brothers.
  • The Bubba Award

2018 Projects

  • Kids Fiddle Jam
  • Portland Squares (formerly Every Sunday Square Dance) – rent support for the dance hall
  • Willamette Valley Old Time Social
  • Portland Fiddle Camp – scholarships for kiddos
  • Caleb Klauder’s Great Big Fais Do Do
  • Zigzag Old Time Campout – Labor Day weekend – Sponsor of visiting and local artists – Julie Shepherd-Powell and Todd Meade, Leela Grace, Steph Noll, Kate O’Brien
  • JT’s Fiddle Off
  • Dare to Be Square – West! – Sponsored event and provided financial aid for participants.
  • Kentucky Showcase Artist Residency – Nov 15 – 19. Visiting artists Brett Ratliff and Carla Gover
  • Sparky & Rhonda Rucker house concert
  • The Bubba Award

2017 Projects

The Bubba Fund is also providing support for the following projects in our community for 2017:

  • Beth Harrington’s new project – The Musicianer.  Beth’s last project, The Winding Stream focused on the Cash and Carter families.  Her next project is a series of episodes on musicians, starting with Petunia (of Petunia and the Vipers)
  • Anna & Elizabeth Visiting Artist Residency Feb 11 – 14, 2017 – Details here!
  • The Every Sunday Square Dance – rent support for the dance hall
  • Caleb Klauder’s Great Big Fais Do Do
  • Zigzag Old Time Campout – Labor Day weekend – Sponsor of this year’s visiting masters – Jane Rothfield and Nathan Bontrager of Hen’s Teeth.
  • JT’s Fiddle Off
  • Dan Levenson – concert and fiddle and banjo workshops
  • Bruce Molsky’s Mountain Drifters – Fiddle, Banjo, Guitar workshops, and jam.
  • Dare to Be Square – West! – Sponsored event and provided financial aid for participants.
  • The Bubba Award

Past Projects

  • JT’s Fiddle Off-2016 – sponsored some of the cash prizes.
  • Scholarships for local dancers, callers and musicians to attend Dare to Be Square West (2013 – present)
  • The Every Sunday Square Dance
  • Dom Flemons, Portland Residency – October 31 – Nov 4, 2015 – Details Here
  • Portland Old Time Music Gathering CD Compilation Project
  • Zigzag Old Time Music Campout – Sponsored visiting artists: 2014 Brad Leftwich, 2015 Betse & Clarke, 2016 Erynn Marshall & Carl Jones + Charmaine Slaven & Charlie Beck.
  • Square Dance workshops with Susan Michaels
  • 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
  • Provided seed money for a fundraising square dance at the Village Ballroom (June 3rd 2011) The event was to raise funds to support people in rural communities affected by the April tornado disaster.
  • Provided tuition funding for Suzanne Savell to attend the 10th Annual Cowan Creek Mountain Music School in Kentucky. June 2011
  • Organized a square dance May 3rd 2010 with midwestern caller Ron Buchanan and the Uncle Wiggily String Band.
  • Funded a series of dance caller training sessions led by Bill Martin. Spring 2009
  • Supported a day of Appalshop films and a Carter Family jam session at the Pacific Crest School, November 2005